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Four Attributes of Openness in Modern Communications

CTOvision

I posit that there are four key attributes that define openness in this context: documented, standardized, open sourced and inclusive. Any claims of openness by suppliers should be evaluated against these criteria if for no other reason than to clarify their position. A Milestone – Open Source.

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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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The big, gaping hole in software supply chain security

CIO Business Intelligence

If software supply chains consisted solely of open source code, securing them would be easy. Effective tools and methodologies exist for discovering and remediating software supply chain security risks that arise from open source components. But SBOMs are designed mainly to catalog open source software.

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GitHub reinstated a YouTube video downloader that the RIAA claimed was a piracy tool

The Verge

GitHub has reinstated an open-source tool for downloading YouTube videos, and it’s changed its policies to make similar copyright-related takedowns less likely. GitHub initially agreed, but its decision drew criticism from journalists and software developers. Photo: GitHub.

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Nvidia unveils generative physical AI platform, agentic AI advances at CES

CIO Business Intelligence

Lebaredian said Nvidias Nemotron LLMs are fully optimized versions of Metas open-source Llama models, using Nvidia CUDA and AI acceleration to enable the high performance and lower compute costs crucial for agentic systems running multiple LLMs. LlamaIndex added a document research assistant for blog creation blueprint.

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Security researcher finds a way to run code on Apple, PayPal, and Microsoft’s systems

The Verge

The exploit is also deviously simple, and it’s something that many large software developers will have to figure out how to protect themselves from. When companies are building programs, they often use open-source code written by other people, so they’re not spending time and resources solving a problem that’s already solved.

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Is the cloud seducing software giants into the enemy lair?

CIO Business Intelligence

It seemed fairly harmless as open-source coders played one language against another. Swimm, a product launched in 2018, found new life in providing documentation for legacy code combined with the power of LLMs to create new, AI-fuelled code in a different language. Wellnot yet, but it is starting.