Leaving Facebook open to a class action about breaching privacy rights. …read more Source:: oss watch
Month: August 2019
Microsoft removes Office 2019 from its Home Use Program benefits
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•Microsoft has updated its Office Home Use Program by removing the previous benefit of steeply discounted copies of non-subscription Office for use at home by enterprise customers. …read more Source:: it-priorities
Open source has never been stronger
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•By Matt Asay There has perhaps never been so much angst over whether open source software development is sustainable, and yet there has never been clearer evidence that we’re in the golden age …read more Source:: OpenSource
ACCC takes HealthEngine to court over misusing patient data
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•HealthEngine allegedly sold patient data to insurance brokers and manipulated reviews of health practices. …read more Source:: oss watch
Lack of expertise stalls digital transformation in Brazil
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•But local CIOs continue to drive projects around areas such as data-driven technologies and augmented reality, according to research. …read more Source:: it-priorities
3 major Python shortcomings—and their solutions
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•By Serdar Yegulalp While Python has been around 30 years, only in the last few years has its popularity surged to surpass all programming languages but Java and C. On the …read more Source:: OpenSource
Brazilian healthcare CIOs plan IoT boost
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•The next two years will see an increase in investment in the technologies, but leaders face digitization and interoperability challenges, according to research. …read more Source:: it-priorities
Google: We’ll offer rival search engines on Android but they’ll have to pay us
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•Rival search-engine providers will bid for space and pay Google if European users select them from a new ‘choice screen’. …read more Source:: oss watch
What is open source software? Open source and FOSS explained
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•By Josh Fruhlinger Underlying every piece of software you use is source code that issues the commands and handles the data that allow the software to do what it does. The question of …read more Source:: OpenSource
Apple, Google: We’ve stopped listening to your private Siri, Assistant chat, for now
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•Google and Apple have suspended programs where employees and contractors review recordings made from the companies’ respective voice assistants. …read more Source:: oss watch