Techstrong News Recap – February 20, 2023

Hi again, everyone here the headlines for February 20th. First up in light of the emerging technology of artificial intelligence. The United States has launched an initiative to promote International cooperation for the responsible use of AI by militaries.

The goal is to establish a set of guidelines for a rapidly changing technology that has the potential to change the way war is waged. The Declaration outlines 12 points including the need for human control and involvement for critical actions that inform them. This being said the Declaration is not legally binding, but it's expected to be looked at going forward for international cooperation.

Zooming out the urgency to establish responsible military uses of AI has increased due to advances in Durham technology in the war in Ukraine. 60 Nations including the United States and China have called for Action urging broad cooperation in developing and using artificial intelligence responsibly in the military. highlighting the international urgency surrounding AI next West Virginia has approved a 105 million dollar investment for renewable energy plant to be built by form energy in the northern part of the state.

The construction of the plant on a 55 Acre Site is expected to begin this year in battery system manufacturing will begin in 2024. Form energy plans to produce iron-air batteries and is backed by notable investors like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. The plant is part of the West Virginia's transition to cleaner energy while preserving its roots and is accompanied by other renewable energy projects in the state.

The investment is a significant step forward towards sustainability in the project has proposed state support of 290 million with 75 million already invested in purchasing the property and starting infrastructure work. In other news in order to address growing concerns over data privacy for its users in the west tiktok is revealed plans to construct two additional data centers in Europe. This move comes amidst worry that the app could potentially Harvest user data and potentially promote Pro China propaganda.

Tiktok is finally stated that they are finalizing plans with a third party provider to build the second data Setter in Ireland while discussions are also ongoing about a third European Data Center. Tiktok has approximately 125 million monthly active users in the EU exceeding the new threshold for extra scrutiny under new digital regulations that will take effect later this year. This being said other major tech companies such as Google Twitter Apple Facebook and Instagram will also be subject to increase scrutiny from the EU based on their monthly user accounts.

Next up Tesla will be recalling nearly 363,000 vehicles that are equipped with the full self-driving software. This comes following the US national highway traffic safety administration identifying the program as a crash risk. The recall is intended to address concerns raised by the nhtsa regarding specific driving conditions such as navigating intersections during a yellow light changing speed limits and changing lanes to an exit etern Lane.

the recall effects multiple Tesla models including the model S model X model 3 and model y Tesla is to provide a free over the air software update to address the identified issues. With this being said Tesla is stated that it is not been aware of any incidents or deaths related to the driving conditions and that drivers need to be aware at all times while using self-driving capabilities. com we've an article that looks at how to standardize API lifecycle management.

Software lifecycle management has become more and more critical in organizations that thrive on tack. However, this requires developers to constantly adapt software progressively add features and catered to new use cases. API lifecycle management has become integral and this article gives four tips to increase API governments.

com. On digital cxo we've an article that looks at how to for your data with no code platforms. There's so much data across organizations in their teams that these businesses inevitably create data silos.

No code Solutions can help analyze data complete tasks and promote data flow across the business. This article looks at how to democratize data in Innovation across an organization. com finally on Security Boulevard.

We have an article that looks at how open systems has launched and managed extended detection and response service for Microsoft environments that leverages AI to help a Global Network of security operations centers. Open systems is stated that the goal of the service is to provide organizations with 24/7 access to a team of expert cybersecurity professionals. To learn more go to Security Boulevard calm.

And that's today's Tech strong news recap.