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Trump’s social network has 30 days to stop breaking the rules of its software license

The Verge

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) says former President Donald Trump’s new social network violated a free and open-source software licensing agreement by ripping off decentralized social network Mastodon. Its only product so far is a social network called Truth Social that appears strongly to be forked from Mastodon.

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Your car is about to go open source

Galido

Having an open-source IVI operating system would create a reusable platform consisting of core services, middleware and open application layer interfaces that eliminate the redundant efforts to create separate proprietary systems. By developing an open-source platform, carmakers can share upgrades as they arrive. .

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Social media is making a bad political situation worse

Vox

Social media seems to be making a bad situation worse. Some of the political lessons we learned recently include that conspiracy theories have real currency — fake news can spread faster than real facts on social media — and that if we don’t agree on a shared reality, more mundane things like political compromise will remain out of reach.

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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

CIO Business Intelligence

Patents, product specifications, academic publications, market research, news, not to mention social media feeds, all have text as a primary component and the volume of text is constantly growing. SpaCy , an open-source library for advanced natural language processing explicitly designed for production use rather than research.

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Why Trump’s Truth Social may not survive the hype

The Verge

Today, let’s talk about some of the less obvious ways that conservative social networks keep slipping up — and whether Truth Social, which has the backing of President Trump, can manage to avoid their fate. First, the news: Truth Social is live in the App Store, and hit No. What else is there to say about Truth Social?

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Coronavirus scammers are flooding social media with fake cures and tests

Vox

For years, Timothy Mackey has been researching the sale of opioids and illicit drugs online , tracking how dealers have used social media to push controlled substances. There’s no proven treatment for Covid-19, but plenty of social media accounts are nevertheless illegally pushing so-called cures or treatments.

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How technological and social change are feeding on each other in an accelerating spiral

Trends in the Living Networks

In my recent keynotes I have frequently used variations on my Transformation of Business framework , which looks at how Technology Drivers and Social Drivers lead to a changed Business Landscape , and in turn New Drivers of Success. On the face of it, much of this social change has been driven by technology.

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