Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

This is the last Technology Short Take of 2021, so hopefully I’ll close the year out “with a bang” with this collection of links and articles on various technology areas. Servers/Hardware. Filippo Valsorda speculates on how open source maintainers need to evolve into professional maintainers. Networking.

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Vox

MARCH 25, 2023

I and my co-authors warned about this five years ago in a 2018 report called “ The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence ,” while the Partnership on AI (Meta was a founding member and remains an active partner) had a great report on responsible publication in 2021. If this means less open source, then no.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

Welcome to Technology Short Take #136, the first Short Take of 2021! Servers/Hardware. The popular open source cryptography library known as Bouncy Castle has uncovered a severe authentication bypass vulnerability. Want to enable logging in every AWS service that exists (as of 2021)? Networking. Compute safely.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Michael Kashin has a good post on source IP address selection in Linux. Servers/Hardware I must admit that I always wanted to have a Sun workstation, and I’ve had an interest in SunOS/Solaris for years (check out this link if you don’t believe me). This is a slightly older post (dates from 2021), but still useful, I think.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Demand has increased so much that IT job postings in manufacturing doubled between May 2021 and 2022, according to Dice.com, with increased demand for skills such as agile development, Python, software development, automation, C++, SQL, and Java, among others. Software engineer.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Servers/Hardware. marks the first release of the open source container orchestration platform that is signed using Sigstore (more details here ). The state of virtualization on Apple Silicon hardware has seen a few developments in recent days and weeks. network virtualization). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Servers/Hardware. The story of a developer deliberately polluting their open source projects—as outlined here for the “colors.js” The post focuses on Otomi, which in turn leverages Open Policy Agent and Gatekeeper. Michael Gasch pontificates on Knative’s missteps in this post from June 2021.

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GeekWire

APRIL 26, 2021

Half of the companies that took part in the winter 2021 cohort were based outside the U.S. The secret sauce: Co-founders Scott Winges and Tian Li decided to launch the startup after developing the open-source software as a workaround for Kubernetes at their previous company. We build hardware and it’s hard to relocate that.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Components involved include the open source Kuma service mesh (in turn leveraging Envoy), anycast BGP, and mutual TLS (mTLS). Servers/Hardware. William Lam takes a look at some potentially interesting homelab hardware. Oh, and the article shares a handy Python script to help implement bogon filtering in NSX-T.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

A couple of camera companies are still in the instant-camera business in 2021, including Polaroid, but the Instax Mini 40 from Fujifilm gets the nod here. Both the hardware and software for Watchy are open-source, which offers a lot of variety for what you want the watch to do and look like. Price: $89.95.

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The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2022

Its promise was to develop an open-source smart home standard that would make every connected home device work together, simply and securely, regardless of who made them. While the Thread radio supports HomeKit over Thread specifically, Donald Beene of Schlage told The Verge that the hardware is there for Matter. All the lights.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2022

But hardware shortages and labor disruptions in the pandemic’s wake are challenging companies’ ability to make good on the promise of computer vision, even as the pandemic itself has accelerated the potential of its use cases. According to Gartner, obstacles to adoption include hardware shortages and lack of processing capabilities.

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 17, 2023

My training data includes information up until September 2021. OpenAI demoed this, incorporating the post-2021 updated tax code in the prompt and then asking a question that required knowledge of the latest changes. Text AI and Art AI are close relatives within the AI family tree, both falling under the branch called Generative AI.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Jonathan Knudsen from Synopsys joins The Hacker Mind to discuss his presentation at SecTor 2021 on fuzzing message brokers such as RabbitMQ and VerneMQ, both written in Erlang, demonstrating that any type of software in any environment can still be vulnerable. Vamosi: The idea behind Open Source is great.

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Venture Beast

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Nvidia has made available one of the world's largest language models -- Megatron 530B -- to enterprise customers. Read More.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security. So, 2021 is one of those years and many security researchers many companies. One of the open source protocols that crashed most often was BusyBox what could happen with a vulnerability in BusyBox in 2016.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security. So, 2021 is one of those years and many security researchers many companies. One of the open source protocols that crashed most often was BusyBox what could happen with a vulnerability in BusyBox in 2016.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

There are clear caveats in the HCI world: limitless control is all well and good, but infrastructure details like lack of local storage and slow networking hardware restricting I/O would always define the hard limits on what is possible. Worries around vendor lock-in surround the black-box nature of HCI-in-a-box appliances, too.

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2021

will partner with blockchain technology provider Blockstream Mining to build an open-source, solar-powered bitcoin mining facility, Blockstream announced in a press release Saturday. 2/2) — Square (@Square) June 5, 2021. Square and Blockstream are partnering on a solar-powered bitcoin mining facility | Blockstream.

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The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2022

Android 12’s release started predictably enough with a formal announcement at Google I/O in May 2021. A full stable release came a month later than usual, on October 4th, 2021. This happened because of a mismatch between Realme and Google’s open-source implementations of Night Light. Maybe in a few years.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

He died prematurely on April 23 in 2021. It manages all the hardware and all the software on a system. So what do we mean by managing all the hardware? That program, then, handled all the issues of hardware and software. CODEN: From 2016 to 2021. It was on a project that Dan Kaminsky presented at Discourse 2019.

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The Verge

JANUARY 24, 2022

At first, they held the tokens with an exchange based in China, but within weeks, a broad crackdown on cryptocurrency by the Chinese government meant they would soon lose access to the exchange, so they had to transfer everything to a hardware wallet. Grand is an electrical engineer and inventor who has been hacking hardware since he was 10.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In December 2021, the consortium’s joint proposal received a grant of €2.5 The fuel cells use a unique tri-fuel design, allowing them to consume whichever fuel source is locally available: natural gas, green hydrogen, or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). We’re also collaborating to help address the hardware side of the equation.

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Galido

JANUARY 21, 2017

Hadoop is a software framework under open-source technologies for storing the information and running the applications on commodity hardware clusters. Application and data processing are protected against the failure of hardware. Global Hadoop market, 2015-2021 – Image: marketresearchstore.com.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

You assume every game has remappable keybinds — it’s 2021, they should,” he says, “but you’d be surprised.”. EA recently shared open patents and open-source code for its accessibility tech but doesn’t offer resources beyond those documents for how to implement the tech. Hardware improvements.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Wondercise also highlighted its proprietary Live Motion Matching tech, which was introduced last year at CES 2021. Peloton pioneered live and on-demand classes with leaderboards (as well as linking expensive hardware to expensive memberships). Image: Wondercise. ClassPass has been hooking up users with studio classes for ages.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

And in this episode, I'm going to be discussing the world of reverse engineering hardware. In February 2021. Vamosi: And then there's the small matter of hardware itself. Hash: Because you know, hardware hacking, you got to be able to get the hardware like it's awful. Hard and hardware hack with no hardware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2023

So we put a huge amount of effort into training,” Holden says, adding that he orchestrated a nearly clean cut-over to this new structure in late 2021. As part of that, Liberty Mutual’s infrastructure team needed to be reshaped, as it no longer needed to maintain the same expanse of hardware that it had managed over the years.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 26, 2021

At Black Hat USA 2021, researchers presented how they used their own fuzzer designed for hypervisors to find a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Azure. So what does that really mean, think about all the hardware devices and interfaces that are needed to connect your physical server to the network. So it's a race.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2021

An open-sourced connectivity standard created by over 200 companies, Matter is a communication protocol that leverages existing technologies — Thread, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and ethernet — to allow all of your devices to communicate with each other locally, without the need for a cloud. “We The key is it’s IP native.”

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The Verge

MARCH 7, 2022

It is essentially an emulator, to translate the actions of one computer onto another, that can prolong the life of digital data tied to aging hardware and software. The Uxn only became usable (and used) toward the end of 2021, during a period of the year when Devine and Rek don’t usually sail much.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

And what was relevant for the elections was when I was there so I worked there from June of 2020 to January, 2021 is the government sector, because of course elections are highly decentralized by the nature of the Constitution, the states manage their own election systems.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

And what was relevant for the elections was when I was there so I worked there from June of 2020 to January, 2021 is the government sector, because of course elections are highly decentralized by the nature of the Constitution, the states manage their own election systems.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

Even though Nvidia’s $40 billion bid to shake up enterprise computing by acquiring chip designer ARM has fallen apart, the merger and acquisition (M&A) boom of 2021 looks set to continue in 2022, perhaps matching the peaks of 2015, according to a report from risk management advisor Willis Towers Watson. M&A volume climbed from $3.26

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

Amber Case is a 2021 Mozilla Fellow working on the future of money, alternative business models for the web and creator compensation. Blake has interviewed several power players in the industry, including the CEO of 1-800 Flowers, the CEO of Ace Hardware, and CMO of the Marriott, as well as many others. Twitter: @DesignFuturing.

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The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

The company went public in 2015, and as online commerce has exploded during the pandemic, it’s been on a tear ever since — it just posted $988 million in revenue in the first quarter of 2021, a 110 percent increase from last year. Well, I don’t think in 2021, anyone is setting up a single channel of commerce. I’m serious.

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