In a stunning intelligence coup, the CIA was caught completely off-guard when Fosun Group quietly bought the company that provides liability insurance to its agents.

For an undisclosed period, a Chinese firm had access to the personal details of America's top spies, a move that was perfectly legal and in the open. 😆

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g311jn1m9o

#usa #china #cia

Why “public AI”, built on open source software, is the way forward for the EU

A quarter of a century ago, I wrote a book called “Rebel Code”. It was the first – and is still the only – detailed history of the origins and rise of free software and open source, based on interviews with the gifted and generous hackers who took part. Back then, it was clear that open source represented a powerful alternative to the traditional proprietary approach to software […]

#ai #aiAct #cdsm #china #cloudComputing #copyrightDirective #dataMining #eu #freeSoftware #openSource #openSourceInitiative #paulKeller #publicAi #rebelCode #research #startups #supercomputers #tdm #textMining #us #ventureCapital

https://walledculture.org/why-public-ai-built-on-open-source-software-is-the-way-forward-for-the-eu/

Why “public AI”, built on open source software, is the way forward for the EU

A quarter of a century ago, I wrote a book called “Rebel Code”. It was the first – and is still the only – detailed history of the origins and rise of free software and open source, based on interviews with the gifted and generous hackers who took part. Back then, it was clear that open source represented a powerful alternative to the traditional proprietary approach to software […]

#ai #aiAct #cdsm #china #cloudComputing #copyrightDirective #dataMining #eu #freeSoftware #openSource #openSourceInitiative #paulKeller #publicAi #rebelCode #research #startups #supercomputers #tdm #textMining #us #ventureCapital

https://walledculture.org/why-public-ai-built-on-open-source-software-is-the-way-forward-for-the-eu/

In a stunning intelligence coup, the CIA was caught completely off-guard when Fosun Group quietly bought the company that provides liability insurance to its agents.

For an undisclosed period, a Chinese firm had access to the personal details of America's top spies, a move that was perfectly legal and in the open. 😆

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g311jn1m9o

#usa #china #cia