Group items tagged ITGS - Digit_al Society

Want to Find a Misinformed Public? Facebook's Already Done It - The Markup - 0 views

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ITGS facebook psuedoscience fake news integrity social media

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""We've taken down hundreds of thousands of pieces of misinformation related to COVID-19, including theories like drinking bleach cures the virus or that physical distancing is ineffective at preventing the disease from spreading," Zuckerberg wrote. But at the very same time, The Markup found, Facebook was allowing advertisers to profit from ads targeting people that the company believes are interested in "pseudoscience." According to Facebook's ad portal, the pseudoscience interest category contained more than 78 million people."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">""We've taken down hundreds of thousands of pieces of misinformation related to COVID-19, including theories like drinking bleach cures the virus or that physical distancing is ineffective at preventing the disease from spreading," Zuckerberg wrote. But at the very same time, The Markup found, Facebook was allowing advertisers to profit from ads targeting people that the company believes are interested in "pseudoscience." According to Facebook's ad portal, the pseudoscience interest category contained more than 78 million people."</div>

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The Most Damaging Tweet Ever - Better Marketing - Medium - 0 views

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ITGS technology twitter people and machines social media right to be forgotten

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dr tech on 28 Apr 20

"Unfortunately, her legacy will be dominated by that tweet. If you type her name into Google, you'll have to scroll for a long, long, long time before you find anything unrelated to it."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Unfortunately, her legacy will be dominated by that tweet. If you type her name into Google, you'll have to scroll for a long, long, long time before you find anything unrelated to it."</div>

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'A threat to health is being weaponised': inside the fight against online hate crime | ... - 0 views

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ITGS government and politics app social media technology people and machines

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dr tech on 03 May 20

"Since Moonshot was founded, there has been a radical shift in the perception of technology's role when it comes to extremist terrorism. "Five years ago, there were still people inside the government who thought tech was for the kids," Frenett says. "There was a sense that it was almost amusing that terrorists were on the internet. You don't get that any more. Likewise, five years ago there were some great organisations doing great work on the violent far-right, but again it was almost seen as niche. That's no longer the case.""

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Since Moonshot was founded, there has been a radical shift in the perception of technology's role when it comes to extremist terrorism. "Five years ago, there were still people inside the government who thought tech was for the kids," Frenett says. "There was a sense that it was almost amusing that terrorists were on the internet. You don't get that any more. Likewise, five years ago there were some great organisations doing great work on the violent far-right, but again it was almost seen as niche. That's no longer the case.""</div>

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Hostile states trying to steal coronavirus research, says UK agency | Espionage | The G... - 0 views

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ITGS politics and government security covid-19 system

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dr tech on 04 May 20

"Hostile states are attempting to hack British universities and scientific facilities to steal research related to Covid-19, including vaccine development, cybersecurity experts have warned."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Hostile states are attempting to hack British universities and scientific facilities to steal research related to Covid-19, including vaccine development, cybersecurity experts have warned."</div>

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Singapore to require smartphone check-ins at all businesses and will log visitors' nati... - 0 views

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ITGS bluetooth privacy and anonymity government and politics app smartphone covid-19

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dr tech on 05 May 20

"Singapore was one of the first nations to adopt a Bluetooth-powered contact-tracing app, fueling plenty of global debate about the best way to deploy the technology. SafeEntry will advance that debate as its introduction surely suggests that contact-tracing apps have their limitations."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Singapore was one of the first nations to adopt a Bluetooth-powered contact-tracing app, fueling plenty of global debate about the best way to deploy the technology. SafeEntry will advance that debate as its introduction surely suggests that contact-tracing apps have their limitations."</div>

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Adobe: to read the Terms of Use, you must agree to the Terms of Use / Boing Boing - 0 views

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ITGS internet AUP adobe control terms of use contract policiesandstandards

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dr tech on 06 May 20

"I tried to start Adobe Acrobat today, part of the Creative Cloud suite, and it wouldn't start unless I agreed to new Terms of Use. But to read the Terms of Use, I had to agree to the Terms of Use first. This video shows me haplessly clicking the "Terms of Use" link only to be prevented from reading them because, of course, I had not agreed to the Terms of Use"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"I tried to start Adobe Acrobat today, part of the Creative Cloud suite, and it wouldn't start unless I agreed to new Terms of Use. But to read the Terms of Use, I had to agree to the Terms of Use first. This video shows me haplessly clicking the "Terms of Use" link only to be prevented from reading them because, of course, I had not agreed to the Terms of Use"</div>

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The post-human world is emerging, will free humans resist? -- Society's Child -- Sott.net - 0 views

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ITGS ai people and machines covid-19 employment

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dr tech on 06 May 20

""It literally is at a point now we've created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works. That is literally where we are. I would encourage all of you how to internalize this is - if you feed the beast, the beast will destroy you.""

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">""It literally is at a point now we've created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works. That is literally where we are. I would encourage all of you how to internalize this is - if you feed the beast, the beast will destroy you.""</div>

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Common Sense Comes to Computers | Quanta Magazine - 0 views

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ITGS ai reason people and machines

shared by dr tech on 07 May 20 - No Cached

dr tech on 07 May 20

"Common-sense reasoning - the ability to make mundane inferences using basic knowledge about the world, like the fact that "matches" plus "logs" usually equals "fire" - has resisted AI researchers' efforts for decades."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Common-sense reasoning - the ability to make mundane inferences using basic knowledge about the world, like the fact that "matches" plus "logs" usually equals "fire" - has resisted AI researchers' efforts for decades."</div>

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Distance learning during the coronavirus pandemic is changing cheating - Vox - 0 views

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ITGS education facial recognition security surveillance e-learning

shared by dr tech on 08 May 20 - No Cached

dr tech on 08 May 20

"Raza wasn't the only one in her class who felt concerned about new levels of surveillance. Another student in the class, who did not want to be named, said that in addition to privacy worries, they were concerned that they didn't even have enough RAM to run the Proctorio software. Worse, the tool's facial detection algorithm seemed to struggle to recognize them, so they needed to sit in the full light of the window to better expose the contours of their face, in their view an indication that the system might be biased. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Raza wasn't the only one in her class who felt concerned about new levels of surveillance. Another student in the class, who did not want to be named, said that in addition to privacy worries, they were concerned that they didn't even have enough RAM to run the Proctorio software. Worse, the tool's facial detection algorithm seemed to struggle to recognize them, so they needed to sit in the full light of the window to better expose the contours of their face, in their view an indication that the system might be biased. "</div>

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When Bad Code Caused Disaster: 10 Worst Programming Mistakes in History - 0 views

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ITGS code mistakes security reliability viruses

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"Plus, programming can teach valuable life lessons. However, in its storied past, coding wrought destruction as well. Instances of a little bit of bad code caused disaster on a major level. The following are 10 of the worst programming mistakes in history."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Plus, programming can teach valuable life lessons. However, in its storied past, coding wrought destruction as well. Instances of a little bit of bad code caused disaster on a major level. The following are 10 of the worst programming mistakes in history."</div>

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WikiLeaks publishes 'biggest ever leak of secret CIA documents' | Media | The Guardian - 0 views

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ITGS privacy security control wikleaks

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"The thousands of leaked documents focus mainly on techniques for hacking and reveal how the CIA cooperated with British intelligence to engineer a way to compromise smart televisions and turn them into improvised surveillance devices."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The thousands of leaked documents focus mainly on techniques for hacking and reveal how the CIA cooperated with British intelligence to engineer a way to compromise smart televisions and turn them into improvised surveillance devices."</div>

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How the internet found a better way than illegible squiggles to prove you're not a robo... - 0 views

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ITGS internet robot ai captcha turing security

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dr tech on 13 Mar 17

"The company has revealed the latest evolution of the Captcha (short, sort of, for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), which aims to do away with any interruption at all: the new, "invisible reCaptcha" aims to tell whether a given visitor is a robot or not purely by analysing their browsing behaviour. Barring a short wait while the system does its job, a typical human visitor shouldn't have to do anything else to prove they're not a robot."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The company has revealed the latest evolution of the Captcha (short, sort of, for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), which aims to do away with any interruption at all: the new, "invisible reCaptcha" aims to tell whether a given visitor is a robot or not purely by analysing their browsing behaviour. Barring a short wait while the system does its job, a typical human visitor shouldn't have to do anything else to prove they're not a robot."</div>

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Google reduces JPEG file size by 35% | Ars Technica UK - 0 views

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ITGS file jpg algorithm open open source

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"Google has developed and open-sourced a new JPEG algorithm that reduces file size by about 35 percent-or alternatively, image quality can be significantly improved while keeping file size constant. Importantly, and unlike some of its other efforts in image compression (WebP, WebM), Google's new JPEGs are completely compatible with existing browsers, devices, photo editing apps, and the JPEG standard."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Google has developed and open-sourced a new JPEG algorithm that reduces file size by about 35 percent-or alternatively, image quality can be significantly improved while keeping file size constant. Importantly, and unlike some of its other efforts in image compression (WebP, WebM), Google's new JPEGs are completely compatible with existing browsers, devices, photo editing apps, and the JPEG standard."</div>

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The Era of Ownership Is Ending - 0 views

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ITGS SAaS MaaS ownership businessandemployment peopleandmachines policiesandstandards

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"Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) is a model for traffic without ownership. You pay a monthly fee for it, like with Spotify, tell the app where you are going and get instant access to taxis, Ubers, buses, and so on. Everything is available on-demand and ownership is no longer needed."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) is a model for traffic without ownership. You pay a monthly fee for it, like with Spotify, tell the app where you are going and get instant access to taxis, Ubers, buses, and so on. Everything is available on-demand and ownership is no longer needed."</div>

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GE2017: how are political parties targeting you on Facebook? | Politics | The Guardian - 0 views

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ITGS facebook targeting politics and government ads anonymity privacy

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"We now know targeted Facebook advertising played a big role in 2015's general election. The Conservatives spent £1.2m on Facebook advertising in 2015 - and it paid off with a majority, albeit a small one. It is understood both them and Labour plan on spending similar amounts on Facebook advertising. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"We now know targeted Facebook advertising played a big role in 2015's general election. The Conservatives spent £1.2m on Facebook advertising in 2015 - and it paid off with a majority, albeit a small one. It is understood both them and Labour plan on spending similar amounts on Facebook advertising. "</div>

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Quantum Computing Demands a Whole New Kind of Programmer - 0 views

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ITGS quantum programming logic peopleandmachines system

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Improbable sums? Cambridge graduates' tech firm raises $500m | Business | The Guardian - 0 views

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ITGS peopleandmachines graduates VirtualWorld

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"Improbable's technology SpatialOS, which enables the creation of massive simulations - "virtual worlds" - is still in beta mode and has not been publicly launched. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Improbable's technology SpatialOS, which enables the creation of massive simulations - "virtual worlds" - is still in beta mode and has not been publicly launched. "</div>

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Human-robot interactions take step forward with 'emotional' chatbot | Technology | The ... - 1 views

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ITGS people and machines ai chatbot turing

shared by dr tech on 07 May 17 - No Cached

dr tech on 07 May 17

"In the future, the team predict the software could also learn the appropriate emotion to express at a given time. "It could be mostly empathic," said Huang, adding that a challenge would be to avoid the chatbot reinforcing negative feelings such as rage."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"In the future, the team predict the software could also learn the appropriate emotion to express at a given time. "It could be mostly empathic," said Huang, adding that a challenge would be to avoid the chatbot reinforcing negative feelings such as rage."</div>

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British Parliament hit by cyber security attack - media reports - The Economic Times - 0 views

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ITGS attack security politics and government cyber privacy anonymity

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""Closer investigation by our team confirmed that hackers were carrying out a sustained and determined attack on all parliamentary user accounts in an attempt to identify weak passwords. These attempts specifically were trying to gain access to our emails. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">""Closer investigation by our team confirmed that hackers were carrying out a sustained and determined attack on all parliamentary user accounts in an attempt to identify weak passwords. These attempts specifically were trying to gain access to our emails. "</div>

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In China, Daydreaming Students Are Caught on Camera - The New York Times - 0 views

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ITGS surveillance privacy and anonymity cctv policiesandstandards peopleandmachines system politics and government

shared by dr tech on 29 Apr 17 - No Cached

dr tech on 29 Apr 17

"School officials see the cameras as a way to improve student confidence and crowdsource the task of catching misbehaving pupils. Parents use the feeds to monitor their children's academic progress and spy on their friendships and romances. But many students see live-streaming as an intrusion, prompting a broader debate in China about privacy, educational ethics and the perils of helicopter parenting."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"School officials see the cameras as a way to improve student confidence and crowdsource the task of catching misbehaving pupils. Parents use the feeds to monitor their children's academic progress and spy on their friendships and romances. But many students see live-streaming as an intrusion, prompting a broader debate in China about privacy, educational ethics and the perils of helicopter parenting."</div>

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Want to Find a Misinformed Public? Facebook's Already Done It - The Markup - 0 views

The Most Damaging Tweet Ever - Better Marketing - Medium - 0 views

'A threat to health is being weaponised': inside the fight against online hate crime | ... - 0 views

Hostile states trying to steal coronavirus research, says UK agency | Espionage | The G... - 0 views

Singapore to require smartphone check-ins at all businesses and will log visitors' nati... - 0 views

Adobe: to read the Terms of Use, you must agree to the Terms of Use / Boing Boing - 0 views

The post-human world is emerging, will free humans resist? -- Society's Child -- Sott.net - 0 views

Common Sense Comes to Computers | Quanta Magazine - 0 views

Distance learning during the coronavirus pandemic is changing cheating - Vox - 0 views

When Bad Code Caused Disaster: 10 Worst Programming Mistakes in History - 0 views

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