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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. You don’t have anything to go back to.”. Adida said.

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Foxglove raises $15M to build dev infrastructure for robots

TechCrunch

While at Cruise, Macneil says that he saw firsthand the lack of off-the-shelf tooling for robotics and autonomous vehicle development; Cruise had to hire entire teams to build tooling in-house, including apps for visualization, data management, AI and machine learning, simulation and more. ” Foxglove’s cloud suite.

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Know before you go: 6 lessons for enterprise GenAI adoption

CIO

Many organizations know that commercially available, “off-the-shelf” generative AI models don’t work well in enterprise settings because of significant data access and security risks. We’re using our own databases, testing against our own needs, and building around specific problem sets.

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Why Reinvent the Wheel? The Challenges of DIY Open Source Analytics Platforms

Cloudera

In their effort to reduce their technology spend, some organizations that leverage open source projects for advanced analytics often consider either building and maintaining their own runtime with the required data processing engines or retaining older, now obsolete, versions of legacy Cloudera runtimes (CDH or HDP).

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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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Your Generative AI strategy could use a startup’s touch

CIO

You might choose to bring the AI to your data by running an off-the-shelf or open-source solution in your corporate datacenter, ideally reducing complexity and risk. Accordingly, many organizations plan to boost GenAI funding, the survey found. What are your metrics for success? Just don’t succumb to hype—or FOMO.

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Vercel raises $102M Series C for its front-end development platform

TechCrunch

Vercel , the company behind the popular open-source Next.js Given the open-source nature of the Next.js Given the open-source nature of the Next.js React framework, today announced that it has raised a $102 million Series C funding round led by Bedrock Capital. Image Credits: Vercel.