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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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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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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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Should you build or buy generative AI?

CIO

But many organizations are limiting use of public tools while they set policies to source and use generative AI models. In the shaper model, you’re leveraging existing foundational models, off the shelf, but retraining them with your own data.” As so often happens with new technologies, the question is whether to build or buy.

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

TechCrunch

But while letter writing is a useful service, the team’s efforts have been focused on developing and testing the suite of digital products they hope to offer across the country starting next year. “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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Off the Shelf vs Custom Software: Making the Right Choice for Your Business

Trigent

Here’s all that you need to make an informed choice on off the shelf vs custom software. While doing so, they have two choices – to buy a ready-made off-the-shelf solution created for the mass market or get a custom software designed and developed to serve their specific needs and requirements.

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AWS Open Source Observability: Visualization and Security Auditing with CloudMapper (Part 1)

Xebia

When it comes to Cloud Observability, several Open Source and proprietary tools have been available over the years. Many vendors offer now high-quality solutions off the shelf. More sophisticated methods of detection, reporting, integrations… But what is the value of Open Source solutions on this topic?