Send us a text Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society. In this episode, we delve into the big topics shaping our digital landscape: Car Expo - Brussels Motor Show: Highlights from Europe’s leading auto show, including Tesla’s Cybertruck debut and an innovative AI-powered car configurator that personalizes your vehicle experience.Biden Admin’s New AI Chip Export Rules: Exploring restrictions aimed at national security and their impact on global markets, with industry reactions from Nvidia.Meta and Microsoft’s AI Development Plans: From Meta’s goal to replace mid-level engineers with AI to Microsoft forming a dev-focused AI organization, we unpack their strategies and implications.Developer Productivity in 2025: How AI tools are changing workflows, boosting efficiency, and introducing new challenges.UV’s Killer Feature: Discover how ad-hoc environments are transforming development, courtesy of Lukas Valatka's insights.Doom in a PDF: Yes, you read that right—Doom running inside a PDF! Here’s the source code for all the geeks out there.Marimo: An exciting new project redefining collaborative development.AI and Everyday Life: A witty meme highlights AI’s direction—should it help with art and writing, or chores like laundry and dishes?

Send us a text Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society. Dive into conversations that should flow as smoothly as your morning coffee (but don’t), where industry insights meet laid-back banter. Whether you're a data aficionado or just someone curious about the digital age, pull up a chair, relax, and let's get into the heart of data, unplugged style! In this episode, we explore: LLMs Gaming the System: Uncover how LLMs are using political sycophancy and tool-using flattery to game the system. Dive deeper: paper, chain of thought prompting & post on x.Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Sue AI Music Generators: They are taking on Suno and Udio for using copyrighted music to train their models. Some ai generated music that is very similar to existing songs: song 1, song 2, song 3. More on GenAI: midjourney creating copyrighted images, and chatGPT reciting email-adresses.AI-Powered Olympic Recaps: NBC’s personalized daily recaps with Al Michaels' voice offer a new way to catch up on the Olympics.Figma’s AI Redesign: Discover Figma’s new AI tools that speed up design and creativity. We debate the tool's value and its application in the design process. Rabbit R1 Security Flaws: Hackers exposed hardcoded API keys in Rabbit R1’s source code, leading to major security issues. Find out more.Pyinstrument for Python: Meet Pyinstrument, the easy-to-use Python profiler that optimizes code performance. Explore it on GitHub.The Ultimate Font - Bart’s dreams come true: Explore the groundbreaking integration of True Type Fonts with AI for dynamic text rendering. Discover more here.Hot Takes on AI Competition: Google claims no one has a moat in AI, sparking debate on open-source models' future. We also explore Ladybird Browser Project, an independently funded browser project aiming to build a cutting-edge browser engine.

Send us a text Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society. Dive into conversations that should flow as smoothly as your morning coffee (but don't), where industry insights meet laid-back banter. Whether you're a data aficionado or just someone curious about the digital age, pull up a chair, relax, and let's get into the heart of data, unplugged style!

In this episode we are joined by Christophe Beke, where we discuss the following: Meta identifies networks pushing deceptive content likely generated by AI: Unpacking Meta’s discovery of AI-generated deep fakes used in political scams and phishing attacks.Klarna using GenAI to cut marketing costs by $10 million annually: Exploring how Klarna leverages generative AI to save on marketing costs and the broader impact of AI-generated content on branding and creativity.Apple and OpenAI partnership rumors: Speculating on Apple’s potential partnership with OpenAI and what this partnership mean for Siri and user privacy.Even the Raspberry Pi is getting in on AI: Exciting new AI capabilities for the Raspberry Pi and the privacy questions they raise. Plus discussion on windows screenshot tools & more privacy concerns.Nvidia teases next-gen “Rubin” AI chips: Nvidia’s surprising early reveal of their next-gen AI chips—what’s behind the move?Marker: A new tool for converting PDFs to Markdown: Discovering the Marker library and its perks for converting PDFs while keeping valuable metadata.Signal EU Market Exit: The privacy-focused app’s decision to leave the EU market over regulatory challenges and the broader debate on privacy vs. security.Reframing ‘tech debt’: Fresh perspectives on managing technical debt in the fast-paced world of software development.Our newsletter: Don’t miss out! Subscribe to our data and AI newsletter for the latest headlines and insights.

Send us a text Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society. Dive into conversations that flow like your morning coffee, where industry insights meet laid-back banter. Whether you're a data aficionado or just curious about the digital age, pull up a chair and let's explore the heart of data, unplugged style!

Stack Overflow and OpenAI Deal Controversy: Discussing the partnership controversy, with users protesting the lack of an opt-out option and how this could reshape the platform. Look into Phind here.Apple and OpenAI Rumors - could ChatGPT be the new Siri? Examining rumors of ChatGPT potentially replacing Siri, and Apple's AI strategy compared to Microsoft’s MAI-1. Check out more community opinions here.Hello GPT-4o: Exploring the new era with OpenAI's GPT-4o that blends video, text, and audio for more dynamic human-AI interactions. Discussing AI's challenges under the European AI Act and chatgpt’s use in daily life and dating apps like Bumble.Claude Takes Europe: Claude 3 now available in the EU. How does it compare to ChatGPT in coding and conversation?ElevenLabs' Music Generation AI: A look at ElevenLabs' AI for generating music and the broader AI music landscape. How are these algorithms transforming music creation? Check out the AI Song Contest here.Google Cloud’s Big Oops with UniSuper: Unpack the shocking story of how Google Cloud accidentally wiped out UniSuper’s account. What does this mean for data security and redundancy strategies?The Great CLI Debate: Is Python really the right choice for CLI tools? We spark the debate over Python vs. Go and Rust in building efficient CLI tools.

Send us a text Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.

Dive into conversations that should flow as smoothly as your morning coffee (but don't), where industry insights meet laid-back banter. Whether you're a data aficionado or just someone curious about the digital age, pull up a chair, relax, and let's explore the complex intersections of data, unplugged style!

In this episode #44, titled "Unpacking Open Source: A Look at GX, Monetization, Ruff's Controversy, the xz Hack & more" we're thrilled to have Paolo Léonard joining us to unpack the latest in technology and open-source discussions. Get ready for an enlightening journey through innovation, challenges, and hot takes in the digital realm. GX Cloud Unveiled: Paolo gives his first impression on the latest cloud data quality tool: GX CloudOpen source monetization: Delving into the trade-offs between open-source projects, their managed counterparts and other strategies in making open source sustainable financially, with Astral, FastAPI, Prefect’s role in this space.The Open Source Controversy with Ruff: A discussion on the ethical considerations when open-source projects turn profit-focused, highlighted by Ruff.Addressing the xz Hack: Delving into the challenges highlighted by the XZ backdoor discovery and how the community responds to these security threats.Jumping on the Mojo Train?: A conversation on Mojo's decision to open source its standard library and its impact on the future of modular machine learning.Becoming 'Clout' Certified: Hot takes on the value and impact of clout certification in the tech industry. Read more.

Send us a text Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society. Dive into conversations that should flow as smoothly as your morning coffee (but don't), where industry insights meet laid-back banter. Whether you're a data aficionado or just someone curious about the digital age, pull up a chair, relax, and let's explore the complex intersections of data, unplugged style! In episode #43, titled "The Privacy Paradox - The Tug of War Between Data Privacy and Safety," our special guest Sofie Van Den Eynden guides us through a labyrinth of data privacy issues that challenge our notions of security, consent, and progress. The DNA Privacy Conundrum: Sofie Van Den Eynden unravels the tensions between the incredible potential of DNA for solving crimes (inspired from Sofie Claerhout's research and historic cases like the Golden State Killer), and the ensuing privacy concerns, exemplified by the 23andMe data breach and the broad implications of such incidents.Privacy on the Road: A deep dive into the ethical implications of employing smart cameras for road safety and the debate on privacy trade-offs, with a glance at policies in Germany and the Netherlands.The Cost of Cyber Safety: How much privacy are we willing to sacrifice for safety? Debating the cost of privacy in the fight against cybercrime. Should transaction data be more accessible to prevent fraud?GenAI and Copyright : We cap off the episode with a discussion on copyright issues in the age of AI, ignited by Kid Rock's interview with Theo Von. 

Send us a text Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society. Dive into conversations that should flow as smoothly as your morning coffee (but don't), where industry insights meet laid-back banter. Whether you're a data aficionado or just someone curious about the digital age, pull up a chair, relax, and let's get into the heart of data, unplugged style! In today's episode: Biz corner AI regulation race https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/what-the-executive-order-means-forhttps://www.ft.com/content/e0574e79-d723-4d94-9681-fae22648e3adhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/25/artificial-intelligence-executive-order-biden/https://www.wired.com/story/joe-biden-wants-us-government-algorithms-tested-for-potential-harm-against-citizensTech corner Adoption of the business source license (BSL)https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-licensehttps://www.getdbt.com/blog/licensing-dbthttps://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-mariadb/https://github.com/MaterializeInc/materialize/blob/main/LICENSECompanies responding to HashiCorp's move to BSLhttps://spacelift.io/blog/spacelift-latest-statement-on-hashicorp-bslOpenTofu & HashiCorp's OSS workhttps://opentofu.org/https://medium.com/@andrewhertog/contributing-to-terraform-vs-opentofu-26779d480c7f?sk=5343d4a76b390833af621905c858777bCyber Resilience Act might kill open-source altogetherhttps://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/understanding-the-cyber-resilience-acthttps://github.blog/2023-07-12-no-cyber-resilience-without-open-source-sustainability/https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:52022PC0454OSS companies - is it a sustainable way of doing open source?https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.0https://astral.sh/https://pydantic.dev/https://duckdblabs.com/We haven't figured out OSS sustainability yet, but the BSL comes close.https://curl.se/docs/security.htmlhttps://xkcd.com/2347/Intro music courtesy of fesliyanst

Send us a text Datatopics is a podcast presented by Kevin Missoorten to talk about the fuzzy and misunderstood concepts in the world of data, analytics, and AI and get to the bottom of things.

In today's episode - a second one on collaborative data ecosystems - , we're diving into the world of collaborative Intelligence covering topics like federated learning, swarm learning, Edge AI and more groundbreaking approaches that are transforming the landscape of machine learning.

Join our expert guests Thomas Huybrechts and Virginie Marelli as we explore the inner workings of this innovative approach. We'll delve into the core concepts of federated learning, including how it enables organizations to leverage the collective knowledge of distributed data while maintaining data privacy and security. We'll also discuss the practical applications of federated learning in various domains, such as healthcare, finance, and IoT, and how it is being used to address real-world challenges.

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