20 giugno, 2019

Visto nel Web - 406

Due cose principali: 1) fa caldo, troppo; e 2) Libra che non è quello che sembra e cambierà il mondo, forse. Ma ecco tutto quello che ho wisto nel Web.


U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Gridprivacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus | guerre digitali
::: jacopo_iacoboni ::: 27khv

Vim and Neo Editors Vulnerable To High-Severity Bug
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

too bad it's 99% of the cases unsustainable
open source
::: WebReflection

KDE Plasma 5.16 Released
tools, componenti software
::: Slashdot

Twitter banned a legit journalist because his header photo is his book condemning the alt-right with KKK hoods on the cover. 🤔😡👎🏼
censura | odio, razzismo, discriminazioni | Twitter
::: JoshConstine

The rise and fall of the global stand-alone camera industry
tecnologia
::: adam_tooze

New Hampshire Unveils a Historical Highway Marker For The BASIC Programming Language
storia
::: Slashdot

Sarcasm, it's how we hug...
umorismo
::: RichRogersIoT

#ultimora Ragazzina sente lo squillo del telefono fisso di casa e si spaventa
umorismo
::: lercionotizie

We face the prospect of an army of A.I. security guards being placed behind those lenses that are actually, in a meaningful way, monitoring us, making decisions about us, scrutinizing us
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: fabiochiusi ::: Slashdot

News Industry Argues Google and Facebook 'Rob Journalism of Its Revenue', Seek Government Help
media | ad, pubblicità
::: Slashdot

Thoughts on Python 3.8 walrus operator... any language feature that can be used can also be misused. It's going to be nice for some things, but also it's time to update some style guides 😜
Python
::: jakevdp

Node.js and Python Interoperability
linguaggi di programmazione
::: Gianlucadfiore


How Close Are We to Self-Driving Cars, Really?
automazione
::: Slashdot

My 15-year-old son is thinking about taking an online Python class this summer. He has interest in AI and games. Do you have any recommendations? He has the basics of programming like variables and loops, and HTML/CSS
tanti suggerimenti
Python | linguaggi di programmazione
::: lemire

Climate Scientists Warn That All Super Mario Levels
umorismo
::: HardDriveMag

“Serve una regolamentazione esterna: non è giusto che aziende private decidano di questioni sociali ed etiche”, dice Nick Clegg di Facebook a Rep. “Dobbiamo operare all’interno di regole democratiche stabilite da governi eletti dal popolo”
regolamentare Internet
::: fabiochiusi

The Corrupt News Media is totally out of control - they have given up and don’t even care anymore. Mainstream Media has ZERO CREDIBILITY - TOTAL LOSERS!
politica
::: realDonaldTrump

Introducing the Principled Artificial Intelligence Project
artificial intelligence | etica
::: GianlucaSgueo

Uber's Plan To Deliver McDonald's Hamburgers By Drone
innovazioni, futuro
::: Slashdot

Facebook's Photorealistic Simulator For AI Runs At 10,000 FPS
augmented reality
::: Slashdot

🔴 Uscita la mia newsletter #GuerrediRete
novità
::: carolafrediani

Per fare fronte alle #sfide del futuro serve favorire un approccio multidisciplinare, oltre che avere una formazione multidisciplinare dei nostri studenti e che parta da/includa problem-based activities
scuola, educazione, cultura
::: MauroMandrioli

Michigan Town Approves Fiber Internet Despite Intense Lobbying
economia, lavoro
::: Slashdot

Google's Login Chief: Apple's Sign-In Button Is Better Than Using Passwords
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

Stephen Hawking married to Jane Wilde, 1965

A New Hidden Way of Web Browser Profiling, Identification and Tracking
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

Upgrade Your Memory With A Surgically Implanted Brain Chip
innovazioni, futuro
::: Slashdot

Why New York's Subway Still Uses OS/2
sì, ci sono anche altri casi simili, con OSes ufficialmente scomparsi
sistemi operativi
::: Slashdot

A friend of mine is studying Computer Science in college, and she was told by the faculty that the low level C courses are intentionally overly difficult and unintuitive to weed students out
scuola, educazione, cultura
::: codehitchhiker

What if Linus Torvalds is just angry because
umorismo
::: SwiftOnSecurity

Huawei produrrà 30 miliardi di dollari di ricavi in meno nei prossimi due anni, dice il suo fondatore
Huawei
::: ilpost

Chelsea Manning is paying $500/day fines for not testifying, scheduled to double next month. Slamming someone with crippling debt for taking a principled stand against warmongering tyrants is in some ways just as draconian as imprisoning them
Web, Internet | politica
::: caitoz

There are two fundamentally different AI narratives
artificial intelligence
::: EvanSelinger

Yahoo Japan Is Under Fire for Its China-Like Rating System
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

What should we do with “legacy” Java 8 applications?
linguaggi di programmazione
::: lemire

Programming is like magic
cit.
::: MIT_CSAIL

Massive 3D Dataset Helps Robots Understand What Things Are
Creating PartNet was a stupendous amount of work, with nearly 70 researchers annotating each and every one of the 26,000 objects in the database
robots, automazione
::: IEEESpectrum


Sono passato davanti a un televisore mentre la Gabanelli spiegava di 5G e elettrosmogmedia
::: mante

Uber's going airborne
innovazioni, futuro
::: geekdotcom

Happy 23rd Birthday @Debian stable 🎂 On this day in 1996, Debian 1.1 "Buzz" was released 🍾 It included Linux kernel 2.0 and 474 software packages!
storia | Linux
::: ubuntu

Robocalls Are Overwhelming Hospitals and Patients, Threatening a New Kind of Health Crisis
automazione
::: Slashdot

Linux PCs, Servers, Gadgets Can Be Crashed by 'Ping of Death' Network Packets
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

For every complex problem, there is a solution that
cit.
::: RichRogersIoT

YouTube is Too Big To Fix Completely, Google CEO Says
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus | social media
::: Slashdot

Adobe's Experimental AI Tool Can Tell If Something's Been Photoshopped
artificial intelligence | disinformazione, fake news, bufale
::: Slashdot

Microsoft's Plan To Split OS From Shell Takes Shape
sistemi operativi
::: Slashdot

New Deepfake Algorithm Allows You To Text-Edit the Words of a Speaker In a Video
deepfake
::: Slashdot

Googling
umorismo
::: PersianRose1

Hidden Treasures of the Bauhaus Dessau | Adobe Fonts - Adobe ha reso (più o meno?) liberamente disponibili alcune font che ha ricavato da esempi creati ai tempi della Bauhaus
tools, componenti software
::: xmau


I bitcoin hanno raggiunto il loro valore massimo in oltre un annocolmo della sfiga: appena lo dice il Post il titolo cede un pochino; ma OK
blockchain e crypto*
::: ilpost

Ethiopia has been offline, and nobody really knows why
censura
::: fabiochiusi

The story of Chinese-Italian engineer Mario Tchou might have been forgotten if it weren't for a husband-and-wife team that decided to bring it back to life
storia
::: IEEESpectrum

Astronaut John Glenn trusted Katherine G. Johnson’s manual trajectory analysis done on a calculator over a computer program to get him safely into space
storia | protagonisti
::: IEEESpectrum

What if distrust is a smaller problem than the way news consumption leaves readers stressed, anxious, depressed, afraid, disempowered, and exhausted
media
::: marklittlenews

A simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people
Coming in 2020: Calibra cioè Libra
Facebook | blockchain e crypto*
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Avete già sentito parlare del #5G? #scienza #Tecnologia
Web, Internet
::: Scientificast

Mezzano, an operating system written in Common Lisp
lisp(s)
::: Gianlucadfiore

People have an enormous tendency to resist change
cit.
::: CodeWisdom

Siemens Gamesa Unveils World First Electrothermal Energy Storage System
energia
::: Slashdot

While it is reasonable for companies to moderate some content, no one wins when they censor legitimate online speech without transparency, notice, or due process. Here's how some of the biggest online platforms' content moderation policies stack up
censura
::: EFF

Amazon's Ring May Be Branching Out Beyond Outdoor Cameras
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot


Alert visually until any key is pressedtip, suggerimenti
::: commandlinefu

New automated program-writing tool SketchAdapt learns to compose short, high-level programs
machine learning
::: MIT_CSAIL

You mean to tell me that Gauss and Euler accomplished everything they did without the help of Wolfram_Alpha, Mathematica, and all the mathematics software packages we have today? Take a look
matematica
::: mathematicsprof

Ubuntu is Dropping All 32-bit Support
Ubuntu
::: dcavedon

Stanford Team Aims at Alexa and Siri With a Privacy-Minded Alternative
Dr. Lam is [and her collaborators will] build a virtual assistant that would allow individuals and corporations to avoid surrendering personal information as well as retain a degree of independence from giant technology companies
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: rasmus_kleis

Pire! Le format OpenXML (.docx, etc.) que Microsoft utilise est inconsistant
open source
::: LibreOfficeFR

Really great read. And also an amazing way of innovating the press and online media!
The Myth of the Impartial Machine
media
::: vang_lian

Every time you use Chrome, you're using a new MIT-designed tool that automatically generates optimized cryptography code
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: MIT_CSAIL

Iceland's Data Centers Are Booming -- Here's Why That's a Problem
dati, raccolta | energia
::: Slashdot

Google Launches Chrome Extension For Flagging Bad URLs To the Safe Browsing Team
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

Senator Rubio Targets Huawei Over Patents
Huawei
::: Slashdot

Arc Menu Extension Now Lets You Pin Your Fave Apps to the Sidebar
Ubuntu
::: dcavedon

Antoniadi

Secretive Magic Leap Says Ex-Engineer Copied Headset For Chinacopyright e brevetti | politica
::: Slashdot

Python is designed to deliver an experience that is simple and easy to use
il thread è --come dire-- vario & OT
Python
::: gvanrossum

I have finally gotten around to learning OpenGL, and I am pleased to announce that, after two days and 250 LOC, I can render some sweet bushes
language Racket
::: lexi_lambda

Larry Masinter about Interlisp: 'Interlisp was not designed, it evolved' That generally explains a lot about real Lisp systems and why they are not crystal-like
storia | lisp(s)
::: RainerJoswig

Things I Learnt The Hard Way in 30 Years of Software Development
programming, codice, snippet
::: laura_nobilis

Rust Creator Graydon Hoare Talks About Security, History, and Rust
linguaggi di programmazione
::: thenewstack

Two Potentially Life-Friendly Planets Found Orbiting a Nearby Star
spazio, esplorazione
::: Slashdot

Must-read ⁦⁦@CaseyNewton expose on Facebook’s moderation facility in Tampa, Florida - three moderators broke their NDAs to go on the record and tell their stories on video. This is a slow-burning crisis
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: reckless ::: emenietti

He Says He Invented Bitcoin and Is Suing Those Who Doubt Him
blockchain e crypto*
::: Slashdot

YouTube, Under Fire, Considers Major Changes To Kids' Content
social media | privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

Spoiler: “neutrality” in politics and journalism simply doesn’t exist. It’s not a technological problem concerning digital platforms: it’s a fact of life
media | politica
::: fabiochiusi

Linux Mint Vs Windows 10 Speed Test
sistemi operativi
::: dcavedon

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