Connection Cafe

MARCH 10, 2017

The Oracle at Delphi told Oedipus “Know thyself!” If the Oracle were speaking to nonprofits today, it might say “Know thy supporters!”. Congress makes laws. For nonprofits interested in engaging supporters in online advocacy, this is especially true.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

After the titanic news of Oracle and TikTok and Nividia and Arm, the OnePlus Buds saga was the small escape I needed until I realized that it, too, is a synecdoche for the globalized conflict between the US, China, and the weird state of IP law. It’s probably free to retcon too, in today’s America).

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2016

Laws in most countries require nonprofit boards to meet at least once a year. After graduating from MIT, Wan Lik Lee served as a manager in Oracle Systems Limited and a project team leader in Versant Corporation (formerly Versant Object Technology Corp.) Before Your Board Meeting. Decide on a Frequency. before founding Convene.

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The AI Alignment Forum

APRIL 10, 2025

In particular, we exclude Scaling Law Experiment because its easy enough for models to succeed at by luck that its not appropriate for best-of-k scaffolding, and we exclude Restricted MLM Architecture because Claude 3.7 This should help with lack of oracle calls, and no/poor/limited/expensive feedback loops.

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The Verge

APRIL 5, 2021

The upshot, in our view, is that fair use can play an important role in determining the lawful scope of a computer program copyright.”. Google and Oracle have been fighting over Android’s Java interoperability for more than 10 years now , spanning three trials and two separate appeals.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Some marketers believe that to make more money, you have to send more emails, which Matt Harris, founder and CEO of Dyspatch , refers to as the “law of email.”. All of those emails are leading to a decline in open engagement rates,” he told TechCrunch. “In

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 24, 2022

Cloud for Good complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2009

One of my favorite series of posts this year was from Robin Reed of the National Women's Law Center about optimizing Google ad campaigns. Here you'll find tips about list building, using twitter, nonprofit video, email communication strategy, and more, more more. Check out the posts , I dare you to not learn something. I don't know.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Database technology is fundamental infrastructure, which partially explains why it’s so resistant to innovation: Oracle Database was released in 1979, and MySQL didn’t reach the market until 1995. Surely, you know the preferred share price and which type of options you were granted?

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

While these specialists have access to huge platforms from companies like Oracle and SAP, they need additional intelligence to understand where these supply chains could potentially break. Are there links in the supply chain that might be more brittle than at first glance?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

“Any transaction by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, with ByteDance Ltd,” the order reads, “shall be prohibited to the extent permitted under applicable law.” laws and regulations.”. It is set to take effect on September 20th.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 25, 2025

These settings can be interesting to study even if the blue team has access to a basically perfect but expensive oracle of whether the AI's actions are problematic. What do the scaling laws of collusion look like? How close are AIs to the required level of reliability?

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The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

But Shopify doesn’t really fit into the same category of laws as Twitter or Facebook or other social media platforms — so it has a different set of moderation challenges, and it’s worth thinking about whether the enterprise software that powers online stores should have to meet the same moderation standards as TikTok or YouTube.

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Engadget

APRIL 1, 2025

Oracle, which almost bought TikTok in 2020 and was a key part of TikToks earlier negotiations to address national security concerns, is also in the running. Under this arrangement, Oracle could also end up overseeing TikToks US data while ByteDance hangs onto its algorithm, as the Financial Times reported in March.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

legislators first started banning TikTok from government devices , but it reached a fever pitch in 2024 when then-President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that would ban TikTok unless it divested from its parent company, ByteDance. Trump even said he would "like Larry [Ellison] to buy it," referring to Oracle chairman.

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2021

Last fall, TikTok was banned for hosting “immoral” and “indecent” videos, but the company was able to assure the Pakistani government that videos would be moderated “in accordance with societal norms and the laws of Pakistan,” and the app resumed operations a week and a half later.

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TechNode

APRIL 8, 2025

to comply with the law was basically finalized on Wednesday. Potential TikTok investors could include Oracle and BlackRock , with Oracle currently providing most of the app’s back-end technical support. Since then, Trump has stated that numerous buyers have shown “ great interest ” in acquiring TikTok.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Politicians argue that under Chinese law, TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, could be forced to share user data with the Chinese government, posing a hypothetical security risk to U.S. What does the TikTok ban have to do with Palestine? The push to ban TikTok started in 2019 with a barrage of bills attempting to limit TikTok's reach.

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TechNode

JANUARY 16, 2025

It also requires TikTok’s cloud service provider, Oracle, to cease hosting its US user data. In October last year, Malaysia stated that TikTok was not fully compliant with its laws. However, Tiktok owner ByteDance has a different plan in mind. India was the largest market for TikTok before the India ban.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The administration, which includes the Commerce Department, “took this extraordinary action of prohibiting a popular communication and information-sharing platform without affording its owners … due process of law, and for political reasons rather than because of any ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to the United States,” according to the suit.

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The Verge

AUGUST 22, 2020

To ensure that the rule of law is not discarded and that our company and users are treated fairly, we have no choice but to challenge the Executive Order through the judicial system.”. Microsoft said it expected to complete the discussions “no later than September 15th, 2020.”.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

That order invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), a law that allows Trump to ban transactions between the US and foreign entities. is fully consistent with law and promotes legitimate national security interests. Trump declared TikTok and WeChat a “national emergency,” citing privacy and security concerns.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

passed its sell-or-ban law last year due to security concerns. TikTok has until April 5 to find a buyer, and President Donald Trump says that at least four are currently in the mix. The short-from video platform may need to find new ownership since the U.S. “A lot of people want it… all four are good.”

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

CFIUS should promptly reject any Oracle-ByteDance collaboration, and send the ball back to ByteDance’s court so that the company can come up with a more acceptable solution,” Hawley writes. The Oracle deal differs significantly from President Trump’s initial demands, which called for the US version of TikTok to be severed off and sold.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Pappas added that it’s a moment “to put aside our competition and focus on core principles like freedom of expression and due process of law.” Currently, the administration and ByteDance are reportedly working with Oracle to secure a deal. We will continue to challenge the unjust executive order”.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 3, 2025

venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is also in talks to add outside funding to buy out TikTok’s Chinese investors, as part of a bid led by Oracle and other American investors to carve it out of ByteDance, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. law, Reuters reported last month.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 5, 2025

According to The Verge , the new global tariffs imposed on China and dozens of other nations "seemingly torpedoed" plans for candidates — mostly like Oracle — to take over the ByteDance-owned app. The president stated that while "tremendous progress" has been made, additional time is needed to finalize a deal.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Oracle pushed Section 230 reform for years, in an effort to harm rivals like Amazon and Google. Now, a deal with TikTok could mean it needs the law, too. The deal would also take business away from Google and Amazon , cloud competitors that TikTok has used over the past two years. Amir Efrati / The Information ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Everyone agrees that Oracle and Walmart have bought a combined 20 percent of TikTok. Early Monday, Oracle issued a statement seeming to contradict that. Last week, I wrote that TikTok’s deal with Oracle was a bet that Trump would cave on concerns over China. On Sunday, everyone involved took a well deserved rest.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

That said, a Microsoft-Walmart pairing still seems preferable to me (and reportedly to Zhang) than the other big player in the hunt: Larry Ellison’s Oracle, which has spent the entire Trump Administration flattering the president’s ego and may now be poised to reap the rewards. TikTok has surprised me with its cleverness before.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Oracle will also own a minority stake that will be less than 20% of the new global TikTok, two of the people said. As the conspiracy theories grows, hate campaigns against local laws and politicians could become more commonplace. in the next 24-36 hours, sources told CNBC’s David Faber. Makena Kelly / The Verge ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The move gives ByteDance more time to get approval from authorities in the US and China for a pending deal with Oracle and Walmart. He said the ban seeks to regulate the exchange of “informational materials” — something that’s expressly exempted from the law laying out the emergency powers Trump invoked. Dan Primack / Axios ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

One is that there are genuine, good-faith reasons to call for Section 230 reform, even though they’re often drowned out by bad tweets that misunderstand the law. Goodman, a law professor at Rutgers University specializing in information policy, approaches the problem from another angle. Barrett writes (PDF): Ellen P.

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Engadget

MARCH 10, 2025

Oracle NPR reported in January that Oracle was working with Trump Administration officials on a plan to save TikTok that involves tapping software company Oracle and a group of outside investors to effectively take control of the app's global operations. Now, Trumps position on Oracle is unclear.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 4, 2025

A host of potential owners of the social media site, including Amazon , Oracle, Microsoft, and Project Liberty have come forward. That could put the new owner in conflict with a law signed by President Biden last year that bans "the establishment or maintenance of any operational relationship" between the U.S. buyer, according to ABC.

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