Disable Sequoia’s monthly screen recording permission prompt
The widely–reported “foo is requesting to bypass the system private window picker and directly access your screen and audio” prompt in Sequoia (which Apple has moved from daily to weekly to now monthly) can be disabled by qui...
Announcing New ASF Board Member Kanchana Welagedara
Apache Software Foundation (ASF) board member Christofer Dutz resigned from the board of directors for personal reasons and is succeeded by Kanchana Welagedara. We thank Chris for his service to the ASF and ongoing contributions to many open source pro...
What you need to know about AI governance
“You can use whatever AI tool you want to experiment in any way you want, using whatever data you want,” said no company executive ever. Executive leaders are focused on ensuring AI efforts target business opportunities while avoiding risks. Even ...
How do you govern a sprawling, disparate API portfolio?
We continue to see a significant increase in API development year after year. A 2022 report conducted by 451 Research found that the average organization has 15,564 APIs in use, with a growth rate of 201% over a single year. Cloudflare has reported th...
Too much assembly required for AI
One sign that we’re still very early in the evolution of AI is how much heavy lifting is still left to the user to figure out. As Community Leadership Core founder Jono Bacon laments, even the very act of “need[ing] to choose between [large langua...
Why vector databases aren’t just databases
A vector database is just like any other database in that it stores data. From there, the similarity mostly ends — especially when it comes to artificial intelligence. Most traditional databases are built for transactional workloads, where structure...
Linux Preparing Support For The RISC-V Framework Laptop 13
Back in June it was teased that Framework Computer in collaboration with DeepComputing would be releasing a RISC-V motherboard for the Framework Laptop 13. That RISC-V laptop motherboard has yet to be officially released but Linux kernel patches were p...
Servo Browser Engine Restores Firefox Devtools Support
The Servo open-source browser layout engine has supported making use of the Firefox Devtools code for the provided web developer tools such as the HTML web page inspector and browser console. But that support had fallen into disrepair. Fortunately, tha...
FFmpeg Merges Implicit DRM Synchronization For Vulkan
Following Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 video encoder support being merged into the FFmpeg library, the latest improvement for this open-source multimedia API when leveraging Vulkan is implicit DRM synchronization...