The world faces a wide array of threats, ranging from natural disasters and human conflicts to technological risks, with terrorism standing out as a particularly pressing concern. Terrorism databases ...

Some say, “data is the new oil,” with an air of seriousness. And while the phrase may capture a certain truth about the modern digital economy, it fails to model the way that bits can be copied again ...

Artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI (GenAI) and, within it, large language models (LLMs), have taken the industry by storm. Companies around the world are evaluating and implementing ...

The struggle between open source and proprietary software is well understood. But the tensions permeating software circles for decades have shuffled into the artificial intelligence space, in part ...

Historically, industries have transformed when they embraced open data and moved away from fragmented, proprietary systems. The results? Faster innovation, increased efficiency and greater ...

You will miss certain features and conveniences, but that's to be expected. What you earn in return is full control and autonomy. Reclaiming your data is a slow process, but after you start seeing the ...

Today, at its annual Data + AI Summit, Databricks announced that it is open-sourcing its core declarative ETL framework as Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines, making it available to the entire Apache ...

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...

Open-source software will continue its march through the enterprise technology stack, buoyed by AI and (hopefully) transformative funding solutions that address sustainability. Over the past decades, ...