Kahle in a statement denounced the publishers' demands. "Here’s what’s at stake in this case: hundreds of libraries contributed millions of books to the Internet Archive for preservation in addition to those books we have purchased," he said.

"Thousands of donors provided the funds to digitize them.

"The publishers are now demanding that those millions of digitized books, not only be made inaccessible, but be destroyed. This is horrendous. Let me say it again – the publishers are demanding that millions of digitized books be destroyed. //

"And if they succeed in destroying our books or even making many of them inaccessible, there will be a chilling effect on the hundreds of other libraries that lend digitized books as we do." //

During the hearing, Judge Koeltl probed the arguments made by McNamara and IA's attorney, Joseph Gratz. He raised the defendant's point that there's no evidence of financial harm because there's no evidence the defendants would have paid to license electronic versions of their physical books.

McNamara responded that the harm is real. The ebook market is real and IA is just refusing to participate, she argued.

Gratz maintains that libraries have a right to lend a physical book they have purchased and that they have a right under the fair use exception to copyright law to facilitate digital lending so long as it's one copy per book.

Amazon is an amazing technical company, but they lack in some ways. Technological prowess, culture, and/or business decisions will hamper them from capturing the next wave of cloud computing like they have the last two. This report will cover these 3 phases of cloud computing and how Amazon’s continued dominance in the first two phases doesn’t necessarily give them a head start in the battle for the future of computing. //

As Amazon ballooned in size with its retail business, it began to run into limitations of its monolithic 90s-era software practices. Metcalfe’s law sort of applied; as each additional service or developer was added, complexity grew at an n^2 rate. Even simple changes or enhancements impacted many downstream applications and use cases, requiring huge amounts of communication. As such, Amazon would have to freeze most code changes at a certain point in the year so the holiday season could focus on bug fixes and stability.

The USA and Indonesia have announced a strategic partnership to help Indonesia develop its nuclear energy programme, supporting Indonesia's interest in deploying small modular reactor (SMR) technology to meet its energy security and climate goals.

When you’re a small business owner trying to choose the right title to fit your position, it’s normal to feel overwhelmed by the number of choices you have—or to think your only options for business owner titles are “owner” or “CEO.”

Business titles for small business owners should be consistent with the company’s goals and objectives, but they should also feel personal. You’re the owner of your small business, but you also wear many other hats—and your business title should reflect your multifaceted role.

NASA’s plan to spend up to $1 billion on a tug to deorbit the International Space Station is a missed opportunity to instead repurpose or recycle the station, some in industry argue.

NASA announced plans as part of its fiscal year 2024 budget proposal this month to develop the tug to help deorbit the station at the end of its life in 2030. NASA is seeking $180 million in 2024 to start work on the tug, and anticipates spending as much as $1 billion to build it.

The agency had made clear that it and the other partners would deorbit the station at the end of its life, ensuring that debris that survives reentry falls in an uninhabited region of the South Pacific Ocean to avoid the risk of damage or casualties. NASA previously expected that it would use multiple Progress cargo spacecraft to handle the deorbiting, but said at a March 13 event about the budget proposal it chose to develop the tug to provide redundancy in those plans.

Ten years ago, the cloud was mostly used by small startups that didn’t have the resources to build and operate a physical infrastructure and for businesses that wanted to move their collaboration services to a managed infrastructure. Public cloud services (and cheap capital in a low interest-rate economy) meant such customers could serve a growing number of users relatively inexpensively. This environment enabled cloud-native startups such as Uber and Airbnb to scale and thrive.

Over the next decade, companies flocked en masse to the cloud because it lowered costs and expedited innovation. This was truly a paradigm shift and company after company announced “cloud-first” strategies and moved infrastructures wholesale to cloud service providers.

However, cloud-first strategies may be hitting the limits of their efficacy, and in many cases, ROIs are diminishing, triggering a major cloud backlash. Ubiquitous cloud adoption has given rise to new challenges, namely out-of-control costs, deepening complexity and restrictive vendor lock-in. We call this cloud sprawl.