Assessing the intersection of open source and AI
Venture Beast
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
The idea that open source tools, libraries, and communities are creating AI projects in the usual fast-and-loose fashion sparks unease. Read More.
Google’s New Open Source Vulnerability Database
SecureWorld News
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
Google recently launched the 'OSV' (Open Source Vulnerabilities) database, as a " first step towards improving vulnerability triage for developers and consumers of open source software.". This will help consumers of open source software determine if they were impacted and make the appropriate security changes.
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The Radiant Group Acquires HumanGeo to Advance Data Analytics and Open Source Capabilities
CTOvision
JULY 14, 2015
The HumanGeo formula combines the diverse experience of our interdisciplinary team of world class software engineers and analysts applying imagination and creativity to fashion innovative data solutions in complex data.
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Pioneering Tech Blog GigaOm Abruptly Shuts Down
CTOvision
MARCH 9, 2015
I want to thank our investors who believed in the business long before it became fashionable. Analysis Big Data CTO News Open Source Pro Om Malik' Their role in this journey was what really made it all worth it. They are great people and they will all do great work wherever they go. MegaTrends of IT. Technology Reviews.
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Amazon forms ‘Counterfeit Crimes Unit,’ under pressure to escalate fight against fake products
GeekWire
JUNE 24, 2020
The group “will mine Amazon’s data, cull information from external resources such as payment service providers and open source intelligence, and leverage on-the-ground assets to connect the dots between targets,” the company says. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.
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This AI understands doctor’s notes: Truveta’s new model finds meaning in messy healthcare data
GeekWire
APRIL 13, 2023
The amount of the data that we process every day and make available for researchers in a timely fashion makes it a very complex and really big data problem,” said Jay Nanduri , Truveta chief technology officer, in an interview with GeekWire. The company also updates its datasets daily. The Truveta data pipeline.
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What is synthetic data? Generated data to help your AI strategy
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 15, 2022
To simulate the future: When fashions change, historic data might become obsolete overnight. Replacing or augmenting the historic data with synthetic data that accounts for the fashion change can help keep recommendation engines relevant. This can slow down the development of new AI models.
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SAP to add generative AI, industry smarts to CX tools
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 16, 2023
SAP will train the models using a mix of open-source data and customer data in a multi-tenant environment, but each customer’s data will be processed independently and with no cross-polination of customer-specific insights from one tenant to another, a company representative said.
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5 new innovations to help teachers engage students from within the classroom
Galido
FEBRUARY 21, 2017
Some institutions still adhere to the old-fashioned learning model, and they refuse to adapt because they see technology a distraction. Planning a lesson the old fashion way doesn’t guarantee a teacher that students will get the point. Open-Source Technology. However, open-source technologies are not.
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Data as a service: Top vendors offering data on tap
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 14, 2022
Sometimes it comes from external, oftentimes open, sources, gathered together by the DaaS vendor to help enterprises leverage data assets they might otherwise be unable to deal with themselves. Many of the tools are also following the current fashion of making development simpler and smarter.
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Blockchain Business Innovation
Cloud Musings
MAY 17, 2017
If used in this fashion, it can enable transactional applications that can have embedded trust, accountability and transparency attributes. Ready-made frameworks as also available from the Hyperledger Project , an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies.
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How to raise money from crowds: 11 crowdfunding platforms and examples
Trends in the Living Networks
MAY 24, 2010
Kickstarter gained attention when the new open source competitor to Facebook, Diaspora* , sought $10,000 and has already raised over $180,000 before the funding period is over. Fashion Stake has already garnered significant publicity before its launch.
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Cloud-Hosted Cloud Management via Platform9
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 12, 2014
Platform9 was launched by former VMware veterans with the goal of making it easy for companies to consume their existing infrastructure in an agile, cloud-like fashion. For now, at least, that is especially true for OpenStack, which can be notoriously difficult for newcomers to the popular open source cloud management environment.
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Technology Short Take #83
Scott Lowe
MAY 25, 2017
Even with public cloud and managed services, you can’t avoid good old-fashioned data management processes.” After a little time and seeing how things seem to be progressing, I realize that it creates a clear separation between the open source project formerly known as Docker (now Moby) and Docker CE/EE (the products from Docker Inc.).
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Technology Short Take #83
Scott Lowe
MAY 25, 2017
Even with public cloud and managed services, you can’t avoid good old-fashioned data management processes.” After a little time and seeing how things seem to be progressing, I realize that it creates a clear separation between the open source project formerly known as Docker (now Moby) and Docker CE/EE (the products from Docker Inc.).
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Announcement of Crowdsourcing Week: Singapore April 2013
Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 22, 2012
Curating content spanning the areas of Science/Tech, Enterprise, Government/NGO & Citizen Journalism, Crowdfunding, Advertising, Marketing, Design, Fashion, Film, Photography, Tourism and Open Source. Best Practices.
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Scott Lowe
AUGUST 16, 2017
“Even with public cloud and managed services, you can’t avoid good old-fashioned data management processes.” This was the source of some confusion in the past; the move to Moby sidesteps those concerns. This was the source of some confusion in the past; the move to Moby sidesteps those concerns. Virtualization.
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Full Stack Journey Episode #3: Jonathan Frappier
Scott Lowe
MARCH 8, 2016
The Ansible documentation site is great (one of the better open source documentation sites out there, in Jonathan’s opinion). He recommends access to hands-on learning on some form or fashion for everyone (home lab, cloud resources, lab at work, etc.). The effort to use Python morphed into using Ansible. Divide and conquer.
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SPF13
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
This was even further complicated by the fact that this was an open source conference with attendees having varying experience all in different languages, this posed quite the challenge. Three hours isnâ??t t a lot of time and 150 people is a very large group to get to accomplish something in unison. t expect 100% attendee completion.
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Amazon AWS really wasn’t designed for the Enterprise
Virtualized Greek
DECEMBER 9, 2013
They have built several tools that they’ve since open sourced that allow other organizations to take advantage of AWS like services. Enterprise applications do not behave in this fashion. The key to Chad’s example and the Netflix use case are they were purpose built for the AWS consumption model.
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The Twitter power users who can’t just quit
Vox
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Mastodon is an app with similar functionality to Twitter, but with a DIY ethos run on open source technology. After he left Twitter in a very public fashion, Cobb said he was flooded with hate mail, including people calling him the n-word. He said other writers may choose to leave the platform more discreetly. “My
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AI in the Real World: A Snapshot of What’s to Come
The Investing Edge
JULY 11, 2017
It’s clear that the world needs better defenses, and fortunately those are starting to emerge, if slowly and in patchwork fashion. Rapidminer , an open source predictive analytics platform, inherently incorporates machine learning as one of its core capabilities. The Internet-of-Things. By Ed Sappin.
Looking Ahead: My 2013 Projects
Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
I should try to find projects that are related and that support one another in some fashion. Open Source Tools and Projects I Should Learn. As a quick summary, here are some key “lessons learned” from my 2012 projects: The synergy of the projects does make a difference. Projects need to be more tightly defined.
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Top 5 Takeaways From The “ForAllSecure Makes Software Security Automous” Livestream
ForAllSecure
APRIL 17, 2019
.” It’s commonly unknown that risk can be inherited via vulnerable code components sourced from software supply chains. And, it’s true that users of open source or third-party components don’t have the flexibility, control, or insight to find and fix vulnerabilities as its developers.
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OpenStack Summit 2015 Day 1 Keynote
Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 26, 2015
Yahoo selected OpenStack for a number of reasons, including a common API, the fact it is open source, and because Yahoo Japan believes that co-creation with vendors (developing features/functionality in conjunction with vendors in an open source fashion) is important.
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Top 5 Takeaways From The “ForAllSecure Makes Software Security Automous” Livestream
ForAllSecure
APRIL 17, 2019
.” It’s commonly unknown that risk can be inherited via vulnerable code components sourced from software supply chains. And, it’s true that users of open source or third-party components don’t have the flexibility, control, or insight to find and fix vulnerabilities as its developers.
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TOP 5 TAKEAWAYS FROM THE “FORALLSECURE MAKES SOFTWARE SECURITY AUTONOMOUS” LIVESTREAM
ForAllSecure
APRIL 17, 2019
.” It’s commonly unknown that risk can be inherited via vulnerable code components sourced from software supply chains. And, it’s true that users of open source or third-party components don’t have the flexibility, control, or insight to find and fix vulnerabilities as its developers.
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The role of large language models in the AI war
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Easy Accessibility: Many comprehensive language models are freely available as open source, making them useful for various software development tasks. LaMDA’s innovativeness lies in the fact that it may stimulate dialogue in a looser fashion than is allowed by task-based responses.
CIO’s Dilemma: Buy vs. Build
Future of CIO
JANUARY 11, 2014
Even when you decide to buy, you’ll need integration professional services, so there are few cases in a plug and play fashion model. Buy when there are mature/industry standard products available or when supporting operational/secondary lines of business.
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AI already uses as much energy as a small country. It’s only the beginning.
Vox
MARCH 28, 2024
I recently spoke with Sasha Luccioni , lead climate researcher at an AI company called Hugging Face, which provides an open-source online platform for the machine learning community that supports the collaborative, ethical use of artificial intelligence. million European Union residents.
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8 ways to retain top developer talent
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 10, 2023
The idea is that people know what is working and what isn’t, and they are best able to course correct in fast, iterable fashion. From DevOps to ‘DevEx’ — and back again The expansion of DevOps has empowered developers to be involved in the full product lifecycle and influence that lifecycle in a holistic fashion.
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LexisNexis rises to the generative AI challenge
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Since its origins in the early 1970s, LexisNexis and its portfolio of legal and business data and analytics services have faced competitive threats heralded by the rise of the Internet, Google Search, and open source software — and now perhaps its most formidable adversary yet: generative AI, Reihl notes.
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Like it or not, you should probably start paying attention to bitcoin
Vox
APRIL 14, 2021
Instead, thousands of computers around the world process Bitcoin transactions in a peer-to-peer fashion. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. All Open Sourced content is editorially independent and produced by our journalists. The MasterCard network is owned and operated by MasterCard Inc.
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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems
ForAllSecure
APRIL 19, 2023
for more information on this open source project, and to test out the concept itself. So what we do in the open source systems is we spool that table to a column store. The one we use is Vertica because Mike Stonebreaker developed it, but you can use open source ones like redshift or snowflake.
Beginning Fuzz Cycle Automation: Improving Testing And Fuzz Development With Coverage Analysis
ForAllSecure
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
Following on the last post, we will look at TinyXML2, an open source C++ XML library with an existing fuzz harness for integration with Google’s OSS-Fuzz project. Catch the FASTR series to see a technical proof of concept on our latest zero-day findings. Episode 2 features uncovering memory defects in cereal. Return to TinyXML2.
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ForAllSecure
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
Following on the last post, we will look at TinyXML2, an open source C++ XML library with an existing fuzz harness for integration with Google’s OSS-Fuzz project. Return to TinyXML2. We’d like to improve on our coverage that we found in the first post, so we’ll go through the process I outlined above. Enter the Ninja.
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BEGINNING FUZZ CYCLE AUTOMATION: IMPROVING TESTING AND FUZZ DEVELOPMENT WITH COVERAGE ANALYSIS
ForAllSecure
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
Following on the last post, we will look at TinyXML2, an open source C++ XML library with an existing fuzz harness for integration with Google’s OSS-Fuzz project. Return to TinyXML2. We’d like to improve on our coverage that we found in the first post, so we’ll go through the process I outlined above. Enter the Ninja.
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The best free apps for video calling
The Verge
JUNE 11, 2020
All that being said, if you’re feeling old-fashioned, you can use Hangouts to video chat with up to 10 people if you’re using Gmail or G Suite Basic (up to 25 if you’re using the business or educational G Suite versions). Open source with plenty of features. Jitsi Meet is an easy-to-use open-source video platform.
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The spectacular implosion of crypto’s biggest star, explained
Vox
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Whether or not you’re a crypto person , chances are you’ve come into some sort of contact with FTX and its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried — better known as SBF — in some fashion. In a matter of days, his empire has exploded in a rather spectacular fashion.
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Should the OpenStack Community Embrace Amazon & Google?
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 24, 2013
Should the OpenStack community focus on creating an open source alternative to Amazon and Google? Get solutions out faster and move in a more agile fashion.”. Bias’ open letter goes on to discuss how AWS has grown and controlled the innovation curve in the public cloud. Cloud Wars.
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How Much Testing Is Enough? Understanding Test Results With bncov And Coverage Analysis
ForAllSecure
MAY 2, 2019
” Whether you’re writing unit tests for your programs or finding bugs in closed-source third-party software, knowing what code you have and have not covered is an important piece of information. As a demonstration, let’s walk through an open source project that has built-in test resources.
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Picos at the Edge
Phil Windley
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
My vision for picos is that they can operate on a decentralized mesh of pico engines in a similar decentralized fashion. If you're interested in the pico engine, the pico engine is an open source project licensed under a liberal MIT license. Decentralized Computing. You can see current issues for the pico engine here.
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6 Best ePUB Viewers for eBook Lovers
Kitaboo
OCTOBER 8, 2021
As an ePUB viewer, it is still open source and completely free. Each book you download is organized and managed in a simple fashion. Even today, Calibre is a highly popular choice amongst both book readers and book publishers. . Calibre grants access to a large and immaculate library with a comprehensive interface.
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78 Leveraging Organizational Knowledge: Questions to Verna Allee on how to start a Value Networks analysis
Leveraging Organizational Knowledge
APRIL 21, 2007
The application I am referring to is the open source GenIsis application developed by my brilliant colleague Oliver Schwabe. The open source version uses an Excel-based workbook to capture and organize the data. Currently interim IT Director for Matches Fashion. Very interesting.
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