Over the past year I’ve spent a fair amount of time working on projects in the computer vision domain. I recently became aware of a couple of announcements about OpenCV and TensorFlow that are pretty exciting and I wanted to share. Continue reading
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Google Analytics and GDPR
In April of 2016, members of the EU adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), aimed at strengthening data protection and privacy for all individuals within the EU. The regulation allowed for a two-year transition period, and becomes enforceable in May of this year, 2018.
There’s a lot to the GDPR (more than can be addressed in a single post at least) but one of the key provisions is that individuals have the right to request erasure of their data from a service provider. This means that many online and cloud service providers will need to have the ability to comply with these requests, even if they’re not based in the EU. Continue reading
Meltdown and Spectre Security Vulnerabilities
Earlier this week, research published by the Project Zero security team at Google brought to public attention a group of security vulnerabilities affecting many modern processors. The vulnerabilities have been given the names Meltdown and Spectre, and could allow an attacker to read arbitrary locations in virtual memory (e.g. read data stored in memory belonging to other user or kernel processes).
AWS Announces Per-Second Billing
AWS recently announced they will be moving to a per-second billing model for several services, most prominently their EC2 compute and EBS storage services. Previously they used a per-hour billing model, whereby if you launched an instance you were charged for a full hour minimum, even if you shut it down 10 minutes later. The changes will go into effect on October 2nd, and also includes the EMR and Batch services. For now only Linux instances are included.
Solar Eclipse 2017
I had the good fortune of being in Charleston, South Carolina for the solar eclipse yesterday. Charleston was on the path of totality, the area on earth where the moon completely blocked the sun.
Announcing Bidalyzer! Analytics for Header Bidding
Announcing Bidalyzer, the newest member of the Boyle family of products, libraries and frameworks!
Bidalyzer provides analytics for heading bidding solutions. It’s a JavaScript library that collects performance data from heading bidding implementations, directly in the browser, and sends that to an existing analytics solution, such as Google Analytics.
Data Wars in Ad Tech
In today’s digital economy, data is one of the most valuable assets of any organization. For online advertising, quality data is a requirement for ensuring that the right ad is seen by the right audience at the right time. In the ongoing battle for acquiring this data, several ad tech companies announced last week a new technology consortium to enable the sharing of a common, omni-channel, people-based identifier, between publishers and advertisers who are members.
Amazon AI: Rekognition, Lex, Polly
Amazon launched AWS over 11 years ago, and it’s fair to say they’ve been the leader in Infrastructure as a Service for nearly all of the time since then. However when it comes to higher, application level services, they’ve lagged a bit behind the competition. However with the recent launch of several new offerings, they’re beginning to close that gap. At Amazon re:Invent 2016 in November, they launched a suite of services focused around Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing.
AWS Summit New York
For those of you in New York City, the AWS Summit is this week. This is Amazon’s traveling road show to learn and hear about all things related to Amazon Web Services. The summit will be on August 10th and 11th, Wednesday and Thursday, at the Javits Center. Continue reading
Apple’s New Bug Bounty Program
Apple announced on Thursday a new bug bounty program with rewards as high as $200,000 for some categories of exploit. The new program will initially only be available to a select group of security researchers who have previously found vulnerabilities in their products, but eventually will be opened up to additional groups and individuals. Continue reading