04 agosto, 2019

Visto nel Web - 419

Va ancora alla lunga prima di uscire da questa stagione non proprio come uno --hey it's me!-- vorrebbe; per intanto ecco cosa ho wisto nel Web.

Valve proposes Linux kernel changes to improve gaming performancegames
::: Gianlucadfiore

Intel Shows Off Chip Packaging Powers
In the chip world, packaging has arguably never been a hotter subject
tecnologia
::: IEEESpectrum

International power plug map. Is that correct for your country?
in realtà è molto più complicato, variegato, casinato
hardware
::: simongerman600

Hong Kong protestors are on another level. Here they’re using lasers to avoid facial recognition cameras. A cyber war against Chinese artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence | tecnologia
::: alessabocchi

Capital One Breach Said To Also Affect Other Major Companies
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

This little robot looks like a bent strip of paper, but it’s able to move at 20 body lengths per second and survive being stomped on by a human wearing tennis shoes. Take that, cockroaches
robots, automazione
::: IEEESpectrum

Facebook Says It Was 'Not Our Role' To Remove Fake News During Australian Election
disinformazione, fake news, bufale
::: Slashdot

Implementing Pix2Pix GAN models from scratch
machine learning
::: fchollet

Blender 2.80 has been released featuring "a redesigned user interface that puts the focus on the artwork that you create
applicazioni, programmi
::: linuxjournal

Samsung Won't Let Android Tablets Die, Announces the Galaxy Tab S6
hardware
::: Slashdot

Cambridge, Massachusetts Moves To Ban Facial Recognition
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

How I troubleshoot code
umorismo
::: RichRogersIoT

French Startup Transition-One Plans a $5,600 Electric Makeover For Your Old Diesel Car
energia | ambiente, ecologia
::: Slashdot

This is the first version of Chrome I’ve been actively waiting for in years .. because the incognito detection is so annoying
browser
::: codinghorror


Spotify Keeps Big Lead Over Apple Music But Disappoints With 108M Subscribers
Web, Internet
::: Slashdot

Cisco To Pay $8.6 Million Fine For Selling Hackable Surveillance Tech
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

#Linux Smartphone Librem 5 is Available for Preorder!
dispositivi mobili | open source
::: itsfoss2

IBM fired 100k employees to be more appealing to Millenials
largo ai giovani!
lavoro
::: Gianlucadfiore

Very good methodological insights here: DeepMind touts predictive healthcare AI ‘breakthrough’ trained on heavily skewed data
artificial intelligence | disinformazione, fake news, bufale
::: fabiochiusi

The video of my talk "From object oriented to functional and back" that I gave at @jbcnconf 2019
linguaggi di programmazione
::: mariofusco

Non Sequitur for August 01, 2019
umorismo
::: _juhan

How London became a test case for using facial recognition in democracies — and it’s not just the police using it, companies are too, and with no laws or regulations, it’s a free for all
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: hare_brain

Martindale offers a great portal to many great sites in mathematics and other sciences. Here is the math portal
matematica
::: mathematicsprof

Facebook censors/ took offline the page of the Dutch Museum of Photography cuting nudity as the reason, a picture by Ed van der Elsken, one of the most famous photographers of our country
censura
::: MarietjeSchaake

Dal 17 settembre nelle librerie italiane, in contemporanea mondiale, “Errore di sistema”: l’autobiografia di Edward Snowden
I wrote a book
Web, Internet
::: Snowden ::: LibriLonganesi ::: Slashdot

Intel Reveals 10th Gen Core Lineup For Laptops and 2-in-1s
hardware
::: Slashdot

California Police Are Sharing Facial Recognition Databases To ID Suspects
riconoscimento facciale
::: Slashdot

Alessandro Crotti‎

Excited to share tf-explain, a @Tensorflow 2.0 compatible Python library for interpretability
machine learning
::: raphaelmeudec

Descartes Labs built the world’s 136th fastest supercomputer using just Amazon Web Services and the company's own software
hardware
::: IEEESpectrum

Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot ::: lracrr ::: Slashdot

82% of People Say They Connect To Any Free WiFi That's Available in a Public Place, Survey Finds
dispositivi mobili | privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

United States Spend Ten Times More On Fossil Fuel Subsidies Than Education
da noi è anche peggio
scuola, educazione, cultura
::: RadioProzac

Agli amici che ingenuamente invocano una reazione compatta della “categoria giornalistica” alle offese dei politici citerei il vate
media
::: mante

Twitter è parte del problema
Twitter | media | odio, razzismo, discriminazioni
::: amedeo_balbi ::: mante

We're considering extensive changes to the Keras Preprocessing API to make it compatible with TF Datasets. Please check out the RFC doc here and give us your feedback
TensorFlow e Keras
::: fchollet

"Tutti i cittadini sono obbligati a depositare una copia delle chiavi di casa in Prefettura". Come vi suona? Beh, la backdoor è peggio
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: CBlengio

To quote Jan Gehl: “First we shape our cities, and then they shape us.” #Delft
ambiente, ecologia
::: modacitylife

Are Bioplastics Better for the Environment? It's Complicated
ambiente, ecologia
::: RadioProzac

Allowing F to buy WhatsApp and Instagram has been one of the greatest catastrophes of this decade
social media
::: thek3nger ::: Slashdot

Il 1 Agosto 1981 a #NewYork nascevano #MTV Music Television 1^canale tv di clip musicali e la nuova professione del #Veejay
storia
::: axelvassallo


Famed Yale computer scientist" ignorantly claims that Darwinian evolution is all wrong
per chi ha fatto il classico Apelle latens, per gli altri l'Ofelé
scuola, educazione, cultura
::: StevenSalzberg1

simdjson 0.2.0 release: runtime dispatching (SSE/AVX), 64-bit ARM support, JSON Pointer support and much more…
programming, codice, snippet
::: lemire ::: lemire

Scientists Are Making Human-Monkey Hybrids in China
sarà vero? dubbi in attesa di conferma
dubbi
::: Slashdot

Americans Are Making Phone Farms To Scam Free Money From Advertisers
dispositivi mobili | privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

A Newly Discovered Hacking Group Is Targeting Energy and Telecoms Companies
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

NYPD Adds Children As Young As 11 To Facial Recognition Database
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

An AI System Should Be Recognized As the Inventor of Two Ideas In Patents Filed On Its Behalf, Academics Say
artificial intelligence
::: Slashdot

Cops Are Giving Amazon's Ring Your Real-Time 911 Caller Data
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

Se siete timidi e vi vergognate di twittare, leggete Capezzone, Annalisa Chirico,Morisi , Francesca Totolo etc. Vi passerà la paura e si alzerà la vostra autostima. #iostoconFR
odio, razzismo, discriminazioni
::: alex_orlowski

Memo to self
cit.
::: AgBioWorld

You know you're in the Bay Area when
umorismo
::: jeanqasaur

Facebook says it dismantles covert influence campaign tied to Saudi government
Facebook
::: jc_stubbs

The Encryption Debate Is Over - Dead At The Hands Of Facebook
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: quinta


I due si accertano che la telecamera sia spenta e dopo aver fotografato il mio tesserino dell’ordine dei giornalisti e la mia carta d’identità mi dicono: “Bene ora sappiamo dove abiti
politica | media
::: fabiochiusi ::: fabiochiusi

The Amiga is 30 years old today
storia
::: bjutidingospo

L’azienda di un importante alleato di Boris Johnson ha costruito guidato dei network di pagine e gruppi Facebook di disinformation, mascherati da attivisti
Facebook
::: jacopo_iacoboni

L’argomento “la tecnologia è neutra, dipende dall’uso che se ne fa”, è quantomeno ingenuo
tecnologia
::: amedeo_balbi

Forte coi deboli
media | politica
::: eziomauro ::: christianraimo ::: ellyesse ::: Fen_church ::: giornalettismo ::: fedesene ::: carloalberto ::: f_chinellato

Thrilled that my latest paper, The History of Digital Spam, is now published on the @CACMmag
spam
::: emilio__ferrara

Advanced R 2nd edition in the flesh! Should be available widely in the very near future, and you can always read for free
linguaggi di programmazione
::: hadleywickham

A cute formula involving Pi
$ _c "pow(7 + pow( 6 + pow(5, 1/2), 1/2), 1/2) - pi"
3.989091382461396e-05
matematica
::: pickover

The Haskell Phrasebook
uh! da fare 🤩
func
::: Jose_A_Alonso

"Can AI trust us?"; "The key to building AI that truly “gets” us isn’t to focus solely on cognition, but to develop algorithms with emotional intelligence" -- "AI as an empathetic companion"
artificial intelligence
::: fabiochiusi

Wow. 1,962 pages of "Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and Optimization Theory For Computer Science and Machine Learning"
matematica | machine learning
::: suzatweet

Il racconto del videomaker di Repubblica è il racconto di una violenza privata (art.610 c.p.-fino a 4 anni) aggravata dall'abuso di potere (art.61.n°9 c.p.). E'procedibile d'ufficio.Forse il Ministro dell'Interno una risposta la deve Non solo ai giornali
politica | media
::: CBlengio

The VR Linux Desktop Is On Its Way
Linux
::: Slashdot


«The Great Hack» e la minaccia dei Big Data
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus | dati, raccolta
::: ilmanifesto

let's explain why a concept from the 1970s would be nice to have in a "modern language"
linguaggi di programmazione
::: herval

I struggle with the term 'personality' for #chatbots. Designing #bots along the 5-factor model of personality is definitely taking it too far. Chatbots are not persons, thus have no personality. At best they adapt a 'conversational style'
artificial intelligence | web-bot, robocall
::: DorotheaBaur

The US military is conducting wide area surveillance tests across six midwest states using experimental high-altitude balloons, documents filed with the FCC reveal
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: fabiochiusi

Si p est un nombre premier différent de 3 alors p² - 1 est divisible par 24
esempio di semplice perditempo
matematica
::: AnecdotesMaths

Appunti per una fenomenologia di libri cartacei, ebook e audiolibri
media
::: L_estinto

California Farmers Are Planting Solar Panels as Water Supplies Dry Up
ambiente, ecologia | energia
::: Slashdot

This is what 1 byte of RAM looked like in 1946. (h/t @reddit)
storia
::: MIT_CSAIL

Google Project Zero: 95.8% of All Bug Reports Are Fixed Before Deadline Expires
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot

#Microsoft's #Ebook Apocalypse Shows the Dark Side of #DRM
copyright e brevetti | open source
::: sdallagata

GLI ALTRI:"La mattina vado a correre, poi vado in ufficio, poi pausa pranzo in piscina, poi
umorismo
::: Zziagenio78

Electric Scooters Aren't Quite as Climate-Friendly as We Thought
ambiente, ecologia
::: Slashdot

US Cities Are Helping People Buy Amazon Surveillance Cameras Using Taxpayer Money
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot


GermanWiper Ransomware Hits Germany Hard, Destroys Files, Asks For Ransom
frodi
::: Slashdot

NYT Publishes Anti-Google Rant, Doesn't Mention Author Is Facebook Board Member
ad, pubblicità | ditte
::: Slashdot

The biggest problem with Facebook's 3rd party fact-checking project is that the social network doesn't provide enough data to determine whether the program is actually having any effect or not
Facebook
::: mathewi

Alphabet Overtakes Apple To Become Most Cash-Rich Company
economia, lavoro | ditte
::: Slashdot

Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover
novità
::: orporick

Satellites Reveal 'Hot Lightning' Strikes Are Most Likely To Start Wildfires
tecnologia
::: Slashdot

Behold our wondrous future
hardware
::: chriswelch

How Chinese companies are using AI to personalize education
artificial intelligence | scuola, educazione, cultura
::: fabiochiusi

Uno: non è stata trovata traccia di cocaina. Due: il collegamento con gli “spinelli” è completamente inventato. Tre: sono state trovate tracce di psicofarmaci e basta. Quattro: non fidatevi di quello che leggete in rete, leggete i quotidiani che verificano sempre le notizie
i media "seri", quelli di carta
media | disinformazione, fake news, bufale
::: Chiappuz ::: DavidPuente

Facebook to Add Its Name to Instagram, WhatsApp
Facebook
::: emenietti

Quando un pedone col cellulare incontra un automobilista col cellulare
cit.
::: robgere

#otd in 1977 Radio Shack unveiled its 1st PC, “the TRS-80,” w/4 KB of RAM
storia
::: MIT_CSAIL

My new website is up. It’s a live experiment of creating in Common Lisp
lisp(s)
::: hackingrun

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