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NYRB: "Beware the Big Five"
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 25, 2018

March 25, 2018

*Beware the Big Five* Tamsin Shaw April 5, 2018 Issue / //The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace // //by Alexander Klimburg// //Penguin, 420 pp., $30.00/ The big Silicon Valley technology companies have long been viewed by much of the American public as astonishingly successful capitalist enterprises operated by maverick geniuses. The largest among them—Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Google (the so-called Big Five)—were founded by youthful and charismatic male visionaries with signature casual wardrobes: the open-necked blue shirt, the black polo-neck, the marled gray T-shirt and hoodie. These founders have won immense public trust in their emergent technologies, from home computing to social media to the new frontier, artificial intelligence. Their companies have seemed to grow organically within the flourishing ecology of the open Internet. […] Continua qui: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/04/05/silicon-valley-beware-big-five/

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Section 230: A Key Legal Shield For Facebook, Google Is About To Change
by Stefano Quintarelli March 25, 2018

March 25, 2018

Section 230: A Key Legal Shield For Facebook, Google Is About To Change A 1996 law sits at the heart of a major question about the modern Internet: How much responsibility should fall to online platforms for how their users act and get treated? By ALINA SELYUKH Mar 21 2018 <https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/03/21/591622450/section…>

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Un po' di leggerezza
by don Luca Peyron March 24, 2018

March 24, 2018

Cari tutti, Al netto di ogni seria considerazione, doverosa e qui concretamente condivisa, un post che un briciolo ci aiuta a pensare con leggerezza. Dl www.linkiesta.it/it/blog-post/2018/03/20/lettera-a-mark-zuckerberg/26714/

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Le dégonflement de la fable économique des données / The deflation of the data exploitation economic bubble
by Philippe Aigrain March 24, 2018

March 24, 2018

Condivido questo piccolo post : [FR] http://paigrain.debatpublic.net/?p=9812 [EN] http://paigrain.debatpublic.net/?p=9824&lang=en

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Video dell'incidente mortale causato dalla AI di Uber
by Giacomo Tesio March 24, 2018

March 24, 2018

https://mobile.twitter.com/tempepolice/status/976585098542833664?s=21 Interessanti anche i commenti su twitter che evidentemente non immaginano sensori alternativi alle telecamere. E interessante pensare invece come quegli stessi sensori montati su una auto "stupida" (sì lo so che nomln c'è intelligenza nei simulatori che vengono venduti come IA) avrebbero salvato la vita della vittima, avvisando il pilota umano. Ma la vera domanda qui è legale: chi ne risponde penalmente? O quantomeno chi ne risponderebbe penalmente in Italia. Si noti che ĺ'incidente era perfettamente prevedibile persino prima della messa in strada dell'auto a guida autonoma. Giacomo

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Facebook, Google, your reign may soon be over - The Washington Post
by Alberto Cammozzo March 23, 2018

March 23, 2018

Salutare Adhaar come il post-Facebook mi pare fortina, ma i segnali ci sono. <https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/facebook-google-your-reign-may-soon…> [...] And since for most technology companies the individual consumer is also a product, whose information is sold to others for a profit, he or she is doubly disempowered. The tech giants would surely respond that they have democratized information, created products of extraordinary power and potential, and transformed life for the better. All of this is true. So did previous innovations such as the telephone, the automobile, antibiotics and electricity. But precisely because of these products’ power and transformational impact, it was necessary for the government to play some role in protecting individuals and restraining the huge new winners in the economy. [...]

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La batteria dello smartphone dura un mese: sogno o incubo?
by Diego Giorio March 23, 2018

March 23, 2018

https://www.tuttoandroid.net/news/grazie-al-5g-le-batterie-degli-smartphone… [https://img.tuttoandroid.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/5G_mwc18_tta_01.jpg]<https://www.tuttoandroid.net/news/grazie-al-5g-le-batterie-degli-smartphone…> Grazie al 5G le batterie degli smartphone potrebbero durare un mese. Parola di Verizon | TuttoAndroid<https://www.tuttoandroid.net/news/grazie-al-5g-le-batterie-degli-smartphone…> www.tuttoandroid.net Parlando con l'amministratore delegato di IBM, il CEO di Verizon ha definito il 5G la tecnologia che inaugurerà la quarta rivoluzione industriale Col 5G la batteria potrà durare molto di più. Anche un mese, nelle previsioni più ottimistiche, dato che la potenza di calcolo sarà trasferita dal telefono all'infrastruttura, per cui l'apparecchio necessiterà di processori meno potenti e meno famelici. Fantastico! Però se già ora gli smartphone non erano famosi per il loro rispetto della privacy, cosa sarà col 5G? Saluti a tutti D.

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Even Without Cambridge Analytica, the Trump Campaign Already Had Everyone's Data - Emily Taylor - Chatham House - notsp
by Diego Latella March 23, 2018

March 23, 2018

Although nothing really new, … repetita juvant (especially when coming from authoritative source …): Even Without Cambridge Analytica, the Trump Campaign Already Had Everyone's Data <https://email-chathamhouse.org/1S3M-5JDSC-NUSXMS-322YLV-1/c.aspx> Emily Taylor - Chatham House DL Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR-ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy (http:www.isti.cnr.it) FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it) http://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, mob: +39 348 8283101, fax: +390506212040 =================== The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than compulsion; if in the process we learn how to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task. Above all, remember your humanity. -- Sir Joseph Rotblat

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Wired: "Sociologists Examine Hackathons and See Exploitation"
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 22, 2018

March 22, 2018

Erin Griffith 03.20.18 07:00 am *Sociologists Examine Hackathons and See Exploitation** * As the gospel of Silicon Valley-style disruption spreads to every sector in the economy, so too have the industry’s favorite competitive ritual, hackathons. The contests, where small teams of “hackers” build tech products in marathon all-night coding sessions, are a hallmark of Silicon Valley culture. Recall Facebook’s most famous hackathon, thrown on the eve of its IPO to show the world that the demands of being a public company would not kill the “hacker way” at One Hacker Way. Now, sponsors ranging from Fortune 500 conglomerates to conference organizers host them. Even New York Fashion Week and the Vatican have hosted hackathons. They’ve become part of a “toolkit” for large organizations seeking a veneer of innovation. Some organizers view them as recruiting opportunities, others as opportunities to evangelize their company’s technology platforms, and others simply want to be associated with something cool and techie. They’re so common that hackathon enthusiast Mike Swift started a company dedicated to organizing and building community around them called Major League Hacking. Last year the company provided services for more than 200 hackathons with more than 65,000 participants. The phenomenon is attracting attention from academics. One pair of sociologists recently examined hackathons and emerged with troubling conclusions. [...] continua qui: https://www.wired.com/story/sociologists-examine-hackathons-and-see-exploit…

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In Passing SESTA/FOSTA, Lawmakers Failed to Separate Their Good Intentions from Bad Law, , Today was a dark day for the Internet.
by gianlucaquaglia＠gmail.com March 21, 2018

March 21, 2018

In Passing SESTA/FOSTA, Lawmakers Failed to Separate Their Good Intentions from Bad Law Today was a dark day for the Internet. The U.S. Senate just voted 97-2 to pass the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA, H.R. 1865), a bill that silences online speech by forcing Internet platforms to censor their users. As lobbyists and members of Congress applaud themselves for enacting a law tackling the problem of trafficking, let’s be clear: Congress just made trafficking victims less safe, not more. [...] continua qui https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/how-congress-censored-internet

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