Appwrite, an open source backend-as-a-service provider, raises $27M
Venture Beast
APRIL 5, 2022
Appwrite, an open source backend-as-a-service and rival to Google's Firebase, has raised $27 million in a series A round of funding. Read More.
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After Log4j, Open-Source Software Is Now a National Security Issue
Gizmodo
JANUARY 13, 2022
For years, developers of free, open-source software have been telling anyone who will listen that their projects needs better financial assistance and more oversight. Now, after a number of disastrous incidents involving open-source code, the federal government and Silicon Valley may finally be listening. Read more.
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15 must-try open source BI software for enhanced data insights
Dataconomy
MAY 10, 2023
Open source business intelligence software is a game-changer in the world of data analysis and decision-making. With open source BI software, businesses no longer need to rely on expensive proprietary software solutions that can be inflexible and difficult to integrate with existing systems.
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Why Meta’s move to make its new AI open source is more dangerous than you think
Vox
AUGUST 2, 2023
On the whole, we are much better off because the internet is available to everybody — and built upon by everybody — instead of remaining the exclusive province of a few governments. Mark Zuckerberg justified the move in a Facebook post : “Open source drives innovation because it enables many more developers to build with new technology.
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Google launches Flutter 2.0 to target developers across all platforms
Venture Beast
MARCH 3, 2021
Google has unveiled Flutter 2.0, an open source UI development kit that helps app makers build cross-platform software from the same codebase. Read More.
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what every open source project needs
SPF13
MARCH 20, 2015
In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to Wikipedia, open source is everywhere, but how does one succeed in it? What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. Open Source Companies • Redhat $13B • Cloudera $3B • MongoDB $1.6B • Docker $.5B
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Cloudflare accelerates its network with security, traffic optimizations
Network World
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
The announcements include implementations of new and emerging internet standards that could have a wide-ranging impact over time. Cloudflare commands a sizable share of internet traffic, and its network footprint spans the globe. Tb/s of switching capacity with support for open-source network operating systems including SONiC.
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About Steve Francia
SPF13
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
I’ve spent the last 27 years as a software, product, and advocacy leader specializing in open source and developer experiences. I also authored Google’s Open Source Strategy and led Google Cloud developer strategy.
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Brave is bypassing Google AMP pages because they’re ‘harmful to users’
The Verge
APRIL 19, 2022
“And in cases where that is not possible, Brave will watch as pages are being fetched and redirect users away from AMP pages before the page is even rendered, preventing AMP / Google code from being loaded and executed.”. Brave framed De-AMP as a privacy feature and didn’t mince words about its stance toward Google’s version of the web. “In
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Google Gemma AI offers lightweight models with powerful results
Dataconomy
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Google Gemma AI has arrived, offering developers powerful yet compact language models accessible for innovation and customization. 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.
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Your car is about to go open source
Galido
OCTOBER 6, 2016
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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Google Takeout will get more ways to securely transfer files across different services
The Verge
MARCH 11, 2022
In 2018, Google, Facebook / Meta, Microsoft, and Twitter teamed up to announce the Data Transfer Project , which worked on tools to help users “transfer data directly from one service to another, without needing to download and re-upload it.” Google says in its post that, on average, there are “8.2
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To build business value, leverage your company’s data with AI
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Data quality outstrips quantity As AI guru and former director of research at Google Peter Norvig once said, “More data beats better algorithms, but better data beats more data.” Open-source data can be a useful supplement, too, but, by definition, is available to everyone, so not a differentiating factor on its own.
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Google’s Model Search automatically optimizes and identifies AI models
Venture Beast
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
Google open-sourced Model Search, a tool that automatically optimizes and identifies AI models given a dataset and task. Read More.
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Beginner’s guide to Google Kubernetes Engine
Dataconomy
MAY 6, 2024
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a robust solution designed to simplify containerized application management. Understanding Google Kubernetes Engine At the heart of GKE is a managed environment that makes running Kubernetes operations do away with the complexities. For additional info , check the detailed explanation.
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Meet FreedomGPT, a chatbot that works even without the Internet
Dataconomy
JUNE 22, 2023
FreedomGPT’s exceptional speed allows for quick generation and modification of text, saving you valuable time and effort ( Image credit ) FreedomGPT is a Meta AI LLM that is both open source and closed source, and Llama calibrate it using a parameter from the 7B model. For another, your data will be safe with FreedomGPT.
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How to make sure Google automatically deletes your data on a regular basis
Vox
JUNE 24, 2020
Google is making it easier for users to auto-delete data like their search histories. Google is making it easier to delete the data it collects about you — though you might still have to do a little work to enable the feature. Or you can just ask Google not to save anything and have an impersonal, but more private, experience.
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Measuring the American Reaction to Heartbleed
CTOvision
MAY 9, 2014
The hole existed in OpenSSL, an open-source program used by hundreds of thousands of websites. The bug affected some of the world’s most popular sites, including Facebook, Google, YouTube, and Wikipedia. Just 39% of Internet users took measures to increase the security of their online accounts. Read the report.
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Geek of the Week: Tech vet Dick Hardt searches for a better way to verify your ?internet identity?
GeekWire
JUNE 2, 2020
Dick Hardt has often been “early to the new,” as he puts it: Microsoft Windows in 1986, neural networks in 1989, the internet in 1993, open source in 1995, and even Burning Man in 1999. “The internet does not have an identity layer,” said Hardt, our latest Geek of the Week. back in 2005.
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Map an AI strategy that’s yours, not SAP’s
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
A plethora of AI tools are already on the market, from open-source options to capabilities offered by internet giants like Amazon, Google and Microsoft. “You want AI to act on behalf of the enterprise, not just capabilities in a single ERP system,” Hays says.
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Google Play Movies & TV is now Google TV but it’s not the same Google TV that runs on Android TV on the new Chromecast, it’s an app
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
Along with the launch of the new Chromecast with Google TV , which we’ve just reviewed , Google is changing the name of the Google Play Movies & TV app to Google TV. The app is Google’s store for renting and buying movies and TV, and in truth Google is following Apple’s lead here. It’s $49.99
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Should the OpenStack Community Embrace Amazon & Google?
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 24, 2013
Should the OpenStack Community Embrace Amazon & Google? Should the OpenStack Community Embrace Amazon & Google? Should the OpenStack community focus on creating an open source alternative to Amazon and Google? OpenStack, CloudStack, Eucalyptus, and OpenNebula all play on the open source front.
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Watch A New World Of Innovation Launch At O’Reilly Solid Conference 21-22 May 2014 in San Francisco
CTOvision
MARCH 13, 2014
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.
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VMware Cloud Foundation gains AI model store, other updates
Network World
AUGUST 28, 2024
Since then, AI vendors leapfrogged one another in capabilities and features, and a multitude of open-source models hit the scene, offering lower cost or more specialized alternatives. Because out there on the Internet, you don’t know the provenance of that LLM and where it’s coming from.
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Technology Short Take 175
Scott Lowe
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Here’s your weekend reading—a collection of links and articles from around the internet on a variety of data center- and cloud-related topics. Networking The good folks over at Packet Pushers have compiled a list of open source networking projects. I hope you find something useful here!
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Network World
DECEMBER 22, 2016
Developers of the popular Signal secure messaging app have started to use Google's domain as a front to hide traffic to their service and to sidestep blocking attempts. Bypassing online censorship in countries where internet access is controlled by the government can be very hard for users.
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The Pixel 4's Radar Technology Is About to Go Mainstream
Gizmodo
JANUARY 10, 2022
Google just quietly revealed an open-source API standard called Ripple based on the company’s Soli radar technology. Radar was partly responsible for the Google Pixel 4's most gimmicky features, but it’s also how Google tracks sleep in the the newest Nest Hub, and it opens the door for really interesting use cases.
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5 ways to deploy your own large language model
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
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. Things are changing week by week.
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Google unveils Flutter 2.2 with payment plugin for in-app purchases
Venture Beast
MAY 18, 2021
Google has unveiled version 2.2 of Flutter, which sports a new payment plugin and support for adaptive banner ads. Read More.
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Apple and Google look like problematic heroes in the pandemic
Vox
APRIL 16, 2020
Apple and Google’s contact-tracing tool has better privacy, but it isn’t perfect. Apple and Google are a month away from launching a series of updates to their smartphone operating systems that will use Bluetooth signals to track potential coronavirus cases. The tool could leave a dangerous door open. But that’s about it.
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Introducing the GenAI models you haven’t heard of yet
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 16, 2023
Companies are looking at Google’s Bard, Anthropic’s Claude, Databricks’ Dolly, Amazon’s Titan, or IBM’s WatsonX, but also open source AI models like Llama 2 from Meta. Open source models are also getting easier to deploy. We feel that every hyperscaler will have open source generative AI models quickly.”
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98 Top 100 Influencers In Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
CTOvision
MARCH 8, 2016
The largest players in technology today, including Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, are all investing heavily in Artificial Intelligence. Google Open Sources TensorFlow Library for Machine Intelligence (macobserver.com). The Internet of Things (coloradotech.edu). Read the full report on Onalytica.com.
Enhancing the User Experience: Fantastic Android Q Features Proving Google as the Ultimate Winner
Galido
AUGUST 2, 2019
Information Technology Blog - - Enhancing the User Experience: Fantastic Android Q Features Proving Google as the Ultimate Winner - Information Technology Blog. Hence, Google has introduced an open-source operating system running excellently over the smartphones and furnishing the customization needs of smartphone manufacturers, Android. .
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84 21-22 May O’Reilly Solid Conference Heralds the Merging of the Physical and Virtual Worlds
CTOvision
APRIL 21, 2014
Call it the Internet of Things, the Age of Intelligent Devices, the Industrial Internet, the Programmable World, a neologism of your own choosing—it amounts to the same thing—the intersection of software, the Internet, big data, and physical objects. Brian Gerkey, CEO of Open Source Robotics Foundation.
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What CIOs Need To Know About Self-Driving Cars And AI
The Accidental Successful CIO
JANUARY 12, 2022
Google’s self-driving car is using software that is closed source – they are not sharing it with anyone. Other companies that are building self-driving cars are using the Apollo software which is open source. They can choose to go the closed source or the open source route.
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The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
The potential impacts are reminiscent of the dawn of the Internet, and are likely to be just as transformative for businesses. Microsoft, Google, Salesforce—all the major players are all in on AI, so it only makes sense to leverage that. Open-source AI Open source has long been a driver of innovation in the AI space.
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Implementing Data Literacy, Part 2
Eric D. Brown
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Here’s how you can bootstrap your way to data literacy without breaking the bank: Leverage Free Online Resources: The internet is a treasure trove of free or low-cost learning opportunities. Google Data Studio: A free tool for creating interactive dashboards. Google Data Studio: A free tool for creating interactive dashboards.
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How your browser can make your online life a little more private
Vox
OCTOBER 21, 2020
Ashkan Soltani was part of the Do Not Track effort back in 2010 as a staff technologist at the FTC and has spent most of his career researching and investigating internet privacy and tracking. Google Chrome: Popular but not very private. Microsoft Edge: The new and improved Internet Explorer?
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AI already uses as much energy as a small country. It’s only the beginning.
Vox
MARCH 28, 2024
We are watched by machines behind the scenes that bill us when we cross toll bridges, guide us across the internet, and deliver us music we didn’t even know we wanted. According to the IEA, a single Google search takes 0.3 You can search your Google Drive at any moment. Those costs require trade-offs. watt-hours. (An
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Ugh! There's an App for That!
Phil Windley
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Instead of enshrining Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft as the Internet's permanent overlords and then striving to make them as benign as possible, we can fix the Internet by making Big Tech less central to its future. The lesson of the internet was not that it was the cheapest, easiest way to build global network.
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Top 5 Instructional Content Management Systems for Effective Online Learning
Kitaboo
OCTOBER 30, 2023
The 21st century’s go-to learning method is online, with a myriad of courses offered by prestigious universities available on the internet. Online learning opens numerous opportunities, from multimedia content integration to enhanced progress tracking. Table of Contents I. What are Instructional Content Management Systems?
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‘Anti-capitalist’ Verkada hacker charged by US government with attacks on dozens of companies
The Verge
MARCH 19, 2021
“I often just hunt for interesting GitLab instances, mostly with just simple Google dorks, when I’m bored, and I keep being amazed by how little thought seems to go into the security settings,” Kottmann told ZDNet in May 2020. These logins allowed the hackers to look through the live feeds of more than 150,000 internet-connected cameras.
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The AI bill that has Big Tech panicked
Vox
JUNE 14, 2024
The event brings together startups, CEOs, investors, tech leaders and all of the digital transformation players who are shaping the future of the Internet. The CEO of HuggingFace, a leader in the AI open source community, called the bill a “huge blow to both CA and US innovation.”
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