Apple open sources Pkl, a configuration-as-code language with rich validation and tooling, with Swift, Go, Java, and Kotlin integration
We are delighted to announce the open source first release of Pkl (pronounced Pickle), a programming language for producing configuration. Threads: @danielpunkass . Mastodon: @lkanies@hachyderm.io . X...
After a May 2023 White House meeting, OpenAI drafted an internal policy memo supporting the US government requiring licenses for developing advanced AI systems
This is as if Google asked the government to step in after they started shipping websites using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. A license to build an LLM would stop Open Source LLMs in their tracks....
Elon Musk says he wants to improve Twitter by “making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans”
and at some point it should be studied with the perspective of some temporal distance - but the neediest, most ardent, and most passionate censorship crusaders are the tattletale-employees of media co...
Tim Bray, a well known senior engineer and VP at Amazon, resigns after nearly six years, criticizing the company on his blog for firing protesting workers
’ says Google, Comcast, and Huawei got in touch Kelly Earley / Silicon Republic : Amazon exec quits after company fires employee activists Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill : Amazon VP resigns after firi...
Apple recommends that users such as DJs avoid Catalina until developers update their apps, as the option to export music libraries as XML files has been removed
and it's breaking some apps Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet : macOS Catalina — Should you upgrade now? Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac : macOS Catalina breaks compatibility with DJ apps that use iTunes libra...
Web guru Tim Bray takes Google Android job
Tim Bray—co-inventor of XML, notable tech blogger, and until recently a Sun Microsystems employee—has joined Google's Android team in part to show the world what he thinks is wrong with Apple's iPhone...
Microsoft's OOXML Wins ISO Approval
Office 2007's XML-based document formats will soon be published as a formal ISO standard. Now what? — Recommends — It looks as if Microsoft's OOXML office document file format will be published a...
Microsoft Office 2007 Review Part 2: What's New?
In this part of the review, I'd like to discuss two major changes to Office 2007 that affect the most commonly-used applications in the suite: the new Ribbon user interface and the new XML-based docum...
Open Document Format published as ISO standard
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) finally published the Open Document Format (ODF) as an official standard last week after approving it as an international standard last May. T...
SOAP, REST and XML-RPC
Dave Winer on SOAP, REST and XML-RPC. … Dave believes that XML-RPC is easy compared to SOAP and REST. Let's examine the merits of each with concrete examples. Following is sample SOAP, REST and XML-...