«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
AI needs regulating because the big tech companies have got too big for their own good. And like every other industry sector before it that has got too big – the banks, the oil companies, the telecom firms – regulation is needed to ensure the public good. To ensure that we all benefit and not just the tech elite.
We’re beginning to see the corrosive effects of Facebook’s algorithms on political debate, of Amazon’s dominance of the retail sector, and of Google’s monopoly on search. And it’s hard to know where to begin with a company like Uber. There’s just so much to criticise.
However, the problems today are not caused by super smart AI, but stupid AI.
Source : Elon Musk is wrong. The AI singularity won’t kill us all | WIRED UK
«Sur Facebook, la déclaration du patron a été accueillie par plus de 7500 commentaires exaspérés ou, au contraire, admiratifs. «La levée de boucliers était attendue et nous assumons pleinement cette décision, précise-t-il. Au plaisir de vous recevoir ou non.» Devant l’ampleur du buzz et, sans doute, l’illégalité de sa démarche, il s’est finalement rétracté jeudi».
Source : Mon enfant est-il de trop au restaurant? – Le Temps
«L’analyse des attributs géographiques des cellules a permis de pointer 21 facteurs de risque, allant de la présence d’arrêts de bus, de magasins de restauration rapide, de café et de bar, de pharmacie, de guichet de banque, de magasin d’alimentation… mais aussi bien sûr des lieux où sévissent trafic de drogue et prostitution. Et ces différents facteurs s’agencent dans un autre ordre de jour et de nuit. Peut-on pour autant prédire ou prévoir ?»
Source : Police prédictive (1/2) : dépasser la prédiction des banalités ? | InternetActu
«We’re in a time where the greatest advances in camera technology are happening as much in the software as in the hardware» – Phil Schiller.
Source : How Apple Built An iPhone Camera That Makes Everyone A Professional Photographer
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