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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage

CIO Business Intelligence

The report attributes the huge over-expenditure to vendor lock-in and NASA’s unwillingness to risk a license audit by Oracle because of its lack of visibility into software management. These challenges expose the agency to increased costs because of penalties for violations of software licensing agreements, the report showed.

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HP Awarded $32.4 Million Cybersecurity Contract by U.S. Department of Homeland Security

CTOvision

HP captured the largest portion of the first task order awarded under the DHS CDM program to provide software security product licenses for 33 U.S. The five-year, multi vendor program is designed to help the government address the rising volume and complexity of cyberthreats. “In federal civilian government agencies.

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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

CIO Business Intelligence

NLP applications Machine translation is a powerful NLP application, but search is the most used. They integrate with Slack, Microsoft Messenger, and other chat programs where they read the language you use, then turn on when you type in a trigger phrase. NLTK is offered under the Apache 2.0 Amazon Comprehend.

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T-Mobile investigating hack that affected 37 million customer accounts

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(GeekWire File Photo / Taylor Soper) T-Mobile disclosed in a regulatory filing Thursday that a hacker obtained data from about 37 million customer accounts using an API, or application programming interface. The Bellevue, Wash.-based The hack started on or around Nov. 25, and T-Mobile identified the bad actor Jan.

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Digital Rights Management: The eBook DRM Revolution

Kitaboo

It includes methods like user authentication, verification, licensing of eBooks, encryption, etc. Methods such as licensing and encryption prevent the published materials from being copied, redistributed, or pirated. This includes publishing eBooks with effective licenses that are applicable to the published material on a global scale.

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SAP 2024 outlook: 5 predictions for customers

CIO Business Intelligence

You should no longer assume SAP is simply interested in managing infrastructure or introducing a new product repackaging and license scheme. Customers considering a strategy to remain on S/4HANA On-Premise should consider the potential impact on the quality of resources that will be assigned to their program.

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NSA Releases A New Technology to Open Source Community

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It is the first in a series of releases of in-house software products by NSA’s Technology Transfer Program (TTP). Posting the code to open source forums allows the private sector and others to examine the agency’s research up close, and potentially benefit from it through additional enhancements and applications.