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Microsoft calls for ‘safety brakes,’ licensing, and a new federal agency to avoid AI pitfalls

GeekWire

Develop a broad legal and regulatory framework based on the technology architecture for AI, including new regulations and licensing for powerful AI foundation models and obligations for AI infrastructure operators. There needs to be measurement, and ultimately, like so much else in life … AI will require a license.”

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Persistence, Programming, and Picos

Phil Windley

In it, r0ml argues that Postgres as a programming environment feels like a Smalltalk image (at least that's the part that's germane to this post). Although I didn’t make the connection until I watched r0ml’s talk, this setup hearkens back to the 1980s when Smalltalk (and Lisp, and APL) were programming environments with built-in persistence.

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Ten Reasons to Use Picos for Your Next Decentralized Programming Project

Phil Windley

Summary: Picos are a programming model for building decentralized applications that provide significant benefits in the form of abstractions that reduce programmer effort. I didn't start out to write a programming language that naturally supports decentralized programming using the actor-model, is cloud-native, serverless, and databaseless.

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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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Cloud native order management boosts speed, scale and operational efficiency

TM Forum

How: A solution aligned with TM Forum’s Open Digital Architecture and Open APIs to achieve desired business outcomes. 40% decrease in licensing costs. High operating costs, due to licensing fees, and infrastructure and operations requirements affected HT’s competitiveness. Microservices architecture.

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Digital Rights Management Software: Protect Your Content

Kitaboo

Features and Benefits of an Effective Digital Rights Management Software Content Encryption Access Control Copy Protection License Management and Data Tracking Personalized User Experience Revenue Protection III. Global Spread of Digital Content Monetization of Digital Assets Ensured Compliance and Legal Requirements II.

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How to maximize ROI by choosing the right Java partner for your organization

CIO Business Intelligence

By: Scott Sellers , Co-Founder and CEO, Azul After almost 30 years, Java remains the programming language of choice for large-scale enterprise applications in the cloud, on-prem, or hybrid. In January 2023, Oracle changed its licensing and/or pricing for Java for the fourth time in four years.

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