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Techday NZ
5 days ago
- Business
- Techday NZ
Coralogix donates 19,000 lines of code to OpenTelemetry project
Coralogix has donated over 19,000 lines of production-tested code to the OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) project. This sizeable contribution is intended to enable full, automatically generated distributed traces for software systems, eliminating the requirement for developers to manually instrument their applications. The donated code allows for trace generation without any changes to application code through an eBPF-powered auto-instrumentation method, aiming to simplify observability for organisations deploying software at scale. Manual instrumentation has long been recognised as a barrier to widespread adoption of OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing. Typically, teams need to modify code, manage language-specific agents, and coordinate across various services, which can slow development, fragment data collection, and increase both cloud costs and engineering overhead. By providing automated tracing through OBI, Coralogix intends to reduce these obstacles, making it easier for organisations to embrace open and vendor-neutral observability solutions. The contributed code from Coralogix features automatic trace stitching and supports a zero-instrumentation deployment method, utilising Kubernetes DaemonSet or Helm. This enables teams to rapidly stream high-quality traces, logs, and metrics from both modern and legacy systems, with minimal performance overhead. Data is output in the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) format, making it compatible with any OpenTelemetry-compliant backend. Collaboration and deployment This donation was carried out in collaboration with Grafana Labs and the wider OpenTelemetry community, reinforcing an upstream-first approach intended to support broad adoption. This collaborative effort underlines the emphasis on vendor-neutrality and ease of use, supporting fast onboarding for organisations of various sizes and across diverse technological environments. "Instrumentation shouldn't be a developer tax," said Yoni Farin, CTO and Co-founder at Coralogix. "By contributing OBI to the OpenTelemetry community, and building it in the open with Grafana Labs, we're making high-fidelity distributed tracing something that any team can turn on with a simple deployment. One DaemonSet, one Helm command, and your entire stack can light up. That's what open observability should feel like." With OBI now available as an open community project, users can deploy the OBI DaemonSet or Helm chart, integrate with the OpenTelemetry Collector, and route observability data to Coralogix, Grafana Tempo, Jaeger, or any OpenTelemetry-compatible destination. The project encourages active involvement from the community, inviting contributions, bug reports, and general feedback. Broader impact The OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation project has been developed to address a consistent challenge for organisations seeking to implement observability tooling across complex, polyglot environments. The absence of manual instrumentation reduces friction, permitting faster, more scalable monitoring practices. This enables businesses to better manage performance, reliability, and cost, without the burden of additional developer workload. Coralogix's approach, in association with other OpenTelemetry stakeholders, highlights a trend toward standardisation and openness in the observability sector. Events such as this code donation are positioned to help organisations transition legacy and hybrid applications to modern monitoring architectures, supporting operational insight and resilience in production environments. The donated codebase, containing over 19,000 lines, is intended to reinforce open observability at global scale, supporting both immediate and long-term monitoring needs. The OpenTelemetry community has prioritised lowering the barriers to entry for distributed tracing, and contributions from vendors such as Coralogix are integral to those efforts. Organisations and individuals using OpenTelemetry now have another vendor-neutral tool for integrating distributed tracing and observability into their workflows, without manual intervention or proprietary lock-in. The project remains open for further enhancements as community feedback and usage continue to grow.
Cision Canada
17-07-2025
- Health
- Cision Canada
Ontario Brain Institute Announces $552K in Support of Community Organizations Français
TORONTO, July 17, 2025 /CNW/ - The Ontario Brain Institute (OBI) is pleased to announce $552,000 in funding to support four community organizations advancing brain health and wellness across the province. This commitment comes as part of the Growing Expertise in Evaluation and Knowledge Translation (GEEK) program. "Each of these organizations brings a deep understanding of the communities they serve," said Dr. Tom Mikkelsen, President and Scientific Director of OBI. "Through GEEK, we're proud to support programs that build capacity, align program delivery with care needs, and create long-term impact for people living with neurological conditions." Now in its seventh year, the GEEK program offers evaluation expertise, support, and funding to community-led programs and services focused on brain health or people managing brain disorders. GEEK is a unique model of funding in that it improves evidence-informed care close to home while centering the role of community in healthcare. The 2025 OBI 'GEEKs' are: Brain Injury Association of Peel and Halton (BIAPH): BIAPH is a community-led charity dedicated to enhancing quality of life for individuals with acquired brain injuries (ABI) and their caregivers in the Peel and Halton regions. The ABI Support Group program serves over 200 participants annually through structured meetings, both in-person and virtual, for survivors and caregivers. The program provides peer-to-peer support, resource sharing, workshops, and expert guidance to reduce isolation and build coping skills for managing the long-term challenges of brain injury. Alongside its community programs, BIAPH also engages in research to improve services and amplify the voices of those affected by brain injury. The Grove Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario – Wellington Guelph: The Grove is a network providing integrated mental health, substance use and community services. The program serves youth ages 12–26 across Wellington County and Guelph through seven interconnected sites offering both clinical and non-clinical services. Their non-clinical service pathways include Skills & Wellbeing Activities and Community & Social Support Services including drop-in services, outreach, family support, education, employment, and housing. These non-clinical services often serve as youth's first entry point to more intensive support, emphasizing early intervention and primary prevention in a safe, accessible environment. Keep Your Head Up Foundation: Keep Your Head Up is a registered Canadian charity in Region of Waterloo focused on supporting youth with traumatic brain injuries through education, empowerment, and social connection. The Community Education program takes an upstream prevention approach by teaching youth about the holistic impacts of concussion on wellbeing, including invisible symptoms like social pressures, mental health impacts, learning difficulties, and recovery challenges. The program aims to reduce the long-term challenges to wellbeing by reducing stigma, improve recognition of concussion effects, and increase awareness of available supports like academic accommodations and mental wellness resources. LOFT Community Services: LOFT is a non-profit organization providing holistic multi-service supports to transitional-aged youth, adults, and seniors and older adults facing complex health challenges that may involve a combination of mental health, addiction, poverty, and homelessness concerns. The Culture and Calm program is a culturally-responsive Dialectical Behaviour Therapy initiative specifically designed for BIPOC youth ages 16–29 in the Greater Toronto Area. This 10-week virtual program teaches emotion regulation skills through a cultural lens, examining how systems of oppression influence mental health while providing a safer therapeutic space for marginalized youth. "Ontario is home to exceptional researchers that drive groundbreaking innovation all across the province," said the Honourable Nolan Quinn, Minister of Colleges, Universities, Research Excellence and Security. "Our government is proud to support the Ontario Brain Institute and commend their Growing Expertise in Evaluation and Knowledge Translation (GEEK) funding recipients that are advancing brain health and wellness in their communities." Since launching GEEK in 2018, OBI has committed approximately three million dollars to support 24 community-led programs in evaluating and generating evidence for their programming. Collectively, GEEK teams have trained and supported over 3,600 individuals, shared or presented knowledge gained from their programs more than 122 times in various formats, and leveraged close to $6.5M in additional funding. ABOUT: The Ontario Brain Institute is a provincially funded, not-for-profit organization that accelerates neuroscience discovery and innovation, benefiting both patients and the economy. Our collaborative 'team science' approach promotes brain research, commercialization and care by connecting researchers, clinicians, industry, patients, and their advocates to improve the lives of those living with brain disorders. Visit for more information.
Newsweek
19-06-2025
- Business
- Newsweek
AI Impact Awards 2025: How IBM Helps Cities Plan for a Cleaner, Cooler Energy Future
Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. As rapidly growing cities in the world's developing countries expand and modernize, they need better ways to assess their coming energy use and adapt to a changing climate. New tools developed with artificial intelligence by IBM's impact accelerator and the company's partner organizations give officials and planners both a current view of their cities and a forecast of likely developments. "Demand for energy is growing not just as a function of the number of people who live there, but also as a function of what is being built," Michael Jacobs, head of social innovation at IBM, told Newsweek. "You can forecast demand by analyzing what is being built where." Jacobs and his colleagues worked with the United Nations Development Programme and Sustainable Energy for All, an independent nonprofit organization, to come up with data tools to track and predict growth and the associated energy demand. The team used IBM's AI to analyze satellite images and data from the German Aerospace Center. They then aligned those images with census information and other data sets on building size and usage to create precise and detailed digital maps of some cities in Africa and India. That formed the basis for an interactive online platform called Open Building Insights (OBI), which launched in November at the United Nations COP29 climate conference. OBI includes an AI tool called Modeling Urban Growth that forecasts what types of buildings will be built and where, helping officials and stakeholders make more informed decisions about sustainable development. "Government and development agencies can see around the corner and invest now to meet the needs of tomorrow," Jacobs said. IBM's work has earned them a place among the winners of Newsweek's first AI Impact Awards, which celebrate organizations that are driving exceptional impact through the strategic and ethical use of AI technologies. Contest entries came from various industries and competed in more than a dozen respective categories, including ones focused on sustainability, health care and customer service. The 38 total winners were selected by a panel of AI and subject matter experts. Honorees have also been invited to Newsweek's AI Impact Summit, taking place from June 23 through 25 in Sonoma, California. The showcase promises three days of conversations and presentations on ground-breaking deployment of AI. AI Impact Winner: IBM AI Impact Winner: IBM Newsweek Illustration IBM worked with Sustainable Energy for All and another nonprofit, the World Resources Institute, to implement use of OBI in Nairobi, Kenya, where local officials are using the tool in the development of an energy plan. Kenya is well on its way to meeting an ambitious target of 100 percent clean energy by 2030. The country already gets about 90 percent of its electricity from carbon-free or low-carbon sources, largely thanks to robust geothermal and hydro energy. But a swelling population and economy will challenge the power supply. Nairobi, now with an estimated population of close to 6 million people, is expected to have annual population growth of more than 4 percent in the coming years, according to the UN. Jacobs said the OBI can help to integrate energy development with the city's growth. "You can be designing specific buildings for specific places to optimize where they are in the electrical grid or for how much rooftop solar you can install," he said. Solar is a small but growing part of Kenya's power supply, and the detailed information OBI offers about buildings can promote solar deployment in urban settings, Jacobs said. Staff from IBM and the nonprofit Sustainable Energy for All pictured during a 2024 site visit in Nairobi, Kenya. Officials in Nairobi are using the data visualization tool to develop an energy plan. Staff from IBM and the nonprofit Sustainable Energy for All pictured during a 2024 site visit in Nairobi, Kenya. Officials in Nairobi are using the data visualization tool to develop an energy plan. Courtesy of IBM "The profile of the roof, its square footage, its angle, its position, all that has really significant implications for how much solar energy you're going to be able to produce," he said. The OBI will also be used in India, where large-scale deployment of rooftop solar is a national-level initiative. India's climate and energy forecasts include a problematic feedback loop between warming, energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. As parts of the country get hotter due to climate change, the use of air conditioning grows—so much so, in fact, that the International Energy Agency said greater use of air conditioning will be a leading contributor to global demand for electricity. India is among the world's biggest producers and consumers of electricity and while renewable sources are growing, coal still dominates India's fuel mix. That means that greater power demand for air conditioning will result in more greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants, at least in the near term, until cleaner energy sources displace coal and other fossil fuels. Jacobs said the OBI can help, both by aiding the development of solar power and helping cities better cope with rising temperatures. "We are exploring how to use the tool to develop a heat vulnerability index, because again, the dynamics of building design can have really significant impacts on localized heat," he said. With a better understanding of the buildings in their cities (and the buildings to come), officials can anticipate energy needs and public infrastructure, such as cooling centers, to help communities adapt to the extreme heat that is becoming more common with climate change. Jacobs said the geospatial data modeling is just one of the ways IBM is applying AI to climate impacts. He said AI can also help share vital information during climate-driven extreme weather events, and AI-assisted research promises to speed the development of new materials that could be important for clean technology. "AI is going to be integral to solving climate challenges," he said. "And IBM is a solutions-oriented company." To see the full list of AI Impact winners, visit the official page for Newsweek's AI Impact Awards. Newsweek will continue the conversation on meaningful AI innovations at our AI Impact Summit from June 23 to 25 in Sonoma, California. Click here for more information and to register for the event.
Medscape
16-06-2025
- Health
- Medscape
Myeloma: OBI Rivals IV Isatuximab, Ups Patient Comfort
A novel, single-use on-body injector (OBI) for isatuximab in multiple myeloma is noninferior to the standard intravenous (IV) formulation in efficacy and pharmacokinetics and has no unexpected safety signals. METHODOLOGY: IRAKLIA is an ongoing study of administration methods of isatuximab as part of a triplet regimen that includes pomalidomide and dexamethasone, commonly used to treat people with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. A total of 263 IRAKLIA participants received isatuximab subcutaneously using the OBI, while 264 participants received isatuximab via IV formulation. After 1 year, investigators compared the overall response rate between the groups and found them to be similar. More participants who received the drug via OBI were satisfied (70.5%) with their injection method than those in the IV group (53.4%). TAKEAWAY: IRAKLIA showed that the isatuximab subcutaneous OBI provided the same level of efficacy and pharmacokinetics as intravenous (IV) isatuximab, meeting noninferiority criteria. Patients who received the isatuximab subcutaneous OBI expressed higher satisfaction than those who received the IV formulation. The subcutaneous isatuximab OBI had a similar safety profile to IV isatuximab and no unexpected safety signals. Only 1.5% of patients in the OBI group had an infusion reaction compared to 25% in the IV group. IN PRACTICE: 'These data support the isatuximab subcutaneous OBI as a standard-of-care administration for patients with multiple myeloma,' said investigator Xavier Leleu, MD, PhD, of Service d'Hématologie et Thérapie Cellulaire, CHU and CIC Inserm 1402 in Poitiers Cedex, France. SOURCE: Originally presented during an oral abstract session at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2025 annual meeting, this study is in press at the Journal of Clinical Oncology . LIMITATIONS: The researchers did not gather patient satisfaction data until the fifth infusion. Because some patients had discontinued treatment by then, it's possible that the findings underrepresent the level of patient satisfaction in the OBI group. DISCLOSURES:
Associated Press
15-05-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
OBI Capital Introduces a New Investment Fund Model Combining Real Estate and Blockchain Technology
OBI Capital launches a unique investment fund combining real estate assets with blockchain technology, offering a new opportunity for long-term growth and diversification. United States, May 15, 2025 -- A Fresh Approach to Investment: OBI Capital's Strategy OBI Capital is introducing a new investment fund designed to blend traditional real estate with digital asset investments. This model aims to provide an opportunity for growth by investing in high-performing real estate assets and incorporating blockchain technology for added diversification. By integrating these two asset classes, OBI Capital seeks to offer a more balanced and structured approach to long-term investment. Unlike traditional financial institutions that may prioritize institutional investors, OBI Capital has structured this fund to be more accessible, enabling a broader range of individuals to engage with both real estate and digital assets as part of their investment strategy. Real Estate and Blockchain: A Dual Investment Strategy The fund primarily focuses on investing in real estate properties, such as apartment buildings, which are selected for their long-term appreciation potential. These properties are expected to provide steady rental income, which is then reinvested into a diversified portfolio of digital assets, including cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano, XRP, and Chainlink. This dual approach aims to balance the stability of real estate with the growth potential of digital assets. The strategy is designed to reduce risk by carefully selecting both real estate and cryptocurrency investments, providing investors with a diversified portfolio that aligns with their long-term goals. The Team Behind OBI Capital: Expertise in Real Estate and Blockchain OBI Capital was founded by Amir Yazdani, an experienced professional in both real estate and blockchain technology. Amir and his team have previously launched OBICOIN, a utility token designed for use in real estate transactions, and established the OBI Real Estate platform, which streamlined property transactions by integrating cryptocurrency payments. The OBI Capital team brings their expertise in blockchain technology and real estate management to this new fund, drawing on their experience to create a structure designed for consistent growth and risk mitigation. Access to Investment: Tokenized Participation with Lower Entry Requirements One of the distinguishing features of OBI Capital is its lower entry point for individual investors. The fund allows tokenized participation starting at $1,000, providing a way for more people to access the opportunity to invest in both real estate and digital assets. This model contrasts with traditional investment funds, which often require significant capital commitments and may be inaccessible to many potential investors. This structure aims to offer a more inclusive approach to wealth-building, giving individuals who might not have had access to these investment opportunities the ability to participate in both real estate and digital assets. OBI Capital's Long-Term Vision: Expanding Global Opportunities Looking forward, OBI Capital plans to expand its portfolio of properties and further diversify its digital asset holdings. With a scalable structure and a commitment to compliance, the fund aims to provide long-term investment opportunities while responding to the changing landscape of both real estate and blockchain technologies. OBI Capital seeks to position itself as a competitive alternative to traditional investment models by offering a diversified, stable approach to wealth-building. Its focus on real estate and digital assets reflects its long-term vision to meet the evolving needs of investors in a global financial market. About OBI Capital OBI Capital is an innovative investment fund that combines real estate and blockchain technology to provide investors with a diversified portfolio designed for long-term growth. The fund invests in high-performing real estate assets while integrating digital assets such as cryptocurrencies to offer both stability and growth. OBI Capital's team has a proven track record in both real estate and blockchain, having previously launched OBICOIN and the OBI Real Estate platform. The fund's focus is on providing accessible investment opportunities for a broad range of investors. Media Contact Adriana OBI Capital Contact Info: Name: Adriana Email: Send Email Organization: OBI Capital Website: Disclaimer: This press release is for informational purposes only. Information verification has been done to the best of our ability. 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