October 2018 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

The Details About the CIA's Deal With Amazon - The Atlantic
by Antonio Vetro' Oct. 11, 2018

Oct. 11, 2018

A $600 million computing cloud built by an outside company is a "radical departure" for the risk-averse intelligence community. https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/374632/

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Che cos’è una Città | 15 ottobre 2018, Torino
by Francesco Ruggiero Oct. 11, 2018

Oct. 11, 2018

Gentilissimi, vi segnalo che il centro interdipartimentale del Politecnico *FULL* *– the Future Urban Legacy Lab*, presenta il secondo appuntamento del Ciclo di seminari: *Pensare l’urbano oltre la rappresentazione cartografica <http://urbanlegacylab.net/knowing-the-urban-beyond-cartographic-representat…>* con la lezione di* Franco Farinelli* dal titolo *Che cos’è una Città*. La lezione si terrà il *15** ottobre* 2018 alle ore *17:30 *nella *Sala * *Caccia* del *Castello del Valentino*, in Viale Mattioli 39 a Torino*; * discussant* Francesca Governa*. Maggiori informazioni all'indirizzo: *http://urbanlegacylab.net/event-directory/ <http://urbanlegacylab.net/event-directory/>* Cordiali saluti, Francesco -- Francesco Ruggiero Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: http://nexa.polito.it mail: francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it tel: 011 090 7219

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Amazon ha chiesto di diventare un'azienda di servizi postali in Italia
by Luigi Scorca Oct. 11, 2018

Oct. 11, 2018

Il gigante dell'ecommerce ha depositato la richiesta per entrare nell'elenco degli operatori postali in Italia. Una scelta che avrà riflessi su contratti e controlli https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2018/10/10/amazon-azienda-poste-ecom…

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Amazon patents new Alexa feature that knows when you're ill and offers you medicine
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 10, 2018

Oct. 10, 2018

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/10/09/amazon-patents-new-alexa-… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Will New Technologies Help or Harm Developing Countries? by Dani Rodrik - Project Syndicate
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 10, 2018

Oct. 10, 2018

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/new-technologies-developing-co… Will New Technologies Help or Harm Developing Countries? Dani Rodrik Viviane Moos/CORBIS/Corbis/Getty Images CAMBRIDGE – New technologies reduce the prices of goods and services to which they are applied. They also lead to the creation of new products. Consumers benefit from these improvements, regardless of whether they live in rich or poor countries. [...] (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Autonomous Vehicle Ethics: Beyond the Trolley Problem (call for papers)
by Ugo Pagallo Oct. 10, 2018

Oct. 10, 2018

https://philevents.org/event/show/66154

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Legal framework and ethical issues concerning Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Autonomous Connected Transport
by Ugo Pagallo Oct. 10, 2018

Oct. 10, 2018

Ecco il link per le relative 'calls for applications' https://wise-act.wixsite.com/blog/stsm-call Best u.

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La personalità giuridica della AI
by Giacomo Tesio Oct. 10, 2018

Oct. 10, 2018

https://www.lesechos.fr/intelligence-artificielle/veille-technologique/0302… La mia scarsa comprensione del francese non mi permette di capire quanto sarcasmo ci fosse nella rappresentazione. Vorrei credere tanto, e che fossero chiare a tutti le implicazioni di dare responsabilità giuridica ad una cosa, un programma che un esperto può manipolare. E vorrei tanto credere che fosse chiaro a tutti che le AI... non sono intelligenti affatto. Che sono solo programmi, alcuni buggati, altri così irreparabili che non si può neanche dire con certezza se funzionino bene o no! Ma temo che qualcuno prenda sul serio a queste ipotesi.... Giacomo

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Google to shut down Google+ after failing to disclose user data leak
by Alberto Cammozzo Oct. 9, 2018

Oct. 9, 2018

<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/08/google-plus-security-bre…> Google announced it is shutting down the consumer version of its online social network after fixing a bug exposing private data in as many as 500,000 accounts. This March, as Facebook was coming under global scrutiny over the harvesting of personal data for Cambridge Analytica, Google discovered a skeleton in its own closet: a bug in the API for Google+ had been allowing third-party app developers to access the data not just of users who had granted permission, but of their friends. If that sounds familiar, it’s because it’s almost exactly the scenario that got Mark Zuckerberg dragged in front of the US Congress. The parallel was not lost on Google, and the company chose not to disclose the data leak, the Wall Street Journal revealed Monday, in order to avoid the public relations headache and potential regulatory enforcement. Disclosure will likely result “in us coming into the spotlight alongside or even instead of Facebook despite having stayed under the radar throughout the Cambridge Analytica scandal”, Google policy and legal officials wrote in a memo obtained by the Journal. It “almost guarantees Sundar will testify before Congress”, the memo said, referring to the company’s CEO, Sundar Pichai. The disclosure would also invite “immediate regulatory interest”.[...]

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European Journal for Security Research: Special Issue: Predictive Security Technologies
by Alberto Cammozzo Oct. 9, 2018

Oct. 9, 2018

Volume 3, Issue 2, October 2018 : Predictive Security Technologies <https://link.springer.com/journal/41125/3/2/page/1>

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