A new paper published in PLoS ONE outlines some of the major problems with the corpus of scanned books that powers Google Ngram. “It’s so beguiling, so powerful,” says Peter Sheridan Dodds, an applied mathematician at the University of Vermont who co-authored the paper. “But I think there’s a misrepresentation of what people should expect from this corpus right now.” Here are some of the problems.
Source : The Pitfalls of Using Google Ngram to Study Language | WIRED
Amazon has filed suit against the alleged operators of sites that offer Amazon sellers the ability to purchase fake 4- and 5-star customer reviews of their products.
This is an intuitive and trusted place people go to find Recommended and Optional updates to Windows. In the recent Windows update, this option was checked as default; this was a mistake and we are removing the check.
Source : Windows 10 upgrade installing automatically on some Windows 7, 8 systems | Ars Technica
Users of dating apps have expressed concerns about their privacy after their matches appeared as « suggested friends » on Facebook.It’s happened on apps like Tinder and Grindr and people we’ve spoken to have called it « creepy ».
Source : How Facebook knows who you might be dating online – BBC Newsbeat
With Circle, you’ll never miss your favorite people, pets and moments.
I am not so sure ! Even NSA will miss this moment…
Le compte officiel Twitter de Call of Duty a suscité, mardi 29 septembre, une vague de réprobations après le live tweet (le commentaire en direct sur le réseau social) d’une attaque terroriste fictive à Singapour.
Source : Pour faire la promo de « Call of Duty », une fausse attaque terroriste
When hackers steal your password, you change it. When hackers steal your fingerprints, they’ve got an unchangeable credential that lets them spoof your identity for life.
When they steal 5.6 million of those irrevocable biometric identifiers from U.S. federal employees—many with secret clearances—well, that’s very bad.
Source : OPM Now Admits 5.6m Feds’ Fingerprints Were Stolen By Hackers | WIRED
I think GCHQ was doing half theater and half genuine threat response here. The likelihood that The Guardian had anything hidden in the trackpad was low, but from GCHQ’s perspective they’d hide something in the trackpad so why wouldn’t anyone else?
Source : The Way GCHQ Obliterated The Guardian’s Laptops May Have Revealed More Than They Intended
Dans sa quête de protection de sa propriété intellectuelle, Columbia Pictures a ainsi fait supprimer entre autres Pixels – Life Buoy, un film réalisé en 2010 par un étudiant en école d’art de Bucarest, un court-métrage de 2011 intitulé Pantone Pixels, une vidéo dans laquelle le designer Franz Jeitz explique qu’il participera au Pixels Festival de 2015, ou encore Love Pixels, une compilation de mix créée pour la Saint-Valentin, désormais inaccessible sur le site du collectif.
Parmi les autres victimes figure la vidéo « Pixels » de Patrick Jean. Il s’agit du court-métrage qui a inspiré le film de Columbia Pictures, et qui n’existe plus sur la chaîne Vimeo du réalisateur.
Source : Columbia Pictures fait supprimer des vidéos avec « Pixels » dans le titre
Les amateurs indiens de pornographie en ligne risquent d’être déçus en découvrant le site du Dauphiné Libéré.
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