News briefs for October 26, 2018.
A painting created by an open-source neural network sold this week for $432K at a London auction house. Obvious is the group behind the
work that “used 19-year-old Robbie Barrat’s GAN package, available here on
Github, and sourced paintings from Wiki Commons” to create the painting. See the post on TNW for details on the “first portrait ever sold at auction that was made with the assistance of an AI“.
The SELKS5 beta, the live and installable network security management ISO based
on Debian, was released today. New features include the latest Suricata
intrusion-detection engine, major upgrade from Elasticsearch/Kibana/Logstash
(ELK) 5.x to the ELK 6 stack, Scirius 3.0 and more. See the release
announcement for download links, setup instructions and a visual tour.
Mirantis recently announced its new Mirantis Cloud Platform Edge (MCP Edge), a “Kubernetes-based effort to enable containers and virtual machines to run at the edge of the network”, eWeek reports. MCP Edge does not run OpenStack; it’s Kubernetes plus
Virtlet. eWeek quotes Mirantis co-founder Boris Renski, “You can still run VMs [virtual machines] using
Virtlet, with direct access to hardware acceleration like SRI-OV [Single-Root
Input/Output Virtualization], but Kubernetes is the only resource scheduler.”
A team of European researchers has created MixedEmotions, an open-source toolkit
that can automatically assess emotions in text, audio and video. According to PhysOrg, “There
is a growing demand for automatic analysis of emotions in different fields. The
possible applications are wide, including call centers, smart environments,
brand reputation analysis and assistive technology.”
Read more here
about emotion detection and the complexities involved in adapting these tools
to other languages.
Red Hat developers are improving the GFS2 filesystem. According
to Phoronix, “recent developments around the GFS2 shared-disk file-system
include performance optimizations around iomap writes, new resource group
header fields, expanded journal log header information, and other low-level
improvements.” Future plans include “a faster fsck for GFS2 that uses
AIO and larger reads, process-shared resource group locking, trusted xattrs,
and deprecating the “meta” GFS2 file-system fork”.