Appwrite, an open source backend-as-a-service provider, raises $27M
Venture Beast
APRIL 5, 2022
Appwrite, an open source backend-as-a-service and rival to Google's Firebase, has raised $27 million in a series A round of funding. Read More.
After Log4j, Open-Source Software Is Now a National Security Issue
Gizmodo
JANUARY 13, 2022
For years, developers of free, open-source software have been telling anyone who will listen that their projects needs better financial assistance and more oversight. Now, after a number of disastrous incidents involving open-source code, the federal government and Silicon Valley may finally be listening. Read more.
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Google launches Flutter 2.0 to target developers across all platforms
Venture Beast
MARCH 3, 2021
Google has unveiled Flutter 2.0, an open source UI development kit that helps app makers build cross-platform software from the same codebase. Read More.
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Google Gemma AI offers lightweight models with powerful results
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Google Gemma AI has arrived, offering developers powerful yet compact language models accessible for innovation and customization. Built upon the foundational research powering Google’s impressive Gemini models , Google Gemma AI is part of the company’s ongoing commitment to open-source AI development.
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About Steve Francia
SPF13
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
I’ve spent the last 27 years as a software, product, and advocacy leader specializing in open source and developer experiences. I also authored Google’s Open Source Strategy and led Google Cloud developer strategy.
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Brave is bypassing Google AMP pages because they’re ‘harmful to users’
The Verge
APRIL 19, 2022
“And in cases where that is not possible, Brave will watch as pages are being fetched and redirect users away from AMP pages before the page is even rendered, preventing AMP / Google code from being loaded and executed.”. Brave framed De-AMP as a privacy feature and didn’t mince words about its stance toward Google’s version of the web. “In
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Google Takeout will get more ways to securely transfer files across different services
The Verge
MARCH 11, 2022
In 2018, Google, Facebook / Meta, Microsoft, and Twitter teamed up to announce the Data Transfer Project , which worked on tools to help users “transfer data directly from one service to another, without needing to download and re-upload it.” Google says in its post that, on average, there are “8.2
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Your car is about to go open source
Galido
OCTOBER 6, 2016
Having an open-source IVI operating system would create a reusable platform consisting of core services, middleware and open application layer interfaces that eliminate the redundant efforts to create separate proprietary systems. By developing an open-source platform, carmakers can share upgrades as they arrive.
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Google’s Model Search automatically optimizes and identifies AI models
Venture Beast
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
Google open-sourced Model Search, a tool that automatically optimizes and identifies AI models given a dataset and task. Read More.
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How to make sure Google automatically deletes your data on a regular basis
Vox
JUNE 24, 2020
Google is making it easier for users to auto-delete data like their search histories. Google is making it easier to delete the data it collects about you — though you might still have to do a little work to enable the feature. Or you can just ask Google not to save anything and have an impersonal, but more private, experience.
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Measuring the American Reaction to Heartbleed
CTOvision
MAY 9, 2014
The hole existed in OpenSSL, an open-source program used by hundreds of thousands of websites. The bug affected some of the world’s most popular sites, including Facebook, Google, YouTube, and Wikipedia. Just 39% of Internet users took measures to increase the security of their online accounts. Read the report.
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Technology Short Take 175
Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Here’s your weekend reading—a collection of links and articles from around the internet on a variety of data center- and cloud-related topics. Networking The good folks over at Packet Pushers have compiled a list of open source networking projects. I hope you find something useful here!
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Google Play Movies & TV is now Google TV but it’s not the same Google TV that runs on Android TV on the new Chromecast, it’s an app
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
Along with the launch of the new Chromecast with Google TV , which we’ve just reviewed , Google is changing the name of the Google Play Movies & TV app to Google TV. The app is Google’s store for renting and buying movies and TV, and in truth Google is following Apple’s lead here. It’s $49.99
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5 ways to deploy your own large language model
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
The most popular LLMs in the enterprise today are ChatGPT and other OpenAI GPT models, Anthropic’s Claude, Meta’s Llama 2, and Falcon, an open-source model from the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi best known for its support for languages other than English. Things are changing week by week.
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The Pixel 4's Radar Technology Is About to Go Mainstream
Gizmodo
JANUARY 10, 2022
Google just quietly revealed an open-source API standard called Ripple based on the company’s Soli radar technology. Radar was partly responsible for the Google Pixel 4's most gimmicky features, but it’s also how Google tracks sleep in the the newest Nest Hub, and it opens the door for really interesting use cases.
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Watch A New World Of Innovation Launch At O’Reilly Solid Conference 21-22 May 2014 in San Francisco
CTOvision
MARCH 13, 2014
No doubt you are already tracking the construct many are calling the “Internet of Things” and you may have been pondering what this connected world might look like. Brian Gerkey, CEO of Open Source Robotics Foundation. Technology has reached the cusp of such an event. Ayah Bdeir, Founder and CEO of littleBits.
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263 Encrypted messaging app Signal uses Google to bypass censorship
Network World
DECEMBER 22, 2016
Developers of the popular Signal secure messaging app have started to use Google's domain as a front to hide traffic to their service and to sidestep blocking attempts. Bypassing online censorship in countries where internet access is controlled by the government can be very hard for users.
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Google unveils Flutter 2.2 with payment plugin for in-app purchases
Venture Beast
MAY 18, 2021
Google has unveiled version 2.2 of Flutter, which sports a new payment plugin and support for adaptive banner ads. Read More.
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Apple and Google look like problematic heroes in the pandemic
Vox
APRIL 16, 2020
Apple and Google’s contact-tracing tool has better privacy, but it isn’t perfect. Apple and Google are a month away from launching a series of updates to their smartphone operating systems that will use Bluetooth signals to track potential coronavirus cases. The tool could leave a dangerous door open. But that’s about it.
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The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
The potential impacts are reminiscent of the dawn of the Internet, and are likely to be just as transformative for businesses. Microsoft, Google, Salesforce—all the major players are all in on AI, so it only makes sense to leverage that. Open-source AI Open source has long been a driver of innovation in the AI space.
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Top 100 Influencers In Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
CTOvision
MARCH 8, 2016
The largest players in technology today, including Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, are all investing heavily in Artificial Intelligence. Google Open Sources TensorFlow Library for Machine Intelligence (macobserver.com). The Internet of Things (coloradotech.edu). Read the full report on Onalytica.com.
What CIOs Need To Know About Self-Driving Cars And AI
The Accidental Successful CIO
JANUARY 12, 2022
Google’s self-driving car is using software that is closed source – they are not sharing it with anyone. Other companies that are building self-driving cars are using the Apollo software which is open source. They can choose to go the closed source or the open source route.
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21-22 May O’Reilly Solid Conference Heralds the Merging of the Physical and Virtual Worlds
CTOvision
APRIL 21, 2014
Call it the Internet of Things, the Age of Intelligent Devices, the Industrial Internet, the Programmable World, a neologism of your own choosing—it amounts to the same thing—the intersection of software, the Internet, big data, and physical objects. Brian Gerkey, CEO of Open Source Robotics Foundation.
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Malvertising Is a Cybercrime Heavyweight, Not an Underdog
SecureWorld News
MARCH 29, 2024
At its core, this tactic revolves around gaming the trust users put in reputable internet services, including search engines, and the familiarity they have with online advertising per se. These fake sites were promoted on Google and Bing search results. Here's some evidence for those who consider the risk far-fetched.
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Facebook’s news ban in Australia is draconian. But it might not be wrong.
Vox
FEBRUARY 20, 2021
Google and Facebook initially threatened to pull their services from the country if the law were to pass, but, as that passage looked more and more likely, their responses were very different. Google started making deals with publications. If they don’t, an arbiter will figure out a payment agreement for them.
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How your browser can make your online life a little more private
Vox
OCTOBER 21, 2020
Ashkan Soltani was part of the Do Not Track effort back in 2010 as a staff technologist at the FTC and has spent most of his career researching and investigating internet privacy and tracking. Google Chrome: Popular but not very private. Microsoft Edge: The new and improved Internet Explorer?
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Ugh! There's an App for That!
Phil Windley
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Instead of enshrining Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft as the Internet's permanent overlords and then striving to make them as benign as possible, we can fix the Internet by making Big Tech less central to its future. The lesson of the internet was not that it was the cheapest, easiest way to build global network.
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‘Anti-capitalist’ Verkada hacker charged by US government with attacks on dozens of companies
The Verge
MARCH 19, 2021
“I often just hunt for interesting GitLab instances, mostly with just simple Google dorks, when I’m bored, and I keep being amazed by how little thought seems to go into the security settings,” Kottmann told ZDNet in May 2020. These logins allowed the hackers to look through the live feeds of more than 150,000 internet-connected cameras.
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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking the Chrome Sandbox
ForAllSecure
OCTOBER 13, 2020
In 1994, the first commercial internet browser was released. Netscape Navigator went on to be eclipsed by Internet Explore, Safari, Firefox, and now Chrome, but it helped kick start the internet-focused world we live in today. Google Podcasts. Along the way came Apple Safari and then Google Chrome. Apple Podcasts.
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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking the Chrome Sandbox
ForAllSecure
OCTOBER 13, 2020
In 1994, the first commercial internet browser was released. Netscape Navigator went on to be eclipsed by Internet Explore, Safari, Firefox, and now Chrome, but it helped kick start the internet-focused world we live in today. Google Podcasts. Along the way came Apple Safari and then Google Chrome. Apple Podcasts.
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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking the Chrome Sandbox
ForAllSecure
OCTOBER 13, 2020
In 1994, the first commercial internet browser was released. Netscape Navigator went on to be eclipsed by Internet Explore, Safari, Firefox, and now Chrome, but it helped kick start the internet-focused world we live in today. Google Podcasts. Along the way came Apple Safari and then Google Chrome. Apple Podcasts.
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Global distributed organizations can attract the most talented in the world
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
Forbes has a nice story about the history of WordPress and the role the open-source software plays in the for-profit business Automattic. As a legacy of its open-source roots its 120 employees are spread across 26 countries and six continents. The article at one point says: Automattic has an idiosyncratic workplace.
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Should you build or buy generative AI?
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 14, 2023
Fine-tuning applies to both hosted cloud LLMs and open source LLM models you run yourself, so this level of ‘shaping’ doesn’t commit you to one approach. A general LLM won’t be calibrated for that, but you can recalibrate it—a process known as fine-tuning—to your own data.
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Roblox, GitHub and the power of online communities: A discussion with Madrona’s Dan Li
GeekWire
MARCH 3, 2021
Online communities have existed since the dawn of the Internet age. This sort of community is prevalent in the open source software world, but Li said it is spreading rapidly into other areas. ” Subscribe to 2025: Tomorrow, Today in Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Spotify , Stitcher or any podcast app.
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AI copyright lawsuits: In-depth review
Dataconomy
JANUARY 8, 2024
While platforms like ChatGPT have been developed using internet-sourced data, they have done so without explicit consent from the creators of that data. Notably, GPT-3’s training encompassed a plethora of sources, including Wikipedia and Reddit. This spate of AI copyright lawsuits lawsuits is not without precedent.
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Going Serverless: Where to Start
Linux Academy
JUNE 4, 2019
The Serverless Framework is an open-source project that replaces traditional platforms (hardware, operating systems) with a platform that can run in a cloud environment. You can create code (a function) that does a specific task, throw it into your FaaS provider (Google, AWS, Azure, etc.), What is serverless framework?
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California App Maker Turns Overseas Gig Workers Into Intelligence-Gathering Military Assets
Gizmodo
JUNE 25, 2021
military has turned an army of overseas cellphone users into a sweeping open-source intelligence network, gleaning data from cell towers and wifi hotspots in countries long engulfed by armed conflict with American forces and allies. A San Francisco tech company paid millions by the U.S. Read more.
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Why Meta’s move to make its new AI open source is more dangerous than you think
Vox
AUGUST 2, 2023
On the whole, we are much better off because the internet is available to everybody — and built upon by everybody — instead of remaining the exclusive province of a few governments. Mark Zuckerberg justified the move in a Facebook post : “Open source drives innovation because it enables many more developers to build with new technology.
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Why Kubernetes Is So Popular in the Tech World
Galido
APRIL 27, 2020
Most users of containers on Google and Azure are using Kubernetes. Google was the company that originally created and owned Kubernetes. This container management system obviously had a lot of potential since it comes from Google’s engineers. Multiple containers can share the same internet connection and OS.
15 must-try open source BI software for enhanced data insights
Dataconomy
MAY 10, 2023
Open source business intelligence software is a game-changer in the world of data analysis and decision-making. With open source BI software, businesses no longer need to rely on expensive proprietary software solutions that can be inflexible and difficult to integrate with existing systems.
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Online scammers are rushing to exploit people desperate to get the Covid-19 vaccine
Vox
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
But that inevitably means there are scammers ready to use the internet to take advantage of these vaccine seekers to steal their money and personal information. These schemes are showing up in different corners of the internet, including on eBay, in Google ads, and on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
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79 5 ways enterprise networkers can - and can't - be like webscale stars
ComputerWorld IT Management
NOVEMBER 4, 2016
In networking, big cloud companies like Google and Facebook are at the top of their game. Many ordinary enterprises would love what the internet heavyweights have: standardized networks that can support any application without administrators having to configure a lot of proprietary hardware.
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Top Sites Running Drupal : spf13.com
SPF13
DECEMBER 21, 2009
s important here is that technology leaders are recognizing the power of Drupal and Open Source and adopting it at an amazing rate. Berkman Center for Internet and Society. by Steve Francia. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Top Sites Running Drupal. Image via Wikipedia.
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