France will use an Open Source instant messenger app

France will use an Open Source instant messenger app

The Government of France has announced that during this summer all the departments of this public administration will start using their own Open Source instant messenger service instead of the popular WhatsApp and Telegram. It is a measure to guarantee the sovereignty and security of their communications by themselves, which will be encrypted from end to end, without depending on private initiatives.

Apple Open Sources FoundationDB

Apple Open Sources FoundationDB

Apple has published the code of its distributed database FoundationDB in GitHub under free license Apache 2.0. The goal of the company is that the developer community can easily add new features, expanding the core functionality of the project through a layer system. For this purpose, they have also published compilation instructions for Linux and macOS systems.

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