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Tech Transforms podcast: A reporter’s take on AI, data privacy, ChatGPT, and TikTok

Dynatrace

Krishan also shares the darker side of the application, including the lack of established fact-checking and the use of personal information scraped from the internet without individuals’ consent. We also chat about disinformation campaigns on social media platforms and the addictive nature of social media.

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Open Source Software Security: Is Open Source Software Safe?

Percona

Even though open source software is firmly in the mainstream, used widely by businesses, governments, and everyone who owns a cell phone or computer, the question repeatedly arises: “Is open source software safe?” Is open source software as stable as other software? Is open source software secure?

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All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

The Netflix TechBlog

Overall, the improvements can be summarized as: 40% fewer rebuffers Higher video quality for both bandwidth-constrained as well as unconstrained sessions Lower initial bitrate Higher initial quality Lower play delay Less variation in delivered video quality Lower Internet data usage, especially on mobiles and tablets Will HDR-VMAF be open-source?

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Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4)

Smashing Magazine

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). But unfortunately, when dealing with static assets and media files, there are a lot of caveats to deal with. Media Files. Media Files. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00.

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Dynatrace introduces automatic vulnerability management for PHP

Dynatrace

PHP is widely used in web development by prominent social media companies, content management systems, and video teleconferencing brands. False positives and false negatives drastically impact the overall security posture, making it difficult to keep entire software stacks secure and up to date.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

The problems fostered by social media, search, and recommendation algorithms was never an engineering issue, but one of financial incentives (of profit growth) not aligning with algorithms’ safe, effective, and equitable deployment. The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed.

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How Dynatrace uses Dynatrace to combat the Log4j vulnerability (Log4Shell)

Dynatrace

As organizations started learning about Log4Shell from news feeds, blogs, and social media, the Dynatrace security team—and Dynatrace Application Security—kicked into action. Log4Shell is a software vulnerability in Apache Log4j 2 , a popular Java library for logging information in applications.