Lindsay Clark

1 week ago | lxer.com | Lindsay Clark

Before Donald Trump became US president and the UK left the EU – both arguably the result of a new kind of online politics – a rather nervous-looking Mark Zuckerberg shuffled out onto a Harvard University lecture hall floor to offer some insight into the inner workings of a website he had created less than two years earlier.

2 weeks ago | lxer.com | Lindsay Clark

Redis, the company behind the popular value-key database of the same name, has returned its main system to an open source license, although the move failed to satisfy some critics.

1 month ago | tandfonline.com | Lindsay Clark

AbstractLethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) are being developed and deployed in conflicts with lethal effects. These weapons systems act with limited human oversight and have the potential to radically change how, when, and why war is conducted. The article develops a novel feminist methodology of rendering ‘serious’ policy documents as ‘silly’ to challenge the ‘Cold War’ narratives used to advocate for the development of LAWS.

2 months ago | lxer.com | Lindsay Clark

MariaDB says it is building a database-as-a-service based on open source principles after offloading its old DBaaS before going into private ownership. The MySQL fork is a popular relational and transactional database with some analytics capabilities, and is used by companies including Nokia and Samsung. The commercial entity, which works alongside the open source database, first launched a cloud database service called SkySQL in 2020.

2 months ago | msn.com | Lindsay Clark

Continue reading More for You   Continue reading More for You