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Microsoft’s latest OpenAI investment opens way to new enterprise services

CIO

And as an investor it can expect some return on its capital, although this will be limited by OpenAI’s status as a capped-profit company governed by a nonprofit. The risk there — aside from making the internet useless to humans — is that it will pollute the very resource needed to train better AIs.

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How Technical Debt Opens the Door to Cyber Attacks—and Steps to Protect Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

Similarly, poor practices that allow a business to incur technical debt open the door to cybersecurity exploits that can bankrupt a business financially or through loss of trust and reputation in the eyes of its customers. ” Balmas advises: “If you can’t stop using fax, segregate the printers, put them on a separate network.”.

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Network AF, Episode 7: From Juilliard to bare metal with Zac Smith

Kentik

That’s where he learned he could make more money getting people connected to the internet via AOL discs than in working for minimum wage at the box office at Juilliard. Family friend John LeRoux advised Zac to avoid creating a phone company, but rather to start something with recurring revenue.

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Stuck with Windows 7? Here’s a security game plan

The Parallax

For organizations as large as hospitals running million-dollar MRI machines to tiny nonprofit organizations without the resources to invest in new computers, the end of security support for Windows 7 represents a serious cybersecurity quandary. But what can you do to protect your digital resources, if you aren’t in a position to do so?

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New sexual-assault allegations against ‘phone phreaker’ John Draper

The Parallax

He invited in Jay, who was still hoping to discuss technical topics in-depth. ”—Leigh Honeywell, adviser, Ada Initiative. One source, Internet pioneer Paul Vixie, says Draper “propositioned” him at a Hack-in-the-Box conference in Malaysia about 10 years ago. “It