Konstantin Nikolaev—the Putin ally behind Mike Johnson campaign donation

The Russian oligarch gave money to the Republican's 2018 congressional campaign via a U.S-based company in which he owned a majority.

Microsoft is using illegal bribes in the Middle East and Africa. Why is the SEC turning a blind eye?

After paying fines for violations in Hungary and South Africa, Microsoft agreed to stop the practice—but I have evidence that I believe shows they continue to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act elsewhere. By Yasser Elabd I was recruited by...

Is Serverless Just a Stopover for Event-Driven Architecture? - The New Stack

Serverless may be a more limited sub-pattern case of a much bigger trend in event-driven architecture.

Big 4 firms share record loot from government after another round of bribes (donations) - Michael West Media

It's no wonder the cost of government has never been higher. EY, PwC, KPMG and Deloitte got a record consulting haul after the usual donations

Remembering The MIT Radiation Laboratory

Back in the late 80s, our company managed to procure the complete 28 volume MIT Radiation Laboratory (Rad Lab) series, published in 1947, for the company library. To me, these books were interestin…

Journalism’s Gates keepers

<p>Last August, NPR profiled a Harvard-led experiment to help low-income families find housing in wealthier neighborhoods, giving their children access to better schools and an opportunity to “break the cycle of poverty.” According to researchers...

EURACTIV Press Release Site

Brussels, 12 November 2021 The European Parliament Own Initiative Report on an intellectual property action plan is an important step to support the EU’s recovery and resilience following the pandemic and on equitable access to...

EPO voted best for patent quality once more | IAM

Europe leads the way among the IP5, say IAM readers in our annual benchmarking survey, but service standards have slipped

Red Hat Bolsters Partner Ecosystem to Accelerate Data Science Pipelines Across the Open Hybrid Cloud

Red Hat OpenShift Data Science, and its growing list of AI/ML ecosystem partners, enables organizations to accelerate data science pipelines across hybrid cloud and edge environments.

Josef Kratochvìl Rewarded Again for Covering Up EPO Corruption and the EPO Bribes the Press for Lies Whilst Also Lying About Its Colossal Privacy Violations

Corrupt officials and officials who actively enable the crimes still control the Office and also the body which was supposed to oversee it; it's pretty evident and clear judging by this week's press statements at the EPO's official Web site

NetApp Named a Leader in 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Primary Storage

NetApp Named a Leader in 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Primary Storage

[Meme] The EPO-EUIPO “Good Brother” Network

Jobs as bribes at the EPO and EU(IPO) are a lingering problem

Bill Gates Exposed

While publishers like ZDNet worked hard (on Microsoft's budget) to distract us from real scandals many nefarious things were happening; are we witnessing the fall of Gates?

South Africa Is in a Mental Health Crisis, and We All Need to See Ourselves in Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka

Opinion - Mental health is frequently undermined and reduced to little more than a Twitter trend, that crops up periodically if a celebrity commits suicide or when another woman is gruesomely murdered by their partner or family member. We need to...

Report Again Finds US Government IT Security Sucks, Three Years After Saying The Same Thing

Three years ago a US Senate Committee report showcased that the U.S. government's cybersecurity defenses were the IT equivalent of damp cardboard. The study found numerous government agencies were using dated systems that were expensive to...