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"Sad by Design: on Platform Nihilism", Geert Lovink - 10th April at 6:30pm - Guarini Campus
by donna d.r. April 9, 2019

April 9, 2019

Geert Lovink presenta il suo nuovo libro il 10 e l'11 aprile a Roma e Napoli per quanto riguarda l'evento del 10 alle 18.30 alla John Cabot abbiamo predisposto un live streaming qui https://youtu.be/LOhX2-GSNc0 diffondete se potete! grazie, donatella *From:* rsvpevents <rsvpevents(a)johncabot.edu> Dear JCU Community and Friends, You are cordially invited to “*Sad by Design: on Platform Nihilism”* by Professor *Geert Lovink* on *Wednesday, 10th April 2019, at 6:30pm* in the *Aula Magna, Guarini Campus*. Kindly RSVP: https://bit.ly/2HXGwKJ <https://bit.ly/2HXGwKJ> *Address*: Aula Magna Regina, Guarini Campus, John Cabot University, Via della Lungara 233, 00165 Rome

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NYT Editorial: "It’s Your iPhone. Why Can’t You Fix It Yourself?"
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 9, 2019

April 9, 2019

*It’s Your iPhone. Why Can’t You Fix It Yourself?* /When the tools of modern life stop working, people should be able to shop for the best price on repairs./ By The Editorial Board The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher. It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section. April 6, 2019 A giant John Deere tractor and a pocket-size Apple iPhone have something important in common: The cost of repairing either one is too high. The two companies, and many of their peers, use a variety of aggressive tactics, including electronic locks and restrictive warranties, to push customers with broken equipment to seek help from their authorized repair facilities — or to give up and buy a replacement. [...] continua qui: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opinion/sunday/right-to-repair-elizabeth…

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Nexa Newsletter #1/2019
by Nexa Media April 9, 2019

April 9, 2019

Nexa Newsletter (Optional) This text will appear in the inbox preview, but not the email body. It can be used to supplement the email subject line or even summarize the email's contents. Extended text preheaders (~490 characters) seems like a better UX for anyone using a screenreader or voice-command apps like Siri to dictate the contents of an email. If this text is not included, email clients will automatically populate it using the text (including image alt text) at the start of the email's body. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ alt_text NEXA NEWSLETTER #1/2019 <https://www.facebook.com/nexa.center> <https://twitter.com/nexacenter> <https://www.youtube.com/user/NexaCenter> DIGITAL POLICY Ue, approvate le nuove regole sul diritto d'autore online La nuova direttiva è stata approvata dal Parlamento europeo con 348 voti favorevoli, 274 contrari e 36 astensioni, mettendo fine a un percorso legislativo avviato nel 2016. Abbiamo chiesto al Prof. Marco Ricolfi una breve intervista video a commento della notizia. Leggi l'articolo <https://agcult.it/a/7023/2019-03-26/ue-approvate-le-nuove-regole-sul-diritt…> Vai alla discussione in lista Nexa <https://server-nexa.polito.it/pipermail/nexa/2019-March/014802.html> InterviewRicolfi <https://www.youtube.com/embed/lpEC2sE-GY4> *WATCH: Intervista con il Prof. Marco Ricolfi* COMUNITÀ alt_text Online il corso EduHack A partire dal 18 marzo il corso EduHack è ufficialmente online <https://eduhack.eu/course/>. Prende dunque il via un percorso sperimentale di formazione che tra il 2019 e il 2020 coinvolgerà attivamente le università partner del Consorzio Edu-Hack: l'Universidad Internacional de la Rioja <https://eduhack.eu/partners/unir/> sarà la prima tappa, a cui seguiranno l'Università di Coventry <https://eduhack.eu/partners/coventry-university/> e il Politecnico di Torino <https://eduhack.eu/partners/nexa-center/>, capofila e coordinatore del progetto. Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili alla pagina: https://eduhack.eu/ <%20https://eduhack.eu/%20>. *mattia.plazio(a)polito.it <mailto:mattia.plazio@polito.it>* #eduhack <https://twitter.com/nexacenter/status/1110933759350788096> PUBBLICAZIONI alt_text Combining Data Analytics with Team Feedback to Improve the Estimation Process in Agile Software Development Antonio Vetrò e Marco Conoscenti hanno pubblicato il seguente articolo su rivista riguardo al processo di stima della durata nei progetti software: "Combining Data Analytics with Team Feedback to Improve the Estimation Process in Agile Software Development <https://doi.org/10.1515/fcds-2018-0016>". Vetrò A., Dürre R., Conoscenti M., Méndez Fernández D., Jørgensen M., Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences, 43(4), 305-334. (open access) #openaccess <https://twitter.com/phisaz/status/1083283669635215361> alt_text Ethical and Socially-Aware Data Labels Elena Beretta, Antonio Vetrò, Bruno Lepri e Juan Carlos De Martin hanno pubblicato il seguente articolo su rivista in merito all'effetto discriminatorio causato da dati distorti nei software di decision-making: "Ethical and Socially-Aware Data Labels <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11680-4_30>". Information Management and Big Data. SIMBig 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 898, 320-327 Springer, Cham. (post print) #beretta <https://twitter.com/ElenaBeretta4> DIDATTICA alt_text Master in Giornalismo “Giorgio Bocca” Marco Conoscenti e Giuseppe Futia hanno tenuto un corso su informazioni e strumenti di sicurezza per giornalisti, presso il Master in Giornalismo "Giorgio Bocca" ospitato dall'Università di Torino. Le diapositive delle lezioni dal titolo "Anonimato online e kit pratico di sicurezza per giornalisti <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZnEMgk9BfYh84YYgBBCmdW4Ruka1OMzymwS…>" e “"Crittografia e cancellazione <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gdZyJX0TUUvT3hnt8XiWfKrr8LOD5fye2w3…>" sono disponibili online. Per maggiori informazioni contattare: *giuseppe.futia(a)polito.it <mailto:giuseppe.futia@polito.it>* #futia <https://twitter.com/annamasera/status/1086253973743509504> #conoscenti <https://twitter.com/annamasera/status/1088796689316675584> #futura <https://twitter.com/FuturaTorino> LETTURE alt_text There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology In "There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology <https://www.wired.com/story/theres-no-good-reason-to-trust-blockchain-techn…>", Bruce Schneier, esperto di crittografia, sottolinea che la Blockchain non elimina effettivamente la fiducia, piuttosto la colloca nella tecnologia a discapito delle persone e delle istituzioni. Tuttavia sottolinea anche la necessità dell'intervento umano e di governance al di fuori della tecnologia. Inoltre, egli osserva che ci sono diversi punti di centralizzazione nel sistema a catena di blocco, come i minatori e i servizi di scambio. Per maggiori informazioni contattare: *marco.conoscenti(a)polito.it <mailto:marco.conoscenti@polito.it>* #trust <https://twitter.com/phisaz/status/1083283669635215361> alt_text How to do Deep Learning on Graphs with Graph Convolutional Networks Il Machine Learning (ML) applicato ai grafici sta diventando sempre più popolare in vari settori, tra cui i social network, i grafici di conoscenza, i sistemi di raccomandazione e persino le scienze della vita. Nel ML tradizionale, le istanze dei dati sono indipendenti l'una dall'altra; nel grafico, i dati di ogni istanza (nodo) sono correlati agli altri (vicini) attraverso complesse informazioni di collegamento che vengono adottate per catturare l'interdipendenza tra i dati stessi. Giuseppe Futia suggerisce un'introduzione di alto livello, disponibile su Medium <https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-do-deep-learning-on-graphs-with-graph…>, ad una delle più importanti tecniche chiamate /Graph Convolutional Networks/. Per maggiori informazioni contattare: *giuseppe.futia(a)polito.it <mailto:giuseppe.futia@polito.it>* #futia <https://twitter.com/giuseppe_futia> CONFERENZE E SEMINARI alt_text Il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società a Biennale Democrazia 2019 L'edizione di Biennale Democrazia 2019 si è svolta a Torino dal 27 al 31 marzo. Juan Carlos De Martin e Gustavo Zagrebelsky hanno dialogato sulle questioni etiche e democratiche presenti dietro ogni evoluzione tecnologica; Jean-Claude Guédon, in un appuntamento presieduto da Juan Carlos De Martin, ha invece illustrato il ruolo della “scienza aperta” come argine delle forme di potere insite nel processo di produzione del sapere scientifico. Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili alla pagina: https://nexa.polito.it/biennale-democrazia-2019. *francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it <mailto:francesco.ruggiero@polito.it>* #animdellecose <https://twitter.com/nexacenter/status/1111685005720371200> #scienzaedemocrazia <https://twitter.com/nexacenter/status/1112054204728836096> alt_text Connecting Policy Developers and Decision Makers With the DigitranScope experiments Antonio Vetrò è stato invitato come speaker al DigiTransScope Workshop: "Connecting Policy Developers and Decision Makers With the DigitranScope experiments", organizzato dal Joint Research Center for Advanced Studies della Comissione Europea, Ispra, Italia 28-29 Marzo 2019. Titolo dell’intervento: "Digital Open Urban Twins". Informazioni sul workshop e sulle presentazioni sono disponibili alla pagina: https://bit.ly/2UdQSwQ <https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/communities/en/community/digitranscope/event/conne…>. *antonio.vetro(a)polito.it <mailto:antonio.vetro@polito.it>* #vetrò <https://twitter.com/phisaz> alt_text 117° Mercoledì di Nexa Il seminario, a cura di Mario Casiraghi, ha illustrato la relazione tra finanza e blockchain. Alla ricerca dei benefici strutturali che la tecnologia può portare facendo il punto della situazione a livello di sviluppo tecnologico, regolamentare e di mercati, allo scopo di inquadrare, in conclusione, il possibile futuro dell'industria. Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili alla pagina: https://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-117. *francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it <mailto:francesco.ruggiero@polito.it>* #nexawednesday <https://twitter.com/nexacenter/status/1105881190777667585> alt_text 68° Nexa Lunch Seminar In occasione del seminario Marc Perrin ha offerto un quadro delle posizioni critiche sul tema delle Filter Bubble, e ha presentato i risultati di una sua analisi sulla polarizzazione delle opinioni, legata al dibattito pubblico sulla questione del TAV, in Italia. Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili alla pagina: https://nexa.polito.it/lunch-68. *francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it <mailto:francesco.ruggiero@polito.it>* #lunch68 <https://twitter.com/nexacenter/status/1110880523046539265> NEXT alt_text 118° Mercoledì di Nexa Il seminario, tenuto dal Prof. Kavé Salamatian, sarà incentrato sulla cyber-geografia. Analogamente alla geografia, che serve a studiare il nostro rapporto con la terra e lo spazio fisico, la cyber-geografia dovrebbe adottare una prospettiva spaziale per esaminare il nostro rapporto con il cyberspazio. Ciò comporterà lo sviluppo di nuovi strumenti per descrivere il cyberspazio dall'interno, sollevando nel contempo una serie di questioni teoriche. https://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-118. *francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it <mailto:francesco.ruggiero@polito.it>* #cybergeography <https://twitter.com/search?q=%23cybergeography&src=typd> #salamatian <https://twitter.com/kavesalamatian> NEWS How to Stop ‘Smart Cities’ From Becoming ‘Surveillance Cities’ La campagna di controllo comunitario sulla sorveglianza della polizia (CCOPS) ha portato al passaggio di sette leggi locali che richiedono trasparenza e un rapporto sull’impatto della sorveglianza che includa potenziali effetti negativi sulle libertà e sui diritti civili. Leggi l'articolo <https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/how-…> Vai alla discussione in lista Nexa <https://server-nexa.polito.it/pipermail/nexa/2019-March/014775.html> "L'intelligenza artificiale? Non è vera intelligenza" Il filosofo americano John Searle, noto per i suoi contributi alla filosofia della mente e del linguaggio, contesta la teoria dell’intelligenza artificiale forte, secondo la quale un computer digitale, adeguatamente programmato, non simula semplicemente una mente bensì, letteralmente, ha una mente. Leggi l'articolo <http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/cultura/lintelligenza-artificiale-non-vera-in…> Vai alla discussione in lista Nexa <https://server-nexa.polito.it/pipermail/nexa/2019-March/014715.html> Microsoft announces it will shut down ebook program and confiscate its customers' libraries Il primo luglio l’ebook store di Microsoft chiuderà i battenti a causa di guadagni troppo bassi, con la conseguenza che tutti gli ebook - protetti dai Digital Rights Management (DRM) -precedentemente acquistati dagli utenti, saranno cancellati dalle rispettive librerie digitali. Leggi l'articolo <https://boingboing.net/2019/04/02/burning-libraries.html> Vai alla discussione in lista Nexa <https://server-nexa.polito.it/pipermail/nexa/2019-April/014893.html> See our events calendar <http://nexa.polito.it/events> if you're curious about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, and conferences not listed in this email. Our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. 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EDPS investigates contractual agreements concerning software used by EU institutions
by Giacomo Tesio April 9, 2019

April 9, 2019

https://edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-releases/2019/ed… Wojciech Wiewiórowski, Assistant EDPS, said: “New data protection rules for the EU institutions and bodies came into force on 11 December 2018. Regulation 2018/1725 introduced significant changes to the rules governing outsourcing. Contractors now have direct responsiblities when it comes to ensuring compliance. However, when relying on third parties to provide services, the EU institutions remain accountable for any data processing carried out on their behalf. They also have a duty to ensure that any contractual arrangements respect the new rules and to identify and mitigate any risks. It is with this in mind that the contractual relationship between the EU institutions and Microsoft is now under EDPS scrutiny.” [...] It is in this spirit of cooperation that the EDPS takes note of the Data Protection Impact Assessment Report on diagnostic data in Microsoft Office ProPlus of 5 November 2018, commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security. Any EU institutions using the Microsoft applications investigated in this report are likely to face similar issues to those encountered by national public authorities, including increased risks to the rights and freedoms of individuals.

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US Cloud platforms potentially incompatible with GDPR
by Giacomo Tesio April 9, 2019

April 9, 2019

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/cloudy-risks-gdpr Over the last year it has become more and more clear that non-EU Cloud services, including those from large US providers like Microsoft, Dropbox, Google, etc..., are not compliant with EU privacy regulations like the GDPR. The Dutch government recently concluded this and the Swedish National Procurement Service published, just last month, a pre-study report about Cloud based office platforms. [...] “The permitted purpose of surveillance under E.O. 12333 is quite broad, encompassing all activities and intentions of non-U.S. persons. This broad authority has resulted in broad surveillance programs, including ‘Co-Traveler’, through which the U.S. captured billions of location updates daily from mobile phones around the world, and ‘Muscular’, through which the NSA intercepted all data transmitted between certain Google and Yahoo! data centers outside the U.S.” [...] “We are particularly concerned with the possible disclosure by data brokers to governmental entities of metadata which, if sought by the government directly from a communications service provider, could not be disclosed to governmental entities without legal process.” [...] “De-anonymization techniques that can identify individuals by efficiently combining increasing large volumes of digital data” [...] “The extent of the government’s use of its surveillance authorities to target journalists, dissidents, and others not engaged in wrongdoing is not known. Nor is it publicly known whether surveillance of such individuals represents a significant portion of the government’s foreign intelligence surveillance efforts.” [...] Giovanni Buttarelli, European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), stated in a recent interview: “At the moment there is too much power in the hands of a few mega tech companies and governments. We need to decentralise the internet, give more power to people over their digital lives. Engineers have a valid voice but they need to be part of a conversation with lawyers, ethicists, experts from the humanities. IPEN, our initiative, seeks to do this.”

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2 students accused of jamming school's Wi-Fi network to avoid tests
by Giacomo Tesio April 9, 2019

April 9, 2019

Molto educativo: si denunciano due ragazzini invece di licenziare l'amministratore di sistema. http://www.wbrz.com/news/2-students-accused-of-jamming-school-s-wi-fi-netwo… Authorities say two northern New Jersey boys successfully crashed their high school's Wi-Fi network on multiple occasions to get out of taking exams. The two Secaucus High School freshmen are charged with computer criminal activity and conspiracy. Authorities say the 14-year-olds used an app or a computer program to compromise the network, and apparently took requests from other students to bring it down.

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Home Taping Is Killing Music: When the Music Industry Waged War on the Cassette Tape in the 1980s, and Punk Bands Fought Back
by Giacomo Tesio April 9, 2019

April 9, 2019

Salta all'occhio il parallelo fra musica punk e software libero. http://www.openculture.com/2019/04/home-taping-is-killing-music.html The first time I saw the infamous Skullcassette-and-Bones logo was on holiday in the UK and purchased the very un-punky Chariots of Fire soundtrack. It was on the inner sleeve. “Home Taping Is Killing Music” it proclaimed. It was? I asked myself. “And it’s illegal” a subhead added. It is? I also asked myself. (Ironically, this was a few months before I came into possession of my first combination turntable-cassette deck.) Ten years and racks and racks of homemade cassette dubs on my shelves later, music seemed to be doing very well. (Later, by going digital, the music industry killed itself, and I had absolutely nothing to do with it.) British record collectors will no doubt remember this campaign that started in 1981, another business-backed "moral" panic. And funnily enough it had nothing to do with dubbing vinyl. [...] The post-punk crowd knew the campaign was bunkum too. Malcolm McLaren, always the provocateur, released Bow Wow Wow’s cassette-only-single C-30 C-60 C-90 Go with a blank B-side that urged consumers to record their own music. EMI quickly dropped the band. [...] And then there were the parodies. The metal group Venom used “Home Taping Is Killing Music; So Are Venom” on an album; Peter Principle offered “Home Taping Is Making Music”: Billy Bragg kept it Marxist: “Capitalism is killing music - pay no more than £4.99 for this record”. For the industry, music was the product; for the regular folks, music was communication, it was art, it was a language.

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Final report of the High-Level Expert Group on the Impact of the Digital Transformation on EU Labour Markets | Digital Single Market
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 8, 2019

April 8, 2019

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/final-report-high-level-… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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The Pentagon Wants to Streamline Security Clearances by Using AI. That’s a Dangerous Idea. - Just Security
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 8, 2019

April 8, 2019

https://www.justsecurity.org/63539/the-pentagon-wants-to-streamline-securit… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI | Digital Single Market
by antonio.vetro＠polito.it April 8, 2019

April 8, 2019

Pubblicato oggi https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/ethics-guidelines-trustw… AV == Sent from my wireless device ==

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FYI: You could make Tesla's Autopilot swerve into traffic with a few stickers on the road
by Giacomo Tesio April 8, 2019

April 8, 2019

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/02/tencent_tesla_hacking/ Tencent Keen Security Lab documented this week how it successfully infiltrated the autopilot’s system engine control unit (ECU) to take remote control of the car. The Chinese boffins also described how they fed on-board cameras with dodgy inputs, using stickers on the road surface, to force the vehicle to swerve across lanes, or turn on its windscreen wipers. The flaws were uncovered from 2017 to 2018, and reported to the automaker, which has since seemingly patched the security bugs. An in-depth paper describing the attacks was published at the end of last month, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk praised those behind the discoveries. [...] The researchers manipulated the car's camera image feed by placing three small squares on the ground, thus strategically changing a few pixels around the area where lanes are marked out. Alternatively, malware present in the system could modify the pixels directly as they streamed in from the camera. These adversarial inputs subsequently tricked the neural network into thinking it was in the wrong lane, or drifting into another lane, forcing it to swerve across the roadway to correct itself, potentially resulting in a deadly crash. In one attack, the car failed to identify certain lane markings, as a result of the stickers on the road, and didn’t steer in the appropriate direction to stay in lane. In another scenario, the car was made to see phantom lanes, causing it to change direction for no good reason. This attack posed the frightening possibility of nefarious miscreants making roads unsafe for Model S cars on Autopilot. [...] # Ultimate Mario Kart The team also found that – after gaining root access on the engine control unit (ECU), by getting the in-car dashboard or entertainment system's WebKit-based browser to open a malicious webpage, and then exploiting the underlying Android kernel to pivot through the internal computer network – they could control the vehicle's steering over the air with a Bluetooth game controller. ____ Qui i paper: https://keenlab.tencent.com/en/whitepapers/Experimental_Security_Research_o… https://i.blackhat.com/us-18/Thu-August-9/us-18-Liu-Over-The-Air-How-We-Rem… In fondo JavaScript sul browser non è così male: ci puoi giocare a GTA in 3D! "This is the Web functioning as designed": https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1487081#c15 Giacomo

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The Lab’s Quarterly - Gli algoritmi come costruzione sociale
by Daniele Gambetta April 8, 2019

April 8, 2019

Care/i, allego link del nuovo numero della rivista di Scienze Sociali *The Lab's Quarterly*, che in questo quaderno si occupa di ruolo degli algoritmi nella società. All'interno c'è anche un contributo che ho scritto con Massimo Airoldi (Università di Lione) sul mito della neutralità algoritmica. Da notare che la redazione della rivista ha espressamente cercato per questo numero ricercatori e studiosi di vari background (matematica, fisica, informatica...) proprio per avere un numero fortemente interdisciplinare. https://thelabsquarterly.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/2018.4-the-labs-quarte… Buona lettura e buona settimana. D.

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New York’s mass face recognition trial on drivers has been a spectacular failure - MIT Technology Review
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 8, 2019

April 8, 2019

https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/613284/new-yorks-mass-face-re… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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118° Mercoledì di Nexa | 10 aprile 2019
by Nexa Media April 8, 2019

April 8, 2019

Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-118> NEXA 118° Mercoledì di Nexa Mercoledì 10 aprile 2019, ore 18.00 - 20.00 Politecnico di Torino http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-118 Understanding cybergeography: visualizing how cyberspace and geopolitics interact Speaker Kavé Salamatian (University of Savoie) This event will be webcast live: https://nexa.polito.it/nexa-hangout-on-air The Internet is nowadays a major component of the contemporary world. Nonetheless, networks do not emerge in the void. They interconnect physical or logical agents that exists concretely and are therefore subject to diﬀerent forms of physical, political or economic constraints. *The network itself extends the abilities of its participating nodes and therefore go beyond the local constraints by opening new spaces or dimensions*. This the interplay of local constraints and global advantages that shapes the structure and properties of these new spaces. Internet and the cyberspace are built over equipment and infrastructures that are positioned in the geographical space. These physical component anchor strongly Internet, and the cyberspace, in the terrestrial space. *Cyberspace is a virtual and vaporous cloud that is rooted ﬁrmly in the concrete of geographic, economic, political, and physical interferences and constraints*. Overcoming these constraints have entailed colossal investments and for classical actors like governments or economic players, communication cables, satellites, data-centers, servers, etc., are vectors of power enforcement. Generally the distribution of Internet infrastructures in the terrestrial space poses classical problems in geography and geopolitics, like spatial planning or spatial inequalities, etc. One could therefore incline to think that Internet can be treated as any other infrastructure network like roads, pipelines, or energy transfer grids. Thus, the addition of a new type of artefact to classical geography or geopolitics should not transform the way of strategic thinking. However, a more precise analysis of the concept of cyberspace shows other dimensions to the discussion. We all have an intuitive feeling about the "cyberspace", but *is it a new space or just an extension of the space that have been studied for a long time by geographers?* Do humans have the same appropriation relationship with the cyberspace as we observe in classical geography? if yes, can we talk about cyber-territories and discuss about the power struggle to control them? Nonetheless, projecting any power needs information to decide its usage and to control its action. By shaping the way information are exchanged and are ﬂowing in the cyberspace, the Internet changes the distribution of power. During the past two decades, new actors have emerged that build their power, i.e., their ability to impact both the real world and the cyberspace, through gathering information of diverse nature. These actors project their " cyber-power " to dispute to each other " cyber-territories ".*This competition has not remained in the cyber-dimension and is concretely changing the contemporary world*. In a nutshell, real world power shape the Internet and in return the Internet changes the very basic nature of power. Understanding how this evolving interaction loop acts and shapes the contemporary world economics, politics and geography is of paramount importance. BIOGRAFIE - e informazioni supplementari [SALAMATIAN] *Kavé SALAMATIAN* is a full professor of computer science at University of Savoie. His main areas of researches has been Internet measurement and modeling, network security, and networking information theory. He was previously reader at Lancaster University, UK and associate professor at University Pierre et Marie Curie. Kavé has graduated in 1998 from Paris SUD-Orsay university where he worked on joint source channel coding applied to multimedia transmission over Internet for his Phd. In a former life, he graduated with a MBA, and worked on market floor as a risk analyst and enjoyed being an urban traffic modeler for some years. He is currently distinguished visiting professor at the Chines Academy of Science and also working closely with the Castex CyberStrategy Chair at the French National Defense Institute. He has been the recipient of a Chinese academy of Science Presidential Award in 2018. He is working these day on figuring out if networking is a science or just a hobby and if it is a science what are its fundamentals. In particular, he has been working on cyber-strategy, cyber-geography and the interaction between Internet and society specially on the impact of large scale Artificial Intelligence on societies. He has written a book on a comparative analysis of nationwide strategy of Artificial intelligence that will be published in March 2019. He has published more than 150 scientific papers. *Letture consigliate e link utili:* * J. Robin, K. Salamatian, /Envisioning Cyber-geography/ <https://www.cairn-int.info/abstract-E_HER_152_0123--envisioning-cyber-geogr…>, in "Hérodote" 2014/01. * AAVV, /A Cartography of Web Tracking using DNS Records/ <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140366418307023>, in "Computer Communication" 2019/134. * L. Salamatian, D. Kaafar, K. Salamatian, /A Geometric Approach for Real-time Monitoring of Dynamic Large Scale Graphs: AS-level graphs illustrated/ <https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.00676>. * AAVV, /Les nouveaux territoires stratégiques du cyberespace : le cas de la Russie/ <https://www.cairn.info/revue-strategique-2017-4-page-169.htm#>, in "Stratégique" 2017/04. Che cosa sono il Centro Nexa e i cicli di incontri “Mercoledì di Nexa” e “Nexa Lunch Seminar” <https://www.facebook.com/nexa.center/> <https://twitter.com/nexacenter> <https://www.youtube.com/user/NexaCenter> #cybergeography <https://twitter.com/search?q=%23cybergeography&src=typd> #nexawednesday <https://twitter.com/search?q=%23nexawednesday&src=typd> #salamatian <https://twitter.com/kavesalamatian> Il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società del Politecnico di Torino (Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica) è un centro di ricerca indipendente e interdisciplinare che studia Internet e il suo effetto sulla società. Maggiori informazioni all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/about. Durante i “*Mercoledì di Nexa*”, che si tengono *ogni 2° mercoledì del mese* alle *ore 18 in punto*, il Centro Nexa su Internet e Società apre le sue porte non solo agli esperti e a tutti coloro i quali lavorano con Internet, ma anche a semplici appassionati e cittadini. Il ciclo di incontri intende approfondire, con un linguaggio preciso ma divulgativo, i temi legati alla Rete: motori di ricerca, Creative Commons, social networks, open source/software libero, neutralità della rete, libertà di espressione, privacy, file sharing, big e open data, smart cities e molto altro. Al centro di quasi tutti gli incontri un ospite pronto a dialogare con i direttori del Centro Nexa, il Prof. Juan Carlos De Martin del Politecnico di Torino e il Prof. Marco Ricolfi dell'Università di Torino, nonché lo staff e i Fellows del Centro Nexa. Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa, incluso un elenco di tutti i “Mercoledì” passati, sono disponibili all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi. Si segnala inoltre che dal maggio 2012 *ogni 4° mercoledì* del mese *dalle ore 13 alle ore 14* il Centro Nexa organizza anche i "*Nexa Lunch Seminar*". Una lista di tutti i “Lunch Seminar” passati è disponibile all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-seminars. See our events calendar <http://nexa.polito.it/events> if you're curious about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, and conferences not listed in this email. Our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. Responsabile Comunicazione Centro Nexa su Internet & Società: *Francesco Ruggiero*, tel: +39 011 090 7219, Mob: +39 349 1335082, francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it <mailto:francesco.ruggiero@polito.it>. Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa e i Nexa Lunch Seminar, sono disponibili all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/events. Weekly Events Newsletter. Sign up <http://nexa.polito.it/mailing-lists> to receive this newsletter if this email was forwarded to you. To manage your subscription preferences, please click here <https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa>. Connect & get involved: Jobs, internships, and more <http://nexa.polito.it/get-involved>.

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EUNOMIA
by Giacomo April 7, 2019

April 7, 2019

https://eunomia.social/ EUNOMIA uses a positive-first approach, where good content and behavior accrue credit. As users share and consume social media content, their acts are recorded anonymously, yet socially transparently. In a verifiable way, the origin and path of each bit of content is recorded, and information cascade paths are assessed for their association with known trusted sources, which allows determining their level of trust. Once trust is attached to paths, the users and the content along them are similarly assigned levels of trustworthiness. Citizen participation is actively encouraged in content verification by allowing implicit voting on content trustworthiness and influencing the reputation of the content generators and sharers. Eunomia offers the means to any social media user to find out WHO generated any POST, HOW credible that creator and content is and IF IT CHANGED from origin to destination. EUNOMIA creates a social media companion that makes this information visible on new forms of decentralized media, such as Diaspora or Mastodon. WHO IS BEHIND THE PROJECT? A partnership of academic, non-private, and state organizations and private business aiming to interrupt the cycle of fake news. The project is funded by a 2.9 million Euro grant awarded by the highly competitive EU Horizon 2020 programme. To achieve this goal, a highly complementary consortium of 10 partners from 9 countries has joined forces with an advisory board of experts from around the world. ____ Sul fediverse sta causando un certo... panico. In effetti gli aspetti critici sono molti: l'unico modo di sapere se una affermazione (o un dato) è vera o falsa è verificarne personalmente la veridicità. Possiamo facilmente escludere la veridicità di affermazioni incompatibili con la nostra esperienza ("il bambino ha sollevato l'elefante") ma del resto possiamo solo valutare la coerenza con le conoscenze pregresse. Per cui un sistema autonomo potrebbe facilmente essere manipolato per far passare una notizia vera ma imprevedibile (primavera araba? Torri gemelle? Snowden) come Fake News, disincentivando o rallentando la sua diffusione. Immaginate quali manipolazioni borsistiche si potrebbero fare se la notizia fosse "Unicredit dichiara bancarotta" e la notizia impiegasse giorni a circolare. Il software non può risolvere la crisi di credibilità delle istituzioni (e del giornalismo fra queste), ma se usato impropriamente può peggiorare notevolmente la qualità della democrazia, riducendo la varietà di voci senza aumentare la qualità dei messaggi. Probabilmente bisognerebbe far vedere ai ricercatori gli archivi dei quotidiani e dei settimanali italiani negli anni del Berlusconismo. Forse, vedendo "la macchina del fango" all'opera, sarebbero più cauti nel ricondurre la verità a "trusted sources". Giacomo

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UK businesses using artificial intelligence to monitor staff activity | Productivity | The Guardian
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 7, 2019

April 7, 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/07/uk-businesses-using-arti… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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How Amazon's $97 million Eero acquisition screwed employees and minted millionaires
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 6, 2019

April 6, 2019

https://mashable.com/article/amazon-eero-wifi-router-sale/ (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Google employees are lining up to trash Google’s AI ethics council
by Arturo Di Corinto April 6, 2019

April 6, 2019

FYI Google employees are lining up to trash Google’s AI ethics council The independent council was meant to help Google’s public image, but the blowback shows just how fraught—and politicized—use of AI is becoming. - by Will Knight <https://www.technologyreview.com/profile/will-knight/> - April 1, 2019 https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613253/googles-ai-council-faces-blowback… -- Arturo Di Corinto www.dicorinto.it ---------------------------------> AVVERTENZE AI SENSI DEL D.Lgs. 196/2003 Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica e/o nel/i file/s allegato/i sono da considerarsi strettamente riservate. Il loro utilizzo è consentito esclusivamente al destinatario del messaggio, per le finalità indicate nel messaggio stesso. Qualora riceviate questo messaggio senza esserne il destinatario, Vi preghiamo cortesemente di darcene notizia via e-mail e di procedere alla distruzione del messaggio stesso, cancellandolo dal Vostro sistema. Conservare il messaggio stesso, divulgarlo anche in parte, distribuirlo ad altri soggetti, copiarlo, od utilizzarlo per finalità diverse, costituisce comportamento contrario ai principi dettati dal D.Lgs. 196/2003

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Hey Google, sorry you lost your ethics council, so we made one for you
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 6, 2019

April 6, 2019

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613281/google-cancels-ateac-ai-ethics-co… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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From AI to ML to AI: On Swirling Nomenclature & Slurried Thought – Approximately Correct
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 6, 2019

April 6, 2019

http://approximatelycorrect.com/2018/06/05/ai-ml-ai-swirling-nomenclature-s… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Why Wolfram Tech Isn’t Open Source—A Dozen Reason
by Giacomo Tesio April 5, 2019

April 5, 2019

https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-open-source-a-doz… At the risk of provoking the fundamentalist end of the open-source community, I thought I would share some of my views in this blog. [...] Much of this blog could be summed up with two answers: (1) free, open-source software can be very good, but it isn’t good at doing what we are trying to do; with a large fraction of the reason being (2) open source distributes design over small, self-assembling groups who individually tackle parts of an overall task, but large-scale, unified design needs centralized control and sustained effort. I came up with 12 reasons why I think that it would not have been possible to create the Wolfram technology stack using a free and open-source model. I would be interested to hear your views in the comments section below the blog. - A coherent vision requires centralized design - High-level languages need more design than low-level languages - You need multidisciplinary teams to unify disparate fields - Hard cases and boring stuff need to get done too - Crowd-sourced decisions can be bad for you - Our developers work for you, not just themselves - Unified computation requires unified design - Unified representation requires unified design - Open source doesn’t bring major tech innovation to market - Paid software offers an open quid pro quo - It takes steady income to sustain long-term R&D - Bad design is expensive [...] FOSS development tends to react to immediate user needs—specific functionality, existing workflows or emulation of existing closed-source software. Major innovations require anticipating needs that users do not know they have and addressing them with solutions that are not constrained by an individual’s experience. [...] Open source often does create ecosystems that encourage many small-scale innovations, but while bolder innovations do widely exist at the early experimental stages, they often fail to be refined to the point of usefulness in large-scale adoption.

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When a black box is valuable
by antonio.vetro＠polito.it April 5, 2019

April 5, 2019

Il bicchiere mezzo pieno http://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6435/26?rss=1 AV == Sent from my wireless device ==

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Comment Facebook compte empêcher toute ingérence et manipulation pendant les européennes
by Alberto Cammozzo April 5, 2019

April 5, 2019

<https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2019/04/05/ingerence-etrangere-le-pla…> Ancien procureur spécialisé dans la cybercriminalité, un temps conseiller de Barack Obama à la Maison Blanche, Nathaniel Gleicher dirige désormais, chez Facebook, les équipes chargées de contrer les piratages informatiques et les opérations de propagande. Basé en Californie, il a passé trois semaines en Europe depuis le début de l’année à enchaîner les préparatifs pour l’élection européenne. Depuis 2016 et l’élection présidentielle américaine, la perspective de voir le scrutin manipulé par une puissance étrangère via les réseaux sociaux hante les responsables politiques. Nous avons rencontré Nathaniel Gleicher dans les locaux français de Facebook, jeudi 4 avril. Facebook est attendu au tournant pour les élections européennes. Quelle est votre stratégie ? Les élections européennes font partie de nos principales priorités. C’est un énorme défi : chaque pays européen organise une forme d’élection locale. Nous avons une équipe qui se consacre aux élections européennes depuis un petit moment. Nous avons réalisé une évaluation des menaces et des risques qui pèsent sur l’élection, il y a un mois et demi. Nous avons récemment organisé un exercice à Bruxelles : nous avons réuni des gens venus de toute l’entreprise pour simuler l’élection et anticiper les menaces qui pourraient émerger.

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data as commons
by Giuseppe Attardi April 5, 2019

April 5, 2019

This is an idea that I have been proposing since a while (the first time at the GARR Conference 2018 in Cagliari): "Under this system, every company above a certain size, say, those with more than a ten percent share of the market, that systematically collects and analyzes data would have to let other companies in the same market access a subset of its data. " My argument was that personal data has infinitesimal value to individual users, therefore they are quite willing to relinquish it in exchange for what they consider some useful facility. However large collections of individual data have a huge value: but such a value is a collective one. Hence it should be considered a Commons. As with Commons, they should be not owned by anyone and cared for by a public organization. Who invests in collecting those data should have the possibility to exploit it according to the rules established by the Commons and maintain them available also for others to use on a fair basis. Any entity that reaches a relevant market share should be subject to this provisions. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2018-08-13/big-choice-big-tech

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New EU Report: “Competition policy for the digital era”
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 5, 2019

April 5, 2019

http://ec.europa.eu/competition/publications/reports/kd0419345enn.pdf (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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