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Working with PDF files on Linux

Network World

The PDF (portable document format) standard was created in the 1990s by Adobe cofounder John Warnock to make it possible for people to share reliably formatted documents across a wide range of platforms. It became an open ISO standard in 2015. Today, you can save documents as PDF files from many applications (e.g.,

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NetBox Labs launches tools to combat network configuration drift

Network World

NetBox Labs is expanding its network management platform this week with a pair of new products designed to tackle the growing challenges of infrastructure documentation and configuration management. NetBox is widely used to document, model and automate hybrid cloud footprints,” Beevers said. NS1 was subsequently acquired by IBM.

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5 top business use cases for AI agents

CIO Business Intelligence

Take Avantia, for example, a global law firm, which uses both commercial and open source gen AI to power its agents. If a customer asks us to do a transaction or workflow, and Outlook or Word is open, the AI agent can access all the company data, he says. That adds up to millions of documents a month that need to be processed.

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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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Nvidia launches blueprints to help jump start AI projects

Network World

All of this is completely open source, and so you could take it and modify the blueprints, Huang said during his keynote. But developers will want to customize and modify them, so they can make the necessary changes that they need. The blueprints come from Nvidia and its partners.

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7 types of tech debt that could cripple your business

CIO Business Intelligence

Open source dependency debt that weighs down DevOps As a software developer, writing code feels easier than reviewing someone elses and understanding how to use it. Many teams neglect dependency hygiene, letting outdated, redundant, or unsupported open-source components pile up, says Mitchell Johnson, CPDO of Sonatype.

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Gluware expands network automation platform with AI copilots, GitHub integration

Network World

NetBox integration brings in more network attributes Gluware is also adding an integration with the increasingly popular NetBox tool, which is an open-source-based technology for documenting and modeling networks. He commented that NetBox has a powerful technology and acts as a “source or truth” for network configuration.

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