Contents contributed and discussions participated by dr tech - Digit_al Society

US military aims to create cyborgs by connecting humans to computers | Technology | The... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...rg-connecting-humans-computers

government ITGS cyber warfare military security control

shared by dr tech on 21 Jan 16 -

Cached

dr tech on 21 Jan 16

"The US government is researching technology that it hopes will turn soldiers into cyborgs, allowing them to connect directly to computers. The US military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) has unveiled a research programme called Neural Engineering System Design (NESD) which aims to develop an implantable neural interface, connecting humans directly to computers."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The US government is researching technology that it hopes will turn soldiers into cyborgs, allowing them to connect directly to computers. The US military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) has unveiled a research programme called Neural Engineering System Design (NESD) which aims to develop an implantable neural interface, connecting humans directly to computers."</div>

...

Cancel

'Trident is old technology': the brave new world of cyber warfare | Technology | The Gu... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...-brave-new-world-cyber-warfare

government ITGS cyber warfare drones

shared by dr tech on 18 Jan 16 - No Cached

dr tech on 18 Jan 16

"A submarine can hide from a few noisily obvious ships and planes, but it is harder to hide from a swarm of small, virtually undetectable drones. The robots being developed here can potentially be made cheap and expendable, and capable of being deployed in large numbers to cover vast expanses of sea."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"A submarine can hide from a few noisily obvious ships and planes, but it is harder to hide from a swarm of small, virtually undetectable drones. The robots being developed here can potentially be made cheap and expendable, and capable of being deployed in large numbers to cover vast expanses of sea."</div>

...

Cancel

UK government plans to weaken encryption 'threatens way of life, privacy and economic s... - 0 views

www.computing.co.uk/...economic-stability-warns-apple

government plans encryption ITGS privacy anonymity control politics and government

shared by dr tech on 07 Jan 16 -

Cached

dr tech on 07 Jan 16

"Apple has warned the UK government that proposals in the draft Investigatory Powers Bill to demand technology firms weaken encryption would make the data of millions of law-abiding citizens less secure and make it easier for hackers to "cause chaos"."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Apple has warned the UK government that proposals in the draft Investigatory Powers Bill to demand technology firms weaken encryption would make the data of millions of law-abiding citizens less secure and make it easier for hackers to "cause chaos"."</div>

...

Cancel

Uber, Lyft drivers resign themselves to being replaced by self-driving cars - 0 views

mashable.com/...uber-lyft-self-driving-cars

drivers ITGS peopleandmachines ai automation car

shared by dr tech on 07 Jan 16 -

Cached

dr tech on 07 Jan 16

"Lyft announced Monday that it has partnered with automotive giant General Motors to create a network of self-driving cars that will one day in the distant (or not-too-distant future) be able to pick up and drop off passengers at the touch of a button on our phones - and likely put many of its drivers out of work."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Lyft announced Monday that it has partnered with automotive giant General Motors to create a network of self-driving cars that will one day in the distant (or not-too-distant future) be able to pick up and drop off passengers at the touch of a button on our phones - and likely put many of its drivers out of work."</div>

...

Cancel

Apple ad-blocking software scares publishers but Google is target | Technology | The Gu... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...pple-ad-blockers-target-google

ITGS news advertising adblocker business and employment

shared by dr tech on 05 Jan 16 - No Cached

dr tech on 05 Jan 16

"Mobile advertising was the great hope for newspapers and magazines, replacing revenues lost in the switch to digital from print. Earlier this year the influential analyst Mary Meeker, of the venture capitalists Kleiner Perkins, had pegged it as a $25bn opportunity in the US alone. Now the hoped-for revenues are in peril, and publishers - and people who care about free, independent news - are rightly worried."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Mobile advertising was the great hope for newspapers and magazines, replacing revenues lost in the switch to digital from print. Earlier this year the influential analyst Mary Meeker, of the venture capitalists Kleiner Perkins, had pegged it as a $25bn opportunity in the US alone. Now the hoped-for revenues are in peril, and publishers - and people who care about free, independent news - are rightly worried."</div>

...

Cancel

Sixth-grader creates method for deriving highly secure, yet easily remembered passwords... - 0 views

www.sott.net/...et-easily-remembered-passwords

method passwords ITGS security password crack

shared by dr tech on 30 Dec 15 -

Cached

dr tech on 30 Dec 15

""All passwords are Diceware generated and contain six words," Mira says on her website. "I write the passwords by hand and do not keep a copy of what I have sent to you. The passwords are sent by U.S. Postal Mail, which cannot be opened by the government without a search warrant." She also recommends you alter the pass phrase slightly after she sends it to you."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">""All passwords are Diceware generated and contain six words," Mira says on her website. "I write the passwords by hand and do not keep a copy of what I have sent to you. The passwords are sent by U.S. Postal Mail, which cannot be opened by the government without a search warrant." She also recommends you alter the pass phrase slightly after she sends it to you."</div>

...

Cancel

North Korea's paranoid GNU/Linux watermarks every file / Boing Boing - 0 views

boingboing.net/...rth-koreas-paranoid-gnuli.html

north korea ITGS security linux control politics and government

shared by dr tech on 28 Dec 15 -

Cached

dr tech on 28 Dec 15

"The OS is a marvel of paranoid terribleness, with lots of marvellously bad features. The one I was most interested in is its covert insertion of watermarks into every file that it touches, either on the OS's launch disk or removable USB sticks."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The OS is a marvel of paranoid terribleness, with lots of marvellously bad features. The one I was most interested in is its covert insertion of watermarks into every file that it touches, either on the OS's launch disk or removable USB sticks."</div>

...

Cancel

UK's unaccountable crowdsourced blacklist to be crosslinked to facial recognition syste... - 0 views

boingboing.net/...-unaccountable-crowdsourc.html

ITGS facial recognition anonymity blacklist

shared by dr tech on 28 Dec 15 -

Cached

dr tech on 28 Dec 15

"Facewatch is being connected to realtime facial recognition systems that can be tied into the CCTVs of its 10,000+ participating retailers. If your face is on the blacklist and the system recognises you (or if your face isn't on the blacklist and you generate a false positive), the shopkeeper/security staff will get an alert when you enter their premises and they can make you leave. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Facewatch is being connected to realtime facial recognition systems that can be tied into the CCTVs of its 10,000+ participating retailers. If your face is on the blacklist and the system recognises you (or if your face isn't on the blacklist and you generate a false positive), the shopkeeper/security staff will get an alert when you enter their premises and they can make you leave. "</div>

...

Cancel

Facewatch 'thief recognition' CCTV on trial in UK stores - BBC News - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-35111363

ITGS anonymity privacy peopleandmachines system facial recognition

shared by dr tech on 17 Dec 15 -

Cached

dr tech on 17 Dec 15

""The people who are on the list are not guilty until they've been prosecuted and taken to court, and the system makes that very clear", Simon says - and under the Data Protection Act "if anyone misuses that data there are very significant fines". Simon is also sanguine about the risk of misidentification. Images from the watch list will be sent with alerts so staff can check that there's a good match, he says. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">""The people who are on the list are not guilty until they've been prosecuted and taken to court, and the system makes that very clear", Simon says - and under the Data Protection Act "if anyone misuses that data there are very significant fines". Simon is also sanguine about the risk of misidentification. Images from the watch list will be sent with alerts so staff can check that there's a good match, he says. "</div>

...

Cancel

Thai man arrested for Facebook 'like' of doctored royal photo | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ested-facebook-like-photo-king

ITGS arrested facebook royal policiesandstandards globalisation

shared by dr tech on 11 Dec 15 -

Cached

dr tech on 11 Dec 15

"A Thai man has been arrested for "liking" a doctored photo of the king and sharing an infographic on Facebook about a growing corruption scandal, as prosecutions burgeon under draconian royal defamation laws."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"A Thai man has been arrested for "liking" a doctored photo of the king and sharing an infographic on Facebook about a growing corruption scandal, as prosecutions burgeon under draconian royal defamation laws."</div>

...

Cancel

Google, NASA's quantum computer is 100 million times faster than yours - 0 views

mashable.com/...gle-nasa-quantum-computer-fast

ITGS google quantum computer peopleandmachines system

shared by dr tech on 10 Dec 15 -

Cached

dr tech on 10 Dec 15

"Google and NASA announced at an event at NASA's Ames Research Center that the D-Wave quantum computer they bought in 2013 has proven itself to be 100 million times faster than a conventional single-core computer"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Google and NASA announced at an event at NASA's Ames Research Center that the D-Wave quantum computer they bought in 2013 has proven itself to be 100 million times faster than a conventional single-core computer"</div>

...

Cancel

Teens can't tell the difference between Google ads and search results | The Verge - 0 views

www.theverge.com/...oogle-ads-search-results-ofcom

ITGS google ads literacy peopleandmachines

shared by dr tech on 09 Dec 15 -

Cached

dr tech on 09 Dec 15

"only 31 percent of 12- to 15-year-olds could identify the ads in Google's search results"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"only 31 percent of 12- to 15-year-olds could identify the ads in Google's search results"</div>

...

Cancel

The end of passwords: biometrics are coming but do risks outweigh benefits? | Technolog... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ords-biometrics-risks-benefits

ITGS biometrics data anonymity privacy security

shared by dr tech on 09 Dec 15 - No Cached

dr tech on 09 Dec 15

"She recounts the moment when her 13-year-old son Jacob - now 16 - was sent to isolation for refusing to register his fingerprint to use the school canteen. "I went to school and said that I didn't give my consent. As a parent I want to be clear that the decisions I make that affect my children are in their best interests."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"She recounts the moment when her 13-year-old son Jacob - now 16 - was sent to isolation for refusing to register his fingerprint to use the school canteen. "I went to school and said that I didn't give my consent. As a parent I want to be clear that the decisions I make that affect my children are in their best interests."</div>

...

Cancel

China wants robots to replace millions of low-paid workers - 0 views

mashable.com/...china-workers-robots

ITGS china robots peopleandmachines

shared by dr tech on 07 Dec 15 -

Cached

dr tech on 07 Dec 15

"China is laying the groundwork for a robot revolution by planning to automate the work currently done by millions of low-paid workers."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"China is laying the groundwork for a robot revolution by planning to automate the work currently done by millions of low-paid workers."</div>

...

Cancel

Moore's law wins: new chips have circuits 10,000 times thinner than hairs | Technology ... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...moores-law-new-chips-ibm-7nm

ITGS moore law chips

shared by dr tech on 29 Nov 15 - No Cached

dr tech on 29 Nov 15

"Transistors use grooves etched in silicon to guide electrons around the chip. The channels do a similar job to that of wires, but on a much smaller scale. Making these grooves just 7nm wide means you can fit more transistors on the chips. For comparison a strand of human hair, at 100,000nm thick, is about 10,000 times wider than the channel. A red blood cell is a thousand times bigger, at 7,500nm in diameter. A strand of DNA is in the same order of magnitude, but slightly smaller at just 2.5nm wide."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Transistors use grooves etched in silicon to guide electrons around the chip. The channels do a similar job to that of wires, but on a much smaller scale. Making these grooves just 7nm wide means you can fit more transistors on the chips. For comparison a strand of human hair, at 100,000nm thick, is about 10,000 times wider than the channel. A red blood cell is a thousand times bigger, at 7,500nm in diameter. A strand of DNA is in the same order of magnitude, but slightly smaller at just 2.5nm wide."</div>

...

Cancel

Democracy: the film that got behind the scenes of the European privacy debate | Technol... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...data-protection-privacy-debate

ITGS democracy film privacy debate governmentandpolitics

shared by dr tech on 16 Nov 15 - No Cached

dr tech on 16 Nov 15

"Anybody who uses digital equipment is put under some form of surveillance. It seems to me that that cannot happen without consent, it cannot happen without the consent of populations. So, my message to the lawmakers is: please protect us.""

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Anybody who uses digital equipment is put under some form of surveillance. It seems to me that that cannot happen without consent, it cannot happen without the consent of populations. So, my message to the lawmakers is: please protect us.""</div>

...

Cancel

Digital politics: are we trapped within our online filter bubbles? | Technology | The G... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...politics-online-filter-bubbles

ITGS politics filter bubbles governmentandpolitics

shared by dr tech on 11 Nov 15 - No Cached

dr tech on 11 Nov 15

"Filter bubbles are certainly at work online around any big political event, agreed the panel. "Within your network - Twitter or Facebook or LinkedIn - you're probably within your own bubble of opinion," said Aiken."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Filter bubbles are certainly at work online around any big political event, agreed the panel. "Within your network - Twitter or Facebook or LinkedIn - you're probably within your own bubble of opinion," said Aiken."</div>

...

Cancel

Artificial intelligence: 'Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods and the res... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...omo-sapiens-split-handful-gods

ITGS intelligence ai robotics peopleandmachines

shared by dr tech on 10 Nov 15 - No Cached

dr tech on 10 Nov 15

"But you might not end up reassured. Though it promises robot carers for an ageing population, it also forecasts huge numbers of jobs being wiped out: up to 35% of all workers in the UK and 47% of those in the US, including white-collar jobs, seeing their livelihoods taken away by machines."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"But you might not end up reassured. Though it promises robot carers for an ageing population, it also forecasts huge numbers of jobs being wiped out: up to 35% of all workers in the UK and 47% of those in the US, including white-collar jobs, seeing their livelihoods taken away by machines."</div>

...

Cancel

Tech firms warn snooper's charter could end strong encryption in Britain | Technology |... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ong-encryption-britain-ip-bill

ITGS security encryption politics and government

shared by dr tech on 10 Nov 15 - No Cached

dr tech on 10 Nov 15

""Nothing in this bill ensures the security of that data, either. Instead it turns every business providing telecommunications in or to the United Kingdom into an attack vector. The best way to guarantee the safety of user data is for it to not exist. Our national security will be significantly enhanced if we store less data, not more, and increase the use of strong cryptography, rather than reducing it.""

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">""Nothing in this bill ensures the security of that data, either. Instead it turns every business providing telecommunications in or to the United Kingdom into an attack vector. The best way to guarantee the safety of user data is for it to not exist. Our national security will be significantly enhanced if we store less data, not more, and increase the use of strong cryptography, rather than reducing it.""</div>

...

Cancel

Botnets running on CCTVs and NASs / Boing Boing - 0 views

boingboing.net/...ts-running-on-cctvs-and-n.html

ITGS security cctv botnet viruses

shared by dr tech on 24 Oct 15 -

Cached

dr tech on 24 Oct 15

"Researchers at Incapsula have discovered a botnet that runs on compromised CCTV cameras. There are hundreds of millions, if not billions, of these in the field, and like many Internet of Things devices, their security is an afterthought and not fit for purpose. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Researchers at Incapsula have discovered a botnet that runs on compromised CCTV cameras. There are hundreds of millions, if not billions, of these in the field, and like many Internet of Things devices, their security is an afterthought and not fit for purpose. "</div>

...

Cancel