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How New York overengineered its million-dollar vaccine passport

Vox

New York, the first state to launch an app-based vaccine passport system, paid IBM millions of dollars to help build the Excelsior Pass platform. Meanwhile, workers don’t have a strong incentive to prolong the process of checking people’s proof of vaccination when they already face harassment from customers angry about Covid-19 guidelines.

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A list of startups in Seattle building crypto, blockchain, and Web3 technologies

GeekWire

Last year Washington state launched a new Center for FinTech Information to gather licensing guidelines and regulations in one place. CEO : Sadie Raney , previously worked for IBM. There is some regulatory progress. Simon Yu, co-founder and CEO at Seattle crypto startup StormX, pointed to a lack of investor interest.

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Generative AI headlines are outpacing enterprise adoption

CIO Business Intelligence

Even among the companies permitting the tools, many are publishing stringent usage guidelines, and are proactively working with technology partners to accelerate access to enterprise-grade solutions with more robust security. And remember that today’s price for enterprise licenses of, for example, OpenAI are “astronomical.”

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Apple is still tending its walled garden

The Verge

Apple has reasserted that cloud gaming services like xCloud and Stadia violate App Store guidelines. Kim Lyons: [Trump’s order] prevented foreign manufacturers of semiconductors who use American software and technology in their operations from shipping their products to Huawei unless they first obtained a license from the US.

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what every open source project needs

SPF13

60s & 70s • Computer companies sold hardware • Software was free • Software was colloborative • IBM dominates. Make it Easy to Contribute • Use an “open” open source license (Apache 2.0, MIT, BSD) • Provide contribution guidelines • Provide contribution instructions & tutorials. Mainframe Era : ? The Software Era: ?

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Cognitive Business: When Cloud and Cognitive Computing Merge

Cloud Musings

Distribution / Publishing / Content Management Hybrid Cloud data architectures that ensures that, when multiple data zones are in use, compute power is moved to the data, rather than compute workloads being moved in a way that could violate institutional policies, regulatory guidelines or governmental laws around data location.

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The AI rules that US policymakers are considering, explained

Vox

Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Gary Marcus, left, and Sam Altman are among the prominent AI voices calling for a licensing regime. This would effectively require certain algorithms to receive a government “license” before they can be publicly released.