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Talk to Your Meshtastic Data: Using Harbor AI Chat for Instant Insights
By Adrelien in Meshtastic — Apr 14, 2025 Tired of configuring complex dashboards just to check your Meshtastic network status? With Harbor AI Chat, you can simply ask ‘Which node has the lowest battery?’ and get an immediate answer! Learn how to talk directly to your Meshtastic data. In our previous blog post, we showed…

The 20 biggest data breaches of the 21st century
Though it had long stopped being the powerhouse that it once was, social media site MySpace hit the headlines in 2016 after 360 million user accounts were leaked onto both LeakedSource.com and put up for sale on dark web market The Real Deal with an asking price of 6 bitcoin (around $3,000 at the time)….

Asset sprawl, siloed data and CloudQuery’s search for unified cloud governance
Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Gaining visibility — and, ultimately, insights — into enterprise cloud assets is growing ever more challenging. Cloud estates are sprawling and fragmented, and inventory capabilities in existing tools can be narrow and…

Teaching AI models what they don’t know
Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT provide plausible-sounding answers to any question you might ask. But they don’t always reveal the gaps in their knowledge or areas where they’re uncertain. That problem can have huge consequences as AI systems are increasingly used to do things like develop drugs, synthesize information, and drive autonomous cars. Now, the…

Accelerating silicon carbide (SiC) manufacturing with big data platforms
For decades, we heard silicon was the only answer. However, while the world’s largest fabs were busy taping out silicon, the communities of engineers and scientists working on non-silicon technologies continued pushing forward. Compound semiconductors—semiconductors made from two or more periodic table elements—include indium phosphide (InP), silicon nitride (SiN), gallium arsenide (GaAs), germanium (Ge), indium…

Don’t give your personal data to fraudsters: Dodging Docusign scam emails
Cybercriminals impersonate the trusted e-signature brand and send fake Docusign notifications to trick people into giving away their personal or corporate data 27 May 2025 • , 5 min. read Remember when you used to have to print, sign, scan, email and/or even fax every time you wanted to sign and send an official document?…

Building networks of data science talent
The rise of artificial intelligence resurfaces a question older than the abacus: If we have a tool to do it for us, why learn to do it ourselves? The answer, argues MIT electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) Professor Devavrat Shah, hasn’t changed: Foundational skills in mathematics remain essential to using tools well, from knowing…

Data Vs. Findings Vs. Insights In UX — Smashing Magazine
What’s the difference between data, findings, and UX insights? And how do you argue for statistical significance in your UX research? Let’s unpack it. Kindly powered by How To Measure UX and Design Impact, a friendly course on how to show the impact of your incredible UX work on business. In many companies, data, findings,…

The Privacy-Friendly Tech to Replace Your US-Based Email, Browser, and Search
From your email to your web browsing, it’s highly likely that your daily online life is dominated by a small number of tech giants—namely Google, Microsoft, and Apple. But since Big Tech has been cozying up to the second Trump administration, which has taken an aggressive stance on foreign policy, and Elon Musk’s so-called Department…

Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Synthetic Data Using the Synthetic Data Vault (SDV)
Real-world data is often costly, messy, and limited by privacy rules. Synthetic data offers a solution—and it’s already widely used: LLMs train on AI-generated text Fraud systems simulate edge cases Vision models pretrain on fake images SDV (Synthetic Data Vault) is an open-source Python library that generates realistic tabular data using machine learning. It learns…