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14 mai 2018 /

«Le 23 mars, à la surprise générale, le Sénat américain a voté une loi dite Cloud Act. Elle ouvre la voie à une transmission simplifiée des données aux mains des plates-formes. Une condition à cela : la signature d’accords bilatéraux avec les Etats volontaires. Une porte ouverte à tous les marchandages, selon les détracteurs de cette loi. Le 17 avril, la Commission européenne a donc prévu de présenter sa contre-attaque dans le cadre d’un plan de lutte contre le terrorisme. Un texte en réalité en préparation depuis deux ans, et qui devrait lui aussi ouvrir une brèche dans la coopération judiciaire avec les GAFA».

Source : La guerre discrète de la « preuve numérique »

8 mai 2018 /

Il y a un peu plus de 18 ans…

«We live in an era fundamentally skeptical about self-government. Our age is obsessed with leaving things alone. Let the Internet develop as the coders would develop it, the common view has it. Keep government out.This is an understandable view, given the character of our government’s regulation. Given its flaws, it no doubt seems best simply to keep government away. But this is an indulgence that is dangerous at any time. It is particularly dangerous now» – Lawrence Lessig.

Source : Lawrence Lessig on the increasing regulation of cyberspace | Harvard Magazine

Facebook or Google — which should worry us more?

8 mai 2018 /

«Epstein’s group asked 661 Americans to pick one of two candidates in an Australian election. Since it was presumed they did not know much about Antipodean politics, the participants were instructed to research them with a Google-type search engine that offered the usual autocomplete suggestions when words were typed in. However, the researchers also varied the search suggestions shown beneath a candidate’s name, including a range of positive and negative words. The results were stark. When participants were later questioned about their voting preferences, changing the ratio of positive to negative suggestions in the autocomplete was shown to be capable of shifting the preferences of undecided voters by nearly 80 per cent — even though participants seemed free to search for any material they wanted».

Source : Facebook or Google — which should worry us more?

8 mai 2018 /

«Software designers face a basic tradeoff here. If the software is programmed to be too cautious, the ride will be slow and jerky, as the car constantly slows down for objects that pose no threat to the car or aren’t there at all. Tuning the software in the opposite direction will produce a smooth ride most of the time—but at the risk that the software will occasionally ignore a real object. According to Efrati, that’s what happened in Tempe in March—and unfortunately the « real object » was a human being».

Source : Report: Software bug led to death in Uber’s self-driving crash | Ars Technica

6 mai 2018 /

«Jusqu’à mardi dernier, l’iPhone X était un smartphone en sursis, un échec ambulant. Les analystes lui promettaient mille morts, mille descentes aux enfers. La lente agonie du produit raté qu’on attendait au firmament.Puis Apple a annoncé ses résultats financiers et le flop est devenu une bête de compétition, un tueur de marché, l’alpha dominant. Selon Apple, il a en effet survolé les ventes hebdomadaires de tout le premier trimestre 2018. Mieux, il est non seulement l’iPhone le plus vendu… mais aussi le smartphone le plus vendu».

Source : Apple écrase le marché des smartphones… mais c’est un triomphe en demi-teinte

6 mai 2018 /

«As in other countries, the citizens of Rohy will have to work to earn money. This currency will be in the form of cryptocurrency, called RohyCoin. Each payment will be made via the smartphone of the consumer. The trades offered at Rohy are varied. Some are essential to the good life of the country, for example: the police, the doctors, the restorers, the salesmen, or even the water managers. However, you can very well practice another profession, such as web developer or trader».

via Rohy (Kickstarter)

4 mai 2018 /

«The online retailer is inviting people to an office in New York to measure small changes in size and shape over the course of 20 weeks. Those chosen via a survey to participate in the 10, semimonthly visits will receive Amazon gift cards worth up to $250, according to an invitation reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “We are interested in understanding how bodies change shape over time,” according to the survey. The invite comes from Amazon’s new 3-D body scanning unit, an outgrowth of its acquisition last year of computer vision startup Body Labs.

Accurately predicting how a pair of jeans or a suit will fit is a Holy Grail for retail. Technology to model a human body and how clothing will look on it has a wide range of applications, from being able to prevent returns of ill-fitting garments to on-demand printing and production».

Source : Amazon Wants to Know Your Waistline – WSJ

4 mai 2018 /

«Today, we collectively and continuously document our city experience on social media platforms, shaping a virtual city image. Multiplicity reveals a novel view of this photographic landscape of attention and interests. How does Paris look as seen through the lens of thousands of photographers? What are the hotspots of attraction, what are the neglected corners? What are recurring poses and tropes? And how well do the published pictures reflect your personal view of the city?» – Via Nicolas Nova

Source : Truth & Beauty – Multiplicity

4 mai 2018 /

«DARPA’s MediFor program brings together world-class researchers to attempt to level the digital imagery playing field, which currently favors the manipulator, by developing technologies for the automated assessment of the integrity of an image or video and integrating these in an end-to-end media forensics platform. If successful, the MediFor platform will automatically detect manipulations, provide detailed information about how these manipulations were performed, and reasonoverall integrity of visual media to facilitate decisions regarding the use of any questionable image or video».

Source : Media Forensics

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