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Open source the secret sauce in secure, affordable voting tech

The Parallax

The company, which currently is hosted by another nonprofit Adida declined to name in a conversation after the event that eventually will become its own 501(c)3 , has one goal: to build a secure, affordable, open-source voting machine for use in general, public elections. So if anything goes wrong, what do you do?

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FPGA startup Rapid Silicon lands $15M to bring its first chip to market

TechCrunch

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) , or integrated circuits sold off-the-shelf, are a hot topic in tech. Launched in 2021, the goal with Rapid Silicon is to promote, adopt and implement open source tech to address the low- to mid-range FPGA market, according to CEO and co-founder Naveed Sherwani.

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Ameelio’s free video calling service for inmates goes live at first facilities

TechCrunch

Ameelio , a nonprofit startup that intends to replace inmate-paid video calling in prisons with a free service, is making inroads against the companies that have dominated the space for decades. “We maybe had 8,000 users when we spoke to you, and a few months later we launched our mobile app.

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Four short links: 20 July 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

A Bug-Sized Camera for Bug-Sized Robots and Bug-Sized Bugs — With a focus on small size and efficiency, they started with an off-the-shelf ultra low-power image sensor that’s 2.3 mg), and had a fun time connecting those two things together without any intermediary hardware to broadcast the camera output.

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Six Essentials for Your Cloud Security Program

Palo Alto Networks

In traditional on-premises systems, organizations are responsible for securing everything – from the physical premises to the hardware, operating system, network, and applications. If the applications are open source or off-the-shelf, make sure to patch regularly and be sure to patch critical security flaws immediately.

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Review of Industrial IoT Solutions – Part I

Perficient

Processing data on-site allows you to react to events near real-time and propagating that data to every part of your organization will open a whole new world of capabilities and boost innovation. OPC-UA MQTT Bridge – Source: Inductive Automation. Introduction. Edge computing and more generally the rise of Industry 4.0

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Six Essentials for Your Cloud Security Program

Palo Alto Networks

In traditional on-premises systems, organizations are responsible for securing everything – from the physical premises to the hardware, operating system, network, and applications. If the applications are open source or off-the-shelf, make sure to patch regularly and be sure to patch critical security flaws immediately.