Video by TWiT Tech Podcast Network via YouTube
After the 2024 product delays, Apple will seek to unveil its AI plans at WWDC26 for a planned fall release. But what about the AI features that were pushed back? With a new deal with Google and a reorganized team, what’s Apple’s vision for AI integration? #AppleAI #TechNews #ProductLaunch #AIIntegration #FutureTech
Video by The Linux Foundation via YouTube
Join us at the premier vendor-neutral open source conference, where developers and technologists come together to collaborate, share knowledge, and explore the latest innovations and advancements in open source technology. Learn more at https://events.linuxfoundation.org/
Keynote: From Open Source to Agentic Systems: Building the AI Native Era – Brendan Burns, Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President, Azure Cloud Native and Management Platform & Co-Founder, Kubernetes Open Source Project
Community & Events Social Coworking & Office Hours – Debugging in R: Join a collaborative session for debugging R code, part of a recurring open-source coworking series. Rencontres R 2026 – Nantes, France: The annual R conference will be held in Nantes. Submit talks and workshops focused on R programming and data science. From Baghdad … Read more
Top Stories Analysis The open-source AI landscape is heating up with major investments and emerging threats. IBM and Red Hat’s $5 billion pledge to secure open-source AI infrastructure signals a shift toward enterprise-grade trust, while researchers show how AI can supercharge computer worms, highlighting a dark side. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s open-source ‘intelligent terminal’ and Data Formulator … Read more
Introduction This week’s open source news highlights a surge in AI-powered projects, significant security initiatives, and practical updates for Linux users. From Canonical’s streamlined development tool to IBM and Red Hat’s $5B security effort, the ecosystem is evolving rapidly. The underlying trend is clear: open source is embracing AI while grappling with its challenges, and … Read more
Video by Hugging Face via YouTube
A deep dive into how Hugging Face created the FineWeb dataset: starting from Common Crawl snapshots, extracting high-quality text from raw web data, filtering noisy content, deduplicating at web scale, and building FineWeb-Edu with model-assisted educational quality filtering.
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🔗 Links
– FineWeb dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb
– FineWeb-Edu dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu
– FineWeb paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17557
– FineWeb blog post: https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceFW/blogpost-fineweb-v1
– Common Crawl: https://commoncrawl.org/
– Trafilatura: https://trafilatura.readthedocs.io/
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👋 Connect with me
– My website: https://alejandro-ao.com/
– X (Twitter): https://x.com/_alejandroao
– LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandro-ao/
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🤓 Topics Covered
– FineWeb dataset creation pipeline
– Common Crawl filtering and deduplication
– FineWeb-Edu educational data filtering
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⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
00:52 Why FineWeb matters
02:58 Common Crawl as data source
06:10 Base filtering techniques
07:17 Deduplication within snapshots
13:05 C4-style quality filters
17:20 FineWeb-Edu extraction
21:41 Key lessons learned
24:21 Synthetic data on the web
28:39 Conclusion
Video by NetApp Instaclustr via YouTube
A new practical change in Cassandra 6: Automated repair which brings repair orchestration to Cassandra itself.
Learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnIbqhWjfVY&list=PLqVewYXd-XX4bsfjfy2qy-FTwAoqvl-SD
Video by FOSSASIA via YouTube
Specialized databases like vector, graph, and time-series systems drive innovation—but relying on proprietary managed services often leads to high costs, compliance challenges, and vendor lock-in.
This talk introduces **OpenEverest**, an open source platform built on Kubernetes and CRDs that provides a unified way to manage diverse database engines—from PostgreSQL to modern NoSQL systems. Instead of fragmented tools and cloud-specific services, OpenEverest offers a single control plane for open source databases.
Learn how platform teams can reduce cloud dependency, strengthen data sovereignty, and simplify database operations while embracing the flexibility of the open source data ecosystem. Perfect for DevOps, SRE, and platform engineers managing modern data infrastructure.
FOSSASIA Summit 2026 held in Bangkok, is Asia’s leading Open Source tech conference featuring sessions on #AI, #Cloud, #DevOps, #Open Hardware, #Security, #Web #Mobile Technologies, #Web3, and #Databases. Learn more: http://summit.fossasia.org
#FOSSASIA #FOSSASIASummit #opensource #FOSS #Database
Video by CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] via YouTube
AI, security, and open source mentorship. Join co-chair Sonali Srivastava in Mumbai for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India. Get ready for hands-on demos, community booths, and everything you need to level up your GitOps pipeline.
Link in bio to check out the schedule!
#KubeCon #CloudNative #OpenSource
