«Our 200+ global organizations and companies are concerned that the FCC’s net neutrality repeal could negatively impact the world’s shared Internet ecosystem».
Source : The World for Net Neutrality
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«Since phishing has become much more common, network administrators have made a habit of telling users never to click on password reset links that go to different domains. Because of the way that Google has implemented AMP, however, Gmail users and people using Google apps for institutional use are now more vulnerable to such attacks. Phishers who use AMP pages can thereby employ official « google.com » web addresses to direct users to malicious sites».
Source : Russian hackers exploited a Google flaw the company has refused to fix – Salon.com
«Meet Todai Robot, an AI project that performed in the top 20 percent of students on the entrance exam for the University of Tokyo — without actually understanding a thing».
«Le 11 février 2013, Madame W. fait des recherches sur Internet, et, par curiosité, tape ses nom et prénom sur le moteur de recherche Google. Elle voit s’afficher l’inscription « dossier enfant » avec son numéro de sécurité sociale. En cliquant sur ce résultat, elle arrive sur le site « http://www.dbsi.eu », qui comporte d’autres noms et prénoms précédés d’un numéro de sécurité sociale. ..Elle clique sur le sien, et découvre le dossier médical de son fils, Jean-François, prématuré né à l’hôpital Nord de Marseille, le 22 juin 2008. Elle constate qu’elle peut aussi accéder aux autres, et même les modifier ou les supprimer.Le lendemain matin, elle porte plainte contre l’hôpital, pour violation du secret professionnel».
Source : Elle tape son nom sur Internet et découvre le dossier médical de son enfant | SOS conso
«According to court records, Zuckerberg owns more than 400 million shares of Facebook. That would value his holdings at a minimum of $68.2 billion, based on the company’s closing share on Friday of $170.54.Zuckerberg said he wanted to help solve global challenges “like curing all diseases in our children’s lifetime and personalizing education for every student.”»
Source : Zuckerberg nixes new Facebook share class after shareholder lawsuit
One of the world’s “big four” accountancy firms has been targeted by a sophisticated hack that compromised the confidential emails and plans of some of its blue-chip clients.
Deloitte, which is registered in London and has its global headquarters in New York, was the victim of a cybersecurity attack that went unnoticed for months.
In 2012, Deloitte, which has offices all over the world, was ranked the best cybersecurity consultant in the world.
Source : Deloitte hit by cyber-attack revealing clients’ secret emails | Business | The Guardian
«Clarification appended 9/15/17, 2:30 pm EDT: This piece has been edited to clarify Apple’s plan to store FaceID information locally and how a surveillance order might work».
Source : Apple’s FaceID Could Be a Powerful Tool for Mass Spying | WIRED
«Je ne dirais pas que la montée des radicalités est due aux réseaux sociaux. Je dirais que la montée de la visibilité des radicalités est due aux réseaux sociaux» – Nicolas Vanderbiest.
Source : Radicalités : et si on arrêtait de croire qu’internet est le miroir de la société ?
« Last week, development studies journal Third World Quarterly published an article that, by many common metrics used in academia today, will be the most successful in its 38-year history. The paper has, in a few days, already achieved a higher Altmetric Attention Score than any other TWQ paper. By the rules of modern academia, this is a triumph. The problem is, the paper is not.The article, “The case for colonialism”, is a travesty, the academic equivalent of a Trump tweet, clickbait with footnotes ».
Source : Impact of Social Sciences – Clickbait and impact: how academia has been hacked
« Physicists are excited when there’s something wrong with physics, and we’re in a situation now where there’s not a lot that’s wrong »
Boykin is no longer a physicist. He’s a Silicon Valley software engineer. And it’s a very good time to be one of those.
In other words, all the physicists pushing into the realm of the Silicon Valley engineer is a sign of a much bigger change to come. Soon, all the Silicon Valley engineers will push into the realm of the physicist.
Source : Google, Facebook, and the Rest of the Silicon Valley Crowd Need More Physicists | WIRED