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The Swiss Army Knife for the Agency Project, Part 1: GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions is a CI/CD platform for building automatic workflows.
Developers introduce changes through pull requests, and CI runs checks before integration.
GitHub Actions offer reusable components called actions for simplifying workflows.
Findy Agency utilizes custom actions for Go code repositories and integrates external services like Codecov.

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Digital Revolt: “Battleground for a Smarter Tomorrow”— Echoes of Deception

Trent, a former IBM expert and rising star within MiVu, faces accusations of selling MiVu's confidential projects as Cerebus.
Trent defends his actions, stating that he wanted to make their innovations available to the masses.
The argument sparks a debate among team members about the impact of Trent's actions on the company's reputation and the future of ethical AI.
McFreen, the leader, calls for a decision on how to handle the global revelation of Cerebus and its possibilities for a 'Smarter Tomorrow'.

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Why OpenAI Should Become Open-Source

OpenAI is facing a legal battle with Elon Musk over open-sourcing AI models like GPT-4.
Advocates argue that OpenAI should embrace its open-source ethos to benefit humanity.
Open-sourcing models would increase collaboration, accountability, and inclusiveness in AI.
Business-wise, open source tends to foster innovation and community support in the long run.

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Advanced Open-Source CV models setting Sports Data Rights up for a Napster like moment.

I received sound advice to connect with major sports data providers.
With the internet’s capacity to distribute bootlegged stats freely, the traditional revenue streams for sports data might diminish.
The real revenue opportunity for sports leagues will likely come from what is built on top of this data.

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Network security startup Corelight reels in $150M

Network security startup Corelight has raised $150 million in a Series E funding round.
The funding round was led by Accel and included investments from Cisco Systems and CrowdStrike Holdings.
Corelight's Open NDR Platform analyzes network traffic for signs of malicious activity using open-source tools Suricata and Zeek.
The funding will be used for product development, including enhancing threat detection features and upgrading integrations with third-party cybersecurity products.

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Build a Free-to-Use Open-Source AI Assistant With Streamlit, Microsoft Phi-3, & Ollama

You can build a chatbot with Python, Streamlit, Ollama, and Microsoft Phi-3.
Streamlit is a library that turns data scripts into web apps.
Ollama allows you to run open-source language models locally.
Microsoft Phi-3 is a lightweight, state-of-the-art open model.

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What future for PostgreSQL ?

PostgreSQL is undergoing transformations that could redefine its role in the database landscape.
Companies like Supabase, Neon, ParadeDB, and AWS are contributing to the future of PostgreSQL.
Neon offers a production-ready PostgreSQL serverless offering with notable performance improvements.
The Pluggable Storage model in PostgreSQL allows for easy integration of extensions, enabling efficient handling of various workloads.

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Unleashing Efficiency in Backend Development with Yonode

Yonode is a powerful Node.js toolkit designed to expedite backend development.
It offers an organized MVC architecture for clean code separation and scalability.
Yonode simplifies database integration and provides templates for various databases and ORMs.
It also offers ready-to-implement authentication templates and essential middleware configurations.

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OpenText releases new browser extension that verifies if open source libraries meet company security policies

OpenText is releasing a new solution, Open Source Select, designed to help developers find open source libraries that comply with their organization’s security policy.
Developers can search for open source libraries and will be shown only the results that they can actually use.
Open Source Select helps cut down on the time spent looking for libraries, eliminates the guesswork of whether a library meets company policy, and reduces approval processes.
The solution addresses supply chain security issues by allowing only compliant libraries to be installed.

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How to Make your Web App Super-Satisfying in less than 5 minutes with Davstack Sound

Adding sound effects and sound settings to web apps can enhance user experience.
Davstack Sound is a TypeScript sound management library for React/Next.js apps.
It offers a quick setup and access to a wide range of high-quality sound effects.
Users can change volume, mute, or stop all sounds with global sound settings.

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Handful of AI resources and tools for your SaaS

Vercel offers open-source SDKs and pre-built boilerplate codes for easy integration with AI technologies.
Azure Open AI provides a powerful model with fine-tuning capabilities and free credits through the Microsoft Startup Program.
Hugging Face is an AI community offering a wide range of open-source and close-source AI models for various tasks.
Runpod is a platform for deploying AI models with GPUs, similar to Heroku for AI models, while Together.ai offers pre-configured AI models as a direct API.

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Open Source for the weekend

Open source projects provide valuable learning opportunities for developers.
React and Preact are two popular libraries in the web development community.
Studying open source projects helps in understanding their evolution and code changes.
Dependencies in open source projects can have a significant impact on their popularity and usage.

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Open Source: The beginning of the journey.

Nitkarsh Chourasia is an aspiring technologist.
He has been a maintainer of two very popular GitHub repositories.
He believes that open-source of plagiarized programs is not a problem, but after months of doing it still doing those things is a problem.

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Microsoft open-sources infamously weird, RAM-hungry MS-DOS 4.00 release

Microsoft has open-sourced MS-DOS 4.00, a historically unpopular and buggy computer operating system.
The source code is available on Microsoft's MS-DOS GitHub page under the MIT License.
MS-DOS 4.00 was intended to include multitasking features but was only released through a few European PC OEMs.
This release is part of Microsoft's ongoing effort to open-source historic versions of DOS.

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SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Quill

Quill is an open-source rich text WYSIWYG editor designed to be customizable by the user.
It uses a modular architecture to allow the editor’s behavior and functionality to be changed.
The project offers cross-platform support, ensuring consistent appearance across devices and browsers.
Quill was developed by Jason Chen and Byron Milligan and is currently maintained by Slab.

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