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the world wide web turns 30 today and its inventor is worried for the future - 0 views

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ITGS www berners-lee internet future people and machines

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  • dr tech on 14 Mar 19
     
    "he outlines three sources of dysfunction - 'deliberate, malicious intent, such as state-sponsored hacking and attacks, criminal behaviour, and online harassment'; 'system design' which has created 'perverse incentives where user value is sacrificed, such as ad-based revenue models that commercially reward clickbait'; and the 'viral spread of misinformation'. he also calls attention to the 'unintended negative consequences' of the web, which he said had led to 'the outraged and polarised tone and quality of online discourse'."
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A critical flaw in Switzerland's e-voting system is a microcosm of everything wrong wit... - 0 views

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ITGS evoting security integrity politics and government people and machines elections

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    ""We have only examined a tiny fraction of this code base and found a critical, election-stealing issue," said Lewis, who is currently executive director of the Open Privacy Research Society, a Canadian nonprofit that develops secure and privacy-enhancing software for marginalized communities. "Even if this [backdoor] is closed its mere existence raises serious questions about the integrity of the rest of the code.""
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These Violent Delights Don't Have Violent Ends: Study Finds No link Between Violent Vid... - 0 views

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ITGS video games people and machines violence correlation causation intuition

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    "Now a study published in Royal Society Open Science has failed to find any association between the time spent playing violent video games and aggressive behaviour, adding to a growing body of literature that suggests that such a link has been overstated - or may not exist at all."
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Physicists reverse time using quantum computer | EurekAlert! Science News - 0 views

www.eurekalert.org/...miop-prt031119.php

ITGS quantum computing algorithm people and machines

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    "Interestingly, the time reversal algorithm itself could prove useful for making quantum computers more precise. "Our algorithm could be updated and used to test programs written for quantum computers and eliminate noise and errors," Lebedev explained."
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DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System - Motherboard - 0 views

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ITGS e-voting security open-source DARPA politics and government trust control people and machines

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    "Now they might finally get this thanks to a new $10 million contract the Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched to design and build a secure voting system that it hopes will be impervious to hacking."
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Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015 / Boing Boing - 0 views

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ITGS archive backup people and machines protocols standards

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  • dr tech on 18 Mar 19
     
    "It's been a year since the music links on Myspace stopped working; at first the company insisted that they were working on it, but now they've admitted that all those files are lost: "As a result of a server migration project, any photos, videos, and audio files you uploaded more than three years ago may no longer be available on or from Myspace. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest that you retain your back up copies."
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Mosquito early warning app detects the insects from their buzz | Science | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ts-the-insects-from-their-buzz

ITGS ai pattern people and machines crowd

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  • dr tech on 30 Mar 18
     
    "Artificial intelligence researchers have developed a mosquito early warning system that raises the alarm when the insects are near by detecting the whine of their wingbeats. The system uses an app that can run on a £20 mobile phone to analyse sounds in the environment and issue a warning if it hears the telltale buzz as a mosquito swoops past."
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Invisible, targeted infrared light can fool facial recognition software into thinking a... - 0 views

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facial recognition ai privacy anonymity ITGS

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    "documenting a tool for fooling facial recognition software by shining hat-brim-mounted infrared LEDs on the user's face, projecting CCTV-visible, human-eye-invisible shapes designed to fool the face recognition software. "
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The Guardian view on free speech online: let law decide the limits | Editorial | Opinio... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...line-let-law-decide-the-limits

ITGS social media facebook control standards protocols

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    "The standards by which the internet is controlled need to be open and subject to the workings of impartial judiciaries. But the task cannot and will not be left to the advertising companies that at present control most of the content - and whose own judgments are themselves almost wholly opaque and arbitrary."
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Facebook being used to 'incite real harm' in Myanmar, says Zuckerberg: Report - Channel... - 0 views

www.channelnewsasia.com/...ingya-mark-zuckerberg-10097990

ITGS social media facebook people and machines control

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    ""The Myanmar issues have, I think, gotten a lot of focus inside the company," he told Vox as he went on to detail an incident when he was informed of "sensational messages" being spread through Facebook Messenger to incite violence on both sides of the conflict."
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'Being cash-free puts us at risk of attack': Swedes turn against cashlessness | World n... - 0 views

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ITGS cashless security reliability people and people and machines digital analogue

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    ""When you have a fully digital system you have no weapon to defend yourself if someone turns it off," he says. "If Putin invades Gotland [Sweden's largest island] it will be enough for him to turn off the payments system. No other country would even think about taking these sorts of risks, they would demand some sort of analogue system.""
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How babies learn - and why robots can't compete | News | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...rn-and-why-robots-cant-compete

ITGS robots babies ai machine learning

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    "He had discovered that human learning was communal and interactive. For a robot, the acquisition of language was abstract and formulaic. For us, it was embodied, emotive, subjective, quivering with life. The future of intelligence wouldn't be found in our machines, but in the development of our own minds."
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A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe | Richard Stallman | Opinion | The G... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...-privacy-big-tech-surveillance

ITGS privacy data social media facebook policiesandstandards systems

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    "The robust way to do that, the way that can't be set aside at the whim of a government, is to require systems to be built so as not to collect data about a person. The basic principle is that a system must be designed not to collect certain data, if its basic function can be carried out without that data."
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Revealed: graphic video used by Cambridge Analytica to influence Nigerian election | UK... - 0 views

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ITGS cambridge analytica data mining bias social media people and machines

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  • dr tech on 05 Apr 18
     
    "Cambridge Analytica sought to influence the Nigerian presidential election in 2015 by using graphically violent imagery to portray a candidate as a supporter of sharia law who would brutally suppress dissenters and negotiate with militant Islamists, a video passed to British MPs reveals."
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