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Why Meta is giving away its extremely powerful AI model

Vox

But more importantly, its open source nature adds new urgency to an important ethical debate over who should control AI — and whether it can be made safe. Zuckerberg also made the case for why it’s better for leading AI models to be “open source,” which means making the technology’s underlying code largely available for anyone to use.

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Securing Linux Policy

Tech Republic Security

This policy from TechRepublic Premium provides guidelines for securing Linux on company computers and computers used to conduct company business. Linux is a powerful and customizable operating system that has been the backbone of many businesses for decades. It assumes administrative knowledge of Linux servers and/or workstation environments.

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Fostering Innovation at Discover Financial Services

CIO Business Intelligence

As Gisolfi said, “We have to balance strict adherence to regulation and compliance guidelines while enabling a safe zone for research and experimentation around new ideas, technologies, fintech industry trends, as wells as process optimization and modernization.” An innovation squad was created to flesh out the prototype.

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The High-Stakes Game of Ensuring IoMT Device Security

SecureWorld News

Following FDA and NIST cybersecurity guidelines Some time ago, the FDA issued guidelines outlining design recommendations and considerations for medical devices, both pre- and post-market release. Medical device manufacturers are subject to distinct guidelines at different stages of a product's lifecycle.

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My API story: Vodafone's API Architecture Guild

TM Forum

Florin Tene, Enterprise Architect, Vodafone Group, explains how and why Vodafone dedicates people, processes, guidelines, and tools to increase and support the adoption, usage, and development of TM Forum's industry-standard Open APIs as part of its 'telco to tech' evolution. Tell us about yourself and your job.

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Deeper Insights Into Facebook’s Torchnet

CTOvision

This announcement revealed the launch of Torchnet, an open source software toolkit meant to build upon the already existing Torch, which itself is an open source library for a deep machine learning framework. The reveal of a deep learning framework isn’t exactly new, but Facebook’s approach is a different strategy.

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Amazon deploys AI ‘distance assistants’ to notify warehouse workers if they get too close

The Verge

Importantly, Amazon also says it will be open-sourcing the technology, allowing other companies to quickly replicate and deploy these devices in a range of locations. Amazon isn’t the only company using machine learning in this way. Amazon has a history of closely tracking workers’ activities.