SD Times Blog: But first, let this Convolutional Neural Network take a selfie

This is bringing our staff back to the days of when high school lists would float around the school, telling us which kids were “hot or not.” Instead of a list, we now have a selfie bot that will rate your selfie. Andrej Karpathy is part of a project involving deep neural networks. On his … continue reading

Ceph community creates board to drive open source storage software

The Ceph Community, an open-source object and file cloud storage stack, has formed an advisory board that will work in governance with the community. The Ceph Advisory Board will assist the community in driving open-source software-defined storage technology, and in collaborating with the community’s technical and user committees. (Related: Why open-source storage is worth looking … continue reading

Cybersecurity bill brings backlash despite passing Senate

A controversial cybersecurity bill passed the U.S. Senate yesterday by a 74-21 vote, despite opposition from organizations and businesses that claimed the measure does not support the idea of a free and open Internet. The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), if signed into law by President Barack Obama, would allow businesses and government agencies to … continue reading

Rewind helps developers to ‘never miss a bug’

If you ran into an issue in a mobile application and knew there was an easy way to report it, would you? As a user, you might, or you might simply delete the app. For QA teams and users of company apps, though, it’s not a choice. They need their company’s application to run well. … continue reading

Wind Tunnel brings developers ‘Back to the Future’

Perfecto Mobile’s newly launched solution, Wind Tunnel, allows developers to go “back to the future” by predicting how a mobile application will look before it is released into the market. Wind Tunnel is a new method of looking at functional testing, and it brings end users “into the lab,” so to speak, by offering developers … continue reading

Twitter joins viral organization to fight cybersecurity bill

A group of tech companies are banding together to become Fight for the Future, an organization dedicated to giving everyone access to the Internet’s resources and fighting against CISA, a controversial cybersecurity bill. The coalition announced that Google has joined in the fight to stop the bill, which could reach the Senate as early as … continue reading

Cigital’s BSIMM6 finds software security lagging in industry

With 29x more data than its first model, Cigital has released its most recent findings of its Building Security in Maturity Model (BSIMM), declaring that software security is lagging. Cigital is an application security firm that studies industries to see what they are doing for their organizations’ software security. Today, the firm announced that it … continue reading

HP makes software solutions available for AWS

At the AWS re:Invent 2015 annual user conference, HP announced the availability of several enterprise software solutions for Amazon Web Services (AWS), according to Firstpost. The solutions will help customers test applications and run Big Data analytics on AWS. New AWS-compatible solutions include: HP StormRunner Load and HP LoadRunner: performance testing solutions that help agile … continue reading

SD Times GitHub Project of the Week: Leaflet

Think of the words “simplicity, performance and usability.” They were key components of Leaflet, an open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. Leaflet was developed by Vladimir Agafonkin of MapBox, which is a building-block application that makes it easy to integrate location into mobile applications. The library weighs about 33KB of gzipped JavaScript code, and … continue reading

Application performance a key theme at Velocity NYC 2015

A word that was heard frequently when walking through the booths at the 2015 O’Reilly Velocity NYC conference was “performance.” The conference provided a new perspective to performance and Web operations, and it gave everyone from developers to technical executives solutions to solve their dynamic website and application challenges. (Related: How government is using DevOps) … continue reading

Government organizations turn to ordinary measures to solve software problems

“When I got my bachelors degree in computer science, I never thought, ‘You know what? I’m going to help people change their lives and make their lives better.’ ” While it might not have crossed her mind at the time, Lisa Gelobter, chief digital service officer at the U.S. Department of Education, is now in … continue reading

Dell Services announces major IT release, and Bluemix makes it easy to debug applications—SD Times News Digest: Oct. 9, 2015

Dell Services has announced Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solution, which works with the company’s Automated Full-Time Equivalent (AFTE) and AFTE Command Center. It will help customers increase speed and accuracy in business processes. AFTEs are “robots,” or software agents, that are programmed to perform repeatable and repetitive tasks, freeing up employees who were otherwise doing … continue reading

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