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 …

Stephen E. Arnold: Big Data + Smart Software = Disruption

Big Data and Smart Software: A Volatile Mixture? For several years big data and artificial intelligence have been running on parallel tracks. Once in a while they cross over, but mostly they kept independent of one another. But that is poised to change, as we saw from a recent press release from Lucidworks, “Lucidworks Launches …