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The Supreme Court is taking on Google and Oracle one last time

The Verge

Ten years after Oracle first sued Google over the code in the Android platform, the two tech giants are finally facing off in the Supreme Court. For Oracle and Google, the lawsuit is about whether Oracle — which owns Java Standard Edition — is now entitled to a piece of Android, to the tune of billions of dollars. When Google v.

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SQL at 50: What’s next for the structured query language?

InfoWorld

In May 1974, Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce published a paper on SEQUEL, a structured query language that could be used to manage and sort data.

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Oracle and Google’s Supreme Court showdown was a battle of metaphors

The Verge

Oracle , a decade-long war over the future of software, neared its end in the Supreme Court this week as a battle of metaphors. Oracle covers a complex question : what elements of computer code can be copyrighted, and if that code is covered by copyright, when it’s still legal to use pieces of it under fair use. Alex Castro.

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Zilliz raises $43 million as investors rush to China’s open source software

TechCrunch

After six years as a software engineer at Oracle, Xie left the U.S. China is an ideal starting point both for the cheaper engineering talents and the explosive growth of unstructured data — anything from molecular structure, people’s shopping behavior, audio information to video content.

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Singapore’s KNN3 wants to enable social discovery for decentralized apps

TechCrunch

The Graph is “programmable”, but the data structure it supports is quite “limited”, Yu argued. in contrast, KNN3 plans to go after enterprise-facing organizations like Chainlink, which feeds real-life data called “oracles” into smart contracts and where Yu used to work. In the U.S.,

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How Index Ventures jumped to the front of the AI GPU line

TechCrunch

To help ensure its portfolio companies aren’t hamstrung by the shortage, it struck a deal with Oracle to provide its founders with some of these sought-after chips (specifically Nvidia’s H100 chips and Nvidia’s A100 chips). TechCrunch: Tell us about this partnership with Oracle. Is this an exclusive relationship?

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Oracle’s GraalVM backs Java 22

InfoWorld

Oracle has released GraalVM for JDK 22 , an update to the Java runtime with ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation that brings support for Java 22 features. Java 22 features supported in both Graal JIT and Native Image include string templates, the class-file API, unnamed variables and patterns, structured concurrency, and scoped values.

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