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Microsoft’s Satya Nadella ranked as best CEO in US; Google’s Sundar Pichai, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos make top 10

April 18, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Nadella joined the software company in 1992, holding leadership positions including Executive Vice President of Cloud and Enterprise before being named CEO in 2014. “Microsoft had thousands of employees partake in the study. (Nadella) had incredible scores from his team,” said Jason Nazar, Co-Founder and CEO of Comparably.… Read more

Understanding Baselines and Impact Levels in FedRAMP

April 18, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

The FedRAMP PMO fields a number of questions about impact levels and the security categorization of cloud services. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 199 provides the standards for categorizing information and information systems, which is the process CSPs use to ensure their services meet the minimum security requirements for the data processed, stored, and transmitted on them.… Read more

Why You Should Start a Business Only While You Have a Job

April 18, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Many people that I meet tell me that they dream of starting their own business. I always ask them, “Then why don’t you?” They typically respond by saying that they have so many financial and personal responsibilities, that they can’t just quit their job to start a company, etc.… Read more

Top Patreon creators, of the ‘Intellectual Dark Web,’ say they’re launching an alternate crowdfunding platform not ‘susceptible to arbitrary censorship’

April 18, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Jordan Peterson, a Canadian professor who has built a reputation for fighting ‘political correctness’ and ‘cultural Marxism,’ and the Libertarian comedian and pundit Dave Rubin announced Monday that they would launch an alternative to the crowdfunding website Patreon after the removal of several high-profile right-wing users of the service.… Read more

Google, Mozilla, and Opera react to Microsoft’s embrace of Chromium (updated)

April 16, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Microsoft today announced it is embracing Chromium for Edge browser development on the desktop. The news includes plenty of exciting changes, including the decoupling of Edge from Windows 10, more frequent updates, and support for Chrome extensions. But we also wanted to find out what other major browser makers think of the news.… Read more

MICROSOFT WANTS TO STOP AI’S ‘RACE TO THE BOTTOM’

April 16, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

“We believe it’s important for governments in 2019 to start adopting laws to regulate” facial-recognition technology, said Microsoft President Brad Smith.STEPHEN MCCARTHY/GETTY IMAGES AFTER A HELLISH year of tech scandals, even government-averse executives have started professing their openness to legislation. But Microsoft president Brad Smith took it one step further on Thursday, asking governments to regulate the use of facial-recognition technology to ensure it does not invade personal privacy or become a tool for discrimination or surveillance.… Read more