Data collection is a fundamental building block of customer data management and one of the main bottlenecks. Data integration tool vendor Airbyte has launched a no-code connector builder that it says can reduce the time to build a new connector from several days to under five minutes. It requires a JSON-based HTTP API – and if you don’t know what that is, comrade developer, you probably shouldn’t be using it.
You can add Montana to your list of places that care deeply about privacy: they’ve just made it illegal to distribute (but not use) TikTok for exactly that reason. Then again, the just-signed law doesn’t ban any other data-grabbing application. So apparently it’s okay to take Montanans’ data so long as you’re not Chinese.
He wasn’t wearing fur handcuffs, but it still seemed slightly kinky when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman begged the government to regulate him during Tuesday’s Senate hearing. Charmed observers seem to have forgotten that most regulators are quickly captured by the industry they govern, and licensing requirements protect industry leaders from competition. If you were in Altman’s shoes, you’d ask to be regulated, too.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.