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Manufacturing CIOs see bright future for the industry, thanks to IT

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Chris Nardecchia, SVP and chief digital and information officer, Rockwell Automation Rockwell Automation Chris Nardecchia: I started as a chemical engineer doing chemical engineering things, building and operating chemical and nuclear processes, producing polymers and nuclear fuel, etc. Now, software eats hardware for lunch.

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Stability AI backs effort to bring machine learning to biomed

TechCrunch

“A lot of computational biology research already leads to open-source releases. DeepMind spent days training AlphaFold 2 on tensor processing units (TPUs), Google’s costly AI accelerator hardware. ” Generating DNA sequences. Proteins folding into their three-dimensional structure.

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Radar Trends to Watch: October 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Its accuracy is impressive and, unlike other OpenAI products, it is open source. Stephen O’Grady’s article on bait-and-switch open source licenses is a must-read. Bryan Cantrill on Rust and the future of low latency embedded systems : Rust is the first language since C to live at the border between hardware and software.

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Radar Trends to Watch: October 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Also on the legal front: Hashicorp’s switch to a non-open source license has led the OpenTF foundation to build OpenTofu, a fork of Hashicorp’s Terraform product. Meta has released an open source dataset named FACET for testing AI models. Hardware Humanity’s oldest writing is preserved on ceramics.

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Radar trends to watch: December 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

That model is now open source. Mitre has released a list of important hardware vulnerabilities. Many of these arise from software embedded in the hardware–but regardless, programmers largely assume that the hardware on which their code runs isn’t vulnerable to attack. Most discussions of security focus on software.

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Biohacker’s latest answer to health care hurdles: Homebrew meds

The Parallax

During his presentation here at this year’s Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) biennial hacker confab, Laufer and the Four Thieves Vinegar biohacking collective he represents debuted a 3D-printable version of the chemical reactor hardware for turning chemicals, as well as painkillers like oxycodone, into more helpful medication.

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Kool Kubernetes Uses

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The solution uses state-of-the-art cloud technologies, the Kubernetes ecosystem that enables automation of operational tasks based on containerization of applications, and the open-source vender-neutral Dicoogle PACs application.GE © Stockadrik via stock.adobe.com Powering the Next-Generation Air Force The U.S.