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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Even if you don’t have the training data or programming chops, you can take your favorite open source model, tweak it, and release it under a new name. According to Stanford’s AI Index Report, released in April, 149 foundation models were released in 2023, two-thirds of them open source.

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Hack together your own e-paper smartwatch with this $50 open-source kit

The Verge

If you’ve ever wanted to be like Steve Wozniak and have your own custom-made, geeky watch, Squarofumi (stylized SQFMI) may have the product for you: an open-source, Arduino-powered smartwatch with a 1.54-inch The watch uses a ESP32 SOC, which can be programmed with Arduino and MicroPython. Image: SQFMI. Image: SQFMI.

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Measuring the American Reaction to Heartbleed

CTOvision

The hole existed in OpenSSL, an open-source program used by hundreds of thousands of websites. It is hard to feel comfortable making any definitive statements from that muddled response. By ShannonPerry. The bug affected some of the world’s most popular sites, including Facebook, Google, YouTube, and Wikipedia.

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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development

CTOvision

– 24 Feb 2014: IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Boston, MA-based Cloudant, Inc., Cloudant, an active participant and contributor to the open source database community Apache CouchDBTM , delivers high availability, elastic scalability and innovative mobile device synchronization.

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A CTO’s Guide To The Top Federal Technology Topics of 2013

CTOvision

We all tracked topics like the Shutdown and its impact on IT, HealthCare.gov, NSA programs, Data Center consolidation efforts. The place for enterprises to store all data with enterprise grade data management and protection, with access by any system (from legacy to modern, from proprietary to open source).

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The box is open: AWS Center for Quantum Computing is definitely alive at Caltech

GeekWire

” He pointed to AWS’s involvement in OpenQASM , an open-source programming standardization effort, as an example where the major players are working together to further the cause of quantum computing. Like a true academic, Painter is reluctant to predict when the quantum computing revolution will reach its peak.

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How Can CIOs Avoid Getting Locked Into One Vendor’s Cloud?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Making use of open source standards to write code is one way to prevent vendor lock-in. The best solution for avoiding lock-in is using components based on well-known open source technologies, and use of cross-platform tools for managing these components. What All Of This Means For You.

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