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Gates Foundation selects 48 projects in AI ‘Grand Challenge’

GeekWire

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation named 48 grant recipients in its AI Grand Challenge, seeking to encourage new applications of artificial intelligence by researchers in low- and middle-income countries. The foundation launched its Grand Challenges program in 2003, targeting problems in global health and development.

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Millions of websites affected by unpatched flaw in Microsoft IIS 6 web server

Network World

with the privileges of the user running the application. Extended support for this version of IIS ended in July 2015 along with support for its parent product, Windows Server 2003. In addition, many companies might still run web applications on Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0 still powers millions of public websites.

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Third Party Patching Best Practices for an Organization

Anoop

I have involved in the patching of Windows machines since ‘SMS 2003 + ITMU’ days. Every month, we need to perform very complex steps to deploy patches. Nowadays SCCM 2007/ 2012 /CB uses WSUS along with Windows Update to Download, Deploy and Install patches. There are challenges in Microsoft patching process using SCCM. And I’ve […].

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Gates Foundation launches AI ‘Grand Challenge,’ as it weighs risk and reward in the developing world

GeekWire

The turnaround is tight: applications are due at 11:30 a.m. The foundation launched its Grand Challenges in 2003 , seeking to solve problems in global health and development. Pacific, June 5. Grants will be awarded in July, and grantees would have three months from that point to complete their projects.

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SAP has a new succession plan

CIO Business Intelligence

Déjà vu “In Pekka Ala-Pietilä, I recognize a leader who not only possesses a profound understanding of our industry and the intricacies of European SE governance, but also one who has been a steadfast ally through many of SAP’s pivotal moments,” said SAP co-founder Plattner, who has served as chairman of the supervisory board since 2003. “As

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A Closer Look at Net Neutrality: What do you mean when you say it?

CTOvision

Back in 2003, Tim Wu, a law professor at Columbia University, used the phrase in a paper discussing communications regulation and the desirability of having an Internet environment that encourages innovation. Net neutrality here means preventing discrimination. Related articles.

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A TikTok Video Is New Evidence in a Nearly Two-Decade-Old Kidnapping Case

Gizmodo

A viral TikTok video has revived the search for Sofia Juárez, a woman who was kidnapped in 2003, just before turning five. According to a police page about the case, Juárez was taken near her home in Kennewick, Washington, where she lived with her mother, grandmother, and aunts and uncles. CNN has reported that … Read more.

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