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68 tech companies sign CISA's secure by design pledge

4 hours 9 minutes ago
Security's an uphill battle... does this latest move have teeth?

RSAC  Some of the biggest names in tech – including AWS, Microsoft, Google, Cisco and IBM – have signed up to a US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency-led effort and promised to take a series of actions within a year to make their products more secure.…

Jessica Lyons

Oracle ULA audits are a license to bill

4 hours 31 minutes ago
Customers can be pushed into renewing agreements for fear of the unknown, but there are cheaper options

Oracle is threatening software audits as customers seek to exit Unlimited License Agreements (ULAs).…

Lindsay Clark

US Patent and Trademark Office Confirms Another Leak of Filers' Address Data

4 hours 40 minutes ago
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The federal government agency responsible for granting patents and trademarks is alerting thousands of filers whose private addresses were exposed following a second data spill in as many years. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) said in an email to affected trademark applicants this week that their private domicile address -- which can include their home address -- appeared in public records between August 23, 2023 and April 19, 2024. U.S. trademark law requires that applicants include a private address when filing their paperwork with the agency to prevent fraudulent trademark filings. USPTO said that while no addresses appeared in regular searches on the agency's website, about 14,000 applicants' private addresses were included in bulk datasets that USPTO publishes online to aid academic and economic research. The agency took blame for the incident, saying the addresses were "inadvertently exposed as we transitioned to a new IT system," according to the email to affected applicants, which TechCrunch obtained. "Importantly, this incident was not the result of malicious activity," the email said. Upon discovery of the security lapse, the agency said it "blocked access to the impacted bulk data set, removed files, implemented a patch to fix the exposure, tested our solution, and re-enabled access." Last June, the USPTO inadvertently exposed about 61,000 applicants' private addresses "in a years-long data spill in part through the release of its bulk datasets," reports TechCrunch. It told affected individuals that the issue was fixed.

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AI At The Edge Is Different From AI In The Datacenter

4 hours 41 minutes ago

Today’s pace of business requires companies to find faster ways to serve customers, gather actionable insights, increase operational efficiency, and reduce costs. …

AI At The Edge Is Different From AI In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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