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AI & Software

Models, platforms, pricing, patches and the software business decisions behind them.

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The AI & Software topic collects 3 articles on models, platforms, pricing, patches and the software business decisions behind them. Each article opens with a short summary and ends with links to related reading.

Isometric flat-color line illustration on white showing a warm orange architectural archway with a yellow light wedge beneath it, surrounded by steel-blue server towers as dark data cables pass through the arch.2 min readRIM NTP Settlement: The Hidden Tax on Hardware EcosystemsRIM's $612.5 million settlement with NTP reveals how intellectual property disputes scale alongside network success.Line illustration in flat colours on white: a hand rests on an open filing drawer while blank sheets rise from it in a long arc to a small orange office building in the distance.2 min readWhen your desktop index moves to someone else's serverA new Google Desktop feature let files be searched from any computer by keeping copies on Google servers, and EFF warned about the legal cost.Line illustration in flat orange and blue on white: a hand reaches in from the right and presses a small square patch over the cracks in the glass of a framed picture.2 min readThe patch that could not wait for TuesdayWhen a Windows image flaw was exploited in the wild, a monthly patch calendar met an attack that would not wait.