Announcing the General Availability of Row and Column Level Security with Databricks Unity Catalog

Announcing the General Availability of Row and Column Level Security with Databricks Unity Catalog

We are excited to announce the general availability of Row Filters and Column Masks in Unity Catalog on AWS, Azure and GCP! Managing fine-grained access controls on rows and columns in tables is critical to ensure data security and meet compliance. With Unity Catalog, you can use standard SQL functions to define row filters and column masks, allowing fine-grained access controls on rows and columns. Row Filters let you control which subsets of your tables' rows are visible to hierarchies of groups and users within your organization. Column Masks let you redact your table values based on the same dimensions.…
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Generational

Generational

Last Friday, I attended Hugging Face's conference at San Francisco’s Exploratorium. Initially it was supposed to be a meetup of a few dozen people or maybe a hundred at most. But registrations quickly ballooned to 5,000 and people started referring to it as the Woodstock of AI, referencing the Woodstock music festival in 1969. The festival symbolized the counterculture movement of peace and idealism. While the Hugging Face logo 🤗 could have been the icon of the original Woodstock, the company’s mission is to democratize AI by publicly hosting thousands of AI models and datasets for anyone to access.Alongside the…
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Dell earnings reveal sluggish enterprise AI adoption

Dell earnings reveal sluggish enterprise AI adoption

Time's almost up! There's only one week left to request an invite to The AI Impact Tour on June 5th. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to explore various methods for auditing AI models. Find out how you can attend here. Dell reported earnings after the market close Thursday, beating both earnings and revenue estimates, but its results suggest AI uptake across its enterprise and tier-2 cloud service providers is slower than expected. Dell’s stock was down -17.78% in after hours trading after posting a -5.18% loss during the regular trading session, but is still up 86.79% year to…
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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed In May: AI Help With Parenting And Fighting Obesity

5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed In May: AI Help With Parenting And Fighting Obesity

This is a monthly column that runs down five interesting deals every month that may have flown under the radar. Check out our April entry here. School is nearly out and summer’s almost here. A lot is going on in most people’s lives, so let’s take a look at a few intriguing startups that raised cash this month that may have escaped your notice. This month the rounds included everything from added support for cancer survivors to leveraging your car for credit. Let’s take a look. AI parenting Depending on who you talk to, AI can solve everything. But can…
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T-Minus: How will solar storms affect Mars astronauts?

T-Minus: How will solar storms affect Mars astronauts?

This is T-Minus, where we breakdown the biggest developments in space, from new rocket launches to discoveries that advance our understanding of the universe and our place in it. Humanity is reaching new heights in space exploration. Make sure you’re part of the journey by subscribing here.The night of September 1, 1859, spooky stuff started happening all across the world. Compasses stopped working, causing ships to become lost at sea. Telegraph equipment began shocking operators and, in some cases, spontaneously catching fire. Stranger still, some telegraph lines continued to work even after they were disconnected from their power supplies.Meanwhile, the night…
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Safety through Permissibility: Shield Construction for Fast and Safe Reinforcement Learning

Safety through Permissibility: Shield Construction for Fast and Safe Reinforcement Learning

[Submitted on 29 May 2024] View a PDF of the paper titled Safety through Permissibility: Shield Construction for Fast and Safe Reinforcement Learning, by Alexander Politowicz and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Designing Reinforcement Learning (RL) solutions for real-life problems remains a significant challenge. A major area of concern is safety. "Shielding" is a popular technique to enforce safety in RL by turning user-defined safety specifications into safe agent behavior. However, these methods either suffer from extreme learning delays, demand extensive human effort in designing models and safe domains in the problem, or require pre-computation. In this paper,…
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Generative AI 2024: Key insights & emerging trends

Generative AI 2024: Key insights & emerging trends

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Generative AI 2024 report, a comprehensive analysis of the latest trends, tools, benefits, and challenges in the generative artificial intelligence field. Sponsored by WEKA, this report provides an in-depth look at how AI practitioners and end users navigate the landscape of generative AI tools, offering valuable insights into their preferences, priorities, and pain points.In this preview, we present key findings from Section 8 of the report, focusing on the main generative AI tools of choice, their perceived benefits, and the challenges faced by users. This snapshot highlights significant shifts from last…
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Proofpoint’s CISO 2024 Report: Top Challenges Include Human Error & Risk

Proofpoint’s CISO 2024 Report: Top Challenges Include Human Error & Risk

In Proofpoint’s 2024 Voice of the CISO report, the cybersecurity company found that CISOs are dealing with people-centric threats more than ever. Plus, cybersecurity budgets often don’t change, and AI can help and hurt CISOs’ efforts. Regarding the specific threat risks, 41% of the CISOs mostly fear ransomware attacks, followed by malware (38%), email fraud (36%), cloud account compromise (34%), insider threat (30%) and distributed denial of service (30%) attacks. Biggest threat risks as perceived by CISOs for the next 12 months. Image: Proofpoint For this report, the research firm Censuswide surveyed 1,600 CISOs from organizations of 1,000 employees or…
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VisTA-SR: Improving the Accuracy and Resolution of Low-Cost Thermal Imaging Cameras for Agriculture

VisTA-SR: Improving the Accuracy and Resolution of Low-Cost Thermal Imaging Cameras for Agriculture

arXiv:2405.19413v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Thermal cameras are an important tool for agricultural research because they allow for non-invasive measurement of plant temperature, which relates to important photochemical, hydraulic, and agronomic traits. Utilizing low-cost thermal cameras can lower the barrier to introducing thermal imaging in agricultural research and production. This paper presents an approach to improve the temperature accuracy and image quality of low-cost thermal imaging cameras for agricultural applications. Leveraging advancements in computer vision techniques, particularly deep learning networks, we propose a method, called $textbf{VisTA-SR}$ ($textbf{Vis}$ual & $textbf{T}$hermal $textbf{A}$lignment and $textbf{S}$uper-$textbf{R}$esolution Enhancement) that combines RGB and thermal images to…
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