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TC Energy appoints long-standing Board member, John E. Lowe as Chair of the Board

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023
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CALGARY, Alberta, Nov. 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TC Energy Corporation (TSX, NYSE: TRP) (TC Energy or the Company) today announced on behalf of its Board of Directors (the Board) that John E. Lowe will be appointed as Chair of the Board, effective Jan. 1, 2024.

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  • CALGARY, Alberta, Nov. 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TC Energy Corporation (TSX, NYSE: TRP) (TC Energy or the Company) today announced on behalf of its Board of Directors (the Board) that John E. Lowe will be appointed as Chair of the Board, effective Jan. 1, 2024.
  • Mr. Vanaselja joined the Board of Directors in 2014 and was appointed as Board Chair in 2017.
  • “On behalf of the Board of Directors, I thank Siim for his invaluable contributions to the growth and success of TC Energy.
  • We are grateful the Company will continue to benefit from Siim’s institutional knowledge and expertise,” said John E. Lowe, incoming Chair of the Board of Directors for TC Energy.

Ververica Cloud's Latest Innovations Set New Standards in Real-Time Data Processing

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023
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Today at Flink Forward 2023, Ververica, a leading player in the data analytics and stream processing industry, unveiled significant updates to Ververica Cloud.

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  • Today at Flink Forward 2023, Ververica, a leading player in the data analytics and stream processing industry, unveiled significant updates to Ververica Cloud.
  • Ververica Cloud's latest features are engineered to meet these demands head-on.
  • Ultra-High Performance with VERA Technology: Ververica Cloud leverages VERA (Ververica Runtime Assembly), a breakthrough technology that achieves data processing speeds up to 2x faster than open-source Apache Flink®.
  • We're proud to set new standards for performance and cost-efficiency, all while enabling flexible development options for streaming applications.

Monte Carlo Announces Support for Apache Kafka and Vector Databases to Enable More Reliable Data and AI Products

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023
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Monte Carlo , the data observability leader, today announced a series of new product advancements to help companies tackle the challenge of ensuring reliable data for their data and AI products.

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  • Monte Carlo , the data observability leader, today announced a series of new product advancements to help companies tackle the challenge of ensuring reliable data for their data and AI products.
  • With this news, Monte Carlo becomes the first-ever data observability platform to announce data observability for vector databases, a type of database designed to store and query high-dimensional vector data, typically used in RAG architectures.
  • To help these initiatives scale cost-effectively, Monte Carlo has released two first-of-its-kind data observability products, Performance Monitoring and Data Product Dashboard.
  • Available in early 2024, Monte Carlo is the first data observability platform to support trust and reliability for vector databases, such as Pinecone.

Viettel Named Champion of the World's Largest Hacking Competition

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023
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This is the first time a Vietnamese cybersecurity company has taken the top spot in the world's largest hacking competition.

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  • This is the first time a Vietnamese cybersecurity company has taken the top spot in the world's largest hacking competition.
  • This year, Team Viettel brought a lineup of 16 Information Security (IS) experts to Pwn2Own Toronto 2023, with 75% of them belonging to the Gen Z generation.
  • Team Viettel achieved a perfect score in all 7 categories, totaling 30 points, significantly ahead of the second-place team with 12.75 points, making them the convincing world champions.
  • Pwn2Own is a prestigious and the largest hacking competition in the world, organized annually by the Zero Day Initiative since 2007, often referred to as the World Cup of cybersecurity.

Decodable Joins 'Connect with Confluent' Technology Partner Program, Bringing Real-Time Data Processing to the Popular Platform

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Monday, November 6, 2023
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SEATTLE, Nov. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Decodable, makers of the enterprise-ready stream processing platform built on Apache Flink and Debezium, has joined the Connect with Confluent (CwC) Partner Program to further support Confluent Cloud customers with their data streaming initiatives.

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  • This is a proof point of Decodable's ability to connect to and support the most popular and critical data infrastructure our customers have.
  • Recently launched in July, the CwC Partner Program extends the global data streaming ecosystem and brings Confluent Cloud data streams directly to developers' doorsteps within the tools they are already using.
  • Customers using Decodable to process data in Confluent Cloud or Confluent Platform have a mutually supported solution for real-time data.
  • "We're a platform that's open to partnering with leaders in the streaming data space to bring best-in-class real-time data processing to the most popular systems.

Hazelcast Brings Simplified Architectures and Performance at Scale to Real-Time Stream Processing at Flink Forward 2023

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Monday, November 6, 2023
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At the stream processing focused event, Hazelcast is showcasing its unified real-time data platform and its ability to modernize and enhance applications, while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).

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  • At the stream processing focused event, Hazelcast is showcasing its unified real-time data platform and its ability to modernize and enhance applications, while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).
  • Flink Forward, the annual Apache Flink® community conference, welcomes stream processing architects and developers to share best practices for building scalable streaming infrastructure and enterprise-grade applications.
  • At the show, Hazelcast will host a live demo session on how to build real-time stream processing applications with a simplified architecture, performance at scale, and business-critical reliability.
  • Flink Forward Demo Session: Wednesday, November 8 at 1:00 p.m. Hazelcast Principal Data Science Architect Fawaz Ghali is presenting, “Building Real-time Stream Processing Without Migraines Using Hazelcast.” More information is available here .

Vectara Unveils Open-Source Hallucination Evaluation Model To Detect and Quantify Hallucinations in Top Large Language Models

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Monday, November 6, 2023
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Large Language Model (LLM) builder Vectara , the trusted Generative AI (GenAI) platform, released its open-source Hallucination Evaluation Model.

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  • SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Large Language Model (LLM) builder Vectara , the trusted Generative AI (GenAI) platform, released its open-source Hallucination Evaluation Model.
  • “The launch of the Hallucination Evaluation Model to the Hugging Face community encourages industry co-innovation and accountability through a powerful measurement tool accessible for all LLM builders."
  • The Hallucination Evaluation Model launch includes releasing Vectara’s measurement code base as an open-source model on Hugging Face as well as a publicly accessible Leaderboard available from Vectara.
  • "For the first time, Vectara’s Hallucination Evaluation Model allows anyone to measure hallucinations produced by different LLMs.

Apache Corporation Tree Grant Program Announces 2023 Recipients

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Monday, October 30, 2023
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“Having a partner such as Apache Corporation donate trees guarantees an impact in the communities where they are planted and takes on a large portion of the direct costs associated with these plantings,” said Taylor Britt, Houston Wilderness senior director of collaborative grants “The long-term impact of these trees is astounding -- they can remove particulate matter from the air, absorb water, store carbon, reduce urban heating impacts, decrease energy costs and provide shade to buildings. We really appreciate that the Apache Tree Grant Program guarantees the trees are going to be delivered, which provides an incredible benefit to the community.”

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  • HOUSTON, Oct. 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Apache Corporation, a subsidiary of APA Corporation (Nasdaq: APA), today announced the donation of more than 206,000 trees to 61 nonprofit partner organizations through the annual Apache Corporation Tree Grant Program.
  • For example, this year recipients include organizations such as Houston Wilderness, Hermit’s Peak Watershed Alliance of New Mexico, and Keep San Angelo Beautiful.
  • This year we will have planted a total of 900 trees since 2020 thanks to Apache Corporation.
  • Thank you for changing the landscape in West Texas.”
    These organizations represent the wide array of nonprofits and government agencies that the tree grant program supports with a full list of this year's recipients listed below.

Grafana Labs Launches Major New Infrastructure and Cost Monitoring Capabilities

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Thursday, November 2, 2023
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Grafana Labs, the company behind the world’s most ubiquitous, open and composable operational dashboards, today is announcing new Grafana Cloud capabilities designed for Kubernetes platform teams seeking to reduce cloud costs and gain more unified monitoring experiences across their entire cloud native infrastructure.

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  • Grafana Labs, the company behind the world’s most ubiquitous, open and composable operational dashboards, today is announcing new Grafana Cloud capabilities designed for Kubernetes platform teams seeking to reduce cloud costs and gain more unified monitoring experiences across their entire cloud native infrastructure.
  • Grafana Labs engineers Mark Poko and JuanJo Ciarlante will discuss Grafana Labs' journey toward cost observability and lessons learned in optimizing cloud spend.
  • Grafana Cloud has bundled all of these integrations into a single solution themed for various monitoring use cases.
  • You can also learn more about these developments at the following KubeCon talks featuring Grafana Labs engineers.

DataStax Launches RAGStack, an Out-of-the-box Retrieval Augment Generation Solution, to Simplify RAG Implementations for Enterprises Building Generative AI Applications

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Thursday, November 2, 2023
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DataStax , the company that powers generative AI applications with real-time, scalable data, today announced the launch of RAGSta ck , an innovative, out-of-the-box RAG solution designed to simplify implementation of retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications built with LangChain.

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  • DataStax , the company that powers generative AI applications with real-time, scalable data, today announced the launch of RAGSta ck , an innovative, out-of-the-box RAG solution designed to simplify implementation of retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications built with LangChain.
  • RAGStack reduces the complexity and overwhelming choices that developers face when implementing RAG for their generative AI applications with a streamlined, tested, and efficient set of tools and techniques for building with LLMs.
  • This removes the hassle of having to assemble a bespoke solution and provides developers with a simplified, comprehensive generative AI stack.
  • “Every company building with generative AI right now is looking for answers about the most effective way to implement RAG within their applications,” said Harrison Chase, CEO, LangChain.