Penguin: Microsoft About to Fuck the Entire World — You (and Your Data) Are Hostage to 24/7 Microsoft Monitoring and 24/7 Microsoft Compliance

The new services agreement includes two big changes: 01 Microsoft reserves the right to censor your language and can cut off services if they judge you to have violated their speech guidelines. 02 Microsoft reserves  the right to cut off your use of their software and deny you access to all your documents if you …

Event: 3-5 April 2018 Internet Identity Workshop — The Cure for #GoogleGestapo — Help End Amazon, Facebook, Google, MeetUp, Microsoft, Twitter, YouTube, and Wikipedia…

Phi Beta Iota: What this innocuous announcement does not say is that the four rights that this group has been working on for over 20 years are the rights of Anonymity, Identity, Privacy, and Security, at the individual “you own your own data” level, and that they are therefore the anti-thesis to Amazon, Facebook, Google, …

Stephen E. Arnold: AI Is Stupid — Microsoft Says So….

Microsoft Says That AI Is Stupid I know there is a difference among: What senior managers believe about their minions’ innovations What marketers say about the technology the engineer wizards are crafting in the innovation microwave What “real” journalists angling for a job with some tailwind write What the reality of an innovation is, right …

Yoda: Microsoft Open Sources Artificial Intelligence Toolkit

Microsoft Open Sources Artificial Intelligence Toolkit Microsoft says its toolkit is “more efficient” than other solutions used to create deep learning models. The software giant has open sourced its Computational Network Toolkit, or CNTK, which the company says is “more efficient” than four other popular solutions used to create deep learning models for things like …

Stephen E. Arnold: Could Microsoft’s Machine Learning in the Cloud Help Clean Up Legacy Big Data?

Microsoft Puts Machine Learning in the Cloud Machine learning is ascending to the cloud. The Register asks, “Do Data Centers Dream of Electric Sheep? Microsoft Announces Machine Learning Cloud.” As competition in the world of SaaS and remote hosting continues to escalate, this move may set Microsoft ahead of Amazon and Google (for now). Our …

Wayne Madsen: NSA Spies on US Allies — With Direct Witting Assistance of AT&T, EDS, Qwest, H-P, Motorola, Cisco, Qualcomm, Oracle, Intel, IBM, Microsoft, and Verizon

Washington Spies on NATO; Other Allies Wayne MADSEN Strategic Culture.org | 18.05.2014 EXTRACT Implants are inserted by NSA into targeted computer systems and network devices through what the NSA calls «supply-chain interdiction». Equipment is intercepted between the manufacturer and the end-user. At a secret facility called a «load station», devices called «beacons» are inserted clandestinely …

Stephen E. Arnold: Microsoft Embraces Open Source – Watch for Flying Pigs

Watch for Flying Pigs as Microsoft Embraces Open Source Microsoft is getting its open source on. Ars Technica reports, “Microsoft Open Sources a Big Chunk of .NET.” It seems the tech giant is softening its stance on open source resources; perhaps they now see they have little choice if the company wants to remain relevant. …