Un algorithme peut-il prédire les crimes ? Les forces de police américaines s’équipent depuis plusieurs années de logiciels censés détecter le lieu des futurs crimes et délits. Leur succès tient pourtant davantage du marketing que de leur efficacité prédictive.
The USB Killer’s website claims it will destroy 95% of devices it’s inserted into. With that kind of destructive capability, one has to wonder how many of these sticks will actually be bought by security experts, and how many by pranksters and malicious individuals looking to destroy someone else’s equipment.
Source : Remember the laptop-destroying ‘USB Killer?’ Now you can buy one
When a study of 42 subjects inspires 34 million people, it’s not unreasonable to go back and check the results.
When cameras are talking to the cloud, there’s room for them to make mistakes, and these devices are filming pieces of your private life so that can be a little worrisome.
Source : Smart doorbell owners saw video from other houses thanks to a weird bug | The Verge
My Mums @instagram account was deactivated for posting this Easter Simnel cake. ITS NOT A BOOB. #BoobGate (via fionamoseley)
For Null, a full-time mum who lives in southern Virginia in the US, frustrations don’t end with booking plane tickets. She’s also had trouble entering her details into a government tax website, for instance. And when she and her husband tried to get settled in a new city, there were difficulties getting a utility bill set up, too.
Source : BBC – Future – These unlucky people have names that break computers
Dans le cadre du dispositif de réponse graduée de la Hadopi (lutte contre la contrefaçon sur internet) et dans plusieurs enquêtes pénales dont l’une visait des faits de pédopornographie, un abonné de la société NC NUMERICABLE a été mis en cause à tort de manière répétée pendant deux ans.
Identifié 1 531 fois pour délit de contrefaçon et inculpé 7 fois, cet abonné a en outre fait l’objet de nombreuses perquisitions à son domicile et de plusieurs saisies de ses équipements informatiques.
Via CNIL
Fact that people have to wear glasses to watch 3D TVs did not work too well for consumers.
Source : 대한민국 IT포털의 중심! 이티뉴스
After raising £2,335,119 ($3.6 million) from more than 12,000 backers, Torquing Group informed backers today (Nov. 18) that it is shutting down its project to manufacture a tiny drone called Zano that would’ve allowed people to take selfies from the air. The troubled company had been plagued with delays after missing its original ship date of June 2015. Last week, CEO Ivan Reedman resigned from the company, citing “personal health issues and irreconcilable differences.”
Source : After raising $3.6 million, Europe’s most successful Kickstarter project has folded – Quartz
On peut lire “N‘achetez pas chez les métèques“, une référence à la propagande nazi “N’achetez pas chez les Juifs“, adressée ici contre migrants. L’une de ces personnes viole les règles de Facebook.
Source : #FreeTheNipple : Facebook préfère censurer les seins nus que le racisme – Marie Claire
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