«The European Union is preparing legislation to force companies to turn over customers’ personal data when requested even if it is stored on servers outside the bloc, a position that will put Europe at loggerheads with tech giants and privacy campaigners».
Source : Europe seeks power to seize overseas data in challenge to tech giants
sooo does anyone else not open Snapchat anymore? Or is it just me… ugh this is so sad.
— Kylie Jenner (@KylieJenner) 21 février 2018
«After the celebrity tweeted “sooo does anyone else not open Snapchat anymore? Or is it just me” to her 24m followers, shares of the app’s parent company Snap plummeted 6% – a $1.3bn drop in market value that launched a fresh cycle of embarrassing headlines. But some analysts and Snapchatters said this was more than just a one-day PR snafu. Facing backlash from brands and influencers and ongoing competition from Facebook and newer apps like Musical.ly, another platform hugely popular among children, Snapchat is suffering from a larger existential crisis, and it’s unclear how it will recover».
Source : ‘We’re watching a company explode’: is Snapchat becoming irrelevant? | Technology | The Guardian
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«We’re glad those are the choices we’ve made. Today, we are launching the Signal Foundation, an emerging 501(c)(3) nonprofit created and made possible by Brian Acton, the co-founder of WhatsApp, to support, accelerate, and broaden Signal’s mission of making private communication accessible and ubiquitous. In case you missed it, Brian left WhatsApp and Facebook last year, and has been thinking about how to best focus his future time and energy on building nonprofit technology for public good.
Starting with an initial $50,000,000 in funding, we can now increase the size of our team, our capacity, and our ambitions».
Source : Signal >> Blog >> Signal Foundation
«Net neutrality rules will officially be off the books starting April 23rd. The date was revealed today after the Federal Communication Commission’s order revoking net neutrality was published in the Federal Register. You can read the full order here».
«Porter likes to joke that if people want to discuss something contentious, they should set aside U.S. politics and talk about power laws. But, he says, there’s a good reason these discussions are so fraught. ‘We have these arguments because the problems are hard and interesting’. Clauset sees his work with Broido not as an attack but as a call to action to network scientists, to examine a more diverse set of possible mechanisms and degree distributions than they have been doing. ‘Perhaps we should consider new ideas, as opposed to trying to force old ideas to fit’»
Source : The Theory That Explains the Structure of the Internet – The Atlantic
«D’un point de vue plus stratégique, on peut aussi dire que l’uberisation concurrence des ressources stratégiques (par exemple les licences de taxi ou les emplacements pour les hôtels) par la mutualisation de ressources ordinaires (des individus possédant une voiture ou des logements vides). Le prix d’une licence de taxi à New York s’est ainsi effondré de 1,3 million de dollars en 2014 à seulement 241 000 dollars en 2017. On peut donc en être certain : même si Uber disparaît, l’uberisation – qui touche désormais des industries aussi diverses que le transport routier (avec Trusk), les parkings (avec Parkadom), la publicité (avec Eyeka), le conseil (avec BTG) ou même les salons de coiffure (avec PopMyDay) – lui survivra, et c’est déjà considérable».
Source : Uber, le capitalisme dévoyé
«Most Americans are understandably shocked by what they view as an unprecedented attack on our political system. But intelligence veterans, and scholars who have studied covert operations, have a different, and quite revealing, view. ‘If you ask an intelligence officer, did the Russians break the rules or do something bizarre, the answer is no, not at all,” said Steven L. Hall, who retired in 2015 after 30 years at the C.I.A., where he was the chief of Russian operations. The United States “absolutely” has carried out such election influence operations historically, he said, “and I hope we keep doing it.’»
Source : Russia Isn’t the Only One Meddling in Elections. We Do It, Too. – The New York Times
«Pas moins de 2 300 000 fidèles et des vidéos qui enregistrent entre 15 et 20 millions de « vues » par mois. C’est d’ailleurs l’une d’entre elles, qui l’a fait passer de vidéaste populaire à star des 16-25 ans. En mars 2017, le « doc » découvre par hasard sur son Instagram une publicité pour une drôle de toupie à trois branches, le hand spinner. ‘J’ai trouvé ça marrant et j’en ai acheté une sur un site, explique-t-il devant une étagère remplie de gadgets. En jouant avec, je me suis dit que ça ferait un bon support pour expliquer la répartition des masses, le fonctionnement des roulements à billes, l’effet de déformation visuelle au moment de la rotation. Et pour tester une nouvelle série consacrée aux objets les plus surprenants’. Coup d’essai, coup de maître. Le cobaye rotatif fait complètement exploser l’audience de sa chaîne…»
Source : Dr Nozman, le vulgarisateur aux deux millions d’abonnés
«L’ado, cet être énigmatique (aux yeux de toute personne née avant 2000). Que fait-il ? Que veut-il ? Que craint-il ? Surtout quand il est collé à un écran, à commencer par celui de son smartphone ?»
Source : « Facebook, c’est pour les vieux »
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