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Wizards of the Coast reverses stance on controversial licensing revision following outcry

GeekWire

The policy shift concerns the Open Game License (OGL), a public copyright notice that Wizards of the Coast, headquartered in Renton, Wash., For example, Critical Role , which can be watched for free weekly, would be safe under OGL 1.1, adopted in 2000. The most damning change is arguably a clause that explicitly states that the OGL 1.1

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Meta creates ‘Business AI’ group led by ex-Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih

CIO Business Intelligence

From the start, Meta has made the Llama models available to other enterprises under a license it describes as “open source,” but the creation of the new business group makes clear that Meta’s interest is commercial, not philanthropic. Keeping control However, anyone wanting to use the latest Llama 3.2

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Marc Andreessen on the future of technology and the nature of government services

CTOvision

Consider the many services that states are already moving online, like driver licenses and car registration. Consider new ways of interacting to shape policy, for example. By 2030 we should expect to have virtual adjudication in many cases. This is just one domain. Key among these is voting. At some point it will go online.

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Domestic “Drones” Are the Latest Object of Threat Inflation

CTOvision

As currently used by the FAA, for example, the term “UAS” includes, on one hand, armed military aircraft used to carry out a global campaign of surveillance and targeted assassinations, but on the other, what have until recently been seen as toys, model aircraft ( PDF ). “A Recent research even indicates that Stuxnet, the joint U.S.

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Futurist conversations: Ross Dawson and Gerd Leonhard on Open vs Closed Systems

Trends in the Living Networks

Apple is the only prominent example of a closed system that is working well. Being too open can make things slower to progress, for example with quality assurance issues. * In music, for example, without open rights licensing platforms the system will crash, however financial systems need substantially closed systems.

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Social networks, intelligence, and homeland security - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

On one-level “network-centric warfare” (see for example the US Department Defence report to Congress on this) has grown to prominence – or even predominance – in military strategic thinking over the last four years. However social network analysis has been applied by intelligence agencies and law enforcement for decades.

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Twitch now lets anyone host an online movie party with the Amazon Prime Video library

The Verge

Watch parties have taken off in general over the last few months as people stuck at home figure out ways to make watching TV shows and movies more social and interactive. Although the function will soon be available globally, licensing complications brought on by geographical locations will affect what viewers see.

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