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By Nick Hodges Much of the angst about social media revolves around how they deal with your personal data. They sell your attention to advertisers. They sell your online activity, tendencies, and interests to people who want to sell you products. Personally, this doesn’t bother me, because I prefer ads for things I am interested in over ads for things I will never buy, but your mileage may vary. I get it. I reserve my outrage for something that you may have have given little thought. What really gets me is that we do all the work, but they make all the money. It is said of social media that if...
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By Isaac Sacolick About a decade ago, I was a CIO evaluating a technology solution and I shared our primary requirements with a prospective vendor’s rep. He demoed at least three products from the company’s portfolio. Each tool had its own user experience, development approach, and learning requirements, but all three were needed to solve our business requirements. As CIO, I recognized that different parts of my team would either need to collaborate using these different tools, or I would have to hire more advanced developers capable of mastering them all. I decided not to invest in this techn...
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By Paul Krill Several online news outlets report that Google laid off its entire Python language team. However, Google denied that the layoffs were company-wide when asked about the fate of the team. Reports of the Python team’s dismissal have shown up in Reddit, Hacker News, and social.coop. “Google’s Python team was a small team, most of which were also on the Python steering council or core Python developers,” one commenter said in Hacker News. “These people had decades of experience in Python. Their knowledge and community connections [are] irreplaceable.” Python has become an increasingly...
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By Matt Asay If you follow open source topics on X/Twitter, you can be forgiven for believing the biggest issue in open source today is companies relicensing their open source code under different licenses. Thierry Carrez, the vice chairperson of the OSI, for example, recently issued a dire warning: “single vendor is the new proprietary.” Sounds terrible, right? I mean, once you forget that the vast majority of software that you and I use every day on our phones, laptops, servers, etc., is proprietary. (Yes, with plenty of open source buried inside and effectively “relicensed.”) Here’s just a ...
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By David Linthicum “The cloud has tremendous business value!” That’s the battle cry chanted by cloud providers and their allies at every cloud computing conference. You will never hear me say that “the cloud” is always the right solution or, for that matter, the wrong solution. In my 20-plus years as a cloud expert, I’ve never blindly followed the lead of cloud computing pioneers or adopters. Like any other technology trend and category, cloud computing should be considered on a case-by-case basis. This balanced approach may have cost me some friends and perhaps some jobs, but I believe this w...
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By David Linthicum The latest data from the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker paints a compelling picture of growth in cloud infrastructure sales on demand. The fourth quarter of 2023 saw an 18.5% year-over-year increase in spending on compute and storage infrastructure for cloud deployments. It is a significant shift in the technological landscape, where AI is now front and center in the push to find cloud infrastructure to run it. The spending surge indicates shifting budgets; a contrasting trend is the decline in the total number of units shipped. IDC says this shows...
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By Mike Elgan Meetings have been problematic for decades. They’re often used as a catch-all solution to unresolved problems. And a chronic lack of meeting discipline means that, for all the time spent getting people together, little is accomplished. Now, in a post-pandemic remote work world, where hybrid work and flex work are common, meetings are turning into something like an ongoing crisis at many organizations. They’re harming productivity and causing havoc with employee morale. And yet with many remote workers saying they feel disconnected, the misguided consensus is that even more meetin...
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By Scot Finnie The marketing hype surrounding AI broadly — and generative AI (genAI) more specifically — is becoming tiresome. You can't open an article or watch a news video without running into at least a reference to it. We may be approaching the point at which we stop breathlessly extolling its virtues (and dreading some of its outcomes). The hype is so extreme that a fall-out, which Gartner describes in its technology hype cycle reports as the "trough of disillusionment," seems inevitable and might be coming this year. That's a testament to both genAI’s burgeoning potential and a sign of ...
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By David Linthicum In December 2023, delegates from almost 200 countries met in Dubai for the UN’s climate-change conference, COP28, to discuss the pressing need to reduce emissions, as reported by IEEE in this article. According to the website sustainability scoring tool Ecograder, and as the authors are quick to point out, the COP28 website produces 3.69 grams of CO2 per page load. Those webpage hits add up. If the site gets 10,000 monthly views for a year, its emissions would be slightly more than a one-way flight from San Francisco to Toronto. Here’s something else (this is a geek’s versio...
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By Prasanth Aby Thomas Amazon has announced it is investing $2.75 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic, bringing its total investment in the AI startup to $4 billion, as initially announced. In September last year, Amazon had invested an initial tranche of $1.25 billion. As part of this partnership, Anthropic will use Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its main cloud provider for key operations, including safety research and the development of foundational models. Anthropic will also use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips for building, training, and deploying future models. This arrangement will enable ...
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