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The High-Stakes Game of Ensuring IoMT Device Security

SecureWorld News

Both systems rely on cloud storage and AI-driven communication for data exchange. Various components—from specific gadgets, servers, and storage systems to web apps, cloud databases, firmware, and network services—can either strengthen the network's security or act as potential vulnerabilities in its defense system.

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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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Technology Short Take #80

Scott Lowe

As opposed to just encrypting data at the transport level (although Acra does that between components of its architecture) or just encrypting data at the storage level (using an encrypted file system or similar), Acra targets encrypting data at the table/row/column level within a database. Acra is open source and available via GitHub.

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4 paths to sustainable AI

CIO Business Intelligence

He also recommends tapping the open-source community for models that can be pre-trained for various tasks. AWS also has models to reduce data processing and storage, and tools to “right size” infrastructure for AI application. Always ask if AI/ML is right for your workload,” recommends AWS in its sustainability guidelines.

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Using EncFS with Dropbox and BoxCryptor

Scott Lowe

Lots of folks like using Dropbox , the ubiquitous store-and-sync cloud storage service; I am among them. To help address that, I looked around to find an open, interoperable way of adding an extra layer of encryption onto my data. A Mac port of the open source EncFS FUSE filesystem. Background.

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Technology Short Take 114

Scott Lowe

Courtesy of Tigera, Alex Pollitt shares some guidelines on when Linux conntrack is no longer your friend. The CNCF blog has a great article written by an Alibaba software engineer (Xingyu Chen) on some performance optimizations for etcd that have been contributed back to the open source community. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Technology Short Take 121

Scott Lowe

A complete OS based on the bare bones open source that backs macOS is apparently a real thing called PureDarwin. Samuel Karp has a list of guidelines for designing and testing software daemons. Here’s an article from Marko Saric on his switch from macOS to Linux. Nothing this time; sorry! Virtualization.

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