Topic: open source

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Stable Diffusion

Stable Diffusion is a latent text-to-image diffusion model trained on 512×512 images from a subset of the LAION-5B database.  The model utilizes a frozen CLIP ViT-L/14 text encoder to condition its output on text prompts.  It incorporates an 860M UNet and a 123M text encoder, making it a relatively lightweight model that can run on … continue reading

CAST announces new tool for tracking lifespan of open-source components

The software intelligence company CAST has announced updates in its CAST Highlight summer 2023 release to help companies keep better track of the open-source software (OSS) components they are using in their applications. “In the world of software development, integrating OSS components into your business-critical application is akin to entrusting the health and stability of … continue reading

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: DataGradients

Deci, a deep learning company that uses artificial intelligence to develop AI, recently announced the launch of DataGradients. This open-source tool is designed to profile computer vision datasets and find essential insights. In computer vision, the effectiveness of an AI model is deeply connected to the quality of the training data. Therefore, identifying any issues … continue reading

GitHub Enterprise Server 3.9 released with several enhancements to GitHub Projects

GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) 3.9 is now available with more features that can help organizations collaborate better, gain better observability, and have faster workflows.  Among its highlights are a new time-based view in GitHub Projects, as well as the ability to standardize issues with tools such as issue forms.  GitHub Projects has been enhanced with … continue reading

Directus Introduces Real-Time Data Functionality via WebSockets

BROOKLYN, N.Y., June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Directus, an open-source software company focused on helping organizations build composable experiences, today introduced a new functionality within its open data platform that enables front-end developers to build real-time capabilities into their applications via WebSockets. Innovative organizations of all sizes turn to Directus to power and scale their data-driven applications. Many … continue reading

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Snapchange

Snapchange is a Rust framework that can be used to fuzz a target binary with minimal modifications, offering useful insight into the process. It works by replaying physical memory snapshots in order to make the fuzzing of various targets more efficient and less complex.  As it is agnostic to the target operating system, the snapshot … continue reading

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cedar

AWS open-sourced a language called Cedar that enables users to easily create and enforce access control policies.  It provides a unified framework for policy creation and management across multiple clouds, simplifies policy writing, and supports popular authorization models such as role-based and attribute-based access control. Additionally, AWS has adopted a verification-guided development process to ensure … continue reading

GitHub launches new code search and code view

GitHub released its new code search and code view to enable developers to quickly search, navigate and understand their code, and put critical information into context. The new code search engine has been remodeled to be two times faster than the old one and has more capabilities such as supporting substring queries, regular expressions, and … continue reading

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Frappe

Frappe is a low-code full stack, batteries-included, web framework written in Python and JavaScript, using MariaDB as its database. It is designed to reduce the amount of time developers spend writing code. Frappe makes defining DocTypes easier without the need for code to be used everywhere, since everything in Frappe is a DocType. The framework … continue reading

SD Times Open Source Project of the Week: Animated Drawings

Animated Drawings is an open-source project from the Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team at Mela AI. The goal of this project is to help creators and developers create their own drawing-to-animation experiences or products. At its inception in 2021, FAIR applied recent advancements in computer vision towards an intuitive pipeline in order to animate any … continue reading

InfluxDB 3.0 released with rebuilt database and storage engine for time series analytics

InfluxDB announced expanded time series capabilities across its product portfolio with the release of InfluxDB 3.0, the company’s rebuilt database and storage engine for time series analytics. “InfluxDB 3.0 is a major milestone for InfluxData, developed with cutting-edge technologies focused on scale and performance to deliver the future of time series,” said Evan Kaplan, CEO … continue reading

NVIDIA’s NeMo Guardrails adds security features to AI chatbots and generative AI

NVIDIA’s new open-source toolkit enables developers to add topical, safety, and security features to AI chatbots and other generative AI applications built with large language models. The software includes all the code, examples, and documentation businesses need to add safety to AI apps that generate text. NVIDIA said it’s releasing the project since many industries … continue reading

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