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“From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one’s inbox to understanding the workings of human memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.”
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Source : Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
“Newcomers to Wikipedia may not understand that discussion about what gets added or deleted from entries isn’t done behind closed doors. Rather, it happens on the publicly accessible “notes” pages of each entry—where volunteers will discuss edits and have open discussions on whether changes should go forward or not. Editing Wikipedia pages helps users understand just how malleable knowledge is, says Alex Jung, the University of Toronto’s Wikipedian-in-residence. If someone makes substantive edits to an entry, “someone who visited the page today will have an entirely different idea of the topic than someone who visited it yesterday. Knowledge is fluctuating all the time.””
Source : Why universities are hiring “Wikipedeans-in-Residence”
“Federal prosecutors have charged three men and a woman with sex trafficking charges for operating the popular porn site GirlsDoPorn. At least 22 women featured on the site have sued the site’s owners, charging that the pornographers used lies and coercion to gain their participation. The 22 women said they responded to ads for clothed modeling gigs. When they were asked to shoot porn instead, they initially resisted. But they went along with it after the company assured them that their videos would only be sold on DVD to customers outside the United States and would not be posted online. That turned out to be a lie, as their videos wound up on GirlsDoPorn, a website with plenty of American viewers.”
Source : Feds hit GirlsDoPorn owners with criminal sex trafficking charges | Ars Technica
“Pour relier le futur quartier au centre-ville, la société engage la collectivité à créer une nouvelle ligne de métro léger et propose, magnanime, de lui prêter les fonds. Enfin, estimant qu’on ne peut pas innover dans les vieux cadres réglementaires, Sidewalk Labs suggère qu’on le laisse créer cinq organes de gouvernance ad hoc pour gérer les transports, l’urbanisme, les déchets, etc., en lieu et place des autorités municipales existantes. « Cela reviendrait à créer une zone économique spéciale, avec une privatisation de la gouvernance : c’est un accaparement du pouvoir, doublé d’un accaparement de terres et d’un accaparement de données », fulmine Thorben Wieditz.”
““Our emergency action today is intended to prevent Telegram from flooding the U.S. markets with digital tokens that we allege were unlawfully sold,” said Stephanie Avakian, Co-Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. “We allege that the defendants have failed to provide investors with information regarding Grams and Telegram’s business operations, financial condition, risk factors, and management that the securities laws require.””
Source : SEC.gov | SEC Halts Alleged $1.7 Billion Unregistered Digital Token Offering
“We recently discovered that when you provided an email address or phone number for safety or security purposes (for example, two-factor authentication) this data may have inadvertently been used for advertising purposes, specifically in our Tailored Audiences and Partner Audiences advertising system. ”
“Uber says the service is intended to reduce travel times, but when Reuters tried Copter on Wednesday, a trip from its Midtown office to the airport took 70 minutes, including a subway ride downtown and two Uber rides to and from the heliport. That’s about the same time it would have taken by regular taxi in moderate traffic. ”
Source : Uber makes JFK airport helicopter taxis available to all users – Reuters
“A former Yahoo software engineer has pleaded guilty to improperly accessing the accounts of around 6,000 Yahoo users in search of nude photos and videos. The news, outlined in a press release from the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, says programmer Reyes Daniel Ruiz used his privileges at Yahoo to crack user passwords and access the accounts of primarily younger women, including friends and co-workers.”
Source : Former Yahoo engineer pleads guilty to searching 6,000 user accounts for nudes – The Verge
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