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Linux Foundation sets up India entity to boost open source collaboration

The Linux Foundation has launched its India entity to promote open source collaboration in the country.
India is the second-largest market for open source developers and has 13.2 million developers using GitHub.
LF India aims to increase contributions to open source projects and support local developers, enterprises, startups, and government organizations.
The Indian entity will focus on segments such as cloud-native, telecommunications, edge/IoT, blockchain, security, and domain-specific AI technologies.

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7 free product management templates to transform your business

Baserow's pre-built product management templates are designed to take the headache out of the product management process. Choose from Agile Product Roadmap Template, User Feedback Template, Product Roadmap Template, and more.
The templates offer several helpful features like customizable fields, task tracking, collaboration, and easy integration with other tools to streamline workflow.
Baserow's templates come packed with features and allow users to build custom databases and applications to take product management to the next level.
Baserow offers a free plan that unlocks access to all the company's product management templates and a variety of powerful features.
Baserow gives users the flexibility to choose between hosted SaaS and self-hosted options, with unlimited databases, rows, and storage in both cases.
The Agile Product Roadmap Template helps outline the product journey from top-level themes known as epics, down to the actionable user stories that drive progress.
Baserow's User Feedback Template makes gathering and analyzing feedback a seamless process, giving users one place to collect everything from feedback to ratings and feature requests.
Baserow's Web App UAT Template is the perfect tool for testing web app functionality with structured test management workflows.
Baserow's Project Tracker Template is designed to streamline entire project management processes with a central hub for tracking everything in your project.
Baserow's Growth Experiment Template makes managing and analyzing experiments a hassle-free process, allowing users to track key metrics like experiment details and user growth.

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DeepSeek AI Just Released DeepSeek-V2.5-1210: The Updated Version of DeepSeek-V2.5 with Significant Performance Boosts in Mathematics, Coding, Writing, and Reasoning Tasks

DeepSeek AI has released DeepSeek-V2.5-1210, an updated version of DeepSeek-V2.5.
The update brings significant performance boosts in mathematics, coding, writing, and reasoning tasks.
DeepSeek-V2.5-1210 addresses previous limitations and enhances its core functionalities.
The model demonstrates improvements in benchmark results and real-world applications.

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AWS-LC FIPS 3.0: First cryptographic library to include ML-KEM in FIPS 140-3 validation

AWS-LC FIPS 3.0, the first open-source cryptographic module to provide post-quantum algorithm support within the FIPS module has been added to NIST Cryptographic Module Validation Program.
This validation introduces support for Module Lattice-Based Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (ML-KEM), which works by establishing a shared secret between two parties based on an underlying problem that is believed to be hard for quantum computers to solve.
Organizations that require FIPS-validated cryptographic modules can now use these algorithms within AWS-LC to enhance long-term confidentiality of their sensitive customer workflows.
AWS-LC FIPS 3.0 includes the ML-KEM algorithm for all three provided parameter sets, ranging from security strength as specified by NIST.
This announcement is part of the long-term promise made by AWS-LC to obtain new FIPS 140-3 certificates and to support its wider developer community of Rust, Java and Python developers.
In AWS-LC FIPS 3.0, the latest member of the Secure Hash Algorithm standard SHA-3 and the digital signature algorithm EdDSA are added, and performance improvements are made on public-key cryptography algorithms widely used in transport protocols.
ML-KEM is now available in our open-source TLS implementation s2n-tls, through hybrid key exchange and adding support for hybrid ECDHE-ML-KEM key agreement for TLS 1.3.
With ML-KEM’s addition to the list of NIST-approved algorithms, you can now include non-FIPS standardized algorithms like Curve x25519 in hybrid cipher suites within FIPS 140-approved mode.
You can use both s2n-tls and AWS-LC TLS libraries to enable hybrid post-quantum security with ML-KEM today by enabling X25519MLKEM768 and SecP256r1MLKEM768 for key exchange.
AWS-LC is committed to continually validating new versions of AWS-LC as new algorithms are added within the FIPS boundary, to facilitate integration into CPython, rustls, and ACCP 2.0 libraries.

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A new benchmark for AI investment: Swift Ventures unveils system to separate talk from action

Swift Ventures has unveiled a new artificial intelligence company index that identifies public companies making genuine investments in AI technology.
The index tracks approximately 90 companies and uses metrics such as investment in AI research, AI talent density, and revenue derived from AI operations to evaluate companies.
The index shows a correlation between research investment and profitability, with companies contributing to AI research and open-source models showing higher profitability.
The index reveals a talent gap in public markets, with only a small number of companies having a significant percentage of their workforce in AI-specific roles.

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Crowning Achievement: NVIDIA Research Model Enables Fast, Efficient Dynamic Scene Reconstruction

NVIDIA Research and the University of Maryland have developed QUEEN, an AI model that enables streaming of free-viewpoint video, allowing viewers to experience a 3D scene from any angle.
QUEEN can be used for immersive streaming applications, skill-based teaching, enhancing video conferencing, and teleoperating robots in industrial environments.
The model balances factors like compression rate, visual quality, encoding time, and rendering time to deliver optimized pipeline and high-quality visuals in near real-time.
QUEEN outperforms previous methods in terms of speed and visual quality, making it suitable for media broadcasts, warehouse operations, and interactive videoconferencing.

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Story of the Year: global IT outages and supply chain attacks

A faulty update by CrowdStrike triggered one of the largest IT outages in history, impacting approximately 8.5 million systems worldwide.
The incident served as a reminder of critical risks posed by global IT disruptions and supply chain weaknesses.
Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2024's 'Story of the Year' is centered on supply chain incidents and global disruptions.
Supply chain incidents from 2024 include CrowdStrike Linux outrages, XZ backdoor, Pager attack, JavaScript abuse, Cisco breach, Fortinet firewall vulnerabilities, among others.
Emerging threats include major AI provider failure, exploitation of on-device AI tools, cyberattacks on communication satellites, physical threats to the internet, kernel exploitation in Windows and Linux.
Awareness is the first step towards mitigating potential supply chain risks.
Regular updates should be rigorously tested before deployment and adopt granular updates to minimize disruptions.
Diversifying providers reduce single points of failure, enhancing system robustness.
Fostering a culture of responsibility among personnel improves human vigilance and is important for the system's security and stability.
Implementing stricter security measures, adopting a vigilant approach to project management, and maintaining careful oversight in regard to contributed projects also helps.

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Measuring the Minds of Machines: A Journey Through AI Benchmarks

AI benchmarks play a crucial role in measuring progress in the field of artificial intelligence and understanding different languages and cultures.
These benchmarks allow researchers to evaluate and compare the performance of AI models, identifying strengths and weaknesses.
AI benchmarks are diverse, covering areas such as general language understanding, code generation, specific domains, and multilingual capabilities.
Evaluating Multilingual General Semantic Understanding involves assessing direct translation as well as other linguistic complexities.

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Building an AI-Powered Book Generator: A Journey into Automated Storytelling

An open-source tool has been developed to generate complete books, maintaining narrative consistency and character development.
The generator works in stages, gathering information about the desired book, creating characters, generating a detailed plot outline, and generating each chapter with attention to various aspects.
The project utilizes Ollama for text generation and provides consistency management, flexible configuration, and comprehensive output.
The project is ongoing, with planned improvements and contributions are welcome on the GitHub repository.

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Alibaba Speech Lab Releases ClearerVoice-Studio: An Open-Sourced Voice Processing Framework Supporting Speech Enhancement, Separation, and Target Speaker Extraction

Alibaba Speech Lab has released ClearerVoice-Studio, an open-sourced voice processing framework.
ClearerVoice-Studio supports speech enhancement, speech separation, and target speaker extraction.
The framework incorporates innovative models like FRCRN and MossFormer series.
ClearerVoice-Studio offers high-quality audio processing and customization tools.

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The Home Assistant Model: A Good Entry Point

Home Assistant is a massive beast, and understanding its underlying model is crucial
Integrations are pieces of software that connect Home Assistant to other platforms and devices
Devices are logical groupings for one or more entities, representing physical devices and their sensors
Entities are the basic building blocks in Home Assistant, holding data and representing sensors or actors

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VentureBeat

Meta launches open source Llama 3.3, shrinking powerful bigger model into smaller size

Meta has released Llama 3.3, an open-source multilingual large language model (LLM).
Llama 3.3 delivers top-tier performance at a fraction of the cost and computational overhead of previous models.
The model is available under the Llama 3.3 Community License Agreement, allowing non-exclusive, royalty-free usage.
Llama 3.3 offers GPU memory savings, making it more affordable and energy-efficient.

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Meta AI Just Open-Sourced Llama 3.3: A New 70B Multilingual Large Language Model (LLM)

Meta AI has released Llama 3.3, an open-source language model with improved performance and quality.
Llama 3.3 provides a more affordable and easier-to-use solution for text-based applications.
The model has 70 billion parameters and can run on regular developer hardware.
Llama 3.3 performs well in question answering, summarization, and synthetic data generation tasks.

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The HackerNoon Newsletter: The $XRP Comeback Was a Long Time Coming (12/6/2024)

The $XRP cryptocurrency has made a comeback after a long time.
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Pro, a $200 monthly subscription service.
Author Your Own Adventure With These 5 Must-Try Free Tools.
The deadline for the AI Writing Contest has been extended to December 16, 2024.

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Author Your Own Adventure With These 5 Must-Try Free Tools

There are several open-source and free tools writers can use to create interactive fiction and branching storylines.
Twine is an open-source tool designed to help users build interactive, nonlinear stories without needing to know how to code.
Ren'Py offers powerful customization options and is primarily designed to make visual novels, allowing users to tell interactive stories using images, sounds, and text.
Fungus is designed to help anyone create interactive storytelling games within Unity, even without coding experience, making it ideal for writers, illustrators, and animators.
Text Adventure Development System (TADS) is a powerful tool designed to help people create their own interactive stories, but it requires some degree of programming knowledge.
Trelby offers many useful features, including an intuitive editor that enforces proper screenplay formatting, auto-completion, and spell-checking.
These tools are available for free and can be supported via Kivach, a platform that enables users to make crypto donations to open-source projects on GitHub.
Kivach is an Obyte-based platform that enables users to make crypto donations to open-source projects on GitHub.
Users can donate cryptocurrencies to any project available on GitHub via Kivach, by searching the GitHub repository name, selecting the amount and coin preferred.
By using Kivach, you can support open-source projects related to interactive fiction, visual novels, screenplays, and more.

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