Facebook Is Still Prioritizing Scale Over Safety
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot
I'm not saying that having upgraded all desktop from Windows to #Linux and #OpenSource would have avoided this catastrophe at @jlugiessen but... No, this time I'm actually saying it! Get rid of Windows and Office already!
sistemi operativi
::: Vecchi_Paolo
Kramnik and AlphaZero: How To Rethink Chess
tecnologia | artificial intelligence
::: Slashdot
TurboPLONK means Universal SNARKs can now outperform Groth16 on certain circuits, and gas costs are almost identical. Brings fast privacy on Ethereum a huge step closer
blockchain e crypto*
::: trpocock
Four years ago I setup bash to keep a history of all the commands I type
programming, codice, snippet
::: CoolSWEng
Bitcoin Was the Best Investment of the Decade
blockchain e crypto*
::: Slashdot
"The internet is the largest coal-fired machine on the entire planet." ascinating piece by @krevinlorenzo on the realities of a warming world and the prospects for a greener web
ambiente, ecologia | Web, Internet
::: bentarnoff
Microsoft contributing to Shenandoah GC and @OpenJDK. Good times! 👍😊
open source
::: rkennke
Walt Mossberg: Tim Cook's Apple Had a Great Decade But No New Blockbusters
Apple
::: Slashdot
ESA’s #Cheops lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in #Kourou, French Guiana today. The #SoyuzFregat launcher also delivered the Italian #space agency’s #CosmoSkyMed Second Generation #satellite, and 3 #CubeSats – including #ESA’s OPS-SAT – into space
spazio, esplorazione
::: Nereide
Lawmakers balk after Facebook explains how it collects and monetizes location data of users who have denied location services in their smartphone OS for its app
::: Techmeme
Russia Joins Race To Make Quantum Dreams a Reality
quantum computing
::: Slashdot
Google, this is a lie
::: CassidyJames
Vladimir Putin 'Still Uses Obsolete Windows XP' Despite Hacking Risk
sistemi operativi | privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot ::: Flavio_MfM
Can anyone relate?
umorismo
::: ProgrammersMeme
More than 38,000 People Will Stand in Line this Week To Get a New Password
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot
As humans, we comfortably use zero in mathematical operations. But the concept of “nothing” has yet to enter the realm of artificial intelligence
uhmmm...
artificial intelligence
::: IEEESpectrum
UK To Create Regulator To Police Big Tech Companies
politica | ditte
::: Slashdot
Software runs the millions of daily ad auctions at Google. Algorithms decide which cars offer rides on Uber. It sets the price of headphones on Amazon and runs the robots that clean floors in some Walmart locations
automazione
::: RichRogersX
Samsung Chair Imprisoned and 24 Others Found Guilty In Union-Busting Case
frodi | ditte
::: Slashdot
Tesla Is Nerfing Autopilot In Europe To Comply With New Regulations
automazione
::: Slashdot
MIT bioengineers have developed a way to store invisible vaccine records under the skin
tecnologia
::: IEEESpectrum
Judge Rules Edward Snowden Can't Profit From His Book
Edward Snowden
::: Slashdot ::: Snowden
Instagram, Facebook Bans Influencers From Getting Paid To Promote Vaping, Tobacco, and Weapons
Facebook | ad, pubblicità
::: Slashdot
Wow. “Peter Thiel behind Facebook's political ad policy. Thiel pressed Facebook Chief Mark Zuckerberg to maintain a policy of not fact-checking political ads that appear on the social-media network”
Facebook | protagonisti | politica | ad, pubblicità
::: Benioff
 |
| Manhattan, New York City, 1918 |
House Calls 'Save the Internet Act' One of Its Biggest 2019 Accomplishments
Web, Internet
::: Slashdot
Not good: "In general, Bing returns disinformation and misinformation at a significantly higher rate than Google does. Across the top 50 results for 12 separate queries... Bing returned at least 125 sources of disinformation and misinformation, while Google returned 13"
disinformazione, fake news, bufale
::: BrendanNyhan
Quantum computing is coming! Get a (very simple) taste of how quantum computer programs modify bits of #quantum information in this #QuantumAtlas interactive
quantum computing
::: thequantumatlas
Japan to tighten screws on tech giants to ensure transparency
The new law would oblige tech giants, including Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon to disclose the terms of contracts with customers and to report to the government about their operations
regolamentazioni
::: fabiochiusi
I'm confused about people wanting new HTML elements when custom elements don't appear to even be interoperable across browsers yet :/ Can we a least finish one thing before we move onto the next thing?
Web, Internet | programming, codice, snippet
::: marcosc
Traduco. Se vuoi dare 1500 €/mese al tuo dipendente, ne devi sborsare 3750. Il resto va a pagare una PA di notoria efficienza e una legione di pensionati
lavoro | economia, lavoro
::: MarcoCantamessa ::: danieleviotti
The kinds of stress tests that are standard in the development of an automobile (such as crash tests and climate challenges), for example, are rarely seen in AI. AI could learn a lot from how other engineers do business
artificial intelligence
::: fabiochiusi
2020 should be the year of human rights in AI
artificial intelligence
::: fabiochiusi
Le pubblicità personalizzate sui social sono talmente “intelligenti” e “mirate” che da quando mi sono trasferito a Berlino assumono abbia magicamente imparato il tedesco — e dunque mi mostrano solo contenuti totalmente incomprensibili e inutili
ad, pubblicità
::: fabiochiusi
A study commissioned by the @risj_oxford argues that when it comes to news, young people are most concerned with 'what it can do for them as individuals—rather than society as a whole
novità
::: risj_oxford
Communications blackout in Delhi, India's capital, to thwart protests against Modi govt's bigoted, unconstitutional and dangerous
censura
::: Shehla_Rashid
not a bad way to end the decade
umorismo
::: h0mberto
📢🎁🤸♂️ Today is the day -- #Debezium 1.0 is here! Powerful low-latency #ChangeDataCapture for a variety of databases, fully open-source. A big thank you to all the fantastic people in the community who made this possible, you're truly amazing!
tool, componente software | open source
::: debezium
As robots and AI systems become a more prominent part of our lives, their ability to explain what they are doing (and why) will be a critical factor in allowing us to trust them
artificial intelligence | robots, automazione, droni
::: IEEESpectrum
#TikTok cresce in Italia: 2,4 milioni gli utenti attivi - 236 video al minuto postati soprattutto all'ora di pranzo e dopo le 20.
social media
::: LalaHu9
Fantastic @ProjectJupyter notebook tutorial on #networkscience #visualization by @jkbren @hneutr and Alec Kirkley on using #networkx @matplotlib 😍
il link è da correggere eliminando la parte dopo "#"
Python
::: artistjaneadams
🖊️ 80 organisations, dont le @reseau_ritimo demandent au gouvernement et au Parlement d'interdire les dispositifs de #ReconnaissanceFaciale sécuritaires présentes et à venir. #lettreouverte #Technopolice
riconoscimento facciale
::: reseau_ritimo
Blockchain Browsers — How DLT Could Affect Web Surfing
blockchain e crypto* | browser
::: hsianghui
An Investigation Into the Smartphone Tracking Industry
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot
Thank you so much for your feedback about synthetic and manipulated media. We received more than 6,500 responses during the open comment period, which will help shape our new policy
::: TwitterSafety
Sull'impatto dei tablet a scuola
scuola, educazione, cultura
::: andcapocci
Haven’t released an iOS update for a while
umorismo
::: federighiOS
We just released Rust 1.40.0 to the world, featuring #[non_exhaustive], NLL errors in Rust 2015, and much more! 🎉
linguaggi di programmazione
::: rustlang
Peppermint 10 ‘Respin’ Released with Updated Theme and New Utilities
Linux distro
::: dcavedon
Worried About 5G's Health Effects? Don't Be
5G
::: Slashdot
Question: Is Rust's macro system powerful enough to, say, implement a class system that feels like its a native part of rust? (In fact, does any language besides Racket and Scheme have a macro system powerful enough for that?)
linguaggi di programmazione
::: LeifAndersen
Facebook is Building an Operating System So it Can Ditch Android
sistemi operativi | Facebook
::: Slashdot
Windows 7 è morto ma salviamo il computer
hardware | sistemi operativi
::: Genjuro75
I answered a few questions about measuring progress towards generality in AI 🤖🎮
artificial intelligence
::: fchollet
UK-U.S. treaty bans extradition of Assange, lawyer says
Julian Assange
::: aiww ::: disinformatico
The log-in credentials for 3,672 Ring camera owners were compromised this week, exposing log-in emails, passwords, time zones, and the names people give to specific Ring cameras, often the same as camera locations
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: fabiochiusi
Africa's Internet Management Body Mired Again by Corruption Allegations
frodi
::: Slashdot
La sorveglianza commerciale sul web usa il fingerprinting
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: ilmanifesto
Absent sweeping reform, this is the whole world in ten years. Remember: both parties in the US defend mass surveillance programs. China's "advantage" here is not technological, but that there's no strong civil opposition to slow the descent into nightmare
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus | Edward Snowden
::: Snowden
Smash This Robot
The robotic bugs survived being flattened by a fly swatter and after being peeled off from the surface, they continued crawling
robots, automazione, droni | privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: IEEESpectrum
Can an AI Fact-Checker Solve India’s #FakeNews Problem? Tl;dr: no
artificial intelligence | disinformazione, fake news, bufale
::: RadioProzac
“The greatest trick technology companies ever played was persuading society to surveil itself” | Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: hare_brain
Facebook to ban misleading posts and ads about the U.S. Census, including those spread by politicians, in response to concerns raised by civil-rights groups that the site could be weaponized to scare minorities, immigrants and others
Facebook | disinformazione, fake news, bufale
::: TonyRomm
A long, long overdue, PyCX 1.0 is finally here
Python
::: HirokiSayama
Vivaldi To Change User-Agent String To Chrome Due To Unfair Blocking
browser
::: Slashdot
Breaking news! @mozilla is going to replace IRC with @matrixdotorg / Riot as the instant communication platform! This is a huge step towards helping an open-source, safe, accessible, decentralized platform, and it makes me quite happy 🤗🎉🍾
browser | open source
::: bnjbvr
This is becoming a real trend -- Facebook promises lots of data to help researchers, but provides very little. Twitter isn't much better
social media
::: mathewi
As a scientist, I'm very surprised that @TheOfficialACM signed this letter, given their generally good policy on stuff like not requesting © transfer for scientific articles. As a member of the organization, I oppose this signature and ask they reconsider
copyright e brevetti
::: zacchiro ::: csperkins
Facebook admitted this week that they track your location even when you’ve turned off location tracking — and then sell that data to advertisers. Your data is your property. Tech companies should absolutely not be allowed to use it without your permission
Facebook | privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: AndrewYang
IBM says its new battery has no heavy metals, can recharge to 80 percent in under 5 minutes, and is made from materials derived from seawater. But the company offered few details by which to evaluate its claims
energia
::: IEEESpectrum
FB's terms of service forbid much of the investigative work that would expose the platform's influence on society. FB knows this, but has refused to create a safe harbor that would protect good-faith and public-interest investigations on the platform
::: AlexanderAbdo
Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom Filters
programming, codice, snippet
::: lemire
SpaceX Is Lobbying Against Amazon's Internet-Beaming Satellites
spazio, esplorazione | Web, Internet
::: Slashdot
Another big win for democratic governance over surveillance technology fatalism & techno-economic determinism! Special thanks to @onekade & all of the other amazing people at @ACLU_Mass who have been working non-stop to protect civil liberties.
riconoscimento facciale
::: EvanSelinger
Why the Second-Hand eBook Market May Never Take Off
copyright e brevetti
::: Slashdot
I believe deep thinking can only be done in writing
cit.
::: fchollet
Researchers filmed 88 students walking. Some were told to "hide" an object. Those hiding ="deceptive." They trained an AI model to detect patterns across "deceptive" videos Based on this, they claim their AI can ID deception as a feature of walking 🚫
artificial intelligence
::: mer__edith
Thanks to Eric Marsden and a somewhat-functional-programmer, ABCL can now host SBCL again
Lisp
::: ArmedBear
Copasir: Escludere le aziende cinesi dal 5G per ragioni di sicurezza nazionale, ma Huawei domina il settore mentre nel 6G è avanti il Giappone
5G
::: LalaHu9 ::: giuliapompili
The software behind Facebook’s new Supreme Court for content moderation
::: verge
Researchers want to put machine learning on low-power microprocessors on the edges of networks
machine learning
::: IEEESpectrum
Russia will temporarily cut off some internet access in test of new system designed to isolate, track, control citizens
censura
::: harikunzru
Et je trouve bien plus intéressant de directement parler des abus policiers que de potentiels biais des algo, qui sont souvent une question repoussoir pour ne pas parler des intentions politiques de la police/gouvernement
algoritmi, codice | politica
::: Oncela5Eva
Apple Has Secret Team Working on Satellites To Beam Data To Devices
innovazioni, futuro | dati, raccolta
::: Slashdot
C'est officiel: la France déploie ses premiers drones armés au Sahel après trois tirs de validation réussis. Nos photos #AFP d'un Reaper français armé de GBU 12, avant le premier tir d'expérimentation dimanche à Niamey
robots, automazione, droni
::: phnou
Boeing Capsule Goes Off Course, Won't Dock at Space Station
spazio, esplorazione
::: Slashdot
Cox Owes $1 Billion To Record Labels for Harboring Music Pirates, Jury Decides
pirateria
::: Slashdot
I've been meaning to explain the dangers of #Article17 of the EU #copyright directive to my US friends for a long time, so here it is, just published with @BKCHarvard: Why Americans Should Worry About the New EU Copyright Rules
copyright e brevetti
::: Senficon ::: IlvesToomas
WeWork's Sudden Fall Reveals the Cracks in the Startup Economy
economia, lavoro
::: Slashdot
The US-China trade war has since morphed into what looks very much like a cold war over who will own the high-growth digital industries of the future, from artificial intelligence to quantum computing
artificial intelligence | quantum computing
::: marioricciard18
Over 267 Million Facebook Users Reportedly Had Data Exposed Online
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot
CERN Endorsing Microsoft Alternatives Like ownCloud, Kopano, Alt-Office Suite
open source | applicazioni, programmi
::: dcavedon
State of Apple's Catalyst
Apple | programming, codice, snippet
::: Slashdot
Amazon's AI Creates Synthesized Singers
artificial intelligence
::: Slashdot
Dystopia Alert: Pro-Trump anti-China Epoch Times Media group using deep fake style face generation tools to build fake accounts instead of stealing real images/identities. Hyperreal simulations of fake humans convincingly generated by machines
frodi | disinformazione, fake news, bufale | politica | Facebook
::: profcarroll
Facebook Removes Deceptive BL Network Following Snopes' Reporting
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: RadioProzac
The Big Business of Being a Space Janitor
spazio, esplorazione
::: Slashdot
Volkswagon Has 'massive' Software Problems With New ID3 Electric Vehicles
bug
::: Slashdot
Microsoft Research came up with an A.I. model to predict the number of bugs in a code base
artificial intelligence | programming, codice, snippet
::: Carnage4Life
Wawa Announces Data Breach Potentially Affecting More Than 850 Stores
privacy, sicurezza, spionaggio, virus
::: Slashdot
Brookline Votes To Ban Face Surveillance
riconoscimento facciale
::: Slashdot
When I was a MS student, my advisor told me to multiply projected budgets & timelines by 3 because things will run over. I thought that was ridiculous
programming, codice, snippet
::: FuSchmu
With all the bad decisions Apple is making and the good ones Microsoft is making, I’m giving Windows with WLS 2 a real shot as a dev machine
sistemi operativi
::: wilbowma
The XBox Series X is very monolith looking
games
::: nerdist
Twitter Removes Nearly 6,000 Saudi-Backed Accounts For Platform Manipulation
disinformazione, fake news, bufale
::: Slashdot ::: TwitterSafety ::: evaristegal0is ::: evaristegal0is
Silicon Valley’s vigorous promotion of “ethical AI” has constituted a strategic lobbying effort, one that has enrolled academia to legitimize itself
artificial intelligence | scuola, educazione, cultura
::: fabiochiusi
Le nuove scritte "from Facebook" sotto le app di WhatsApp e Instagram mi stanno donando un certo senso di inquietudine che fatico a descrivere
Facebook | social media
::: ciarlariellos
Really looking forward to converting all my Slack friends to DeltaChat one of these days
social media
::: wilbowma
More about ACM’s many open-source options later today. But as @ScienceMagazine says, the real problem is changing the 2013 policy dramatically, without public hearings or stakeholder input to ensure the changes are feasible
open source
::: ACM_president ::: wilbowma ::: bcombemale ::: ReaderMeter ::: rdicosmo ::: emeryberger ::: science_dot ::: wilbowma ::: samth ::: ShriramKMurthi ::: samth ::: JAldrichCMU ::: r_speer ::: lambda_calculus ::: zacchiro ::: zacchiro ::: random_walker ::: cristalopes ::: j2simpso ::: weskerfoot ::: mikarv ::: positiveblue2 ::: geomblog
The network is among the first to make widespread use of artificially generated profile pictures and spent more than $9 million on advertising > important work by @Graphika_NYC and @DFRLab
Facebook | artificial intelligence | ad, pubblicità
::: MarietjeSchaake
E sulla concorrenza l’Europa batte gli Usa
economia, lavoro
::: FPanunzi
E se Trump avesse ragione
open source
::: RadioProzac
The Digital Revolution put a computer on every desk, in every home, & in every pocket. The Industrial IoT revolution will put a computer in every machine. The Corporate IT team needs to very quickly become the Corporate IoT team
Internet of things
::: RichRogersX
I just completed "Space Stoichiometry" - Day 14 - Advent of Code 2019 #AdventOfCode (I took me a week after many failed attempts: I was not properly considering the reaction leftovers... but I learned the use of #python defaultdict and Queue()!)
Python
::: marcodelmastro
Atari's Home Computers Turn 40
storia
::: Slashdot
Quantum Information Edge, a nationwide alliance of national labs, universities, and industry launched today to advance the frontiers of quantum computing systems
quantum computing
::: BerkeleyLab
Science fact of the day: nobody has ever learned C++
??? o ragazzi appena usciti dalla scuola lo usano al posto di Python
linguaggi di programmazione
::: zooko
Science and Technology links (December 21st 2019): wind turbines may be worse for global warming than fossil fuels on the short term, tiger populations are going up, neural networks for mathematics
novità
::: lemire
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