AI Hiring Algorithmumorismo
::: xkcd
So many companies think that providing Android and iOS apps makes things easier. But for me, having to install an app is a big hurdle (clutter & doesn’t run on desktops). A web app is a much more compelling proposition
applicazioni, programmi | Web, Internet
::: rauschma
The Curse of Outdated DRM Claims Another Vicim, 'Tron: Evolution'
copyright e brevetti
::: Slashdot
Amazon Proposes a Home Robot that Asks You Questions When It's Confused
artificial intelligence | robots, automazione, droni
::: Slashdot
9 domande a sulla vendita del dominio .org: Mozilla scrive a #ICANN
Web, Internet
::: WikimediaItalia
The iPhone 11 Pro's Location Data Puzzler
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot
Machine Learning is fundamentally a computing UI innovation, much like desktop GUI + mice, or spreadsheet software. A new interface between what people want, and the production of computer programs that implement it. A new medium
machine learning
::: fchollet
Microsoft is Still Planning a Cheaper, Disc-Less Next-Gen Xbox, Report Says
hardware | games
::: Slashdot
Study That Argued EVs Aren't Cleaner Gets an Update
energia
::: Slashdot
Wow: Facebook's Head of AI, @an_open_mind, says the Field Will Soon ‘Hit the Wall’. There must be some pretty intense internal debates over there
Facebook | artificial intelligence
::: GaryMarcus
Apple's Activation Lock Will Make It Very Difficult To Refurbish Macs
Apple | hardware
::: Slashdot
New Iranian Wiper Discovered In Attacks On Middle Eastern Companies
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot
Instructions per cycle: AMD Zen 2 versus Intel
hardware
::: lemire
Some more data indicating that #Bitcoin’s attack-resistance will likely continue to deteriorate as its block subsidy declines. #halvening
blockchain e crypto*
::: MorganTBennett
The Magic Mouse 3 will have wireless charging
umorismo
::: TimothyCookothy
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 765 Chip Could Usher In the First Affordable 5G Phones
hardware | 5G
::: Slashdot
Profilavano anche utenti ignari. Oggi pubblico il documento, redatto da Casaleggio, che lo prova. Seconda puntata per @Linkiesta sulla #cambridgeanalitica che parla italiano
Facebook | politica
::: BiondoNik ::: BiondoNik ::: carloalberto ::: BiondoNik ::: BiondoNik
Com’è che si chiama questo social? Non lo ricordo più, lo smartphone mi sta uccidendo la memoria! Signore della Carta, grazie per darci anche oggi il nostro panico morale tecnologico quotidiano. 🙏
umorismo
::: fabiochiusi ::: fabiochiusi
🛑 @WhatsApp Please pay attention to this. There is no Internet in Kashmir for the past 4 months now, and your algorithm is deleting Kashmiri Whatsapp accounts which have been inactive for over 120 days, for no fault of theirs
censura
::: Shehla_Rashid ::: PranavDixit
Social Media to Surpass Print in Global Advertising Spend This Year
ad, pubblicità | media
::: DataMediaHub
A Basic WeakMap Performance Hint
programming, codice, snippet
::: WebReflection ::: WebReflection
I continue to think "Dynamic Inference of Static Types for Ruby" is an extremely cool paper that deserves more attention. Want to prove static type safety? Just run your tests! Dijkstra was wrong y'all!
programming, codice, snippet
::: lambda_calculus
Over the years I used many software frameworks and built quite a few myself. I have in-depth experience. What kind of patterns are there in how you as an application developer interact with a framework?
programming, codice, snippet
::: faassen
"His time among mortals is simply done." @CaseyNewton on glorious form assessing the final days of Page and Brin
protagonisti | Google
::: rowlsmanthorpe
Mass surveillance through facial recognition technology threatens not just the right to privacy, but also democracy, freedom, and the opportunity to develop one’s self with dignity, autonomy and equality in society
riconoscimento facciale
::: fabiochiusi
Is another Internet possible? - Very interesting analysis of @UKLabour’s digital infrastructure plans by @jwyg. This level of ambition (and willingness to correct course) is something we also need on the European level to build a #SharedDigitalEurope
Web, Internet
::: paul_keller
Nine years before September 11th, AG Barr secretly became the godfather of mass surveillance. Today Senators are finally calling for an ethics investigation into how such an obviously unconstitutional program ever came to be authorized, and how it currently operates
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus | Edward Snowden
::: Snowden
#BlogPostAlert Yesterday, metalinguistic abstraction dropped. It continues the series on SICP (c/o @dabeaz's course). If you're new to the series, linking you directly to the post would be tossing you in the deep end, so here's the whole series
avendo tempo...
programming, codice, snippet | Scheme
::: HeyChelseaTroy
Hackers Trick Venture Capital Firm Into Sending Them $1 Million
frodi
::: Slashdot
hould foreign travelers and immigrants have to give the Trump administration details of all of their social media accounts just to enter the U.S.?
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: drewharwell
Una battaglia impopolare e difficile per il Partito Pirata: una firma per chiedere il referendum contro la riforma che ruba rappresentanza ai cittadini
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: partitopirata
Unlawful video surveillance with face recognition in Belgrade
riconoscimento facciale
::: fabiochiusi
My basic discovery about Twitter is that the best way to get attacked on this platform is to suggest a more civil discourse in the public arena
social media | Twitter
::: jonallendc
«One of the results of the study was that 93% of tweets about vaccines are generated by bot accounts that preferentially tweet false information about vaccines»
disinformazione, fake news, bufale
::: lauramorron
New Linux Vulnerability Lets Attackers Hijack VPN Connections
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot
At Apple, we work hard to ensure that our customers can go to sleep at night
umorismo
::: TimothyCookothy
The Most Copied StackOverflow Java Code Snippet Contains a Bug
programming, codice, snippet | social media
::: Slashdot
"TikTok asked mods to watch 15-second videos & decide if the creator looked like the type of person others might bully" Based on this, they suppressed videos from these "types of people" incl. disabled people, LGBTQ people, etc
censura
::: mer__edith
44 Million Microsoft Users Reused Passwords in the First Three Months of 2019
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot
China Resurrects Great Cannon For DDoS Attacks On Hong Kong Forum
frodi
::: Slashdot
Filmmakers Sue State Department Over Social Media Surveillance Rules
social media | politica
::: Slashdot
Most of the Largest US Voting Districts Are Vulnerable To Email Spoofing
politica | privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot
"Quantum Physics Generator"
umorismo
::: InertialObservr ::: skdh
Cranky Uncle: The smartphone game designed to fight climate denial - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
disinformazione, fake news, bufale
::: RadioProzac
A Facebook rumor about white vans is spreading fear across America
“The mayor said he had not been told of the apparent threat by Baltimore Police but said it was "all over Facebook."
disinformazione, fake news, bufale
::: chsever
Bellissimo pezzo di @brunosaetta, che restituisce al tema della comprensione dell'origine e diffusione della disinformazione tutta la sua complessità senza farci annegare il lettore
disinformazione, fake news, bufale
::: fabiochiusi
Good summary for @Debian's Init GR vote. I support proposal D and have faith most DDs will block gratuitous hostilities against diversity and Init Freedom. Here my open letter to make it clear that @DevuanOrg is not a stand-alone solution
Linux distro
::: jaromil
"researchers at NATO's Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence (...) were able to purchase roughly 54,000 inauthentic social media interactions (...) with little, if any, pushback from some of Silicon Valley's biggest names"
disinformazione, fake news, bufale
::: fabiochiusi
We just released version 1.7.0 of http://Frei0r.dyne.org a large collection of portable video plugins (now up to 128!) powering many free and open source software, including FFMpeg, KDEnlive, Pure Data, Shotcut, LiVES, VeeJay and many others. Happy (video) hacking!
open source
::: jaromil
W3C Recommends WebAssembly To Push the Limits For Speed, Efficiency and Responsiveness
Web, Internet | linguaggi di programmazione
::: Slashdot ::: WasmWeekly
Remember when you were told that your memes will be safe? France just published its proposal to include #uploadfilters in its #copyright law and "forgot" all safeguards meant to protect users. Here's what this means for the rest of the EU
copyright e brevetti | censura
::: Senficon
Keep Your IoT Devices on a Separate Network, FBI Says
Internet of things | privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot
Magic Leap, a Startup That Has Raised Over $2.3 Billion, Has Sold Just 6,000 Units of Its $2,300 VR Headset -- Far Below 1 Million Units Its CEO Initially Hoped
virtual reality
::: Slashdot
AMD Zen 2 and branch mispredictions
hardware
::: lemire
European Plan To Tackle Space Debris? Hug it Out
spazio, esplorazione
::: Slashdot
FTC Finds Cambridge Analytica Deceived Facebook Users
frodi | Facebook
::: Slashdot
Won’t you look at that: Amazon is coming to NYC anyway - *without* requiring the public to finance shady deals, helipad handouts for Jeff Bezos, & corporate giveaways
grande AOC! 💥🤩
economia, lavoro | politica
::: AOC
"I actually have no good idea at all...I guesstimate a user base of about 50,000 active users: that may be way off-base, but it doesn't sound too unlikely." Linus answering to Linux Journal on what is his best guess of the Linux use in 1994
storia
::: unix_byte
Trump Administration Drops Plans For Mandatory Face Scans of Citizens
riconoscimento facciale
::: Slashdot
Social Media Platforms Leave 95 Percent of Reported Fake Accounts Up, Study Finds
disinformazione, fake news, bufale
::: Slashdot
Deepfake Porn Is Evolving To Give People Total Control Over Women's Bodies
deepfake
::: Slashdot
lil scooplet: TikTok settles children’s data lawsuit one day after it was filed
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: kellymakena
Internet Explorer
umorismo
::: Merryweatherey
In one of first major surveys of public opinion toward #facialrecognition technology in mainland @China, 57% of respondents were concerned about movements being tracked, & 84% wanted to review #data collected by system. #surveillance
riconoscimento facciale
::: NTusikov
It's official: Germany has new media law, and extends media regulation to platforms, including, for the first time, platform specific diversity rules
social media | censura | politica
::: nhelberger ::: juanof9
What I like about LaTeX
umorismo
::: ctitusbrown
Biased Algorithms Are Easier to Fix Than Biased People
“Changing algorithms is easier than changing people: software on computers can be updated; the “wetware” in our brains has so far proven much less pliable”
algoritmi, codice
::: fabiochiusi
Grande idea, amico Spotify
umorismo
::: NatangeloM
The work done by @Europeanaeu proves how valuable it is to preserve #culturalheritage in #digital format. New #CopyrightDirective modernizes preservation exception (Article 6). Check-out this very interesting analysis from @communia_eu and @IFLA
storia
::: nichczynski
Hour of Code Will Teach Kids How To Use AI To Judge Who Is 'Awesome' Or Not
::: Slashdot
Blockchain Is Not China’s Future — It’s The Present
blockchain e crypto*
::: AngieTVLau
Iteration, Recursion, and Tail-call Optimization in Elixir
linguaggi di programmazione
::: AppSignal
Quantum Computation with Machine-Learning-Controlled Quantum Stuff
quantum computing | machine learning
::: skdh
La fin de l'ère des plateformes pour les médias d'infos déçus
media | economia, lavoro
::: EricScherer
On Lisp Machines decades ago, running Lisp all the way down to the OS and even the hardware (as I'm sure you know but others reading might not), one commonly ran several months without rebooting (i.e., restarting Lisp). That's how/why garbage collection technology became robust
storia
::: KentPitman
How Fake News Is Still Fooling Facebook's Fact-Checking Systems
disinformazione, fake news, bufale | Facebook
::: Slashdot
Nearly 60 years ago today Grace Hopper launched her programming language COBOL, one of the world’s first pieces of free software - and one that’s still used in many banking & payroll systems
storia
::: MIT_CSAIL
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