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Music-licensing startup Audiosocket hits play on effort to get more digital creators using its products

GeekWire

Founded in 2009, Audiosocket is seeing growth of its music licensing software products used by social media creators, movie production studios, and others. Some of the artists on the music licensing platform Audiosocket. Audiosocket Image) The company has raised $3.5 “But it’s not to replace artists,” she said.

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DC Board of Elections Breach Potentially Impacts Entire Voter Roll

SecureWorld News

However, the DCBOE recently revealed that the breached database contained a complete copy of the voter roll, including highly sensitive details such as Social Security numbers, driver license numbers, phone numbers, and more. The DCBOE continues to investigate the breach and will provide updates as new information emerges.

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The Data Mining Trap

Eric D. Brown

In the article, Gary writes of a time that noted physicist and Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman gave his class an exercise to determine the probability of seeing a specific license plate int he parking lot on the way into class (he gave them a specific example of a license plate).  Smith calls this the ‘Feynman Trap.’

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The Data Mining Trap

Eric D. Brown

In the article, Gary writes of a time that noted physicist and Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman gave his class an exercise to determine the probability of seeing a specific license plate int he parking lot on the way into class (he gave them a specific example of a license plate). Smith calls this the ‘Feynman Trap.’

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders have always needed to exercise fiscal responsibility while meeting business demands for technology. Evaluating if the project will allow the company to increase revenues or replace an aging system that will ultimately save costs over time is a necessary exercise in eliminating projects that don’t move the needle,” he says. “A

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Analysis: Microsoft now owns Activision Blizzard, which shifts the balance of power in video games

GeekWire

Activision Blizzard’s games are still licenses to print money, but many of them are also naked exercises in revenue-boosting, primarily through the use of microtransactions.

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Generative AI rush sparks new questions, concerns about music and intellectual property laws

GeekWire

The control that [the recording industry] wants to exercise is legitimate, a right granted to them. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Photo) Greenstein : “For generative AI, the manner in which you’re training your algorithms and going out and getting data, it’s going to be better if you license that content.