Open Hardware Summit 2024 was held in Montreal, Canada this year, and I had a blast attending the hands-on workshops. This post is a workshop attendee documentation from the session – where we explored the electronics and design of a strain gauge based paddle – for the bedroom. This paddle is designed to read the … Read more
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Akamai has warned that apps and APIs are bearing the brunt as threat actors pivot to living off the land In a hard-hitting keynote at this year’s RSA Conference, Boaz Gelbord, senior vice president and CSO at … Read more
Does the open source ecosystem needs stricter security around contributors? If you have not yet heard about a critical vulnerability found in XZ Utils, you aren’t paying attention to critical security news. After all, the discovery of a backdoor in a widely used Linux tool was serious enough to provoke comparisons to the infamous SolarWinds hack. Even Linux creator Linus Torvalds himself … Read more
When things started getting iffy over at Twitter, Mastodon rose as a popular alternative to the traditional microblogging platfrom. In contrast to the walled gardens of other social media channels, it uses an open protocol that runs on distributed servers that loosely join together, forming the “Fediverse”. The beauty of the Fediverse isn’t just in … Read more
May 08, 2024 05:00 ET | Source: RAIR RAIR LOS ANGELES [Tokenize LA Conference], May 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — RAIR Technologies today announced the launch of RAIRprotocol, a fully open-source dApp protocol layer. RAIRprotocol enables the creation of scalable dApps through an open token licensing model. Smart Account, Marketplace, DRM, & NFT infrastructure all in one … Read more
Discover how companies are responsibly integrating AI in production. This invite-only event in SF will explore the intersection of technology and business. Find out how you can attend here. At its annual Real-Time Analytics Summit today, StarTree announced a series of major product updates aimed at making large-scale, real-time data analytics and observability more accessible … Read more
Red Hat Inc. today presented its view of generative artificial intelligence, outlining a belief that the currently red-hot technology’s future will depend on open-source software and its ability to enable a community of users to support it. This view of the AI world could be seen in several key announcements during the company’s Rd Hat Summit conference … Read more
A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architects. Facilitating the Spread of Knowledge and Innovation in Professional Software Development Git is a popular tool for version control in software development. It is not uncommon to use multiple Git accounts. Correctly configuring and switching Git accounts is challenging. In … Read more
There are many reasons that businesses may want to choose open-source over proprietary tools when getting started with generative AI. This could be because of cost, opportunities for customization and optimization, transparency or simply the support that’s offered by the community. There are disadvantages too, of course, and I cover the pros and cons of … Read more
Akshati Vaishnav ’25 (left to right), Thomas Figura ’24, Aidan McNay ’24, Adele Thompson ’25 and Abigail Varghese ’25 are members of the Cornell Custom Silicon Systems team, which uses emerging open-source hardware to design, test and fabricate microchips. Microchips drive so many essential electronics, from appliances to airplanes, it is easy to take them … Read more