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Corporate LICENSE TO KILL: Project 2025 Guts Public Safety To Feed Corporate Greed
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/03/27/corporate-license-to-kill-project-2025-guts-public-safety-to-feed-corporate-greed/

Corporate License To Kill As Project 2025 Guts Public Safety
Corporate License To Kill As Project 2025 Guts Public Safety To Feed The Greed

Source: Salesforce paid $20M to license Einstein's image in a 2016 deal, hoping to gain an edge in the AI market; proceeds go to Jerusalem's Hebrew University (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Salesforce Paid $20 Million to License Einstein for AI
It’s tough to stand out as a tech company working on artificial intelligence. Albert Einstein is Salesforce’s solution.

Talked my wife, who has resisted getting her own ham license for years (in spite of being a solo backcountry hiker) into trying a practice test for the Technician license. She beat 50%, which is double what a random distribution of answers would be. She needed 8 more correct answers to pass. This is someone who has refused to study or even look at the material.
I'll keep up the fight, but EVERYONE who ventures further than their own neighborhood should get a license and carry a ch…

Genealogy Updates: Documents: Marriage License for Charles A. J. Krausse and Hettie McKee http://genealogy.ravensbeak.com/showmedia.php?mediaID=262&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Genealogy.Ravensbeak.Com
Documents: Marriage License for Charles A. J. Krausse and Hettie McKee

EyeEm, the bankrupt photo sharing network acquired by Freepik last year, will license users' photos to train AI if the images are not deleted within 30 days (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/26/phot<…

Photo-sharing community EyeEm will license users' photos to train AI if they don't delete them | TechCrunch
EyeEm, the Berlin-based photo-sharing community that exited last year to Spanish company Freepik after going bankrupt, is now licensing its users' photos

I should probably start applying an open license to all the illustrations I’ve been making lately…

Prosecutor's Office: Over 2,500 gambling websites blocked in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/28/prosecutors-office-over.html

The BBC unveils its 2024/25 Annual Plan: a £492M deficit, up 40% YoY, £3.8B in license fee income, and an 8% increase in content spending to £3.2B (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/03/bbc-annual-plan-content-deficit-1235870541/

BBC Deficit Projected To Skyrocket To $620M Next Year
The BBC Annual Plan has revealed a £500M deficit and increased content spend.

Typo alert
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Marvel employees created National Superhero Day 3 decades ago. Let's play!
#MashupSuperHeroesAndFood

I would so want to find one public official in Tennessee who only granted gay marriage licenses.
https://kolektiva.social/@holyramenempire/112009545617878245

She conspired with a cop who coerced Black women into having sex - he was pissed the guy's mother wouldn't have sex with him any more
'Can’t Do That to Anybody Else': Former Kansas Prosecutor Surrenders Law License After Framing Innocent Black Man Who Spent 23 Years In Prison for Murders He Did Not Commit

'Can’t Do That to Anybody Else': Former Kansas Prosecutor Surrenders Law License After Framing Innocent Black Man Who Spent 23 Years In Prison for Murders He Did Not Commit
A longtime Kansas prosecutor who retired amid a federal corruption probe last year, has surrendered her law license following the discovery that she

Power and Play: Investigating "License to Critique" in Teams' AI Ethics Discussions
David Gray Widder, Laura Dabbish, James Herbsleb, Nikolas Martelaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19049

Power and Play: Investigating "License to Critique" in Teams' AI Ethics Discussions
Past work has sought to design AI ethics interventions-such as checklists or toolkits-to help practitioners design more ethical AI systems. However, other work demonstrates how these interventions and the principles they're based on may serve to instead limit critique to those addressed within the intervention, while rendering broader concerns illegitimate. In this paper, drawing on work examining how standards enact discursive closure and how power relations affect whether and how people raise…

“I would argue that in some ways, MT in 2004 was better software than WordPress is TODAY.”
I have done a bunch of freelance work over the years and I’ve always stayed away from WordPress - a WP installation always ends with installing a bunch of plugins that don’t quite work together, and you get a fragile mess that breaks if you look at it wrong.
#WebDev

“When a single #videogame equals a quarter of your salary or more, you stop caring about the sense of #ownership and instead conform yourself with playing it and moving on. The ongoing economic crisis makes it nearly impossible to build a library capable of withstanding license expirations or game delis…

If I was king, I would ban petrol engine leaf blowers and also make it a legal requirement that anyone who sounds their car horn for more than one British second in a five British minute period has their car immediately confiscated and compacted at their expense with 6 points added on their license.

(no prizes for guessing what's currently disturbing my peace)

Elementor Pro's license checker stores a mutex in an option _elementor_pro_api_requests_lock so wp instances don't hammer the license check server. Wordpress managed to get the string "1OK" stored instead of an associative array. This vomited:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot access offset of type string on string in /var/www/wp-content/plugins/elementor-pro/license/api.php:174
Hacked up the plugin to reset to an empty array:
if ( $requests_lock === "1OK" ) { $requests_lock = []; }
#php #hack

Microsoft releases MS-DOS as Open Source:
“This repo contains the original source-code and compiled binaries for MS-DOS v1.25 and MS-DOS v2.0, plus the source-code for MS-DOS v4.00 jointly developed by IBM and Microsoft. (…) All files within this repo are released under the MIT License as per the LICENSE file stored in the root of this repo.”
htt…

Blaming MS-DOS/v4.0/src/DOS/ALLOC.ASM at 2d04cacc5322951f187bb17e017c12920ac8ebe2 · microsoft/MS-DOS
The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25, 2.0, and 4.0 for reference purposes - Blaming MS-DOS/v4.0/src/DOS/ALLOC.ASM at 2d04cacc5322951f187bb17e017c12920ac8ebe2 · microsoft/MS-DOS

Isn’t there something we can do to prevent falling for this pattern?
From: @…
https://chaos.social/@kubikpixel/112173692284908826…

Filing: Disney will take non-cash pre-tax impairment charges of $1.8B to $2.4B related to Reliance JV; Disney will be a minority shareholder with a 36.8% stake (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bu…

Disney Inks $8.5B Deal to Merge India Business With Reliance Industries
Reliance will invest $1.4 billion into the joint venture, which is valued at $8.5 billion, while Disney will provide a content license.

Polish translations of Creative Commons licenses look so awful it feels like I'm linking to some scam site.
Back in 2014 they supported Polish diacritics and the writing style for a license summary sounded way better than the current version.

Canva and Affinity publish a joint pledge promising to keep Affinity's software "fair, transparent, and affordable", including keeping "perpetual licenses" (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/27/2411342

Canva won’t force Affinity users into paying subscriptions
Canva and Affinity have promised to continue providing perpetual one-time payment licenses for Affinity design software, even if subscription-based pricing is introduced.

Podcast: The Shaky Science of License Plate Readers https://www.404media.co/404-media-podcast-31-flock-shaky-science/

Seeing HashiCorp & Redis unravelling is painful but exactly what the end of free money does to corporate FOSS – no matter what promises were made before. Systems do what systems do. Let’s brace ourselves, this is just the beginning. https://mstdn.social/@msw/112130308202090850…

NYT covers the expired paper license plate plague.
And puts it in context!
And credits @… for breaking story!
Even worse in Missouri than NYC & DC: “A real breakdown in automotive law and order’
Texas to require metal temporary plates.

Expired Paper License Plates Multiplied During Covid. The Crackdown Is Here.
Officials are moving to increase enforcement and change laws to correct the “breakdown in automotive law and order,” part of a broader trend making U.S. roads less safe.

Genealogy Updates: Documents: Marriage License for Charles McKee Krausse and Perle Marie Singer http://genealogy.ravensbeak.com/showmedia.php?mediaID=263&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Genealogy.Ravensbeak.Com
Documents: Birth Certificate for Charlotte Priscilla Krausse

the case of @… vs. the RIAA over the digitization of 78s just got kind of far-out from a #sound studies perspective. the IA is arguing that hisses & crackle are part of what's important to preserve & the RIAA counters that those are irrele…

Richard Serra ist verstorben. Bekannt ist er für Stahlskulpturen wie T.W.U (the worker's union) in #Hamburg in Sichtweite des Hauptbahnhof auf dem Gelände des Museums #Deichtorhallen

"The point I’m attempting to make is that when a company, built on Open-Source, tries to lock it down, almost always in defence of falling margins and a perceived “ripping off” by others, it fails to re-invigorate the community"
https://freshbrewed.science/2024/04/09

“You shall NOT remove the BSD license header, since there are third-party contributions to those files (without signing a CLA), which were licensed under BSD-3-Clause”
Change license from BSD-3 to dual RSALv2 SSPLv1 by K-Jo · Pull Request #13157 · redis/redis https://github.com/redis/redis/pull/13

Change license from BSD-3 to dual RSALv2+SSPLv1 by K-Jo · Pull Request #13157 · redis/redis
Read more about the license change here: Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing Live long and prosper 🖖

The Gay Agenda License
https://git.sr.ht/~ntietz/pi-compress/tree/main/item/LICENSE/GAL-1.0

buncha fucking goobers
#ACAB #NYPD https://hellgatenyc.com/n…

NYPD Officer Learns How to Drive MTA Bus—While Transporting Arrested Protesters - Hell Gate
"A lot of people were commenting like, oh God, I don't know if he's gonna make this turn."

I remember getting my license back in the beginning of March in 2021 when I changed my gender from man to woman. It felt so freeing to see the gender of who I am reflected in an official document.
#trans #transjoy

An Exploratory Investigation into Code License Infringements in Large Language Model Training Datasets
Jonathan Katzy, R\u{a}zvan-Mihai Popescu, Arie van Deursen, Maliheh Izadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15230

An Exploratory Investigation into Code License Infringements in Large Language Model Training Datasets
Does the training of large language models potentially infringe upon code licenses? Furthermore, are there any datasets available that can be safely used for training these models without violating such licenses? In our study, we assess the current trends in the field and the importance of incorporating code into the training of large language models. Additionally, we examine publicly available datasets to see whether these models can be trained on them without the risk of legal issues in the f…

Genealogy Updates: Documents: Marriage License for Charles McKee Krausse and Perle Marie Singer http://genealogy.ravensbeak.com/showmedia.php?mediaID=263&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Genealogy.Ravensbeak.Com
Documents: Birth Certificate for Charlotte Priscilla Krausse

Judge recommends pro-Trump attorney John Eastman lose law license over #Jan6 : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/27/1240905447/john-eastman-trump-lawyer-califo…

Game is ready.
See you tonight at 9PM EST, (6PM PT / 2AM GMT / 3AM CET / 1PM AEDT / 2PM NZST).
🤔...

The robot, which weighs 420lbs, stands at 5ft 4in and travels at 3 miles per hour, is expected to make its appearance at the San Antonio Texas airport in the next two months.
Features listed on Knightscope’s website include
360-degree and eye-level video streaming,
people detection during certain restricted hours,
thermal anomaly detection,
as well as license plate recognition.
The city’s director of airports, Jesus Saenz, said that the K5 will be used to …

Whoa, hang on, am I in the presence of some Internet legend?
Spotted in #LosGatos #sfba
#wais #waisProtocol …

Breaking IT news: #Microsoft just open-sourced MS-DOS 4.0. Versions 1.25 and 2.0 had already been open-source (MIT License) since 2018. If you’ve ever used DOS in the 1990s, you most likely were using v5.0 or v6.x. Those later versions likely won’t be released as open-source due to third-party restrictions.

GitHub - microsoft/MS-DOS: The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0, for reference purposes
The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0, for reference purposes - microsoft/MS-DOS

So Google repeats what they did with search? If Gemini dominates on both iOS and Android things will get hard for Microsoft/ OpenAI.
#google #apple #ai

Apple in Talks to License Google Gemini for iPhone, iOS 18 Generative AI Tools
Apple Inc. is in talks to build Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence engine into the iPhone, according to people familiar with the situation, setting the stage for a blockbuster agreement that would shake up the AI industry.

I’m so old and nerdy that I find this amusing...
Ultrix was my second Unix. https://mastodon.social/@wollman/112299582019528006

I rarely use Siri for more than controlling the lights in the house. But if Apple incorporates any Google tech into Siri, I'll most certainly be disabling that functionality. Google is not to be trusted.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/18/2410462

the case of @… vs. the RIAA over the digitization of 78s just got kind of far-out from a #sound studies perspective. the IA is arguing that hisses & crackle are part of what's important to preserve & the RIAA counters that those are irrele…

2024 Super Bowl: Halftime headliner Usher and Jennifer Goicoechea obtain marriage license, per reports

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2024-su

2024 Super Bowl: Halftime headliner Usher and Jennifer Goicoechea obtain marriage license, per reports
The couple quietly got the license days before Usher took the stage at Allegiant Stadium

Redis, the popular in-memory data store, switches from the open source 3-clause BSD license to a controversial dual-license model (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/21/redis-switches-li…

Redis switches licenses, acquires Speedb to go beyond its core in-memory database | TechCrunch
Redis, the popular in-memory data store, is switching away from the open source three-clause BSD license. Instead, in a move that is clearly aimed to

In which I brush up and release (0.5.0) the “topfew” program I built back in 2021/22 and have been neglecting, but noticed that I was using it all the time so maybe others will too: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/12/Topfew-release

Topfew Release 0.5

Cool license plate, bro.

Genealogy Updates: Documents: Wedding announcement for Charlotte Priscilla Krausse and Donald Austin Dunham, Jr. http://genealogy.ravensbeak.com/showmedia.php?mediaID=267&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon…

Genealogy.Ravensbeak.Com
Documents: Marriage License for Charles A. J. Krausse and Hettie McKee

Todays #Google #Wtf; The licensing cost for #Gemini for Business is *three times* the cost of a #GSuite license on a per us…

FTC launches inquiry into Reddit's AI deals, ahead of IPO
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/15/reddit-generative-ai-license-user-data
LOL, I selected Reddit AI's licensing deal with Google as the Worst Thing of the Day in today's Metacurity.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Ever take a plot further than the writers? Let's play!
#DeepThoughtsAMovieOrShow

I’m seeing new Teslas with paper license plates on the road. To me this is a huge a huge sign that says, “Yes, I know he is a huge asshole, but I don’t care."

The Gay Agenda License
https://git.sr.ht/~ntietz/pi-compress/tree/main/item/LICENSE/GAL-1.0

Prawie zatopiony pomost na jeziorze Jastrowie Wielkie, w Jastrowiu (tak, znowu tam byłem).
https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=53.4115&mlon=16.8583#map=13/53.4115/16.8583
geo:53.4115,16.8583?z=13

An Exploratory Investigation into Code License Infringements in Large Language Model Training Datasets
Jonathan Katzy, R\u{a}zvan-Mihai Popescu, Arie van Deursen, Maliheh Izadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15230

An Exploratory Investigation into Code License Infringements in Large Language Model Training Datasets
Does the training of large language models potentially infringe upon code licenses? Furthermore, are there any datasets available that can be safely used for training these models without violating such licenses? In our study, we assess the current trends in the field and the importance of incorporating code into the training of large language models. Additionally, we examine publicly available datasets to see whether these models can be trained on them without the risk of legal issues in the f…

Rumgespielt.
Das darf ich mir wohl auch an den #8WochenendenOhne erlauben.
Via
https://daily.ds106.us/tdc4454
@…

Does *this* Java SE runtime license (emphasis mine) mean *I* am prohibited from installing it on a *personal-use VM* in a commercial cloud? 🤔
"This version of the Java Runtime is licensed only for your personal (non-commercial) *desktop and laptop use*"
(IIUC running on local VM is OK because that'd be on my own desktop, laptop.)
PS: This part of Oracle license is not new; I just had not needed to question it.

After pleading guilty to making thousands of racist voter-suppression robocalls trying to convince urban #Ohio voters that “the Man” would go after them if they voted, Jack #Burkman — also known for getting shot in the ass by one of his fellow whacked out

Right-wing operative and robocall fraudster attorney will lose law license following conviction
After pleading guilty to telecommunications fraud in 2020 when he was caught using robocalls to intimidate voters in 2020, attorney Jack Burkman is now poised to lose his law license.

BBC Director General Tim Davie calls for license fee reform as part of a broader strategy to turn the national broadcaster into a more commercial operation (Daria Mosolova/Financial Times)
https://t.co/6ywtPXdGKe

you definitely don't need a multiagency task force for this. just like walk outside 1 police plaza and you'll get 10-20 right there. bike around to different neighborhoods and you'll get at least a few at each precinct. I could have easily caught 50 by myself, saved the state a lot of money
https://

I was looking at my parametric einstein / spectre tiles and noticed that @… appears to have defaulted to a no-ai license on everything, since I don't recall setting it and I see it the…

Creatures of Fedi, I'm doing a Windows XP (genuine) license key giveaway!
The first person to redeem it has it!
/s

Some people want to release their software under terms that "basically allow everything". But at this point I assume there's a conspiracy against doing so. There are loads of concerns against this or that license text that tries to do so. CC0 has some language around patents that caused redhat to disallow it. Now, with 0BSD there seemed to be something that is OSI-approved, close to an existing widely accepted license. So eventually I settled on using this. But hey, pypi does n…

Everything you need to know about our latest filing with the FCC regarding FOX and WTXF is in our latest Substack.
"Media and Democracy Project Supports Pennsylvania Senators' Request for Swift Action on WTXF License Renewal"
Read it here 👉https://med…

Media and Democracy Project Supports Pennsylvania Senators' Request for Swift Action on WTXF License Renewal
Urges FCC to Grant Access to Key Non-Public Discovery from Recent Litigation to Ensure Fair and Neutral Review as Senators Request

canadian arts funding org: take apart that phrase and see it has nothing at all to do with american billionaires, IT tech companies, license fees, surveillance or obscene profit. It's Canadian, deals in the Arts, provides funding, and is an ORG. Why do they demand, not request, they DEMAND Facebook, Twitter and IG accounts or you are automatically disqualified?
I won't say who, I'll wait a day to let them justify themselves. They being Canadian and an ORG, frankly, I'm …

Hat jemand Dashcam-Aufnahmen von dem Führungs-Polizeiauto bei der Natenom-Gedenkfahrt in Pforzheim?
Suche Fotos von der Huchenfelder Straße (dem steilen Anstieg am Anfang bzw. der Abfahrt am Ende), auf denen man erkennen kann, wo mit dem Auto auf der Fahrbahn gefahren wurde. Wäre hilfreich für die Nachbereitung des Einsatzes.
Ort:

I think Microsoft might have a C# DevKit messaging problem. Either that or their license enforcement lawyers are waiting to pounce on these people. 😅

Welp. It's official. #Redis is no longer #OSS
While I wasn't a contributor to the core, I presented on it dozens of times, talked to thousands, and wrote a book about it.
I probably wouldn't have done any of that with that kind of license.
Very disappointed.

Arkansas rolls back gender-neutral driver’s license policy | The Hill
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4527952-arkansas-rolls-back-gender-neutral-drivers-license-policy/

Arkansas rolls back gender-neutral driver’s license policy
Arkansas will no longer allow drivers to use an “X” for their gender on driver’s licenses, state regulators said Tuesday, rolling back a policy that was inclusive to nonbinary people.  The Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration said the changes are being made to “safeguard” state IDs. The agency also announced it will make it…

Microsoft partners with IBM to release the MS-DOS 4.0 source code under the MIT license on GitHub (Andy Edser/PC Gamer)
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/microsoft-has-released-the-source-code-for-ms-d…

Microsoft has released the source code for MS-DOS 4.0 and it's giving me all the nostalgia feels
Fond memories of beige machines.

BBC Director General Tim Davie calls for license fee reform as part of a broader strategy to turn the national broadcaster into a more commercial operation (Daria Mosolova/Financial Times)
https://t.co/6ywtPXdGKe

In which I brush up and release (0.5.0) the “topfew” program I built back in 2021/22 and have been neglecting, but noticed that I was using it all the time so maybe others will too: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/12/Topfew-release

Topfew Release 0.5

What a fantastic day! Today was the March µField Day by the BORED Net Group. 14 HF stations set up, with about 40 people attending in the gale-force winds and threat of rain (which never fell).
This is what I love about these things-we had veterans with decades of experience hanging out with people from our current Technician license class, 5 clubs represented, Lots of experimentation, and a lot of just hanging around.

OMG!!
Crossover 24.0.0 fixed the problem with Powerwash Simulator!!
I can play it again, which is something I can't really do in Windows 11, so I can stop using that garbage!
YAY!!
https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover

If I have to consult a lawyer to understand whether your license works for me, I’m not gonna consult a lawyer to figure out whether your license works for me.
Bye, #redis <3

Does *this* Java SE runtime license (emphasis mine) mean *I* am prohibited from installing it on a *personal-use VM* in a commercial cloud? 🤔
"This version of the Java Runtime is licensed only for your personal (non-commercial) *desktop and laptop use*"
(IIUC running on local VM is OK because that'd be on my own desktop, laptop.)
PS: This part of Oracle license is not new; I just had not needed to question it.

Sources: Apple and Google are in active talks to let Gemini power some new features coming to iPhone in 2024; Apple also held talks with OpenAI to use its model (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Apple in Talks to License Google Gemini for iPhone, iOS 18 Generative AI Tools
Apple Inc. is in talks to build Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence engine into the iPhone, according to people familiar with the situation, setting the stage for a blockbuster agreement that would shake up the AI industry.

LOL: Eastman begs judge to let him keep his law license, presents court with letters from Gaetz, Marge to support his cause - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2024/04/03/ea

Textual analysis of End User License Agreement for red-flagging potentially malicious software
Behraj Khan, Tahir Syed, Zeshan Khan, Muhammad Rafi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09715

Textual analysis of End User License Agreement for red-flagging potentially malicious software
New software and updates are downloaded by end users every day. Each dowloaded software has associated with it an End Users License Agreements (EULA), but this is rarely read. An EULA includes information to avoid legal repercussions. However,this proposes a host of potential problems such as spyware or producing an unwanted affect in the target system. End users do not read these EULA's because of length of the document and users find it extremely difficult to understand. Text summarization is…

LOL: Eastman begs judge to let him keep his law license, presents court with letters from Gaetz, Marge to support his cause - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2024/04/03/ea

Tim Cook says Apple doesn't intend to license Masimo's blood oxygen detection to end the Apple Watch import ban (Wesley Hilliard/AppleInsider)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/02/01/apple-wont-license-masimos…

Apple won't license Masimo's patents despite Apple Watch import ban
Apple CEO Tim Cook implies there isn't any intention to license Masimo's blood oxygen detection to end the Apple Watch import ban.

Busy Busy BUSY ham radio the last week...Tuesday-local emcomm nets and drills, Wednesday-drive 300 mile round trip for the Central Coast ARG meeting to talk about the µExpo in August, Thursday-half the day running new coax in an EOC, half the day preparing and delivering a talk at my own club (on using random metal objects as antennas), Friday 13 hours doing comms for the Little House on the Prairie reunion, today-ham license classes for 9 hours, tomorrow...µField Day, Monday-sleep. A lot.…

News Corp CEO says it is in advanced talks with major AI companies to license its content and that Sam Altman understands "the social importance of journalism" (Thomas Barrabi/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2024/02/08/business…

News Corp in 'advanced' talks with AI firms on deals to license content, CEO says
Thomson said News Corp believes “courtship is preferable to courtrooms” to solve the hotly debated issue.

Reddit says FTC launched an inquiry into Reddit's licensing of user data to AI companies; an ex-FTC official says other companies also got such "hold letters" (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/15/reddit-generative-ai-license-us…

FTC launches inquiry into Reddit's AI deals, ahead of IPO
This comes just days before Reddit goes public.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
April showers brings May flowers. Let's play!
#VehicleAMovieOrShow

In a letter to members, the National Music Publishers Association says it doesn't expect to renew its TikTok license when the deal expires on April 30 (Jem Aswad/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/nmpa-does-no…

NMPA Does Not Plan to Renew TikTok License — Will Publishers Follow?
The standoff between TikTok and Universal took a turn when the National Music Publishers Assn., which reps many indies, said it does not plan to renew.

Snowflake announces Arctic, an LLM optimized for enterprise tasks such as SQL generation, coding, and instruction following, with an Apache 2.0 license (Shubham Sharma/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/data-infrastru

Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorist To Lose His Law License - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2024/02/right-wing-conspiracy-theorist-to-lose-his-law-license/

Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorist To Lose His Law License
Those robocalls of disinformation will get ya every time.

"The Law Doesn't Work Like a Computer": Exploring Software Licensing Issues Faced by Legal Practitioners
Nathan Wintersgill, Trevor Stalnaker, Laura A. Heymann, Oscar Chaparro, Denys Poshyvanyk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14927

"The Law Doesn't Work Like a Computer": Exploring Software Licensing Issues Faced by Legal Practitioners
Most modern software products incorporate open source components, which requires compliance with each component's licenses. As noncompliance can lead to significant repercussions, organizations often seek advice from legal practitioners to maintain license compliance, address licensing issues, and manage the risks of noncompliance. While legal practitioners play a critical role in the process, little is known in the software engineering community about their experiences within the open source l…

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Since my wife cooked chili, and the aroma is filling the house, Let's play!
#ChiliAMovieShowOrPlay

Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorist To Lose His Law License - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2024/02/right-wing-conspiracy-theorist-to-lose-his-law-license/

Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorist To Lose His Law License
Those robocalls of disinformation will get ya every time.

"The Law Doesn't Work Like a Computer": Exploring Software Licensing Issues Faced by Legal Practitioners
Nathan Wintersgill, Trevor Stalnaker, Laura A. Heymann, Oscar Chaparro, Denys Poshyvanyk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14927

"The Law Doesn't Work Like a Computer": Exploring Software Licensing Issues Faced by Legal Practitioners
Most modern software products incorporate open source components, which requires compliance with each component's licenses. As noncompliance can lead to significant repercussions, organizations often seek advice from legal practitioners to maintain license compliance, address licensing issues, and manage the risks of noncompliance. While legal practitioners play a critical role in the process, little is known in the software engineering community about their experiences within the open source l…

The UK government sets a panel to assess the BBC's current licensing model, examine alternate funding options, and find ways to grow commercial income (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/03/bbc-licence-fee-peter-bazalgette-itv-123586…

Former ITV & Channel 5 Bosses To Examine Future Funding At The BBC
BBC funding license fee will be examined By Peter Bazalgette and David Elstein on an expert panel.

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India grants a consumer payments license to Paytm, which has until now operated under a license connected to its beleaguered affiliate, Paytm Payments Bank (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-…

Paytm Wins Key Payments Approval It Needs to Stay in Business
Paytm has won approval to become a consumer digital-payments platform, helping the beleaguered fintech continue a bulk of its business even as its banking affiliate is getting wound down.

Sources: Intel survived an effort to halt laptop chip sales to Huawei under a Trump-era license, after AMD pressured Biden; source: AMD sought a similar license (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-s

Sources: Intel survived an effort to halt laptop chip sales to Huawei under a Trump-era license, after AMD pressured Biden; source: AMD sought a similar license (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-s

xAI open sources the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, a 314B parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, under the Apache 2.0 license (x.ai)
https://x.ai/blog/grok-os

Coinbase says it was granted a restricted dealer license in Canada, meeting the country's strict crypto demands as it pushes to expand abroad amid SEC crackdown (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/04/coinbase-secures-restri…