Ian Nowland and Joel Barciauskas talk about the challenges Datadog faces as the company has grown its real-time metrics systems that collect, process, and visualize data to the point they now handle trillions of points per day. They also talk about how the architecture has evolved, and what they are

Amber Welch talks about privacy engineering, from foundational principles like privacy by design and the OWASP Top 10 Privacy Risks to advanced techniques such as federated learning and differential privacy in ML, as well as upcoming technologies like homomorphic encryption. Each tool/technique has an explanation and example use cases

Syntiant NDPs are custom-built chips specialized to run TensorFlow neural networks and can be integrated in many kinds of voice and audio-enabled devices, now including Alexa-enabled devices. By Sergio De Simone Read more...Powered by WPeMatico

Uncle Sam tries to plug leaker's pay, ends up plugging leaker's book The US government today sued former CIA employee and NSA sysadmin contractor Edward Snowden to deny him payment from his newly published book, Permanent Record.… Read more...Powered by WPeMatico

Whole pile of US data just sitting there with no security Around 24 million medical patients' data is floating around on the internet, freely available for all to pore over – thanks to that good old common factor, terribly insecure servers.… Read more...Powered by WPeMatico

You want root shell access? No problem A new report has suggested that 12 out of 13 network devices, such as routers and network-attached storage appliances, are vulnerable to hacks that enable "root-privileged access without any authentication".… Read more...Powered by WPeMatico