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EDPB launches website auditing tool

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024
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The EDPB has launched a website auditing tool that can be used to help analyse whether websites are compliant with the law.

Key Points: 
  • The EDPB has launched a website auditing tool that can be used to help analyse whether websites are compliant with the law.
  • The tool is a Free and Open Source Software under the EUPL 1.2 Licence and is available for download on code.europa.eu.
  • The new tool allows preparing, carrying out and evaluating audits directly in the tool by a simple visit to the website in question.
  • While several website auditing tools already exist, these usually require technical expertise.

Mattermost Introduces “OpenOps” to Speed Responsible Evaluation of Generative AI Applied to Workflows

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Wednesday, June 28, 2023
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PALO ALTO, Calif., June 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the 2023 Collision Conference, Mattermost, Inc., the secure collaboration platform for technical teams, announced the launch of “OpenOps”, an open-source approach to accelerating the responsible evaluation of AI-enhanced workflows and usage policies while maintaining data control and avoiding vendor lock-in.

Key Points: 
  • AI Bots with Interchangeable AI Backends: OpenOps enables AI bots to be integrated into operations while connected to an interchangeable array of AI platforms.
  • For maximum performance, tap into third-party AI frameworking including OpenAI ChatGPT, the Azure AI Platform and Anthropic Claude.
  • This allows organizations to develop a rich corpus of real-world training data for future AI backend evaluation and fine-tuning.
  • The system also removes the need for specialized hardware such as GPUs, broadening the number of developers who can explore self-hosted AI models.

Mercedes-Benz and Microsoft Collaborate to Boost Efficiency, Resilience and Sustainability in Car Production

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Wednesday, October 12, 2022
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With the new MO360 Data Platform, Mercedes-Benz is connecting its around 30 passenger car plants worldwide to the Microsoft Cloud, enhancing transparency and predictability across its digital production and supply chain.

Key Points: 
  • With the new MO360 Data Platform, Mercedes-Benz is connecting its around 30 passenger car plants worldwide to the Microsoft Cloud, enhancing transparency and predictability across its digital production and supply chain.
  • The ability to predict and prevent problems in production and logistics will become a key competitive advantage as we go all electric.
  • Judson Althoff, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer at Microsoft: Mercedes-Benz partnership with Microsoft is a testament to the power of the industrial metaverse.
  • Microsoft (Nasdaq MSFT @microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge.

Advance United: Taking the Mining Industry into the Platform Economy

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Tuesday, May 17, 2022
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Helmed by CEO Jim Atkinson, Advance United is looking to shake up the status quo and disrupt the mining business - by not doing any mining of their own.

Key Points: 
  • Helmed by CEO Jim Atkinson, Advance United is looking to shake up the status quo and disrupt the mining business - by not doing any mining of their own.
  • Advance United's main endeavor is the AU Marketplace, an online platform for gold and precious metal properties, currently at the beta testing stage.
  • If Advance United's marketplace takes off, they will upend the mining industry without having put a single shovel in the ground.
  • The post "Advance United: Taking the Mining Industry into the Platform Economy" appeared first on BTV News.

Advance United Leverages Open Source Software for the AU Marketplace Platform

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Thursday, March 10, 2022
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Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - March 10, 2022) - Advance United Holdings Inc. (CSE: AUHI) (FSE: 9I0) (the "Company", or "Advance United" or "AU") is pleased to announce the company's commitment to the advancement of the Au Marketplace with open source technologies.

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  • Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - March 10, 2022) - Advance United Holdings Inc. (CSE: AUHI) (FSE: 9I0) (the "Company", or "Advance United" or "AU") is pleased to announce the company's commitment to the advancement of the Au Marketplace with open source technologies.
  • "Free and Open Source Software ("FOSS") offers indisputable benefits over closed-source alternatives," states Mr. Kevin Glendenning, Chief Technology Officer of Advance United.
  • The Au Marketplace is being developed to bring together property owners and producers in a vertically integrated community.
  • "While businesses and governments are investing in efforts to migrate existing infrastructure components to open source software, we have taken an open source first approach at Advance United," states Mr. Glendenning.

Internet Hall of Famer Dr. Richard Stallman to give presentation to the Jeff.pro GNU+Linux User Group

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Wednesday, January 26, 2022
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In September 1983, Stallman vowed to develop a complete operating system, to be called GNU, whose principle virtue was to be respecting its users' freedom. (Such software is called "free software" -- "free" as in freedom.) For this system he wrote several widely-used GNU packages, such as the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU Debugger and the GNU Emacs text editor, while recruiting developers for many other packages.

Key Points: 
  • Dr. Richard Stallman is the founder of the Free Software Foundation, lead developer of the GNU operating system, and main author of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL).
  • In September 1983, Stallman vowed to develop a complete operating system, to be called GNU, whose principle virtue was to be respecting its users' freedom.
  • In October 1985 Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation, initially to raise funds to support further development of GNU.
  • Launched in September 2021, Jeff.pro is presently the largest Technology User Group in North America, with over 44,000 subscribers.

Aunalytics Leverages Alluxio As A “One-Stop-Shop” for Data I/O with Faster Analytics

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Monday, August 2, 2021
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The combination of Aunalytics cloud-native data analytics platform coupled with Alluxios open-source data orchestration software enables customers to harness the power of universal data access across all data sources and derive AI-driven answers for competitive advantage, said Tom Panozzo, Analytics Cloud CTO, Aunalytics.

Key Points: 
  • The combination of Aunalytics cloud-native data analytics platform coupled with Alluxios open-source data orchestration software enables customers to harness the power of universal data access across all data sources and derive AI-driven answers for competitive advantage, said Tom Panozzo, Analytics Cloud CTO, Aunalytics.
  • Alluxio presents Aunalytics compute environments with a single point of access for all stored data regardless of its volume, velocity, or storage I/O performance capabilities.
  • Alluxio is the primary data access and write mechanism for the batch compute environment, dynamic query environment, and primary product DaybreakTM.
  • Alluxio orchestrates data closer to data analytics and AI/ML applications in any cloud across clusters, regions, and countries, providing memory-speed data access.

Cyber Defense Magazine Announces Winners of Black Unicorn Awards for 2021

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Monday, August 2, 2021
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LAS VEGAS, Aug. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- CYBER DEFENSE MAGAZINE (CDM), the cybersecurity industry's leading publication and provider of daily infosec news from around the globe, today announces the winners and finalists in the Black Unicorn Awards for 2021 with 7 very important categories, this year.

Key Points: 
  • LAS VEGAS, Aug. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- CYBER DEFENSE MAGAZINE (CDM), the cybersecurity industry's leading publication and provider of daily infosec news from around the globe, today announces the winners and finalists in the Black Unicorn Awards for 2021 with 7 very important categories, this year.
  • In addition, Cyber Defense Magazine has named winners in the Top 10 for Baby Black Unicorns, Cybersecurity Startups, Women in Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Experts, CISOs and MSSPs this year.
  • This is Cyber Defense Magazine's 9th year of honoring cybersecurity innovators, in this case the Black Unicorn Awards for 2021 on our Cyber Defense Awards platform.
  • Cyber Defense Magazine is a proud member of the Cyber Defense Media Group.

GridGain Launches Expert On-Call to Assist Ignite Developers Within Hours

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Thursday, July 29, 2021
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FOSTER CITY, Calif., July 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GridGain Systems , provider of enterprise-grade in-memory computing solutions powered by the Apache Ignite distributed database, today announced Expert On-Call , a service that assists Apache Ignite application developers and architects with a quick video call to help resolve any Ignite development roadblock they encounter within hours.

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  • FOSTER CITY, Calif., July 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GridGain Systems , provider of enterprise-grade in-memory computing solutions powered by the Apache Ignite distributed database, today announced Expert On-Call , a service that assists Apache Ignite application developers and architects with a quick video call to help resolve any Ignite development roadblock they encounter within hours.
  • Instead, developers can rapidly get the answers they need by meeting with the worlds leading Ignite engineers at a time thats convenient for the developers.
  • Expert On-Call is ideal for developers who are just getting started and experienced developers who have occasional questions, said Nikita Ivanov, founder and CTO of GridGain.
  • Apache Ignite has become the preferred platform for enabling both legacy and greenfield applications to be fast and scalable.

Keynote Speakers and Conference Schedule Announced for Open Networking & Edge Summit + Kubernetes on Edge Day 2021

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Thursday, July 29, 2021
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation , the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, along with co-hosts LF Edge , LF Networking , and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced the full schedule for Open Networking & Edge Summit + Kubernetes on Edge Day .

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, July 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation , the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, along with co-hosts LF Edge , LF Networking , and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced the full schedule for Open Networking & Edge Summit + Kubernetes on Edge Day .
  • Open Networking & Edge Summit (ONE Summit) is THE event for End to End Connectivity Solutions powered by Open Source.
  • Kubernetes on Edge Day, held alongside ONE Summit, gathers developers and adopters to share lessons learned in building, breaking, and bettering their edge infrastructure on top of Kubernetes.
  • Conference session tracks include: Enterprise Networking & Edge, Cloud Networking & Edge, Kubernetes on Edge, The New Service Provider (Open Core, Unified Edge & Universal Access) and Business Critical & Innovation.