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Microsoft acquires ReFirm Labs in latest effort to identify Internet of Things security gaps

GeekWire

the company behind the Binwalk open-source software that identifies hidden security vulnerabilities in firmware, the software programmed into the memory of devices to provide basic hardware control. Microsoft has acquired ReFirm Labs of Fulton, Md.,

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Your car is about to go open source

Galido

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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The AI continuum

CIO Business Intelligence

Retrain and fine-tune an existing model Retraining proprietary or open-source models on specific datasets creates smaller, more refined models that can produce accurate results with lower-cost cloud instances or local hardware. Fortunately, most organizations can build on publicly available proprietary or open-source models.

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Google Gemma AI offers lightweight models with powerful results

Dataconomy

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. Google Gemma AI represents a suite of lightweight language models released for open-source use. What is Google Gemma AI?

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Nvidia says its ‘proprietary information’ is being leaked by hackers

The Verge

Nvidia has confirmed that it was hacked — and that the actor behind last week’s “incident” is leaking employee credentials and proprietary information onto the internet. Hacking group Lapsus$ has claimed responsibility for the attack, and has demanded that Nvidia make its drivers open-source if it doesn’t want more data leaked.

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5 ways to deploy your own large language model

CIO Business Intelligence

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. Salesloft uses OpenAI’s GPT 3.5 to write the email, says Fields.

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Watch A New World Of Innovation Launch At O’Reilly Solid Conference 21-22 May 2014 in San Francisco

CTOvision

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.