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Arcee AI Releases Arcee-VyLinh: A Powerful 3B Vietnamese Small Language Model

Arcee AI has released Arcee-VyLinh, a powerful 3 billion parameter Vietnamese small language model (SLM) based on the Qwen2.5-3B architecture.
Arcee-VyLinh outperforms models of similar size and even some larger competitors in various natural language processing tasks.
It employs a unique multi-stage training process to enhance language understanding while maintaining efficiency.
Arcee-VyLinh demonstrates exceptional performance with a significantly smaller parameter count compared to its competitors.

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Embracing the Open-Source Revolution: A New Pathway for MSP Growth

Open-source software is now a core strategy for MSPs looking to add unique value, reduce client costs, and deliver secure, customizable solutions.
The shift toward open-source technology is gaining momentum due to several key trends such as security and compliance, cost savings and licensing flexibility and data sovereignty and control.
Open-source solutions allow MSPs to implement self-hosted, on-premises alternatives that keep data fully under client control.
Smaller MSPs may worry about supporting open-source solutions without the formal support of a major software vendor, but many open-source projects offer dedicated support tiers, and experienced MSPs can build their own internal support structure.
New tools like AI and automation are emerging that leverage open-source machine learning and automation frameworks, creating powerful opportunities for MSPs to offer predictive services.
MSPs should position themselves now to capitalize on the core emerging trends. Embracing hybrid solutions enables MSPs to deliver flexible, customized services that best meet client needs.
Open-source presents an invaluable opportunity for MSPs to differentiate themselves, offer competitive pricing, and deliver adaptable, secure solutions.
Dr. Doug Milburn is a long-time serial entrepreneur and innovator with a PhD in mechanical engineering at the University of Waterloo.
Tom Lawrence, founder of Lawrence Systems, has built a distinguished career in IT by turning his lifelong love of technology into a comprehensive service and educational platform.
Tom partners with CNWR on consulting projects and devotes himself to producing educational content, hosting podcasts, and speaking publicly about tech innovations and best practices.

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‘Unrestricted’ AI group Nous Research launches first chatbot — with guardrails

AI research group Nous Research has launched its first user-facing chatbot called Nous Chat.
The chatbot provides access to its large language model, Hermes 3-70B, in a familiar format.
Nous Chat offers suggested prompts and serves up quick answers with source citations.
While it has some guardrails, researchers have already found ways to bypass restrictions.

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BTC.COM Reshapes To Open-Source Computing Power Platform

BTC.COM officially launches an open-source computing power platform.
The platform aims to support developers and computing power providers in promoting a decentralized ecosystem.
It serves as a bridge for computing power suppliers to achieve efficient management and flexible trading.
The platform provides a free trading environment for on-demand access to computing power.

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Mozilla Foundation Confirms Layoffs, Eliminates Advocacy Division

Mozilla Foundation has confirmed layoffs, cutting 30% of its staff.
The Advocacy Division and Global Programs are no longer part of Mozilla Foundation's structure.
The layoffs are aimed at increasing agility and focus on a more open and equitable technical future.
Mozilla Foundation states that advocacy for a free and open internet remains a core part of their mission.

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Thursday Morning: Building a Simple Web Browser in Python: A Journey of Learning and Passion

The author built a web browser as a practical project to challenge themselves.
The project involved setting up the main window with a URL bar, adding navigation functionality, and enabling page rendering.
Debugging import errors and setting up the virtual environment were some of the challenges faced.
Completing the project served as a reminder that building something is the best way to improve in programming.

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Swift Format in Xcode 16

In Xcode 16, Apple introduced the ability to format Swift files using Swift Format.
The tool is called swift-format and it comes with Xcode 16, so no additional installation is required.
Using the Editor -> Structure -> Format File option, users can fix indentation, whitespace, and split long function calls.
This feature provides convenience to users who prefer having a built-in formatting tool in Xcode.

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Basics of OAuth2.0 with Keycloak — introduction and use cases

OAuth2.0 is a protocol for managing authentication and authorization.
Keycloak is an open-source tool that supports OAuth2.0 and OpenID Connect.
OAuth2.0 uses access tokens for secure resource access.
Keycloak allows configuration of client and authentication methods.

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Hugging Face and NVIDIA to Accelerate Open-Source AI Robotics Research and Development

Hugging Face and NVIDIA have announced a collaboration to accelerate robotics research and development.
The collaboration aims to bring together their open-source robotics communities to drive advances in various industries.
Hugging Face's LeRobot platform and NVIDIA's AI and robotics technology will enable researchers and developers to access open-source frameworks for robot training, simulation, and inference.
The collaboration will streamline the development process and create a data flywheel for the robotics community.

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Open-Source Robot Transforms

The CYOBot is a transforming quadruped robot with four articulating arms and wheels.
It is based on the previous version called the CYOCrawler but with added wheels.
The robot is open-source and modular, allowing for customization and expansion.
Most parts of the robot are common or 3D printed, making it accessible for development.

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Tencent Releases Hunyuan-Large (Hunyuan-MoE-A52B) Model: A New Open-Source Transformer-based MoE Model with a Total of 389 Billion Parameters and 52 Billion Active Parameters

Tencent has released Hunyuan-Large, an open-source Transformer-based MoE model with a total of 389 billion parameters and 52 billion active parameters.
Hunyuan-Large is designed to handle large contexts of up to 256K tokens and rivals other leading models in performance.
The model incorporates technical advancements such as pre-training on diverse data, mixed expert routing strategy, key-value cache compression, and expert-specific learning rate.
Hunyuan-Large outperforms existing models on NLP tasks and addresses the need for long-context understanding in AI applications.

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How Accumulating TODOs Turns Into Technical Debt (and My Open Source Tool to Manage It)

TODO comments can accumulate and become technical debt, impacting project health and maintainability.
Todoctor is a tool that makes technical debt visible and actionable by tracking and managing TODO comments.
TODO comments can lead to invisible technical debt, decreased code quality, and loss of context.
Todoctor identifies TODO hotspots, visualizes technical debt, and encourages accountability to address outstanding tasks.

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ChartDB: Pioneering the Future of Database Visualization ✨

ChartDB is a database visualization tool that has gained popularity on GitHub, with over 1,500 stars.
It offers an intuitive interface for easy database visualization and management.
Future plans for ChartDB include AI-driven features, community-powered growth, and expanding functionality.
The founders are focused on innovation and setting a new standard in database visualization.

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Open Source AI Can Help America Lead in AI and Strengthen Global Security

Meta's open source Llama models are increasingly being used by a broad community for AI development. Therefore, they are being made available to U.S. government agencies like defence and national security applications and private sector partners supporting their work for streamlining complicated logistics and planning. The responsible and ethical uses of open source AI models like Llama will not only support the prosperity and security of the United States but also establish US open-source standards in the global race for AI leadership.
Llama is being fine-tuned to support specific national security team missions, such as planning operations and identify adversaries' vulnerabilities for critical repairs. AWS and Microsoft Azure are hosting our models on their secure cloud solutions for sensitive data to support governments. Moreover, it is in both America and the wider democratic world's interest for American open-source models to excel and succeed over models from China and elsewhere.
As Open source models become more capable and widely adopted, a global open-source standard for AI models is likely to emerge and embedded in technology, infrastructure, manufacturing, global finance and e-commerce. The world builds on high standards of openness, transparency and accountability, based on American leadership and commitment to international law for global peace and security, is significant.
Open source technology leads to faster innovation, reduced costs and better products, thanks to contributions from developers worldwide, helping the United States retain its technological edge while spreading access to AI globally and ensuring that resulting innovations are responsible and ethical supporting geopolitical interests of the United States and its closest allies. In addition, public-private collaborations can help governmental agencies and organizations improve their operations and make a greater impact for the people they serve.
Llama is supported by private sector partners including Accenture, Amazon Web Services, Anduril, Booz Allen, Databricks, Deloitte, IBM, Leidos, Lockheed Martin, Oracle, Palantir, Scale AI, and Snowflake to enable widespread adoption of American open source AI models. Other countries including China and America's competitors are investing heavily to leap ahead of the US.
Meta's open source AI models like Llama will not only support the prosperity and security of the United States but establish US open source standards in the global race for AI leadership. Public-private collaborations like this can help agencies and organizations improve their operations and make a greater impact for the people they serve, Deloitte being one of them.
Meta has partnered with the US State Department and led industry voices to promote safe, secure, and reliable AI systems that address societal challenges. They worked with the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on a translation interface built on Meta's No Language Left Behind (NLLB) AI model to support high-quality translation in 200+ languages, including those that are low-resourced and marginalized.
Meta wants to play its part in supporting the safety, security and economic prosperity of America and its closest allies too. Therefore, it is the responsibility of countries leveraging AI for national security to deploy AI ethically, responsibly, and in accordance with relevant international law and fundamental principles.
Meta is humbled to see such huge enthusiasm around the world for the vast possibilities of this freely available technology. Working closely with partners, it hopes to play a part in securing America's technological leadership and ensuring the world's next generation of digital infrastructure is rooted in democratic values and safeguards.

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To Solve Kubernetes Sprawl, Try Kubernetes ‘All the Way Down’

Kubernetes is becoming the dominant app platform for delivering a range of applications but it also leads to increasing 'sprawl' of Kubernetes clusters, with large businesses using it everywhere. To manage this, Kubernetes can become a natural control point for managing other clusters of it. Using Kubernetes as a control plane can manage the 'thin layer' of Kubernetes, providing a single control point for managing Kubernetes clusters across different providers and achieve the Holy Grail of “hybrid multicloud."
Increasing sprawl of Kubernetes clusters is a growing concern as organizations struggle to manage Kubernetes at scale.
Kubernetes is emerging as the default standard for delivering a range of applications from cloud-native to legacy monolithic applications and virtualization.
In large organisations, Kubernetes clusters can sprawl across multiple providers and location, making it difficult to manage.
Using Kubernetes as a control point can manage the 'thin layer' of Kubernetes, providing a single control point for managing Kubernetes clusters across different providers and achieve the Holy Grail of “hybrid multicloud."
Cluster API (CAPI) and its providers allow Kubernetes to manage Kubernetes due to its control point capability.
Kubernetes has a baked-in architecture that assists with operations, allowing proper tiering of payloads (pods), extensible API, and more.
Kubernetes was not the first attempt at an application platform; WebLogic, WebSphere and virtualization came before it.
As a control point, Kubernetes can manage other control points and legacy control points were far less likely to have an API-enabled control point.
Kubernetes is considered the 80-90% solution that effectively solves application packaging, deployment, and operations problems due to its extensible architecture and friendly API.

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