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Dallas County approves more money to deal with troubled software for courts and jail use

The bill for Dallas County’s ongoing computer systems struggle continues to grow.

The most recent bill was almost $600,000 to buy server space and hardware for Odyssey, the system that courts and the jail use to communicate about inmates and legal updates.

Some of the money will also go toward regular maintenance and subscription costs.

The software has been problematic since it was introduced for several reasons — biggest among them is how computers and programs talk to each other and how employees use them together.

“It has been cleaned up on aisle three times since,” said Dallas County Commissioner Andy Sommerman. “Now, the majority of that involves integration.”

The goal, Sommerman said, is smoother processing between departments that could eventually lead to lowering the Dallas County jail population.

Software used by the county that wouldn’t initially cooperate with Odyssey was Adult Information System and Forvis.

“When we launched, they didn’t talk to each other well,” Sommerman said. “They talked to each other some, but they didn’t talk to each other well at all. And this was the major failure that we had with Odyssey. “

He said the server and hardware purchase and implementation helped the county “round the

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Hackers Use Cracked Software on GitHub to Spread RisePro Info Stealer

March 16, 2024NewsroomMalware/Cybercrime

Cracked Software on GitHub

Cybersecurity researchers have found a number of GitHub repositories offering cracked software that are used to deliver an information stealer called RisePro.

The campaign, codenamed gitgub, includes 17 repositories associated with 11 different accounts, according to G DATA. The repositories in question have since been taken down by the Microsoft-owned subsidiary.

“The repositories look similar, featuring a README.md file with the promise of free cracked software,” the German cybersecurity company said.

“Green and red circles are commonly used on Github to display the status of automatic builds. Gitgub threat actors added four green Unicode circles to their README.md that pretend to display a status alongside a current date and provide a sense of legitimacy and recency. “

Cybersecurity

The list of repositories is as follows, with each of them pointing to a download link (“digitalxnetwork[.]com”) containing a RAR archive file –

  • andreastanaj/AVAST
  • andreastanaj/Sound-Booster
  • aymenkort1990/fabfilter
  • BenWebsite/-IObit-Smart-Defrag-Crack
  • Faharnaqvi/VueScan-Crack
  • javisolis123/Voicemod
  • lolusuary/AOMEI-Backupper
  • lolusuary/Daemon-Tools
  • lolusuary/EaseUS-Partition-Master
  • lolusuary/SOOTHE-2
  • mostofakamaljoy/ccleaner
  • rik0v/ManyCam
  • Roccinhu/Tenorshare-Reiboot
  • Roccinhu/Tenorshare-iCareFone
  • True-Oblivion/AOMEI-Partition-Assistant
  • vaibhavshiledar/droidkit
  • vaibhavshiledar/TOON-BOOM-HARMONY

The RAR archive, which requires the victims to supply a password mentioned in the repository’s README.md file, contains an installer file, which unpacks the next-stage payload, an executable file that’s inflated to 699 MB in

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Lakeside Software Unveils AI-Powered Intelligence Package

New intelligence tools transform enterprise IT with AI that speaks IT

BOSTON, March 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Lakeside Software, the leading IT data intelligence company, today announced its Intelligence Package that will combat costly and time-consuming manual and reactive IT challenges that cause critical downtime. With IT expenses soaring and technology disruptions demanding the attention of multiple staff members, the need for a smarter, more efficient solution has never been more pressing. Recognizing these challenges, Lakeside leveraged its unparalleled collection of high-quality, well-structured IT data and proactive IT capabilities to create AI models purpose-built for IT. Its groundbreaking SysTrack Intelligence Package is positioned to revolutionize IT operations.

“At Lakeside Software, we understand the critical role that AI plays in transforming IT and addressing the complex challenges faced by organizations today,” said Dave Keil, Chief Executive Officer at Lakeside Software. “Our customers are looking to cut through the AI ​​buzz and see real returns. Our SysTrack Intelligence Package does just that with purpose-built AI to proactively identify and prevent IT issues from spreading, ultimately saving valuable time, resources, and money for our customers .”

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Microsoft and NVIDIA Announce Major Integrations to Accelerate Generative AI for Enterprises Everywhere

  • Microsoft Azure to Adopt NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Superchip to Accelerate Customer and First-Party AI Offerings

  • NVIDIA DGX Cloud’s Native Integration with Microsoft Fabric to Streamline Custom AI Model Development with Customer’s Own Data

  • NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud APIs First on Azure Power Ecosystem of Industrial Design and Simulation Tools

  • Microsoft Copilot Enhanced with NVIDIA AI and Accelerated Computing Platforms

  • New NVIDIA Generative AI Microservices for Enterprise, Developer and Healthcare Applications Coming to Microsoft Azure AI

GTC—At GTC on Monday, Microsoft Corp. and NVIDIA expanded their longstanding collaboration with powerful new integrations that leverage the latest NVIDIA generative AI and Omniverse technologies across Microsoft Azure, Azure AI services, Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft 365.

“Together with NVIDIA, we are making the promise of AI real, helping to drive new benefits and productivity gains for people and organizations everywhere,” said Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft. “From bringing the GB200 Grace Blackwell processor to Azure, to new integrations between DGX Cloud and Microsoft Fabric, the announcements we are making today will ensure customers have the most comprehensive platforms and tools across every layer of the Copilot stack, from silicon to software, to build their own breakthrough

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eBay’s Lessons Learned about Generative AI in Software Development Productivity

Recently eBay disclosed the lessons learned about the application of generative AI in the development process. eBay’s AI efforts have uncovered three pivotal avenues toward enhancing developer productivity: integrating commercial offerings, fine-tuning existing Large Language Models (LLMs), and harnessing an internal knowledge network.

Adopting commercial AI solutions such as GitHub Copilot has yielded promising results for eBay’s developer community. In a meticulously designed A/B test, developers using Copilot demonstrated heightened productivity, marked by a notable increase in code acceptance rates (27% code acceptance rate reported through Copilot telemetry), and efficiency metrics: 60% accuracy for the generated code. The introduction of Github Copilot also allows a decrease of PR (about 17%) and a decrease (about 12%) of the Lead time for Change. However, limitations such as prompt size constraints underscore the need for tailored solutions in the context of eBay’s vast codebase.

By post-training and fine-tuning open-source LLMs like Code Llama, and in particular Code Lllama 13B, eBay has unveiled new avenues for streamlining labor-intensive tasks and mitigating code duplication. The development of eBayCoder, a bespoke model trained on the organization’s proprietary data (code base and documentation), showcases the potential for LLM customization in addressing nuanced challenges unique to eBay’s ecosystem.

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Exascale’s New Software Frontier: Combustion-PELE – High-Performance Computing News Analysis

“Exascale’s New Frontier,” a project from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, explores the new applications and software technology for driving scientific discoveries in the exascale era.

The scientific challenge

Diesel and gas-turbine engines drive the world’s trains, planes, and ships, but the fossil fuels that power these engines produce much of the carbon emissions that fuel the greenhouse effect and global climate change. Scientists have spent the past half-century in search of cleaner-burning fuels but have been hindered by the complexities of the high-pressure, turbulent reacting environment inside practical combustion chambers. Electrification trends ongoing across the automotive industry have yet to reach harder-to-electrify energy sectors such as off-grid power generation, marine shipping, agriculture, mining, and airplanes. A key decarbonization strategy calls for replacing the petroleum-based fuels for these types of engines with fuels from sustainable sources, while strictly maintaining requirements on reliability, safety, and cost.

Why exascale?

The Combustion-Pele project, named for the ancient Hawaiian goddess of fire, offers a means to overcome the obstacles to cleaner-burning fuels for these sectors. Over the past seven years, the Pele project team has developed simulation tools that harness the computational power of exascale to digitally recreate these complex combustion environments in

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GForce Software VSM IV: Virtual String Machine Gets Its Makeover

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Following the likes of M-Tron Pro, Oddity and Minimonsta, GForce Software’s Virtual String Machine puts on its glad rags and is brought up to date with a new UI and other features.

Some might argue that string machines were the first commercially successful types of polyphonic synths. For a while, it seemed that every manufacturer made some kind of string synth. And GForce Software’s VSM is a testament to those unique, if somewhat limited, devices.

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Now in its fourth iteration, VSM has given the full wardrobe and make-up redo that GForce has consistently brought to its portfolio. As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, this is most welcome in a world of large computer monitors.

Everything is now much clearer and easy to identify. The

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JFrog Software Supply Chain Report Shows Most Critical Vulnerabilities Scores Are Misleading

74% with High or Critical CVSS scores weren’t applicable in most common cases, but 60% of security and development teams still spend a quarter of their time remediating vulnerabilities

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & PARIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–(KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe) —

“DevSecOps teams worldwide are navigating a volatile field of software security, where innovation frequently meets demand in an age of rapid AI adoption,” said Yoav Landman, CTO and Co-Founder, JFrog. “Our data provides security and development organizations with a comprehensive snapshot of the rapidly evolving software ecosystem, including notable CVE scoring errors, perspectives on the security implications of using GenAI to code, the most risky packages to allow your organization to use for development, and more, so they can make more informed decisions.”

Key Findings

JFrog’s Software Supply Chain State of the Union report combines JFrog Artifactory developer usage data amongst 7K+ organizations, original CVE analysis by the JFrog Security Research team, and commissioned third-party survey data of 1,200 technology professionals worldwide to provide context into the broad, rapidly evolving supply chain landscape software. Key findings include:

  • Not all CVEs are what they seem — Traditional CVSS ratings look purely at the severity of the exploit as opposed to the likelihood
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Space Force selects startup Defense Unicorns to update software at launch ranges

WASHINGTON — A startup called Defense Unicorns has won a $15 million contract to update IT systems and software applications used to support rocket launches at US Space Force ranges.

The company, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, won a so-called Strategic Funding Increase, or STRATFI, agreement from SpaceWERX, the technology arm of the Space Force.

STRATFI contracts are awarded to companies that have won Small Business Innovation Research projects to help transition products from development to production and to help small businesses attract private investors.

Funding amounts for STRATFI contracts range from $3 million to $15 million per project. SpaceWERX last week announced STRATFI awards to Defense Unicorns and other firms.

Defense Unicorns’ STRATFI agreement is over five years.

The company last week announced it raised a $35 million Series A funding round led by Sapphire Ventures and Ansa Capital.

Transitioning legacy systems

Andrew Greene, co-founder of Defense Unicorns, said the company was formed three years ago by former developers from Department of Defense software factories. The. The firm specializes in transitioning legacy military systems that are typically disconnected from the internet to digital IT infrastructure.

Software modernization is sorely needed at Space Force launch ranges at Cape Canaveral, Florida;

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Don’t Ignore The Insider Selling In Constellation Software

We wouldn’t blame Constellation Software Inc. (TSE:CSU) shareholders if they were a little worried about the fact that Mark Leonard, the Founder recently netted about CA$23m selling shares at an average price of CA$3,764. However, that sale only accounted for 1.4% of their holding, so arguably it doesn’t say much about their conviction.

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The Last 12 Months Of Insider Transactions At Constellation Software

Notably, that recent sale by Mark Leonard was the biggest insider sale of Constellation Software shares that we’ve seen in the last year. So what is clear is that an insider sees fit to sell at around the current price of CA$3,751. We generally don’t like to see insider selling, but the lower the sale price, the more it concerns us. Given that the sale took place at around current prices, it makes us a little cautious but is hardly a major concern.

Over the last year we saw more insider selling of Constellation Software shares, than buying. You can see the insider transactions (by companies and individuals) over the last year depicted in the chart below. If you want to know exactly who sold, for how much, and when,

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