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Apple announces Self Service Repair

17 novembre 2021 /

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« Apple today announced Self Service Repair, which will allow customers who are comfortable with completing their own repairs access to Apple genuine parts and tools. Available first for the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 lineups, and soon to be followed by Mac computers featuring M1 chips, Self Service Repair will be available early next year in the US and expand to additional countries throughout 2022. Customers join more than 5,000 Apple Authorized Service Providers (AASPs) and 2,800 Independent Repair Providers who have access to these parts, tools, and manuals ».

Source : Apple announces Self Service Repair – Apple

Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia

16 novembre 2021 /

“One of the most common reasons? Typing was just too hard.In Cambodia’s case, there has never been an easy way to type in Khmer. While Khmer Unicode was standardized fairly early, between 2006 and 2008, the keyboard itself lagged behind. The developers of the first Khmer computer keyboard had to accommodate the language’s 74 characters, the most of any script in the world. ”

Source : Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia. Here’s why – Rest of World

Pourquoi le Parti pirate a été banni de Twitch pendant le débat de la droite

15 novembre 2021 /

“Le problème qu’ont subi à la fois Hugo Décrypte et le Parti pirate en rediffusant sur Twitch des contenus produits par d’autres groupes au nom du droit de traiter de l’actualité et du droit à l’information pourrait devenir de plus en plus prégnant à mesure que l’échéance présidentielle se rapproche. Les émissions politiques vont se multiplier d’ici avril 2022 et, avec elles, les envies de participer au débat démocratique, y compris, donc, sur Twitch.”

Source : Pourquoi le Parti pirate a été banni de Twitch pendant le débat de la droite

Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code

13 novembre 2021 /

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“As far as personal feelings are concerned, of course we would prefer if people so antithetical to our values did not use and benefit from our labour, but the reality of working on free software is that you give up the possibility of choosing who can and cannot use it from the get-go, so in a practical sense the only issue we can take with something like Truth Social is if they don’t even comply with the free software license we release our work under. On Oct 26, we sent a formal letter to Truth Social’s chief legal officer, requesting the source code to be made publicly available in compliance with the license. According to AGPLv3, after being notified by the copyright holder, Truth Social has 30 days to comply or the license may be permanently revoked.”

Source : Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code: Our statement – Official Mastodon Blog

Intrinsic – X, the moonshot factory

13 novembre 2021 /

“What if robots could be as easy to use as computers are today? The Intrinsic team has been developing software and AI tools that use sensor data from a robot’s environment so that it can sense, learn from, and quickly adapt to the real world. The team hopes that by making industrial robots easier to use, they can enable people to make products and build businesses that we can only just begin to imagine.”

Source : Intrinsic – X, the moonshot factory

Facebook AI moderator confused videos of mass shootings and car washes | Ars Technica

13 novembre 2021 /

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“Facebook’s internal documents reveal just how far its AI moderation tools are from identifying what human moderators were easily catching. Cockfights, for example, were mistakenly flagged by the AI as a car crash. “These are clearly cockfighting videos,” the report said. In another instance, videos livestreamed by perpetrators of mass shootings were labeled by AI tools as paintball games or a trip through a carwash. If the situation sounds grim in the US or among English-speaking countries, it appears far worse elsewhere. In Afghanistan, for example, the company said in reports that it lacks a dictionary of slurs in the country’s various languages. As a result, Facebook estimates that it identified just 0.23 percent of hate speech posted on the platform in Afghanistan.”

Source : Facebook AI moderator confused videos of mass shootings and car washes | Ars Technica

12 novembre 2021 /

“At YouTube, we strive to be a place where creators of all sizes and backgrounds can find and share their voice. To ensure that YouTube promotes respectful interactions between viewers and creators, we introduced several features and policies to improve their experience. And earlier this year, we experimented with the dislike button to see whether or not changes could help better protect our creators from harassment, and reduce dislike attacks — where people work to drive up the number of dislikes on a creator’s videos.
As part of this experiment, viewers could still see and use the dislike button. But because the count was not visible to them, we found that they were less likely to target a video’s dislike button to drive up the count. In short, our experiment data showed a reduction in dislike attacking behavior.
We also heard directly from smaller creators and those just getting started that they are unfairly targeted by this behavior — and our experiment confirmed that this does occur at a higher proportion on smaller channels.
Based on what we learned, we’re making the dislike counts private across YouTube, but the dislike button is not going away. This change will start gradually rolling out today.”

Source : An update to dislikes on YouTube

Materialism — Studio Drift

5 novembre 2021 /

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“Materialism confronts the viewer on a very elementary level with the things we surround ourselves with and the materials that comprise them. The work calls for contemplation on how people deal with the raw materials at their disposal.Everyday products such as a vacuum cleaner, Volkswagen Beetle, pencil, or PET bottles, have been reduced to the exact quantity of the specific raw materials from which they are made, shown in the form of rectangular blocks. ”

Source : Materialism — Studio Drift

Squid Game Cryptocurrency Scammers Make Off With $2.1 Million

5 novembre 2021 /

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“If you’re going to buy cryptocurrency, the most important thing to look out for isn’t necessarily the price. First, figure out whether you can sell the coin after you bought it. If you can’t sell—like the people who invested in SQUID discovered they can’t—it doesn’t matter how high the price goes, just as it doesn’t matter how large of a number someone writes on Monopoly bills. Cryptocurrency is only worth what someone else is willing to pay for it. And if the rules say you can’t even sell, you’ve just been scammed. Sorry, folks.”

Source : Squid Game Cryptocurrency Scammers Make Off With $2.1 Million

Amazon copied products and rigged search results, documents show

5 novembre 2021 /

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“Thousands of pages of internal Amazon documents examined by Reuters – including emails, strategy papers and business plans – show the company ran a systematic campaign of creating knockoffs and manipulating search results to boost its own product lines in India, one of the company’s largest growth markets. The documents reveal how Amazon’s private-brands team in India secretly exploited internal data from Amazon.in to copy products sold by other companies, and then offered them on its platform. The employees also stoked sales of Amazon private-brand products by rigging Amazon’s search results so that the company’s products would appear, as one 2016 strategy report for India put it, “in the first 2 or three … search results” when customers were shopping on Amazon.in.”

Source : Amazon copied products and rigged search results, documents show

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