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Tabs, Not Spaces 2020-10-10
Politics, privacy, and corporate maneuvering. Even in the tech world, you can tell November is just around the corner.
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• Pushing the boundaries of performance and security to unleash the power of 64-bit computing
• [Old] Android Developers Blog: Get your apps ready for the 64-bit requirement
• AMD Ryzen 5000 and Zen 3 on Nov 5th: +19% IPC, Claims Best Gaming CPU
• AMD Is in Advanced Talks to Buy Xilinx
• [Old] Intel Agrees to Buy Altera for $16.7 Billion
• IBM Jettisons Legacy Services to Focus on Hybrid Cloud
• IBM’s “Cloud” Business (or Lack Thereof)
• Twitter snark from Charles Fitzgerald
• [Bonus link] My first two predictions for 2020 -- IBM and Trump
• [Old] Why IBM doesn’t agree with Google’s Open Usage Commons
• Google will give up direct control of the Knative open-source project
• After ten years, the Google vs Oracle API copyright mega-battle finally hit the Supreme Court -- and we listened in
• Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google
• Supreme Court inclined to affirm Federal Circuit's copyrightability holding in Oracle v. Google, possibly unanimously--fair use may be remanded
• FACT CHECK: Ten falsehoods and fallacies Google's lawyer told the Supreme Court about Oracle's Android-Java copyright case
• California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
• Announcing Global Privacy Control: Making it Easy for Consumers to Exercise Their Privacy Rights
• California Voters Asked to Amend Privacy Law
• Announcing Global Privacy Control in Privacy Badger
• Privacy Badger Is Changing to Protect You Better
• ICO letter about Cambridge Analytica