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Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution developed by Red Hat for the commercial market. The company recently announced changes to the availability of its source code. In response, CIQ, Oracle and SUSE formed the Open Enterprise Linux Association, or OpenELA, which aims to provide a consistent and secure upstream location for Enterprise Linux

LLMs have become one of the most important technologies to emerge in recent years. Many of the most prominent LLM tools are closed source, which has led to great interest in developing open-source tools. Antonio Velasco Fernández is a Data Scientist and Jose Pablo Cabeza García is a Lead Data Engineer, both at Elastacloud. In

A deepfake is a synthetic media technique that uses deep learning to create or manipulate video, audio, or images to present something that didn’t actually occur. Deepfakes have gained attention in part due to their potential for misuse, such as creating forged videos for political manipulation or spreading misinformation. Ryan Ofman is a Lead Engineer

Decompilation is the process of translating a compiled program’s bytecode back into a higher-level programming language, like C. There’s a vibrant and growing scene of engineers working to decompile classic video games, and some of the most prominent projects have focused on the Nintendo 64. Recent successes include Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda:

CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, is a fundamental technology in web development that defines the presentation and layout of HTML documents. It serves as a styling language that allows developers to control the appearance of web pages. Rachel Andrew is a Staff Technical Writer on the Google Chrome Team. Before that she worked for Mozilla

Security Operations, or SecOps, refers to the collaboration between security and operations teams to secure an organization’s systems, applications, and data. Maxime Lamothe-Brassard is a Co-Founder of LimaCharlie which is a cloud SecOps platform. He has a background in security and has previously worked at the Canadian Intelligence service, Crowdstrike, Google, and Google X. He

Microsoft Copilot is a chatbot developed by Microsoft that launched in 2023 and is based on a large language model. Justin Harris is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft and has an extensive background in classical machine learning and neural networks, including large language models. He joins the show to talk about Microsoft Copilot, natural

The interplanetary filesystem, or IPFS, is a peer-to-peer network that uses a distributed and decentralized model. Functionally, IPFS allows users to store and share files without having to rely on a single source of truth for those files. Matt Ober is the Co-Founder & CTO of Pinata. He joins the show to talk about IPFS

Animal Well is a Metroidvania game developed as a solo project by Billy Basso over the course of seven years. It’s the first game released by publisher Bigmode, which was founded by Jason “Dunkey” Gastrow. Billy joins the show to talk about creating Animal Well’s engine from scratch, how the game handles animation, fine-tuning character

One of the most promising applications of large language models is giving non-experts the ability to easily query their own data. A potential positive side effect is reducing ad-hoc data analysis requests that often strain data teams. Sarah Nagy is the Co-founder and CEO at Seek which is using natural language processing to change how