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13° Conferenza Annuale del Centro Nexa su Internet & Società | 30 Novembre 2021
by Nexa Media Oct. 25, 2021

Oct. 25, 2021

Gentilissimi, vi segnaliamo che *martedì 30 novembre*, in concomitanza con il 15° anniversario della data di fondazione del Centro Nexa, *dalle ore 9:00 alle ore 17:30*, avrà luogo la*13° Conferenza Annuale del Centro Nexa* *su Internet & Società* sul tema /*"Il digitale e lo Stato"*/. La conferenza si svolgerà presso la sala Energy Center <https://www.energycenter.polito.it/> del Politecnico di Torino (mappa <https://www.google.it/maps/place/Energy+Center/@45.0675052,7.65417,17z/data…>); l'accesso sarà consentito solo a chi esibirà la certificazione verde COVID-19, il c.d. "Green Pass" o "Certificazione di esenzione alla vaccinazione anti-COVID-19" rilasciata secondo i criteri definiti dal Ministero della Salute, al varco di accesso della sala Energy Center che sarà presidiato dal personale preposto ai controlli.* * *La partecipazione all'evento sarà libera e gratuita previa registrazione all'indirizzo:* https://www.eventbrite.com/e/193677623987 <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/193677623987> Interverranno alla conferenza: / / /Enrico Nardelli/ (Università di Roma "Tor Vergata" e Presidente di Informatics Europe), / / /Giulio De Petra/ (Direttore del Centro per la Riforma dello Stato), / / /Paolo De Rosa/ (Chief Technology Officer Dipartimento per la trasformazione digitale), / / /Stefano Quintarelli/ (Chairman advisory group on advanced technologies UN/CEFACT),/ / /Luisa Torchia/ (Università Roma Tre), / / /Filippo Barbera/ (Università di Torino), / / /Pietro Pacini/ (Direttore Generale CSI Piemonte), / / /Leonardo Camiciotti /(Executive Director - Consorzio TOP-IX), /Maria Claudia Bodino/ (IT Strategy and Planning Officer - Data, Information and Knowledge management, Directorate-General for Informatics. European Commission), / / /Antonio Vetrò/ (Politecnico di Torino), / / /Giulia Schneider/ (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa), /Lorenzo Benussi/ (Chief Innovation Officer Fondazione Scuola), / / /Francesca Musiani /(Ricercatrice CNRS, vice-direttrice del Centre Internet et Société). Maggiori informazioni sul programma sono disponibili alla pagina: https://nexa.polito.it/conf2021 <https://nexa.polito.it/conf2021> Cordiali saluti, -- Anita Botta Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino – DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino _web:_ https://nexa.polito.it/ <https://nexa.polito.it/> _mail:_anita.botta@polito.it <mailto:anita.botta@polito.it> tel: 011 090 7219

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Re: [nexa] nexa Digest, Vol 150, Issue 51
by Giuseppe Attardi Oct. 25, 2021

Oct. 25, 2021

Curioso, io lo apro dai risultati di Google a “most profitable statista” Riporto i dati in miliardi di $ 1. Apple 51,41 2. Saudi Aramco 49,27 3. Softbank Group 47,05 4. Industrial Bank of Cina 45,78 5. Microsoft 44,28 6. Berkshire Hathaway 42,52 7. Alphabet 40,50 8. Agricultural Bank of China 31,29 9. China Construction Bank 29,28 10. Facebook 29,14 — Beppe > On 25 Oct 2021, at 14:18, nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it wrote: > > From: Roberto Resoli <roberto(a)resolutions.it> > To: nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > Subject: Re: [nexa] [selfie] domenica alle 17 "Potere digitale" > Message-ID: <2a76eb23-9126-e888-bd18-b186be238145(a)resolutions.it> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > Il 25/10/21 11:18, Giuseppe Attardi ha scritto: >> >> Walmart ha margini bassissimi dovuti agli alti costi. >> Bisogna considerare i profitti o il net income, che vede in testa Apple, >> e include tutte le Big Tech: >> >> https://www.statista.com/statistics/269857/most-profitable-companies-worldw…

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Re: [nexa] [selfie] domenica alle 17 "Potere digitale"
by Giuseppe Attardi Oct. 25, 2021

Oct. 25, 2021

Walmart ha margini bassissimi dovuti agli alti costi. Bisogna considerare i profitti o il net income, che vede in testa Apple, e include tutte le Big Tech: https://www.statista.com/statistics/269857/most-profitable-companies-worldw… - Beppe > On 24 Oct 2021, at 21:22, nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it wrote: > From: Antonio Iacono <antiac(a)gmail.com> > To: Nexa <nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it> > Subject: Re: [nexa] [selfie] domenica alle 17 "Potere digitale" > Message-ID: > > Non sono un esperto di borsa per dire se i titoli delle aziende > tecnologiche sono sopravvalutate ma > per fugare ogni dubbio io la classifica la stilerei in ordine al fatturato. > > 1) Walmart - 559,1 mld > 2) Amazon - 386 mld > 3) Apple - 274,5 mld > 4) CVS Health - 268,7 mld > 5) UnitedHealth Group - 257,1 mld > 6) Berkshire Hathaway - 245,5 mld > 7) McKesson - 231 mld > 8) AmerisourceBergen - 189,8 mld > 9) Alphabet - 182,5 mld > 10 Exxon Mobil - 181,5 mld Il fatturato può essere fuorviante, perché non tiene conto dei costi.

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Memento | 92° Nexa Lunch Seminar | 27 Ottobre 2021
by Nexa Media Oct. 25, 2021

Oct. 25, 2021

Gentilissimi, vi ricordiamo che *mercoledì **27 ottobre**, dalle ore 13.00 alle ore 14.00*, si svolgerà il 92° Nexa Lunch Seminar, con un incontro dal titolo: /*"Senso ed esperienza nelle realtà virtuali"*/. Ospite: *Gianmarco Thierry* *Giuliana* (Università di Torino). Sarà possibile partecipare al seminario connettendosi al seguente indirizzo: https://didattica.polito.it/VClass/NexaEvent <https://didattica.polito.it/VClass/NexaEvent> Maggiori informazioni sull'incontro sono disponibili alla pagina: https://nexa.polito.it/lunch-92 <https://nexa.polito.it/lunch-92> Cordiali saluti,   -- Anita Botta Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino – DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino _web:_ https://nexa.polito.it/ <https://nexa.polito.it/> _mail:_anita.botta@polito.it <mailto:anita.botta@polito.it> tel: 011 090 7219

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Worldcoin, una criptovaluta in cambio dell'iride
by don Luca Peyron Oct. 24, 2021

Oct. 24, 2021

Titolo un po' così.. ma progetto certamente interessante nei suoi obiettivi di senso Buona lettura e buona domenica dl https://www.punto-informatico.it/worldcoin-criptovaluta-iride/ _________________________ don Luca Peyron Direttore Ufficio per la Pastorale Universitaria Arcidiocesi di Torino www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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Paper: "Fairness in digital sharing legal professional attitudes toward digital piracy and digital commons"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 23, 2021

Oct. 23, 2021

*Fairness in digital sharing legal professional attitudes toward digital piracy and digital commons* /Malgorzata Ciesielska, Dariusz Jemielniak/ First published: 19 October 2021 https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24592 _/Abstract/_ Contrary to a popular belief of lawyers having the most strict perception of law, law professionals actually strongly skew toward more favorable views of digital sharing. According to our qualitative study, relying on in-depth interviews with 50 Harvard lawyers, digital piracy is quite acceptable. It is considered fair, especially among friends and for noncommercial purposes. We argue that this not only can indicate that the existing law is becoming outdated because of its inability to be enforced, but also that ethically it is not corresponding to what is considered fair, good service, or being societally beneficial. The common perception of relying on a fixed price for digital content is eroding. We show that on the verges of business, society, and law, there is a potential for the new paradigm of digital commons to emerge. Continua qui: *https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/asi.24592 *

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Twitter admits bias in algorithm for rightwing politicians and news outlets | Twitter | The Guardian
by Alberto Cammozzo Oct. 23, 2021

Oct. 23, 2021

<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/22/twitter-admits-bias-in-a…> Twitter has admitted it amplifies more tweets from rightwing politicians and news outlets than content from leftwing sources. The social media platform examined tweets from elected officials in seven countries – the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany, Spain and Japan. It also studied whether political content from news organisations was amplified on Twitter, focusing primarily on US news sources such as Fox News, the New York Times and BuzzFeed. The study compared Twitter’s “Home” timeline – the default way its 200 million users are served tweets, in which an algorithm tailors what users see – with the traditional chronological timeline where the most recent tweets are ranked first. The research found that in six out of seven countries, apart from Germany, tweets from rightwing politicians received more amplification from the algorithm than those from the left; right-leaning news organisations were more amplified than those on the left; and generally politicians’ tweets were more amplified by an algorithmic timeline than by the chronological timeline. According to a 27-page research document, Twitter found a “statistically significant difference favouring the political right wing” in all the countries except Germany. Under the research, a value of 0% meant tweets reached the same number of users on the algorithm-tailored timeline as on its chronological counterpart, whereas a value of 100% meant tweets achieved double the reach. On this basis, the most powerful discrepancy between right and left was in Canada (Liberals 43%; Conservatives 167%), followed by the UK (Labour 112%; Conservatives 176%). Even excluding top government officials, the results were similar, the document said. Twitter said it wasn’t clear why its Home timeline produced these results and indicated that it may now need to change its algorithm. A blog post by Rumman Chowdhury, Twitter’s director of software engineering, and Luca Belli, a Twitter researcher, said the findings could be “problematic” and that more study needed to be done. The post acknowledged that it was concerning if certain tweets received preferential treatment as a result of the way in which users interacted with the algorithm tailoring their timeline. “Algorithmic amplification is problematic if there is preferential treatment as a function of how the algorithm is constructed versus the interactions people have with it. Further root cause analysis is required in order to determine what, if any, changes are required to reduce adverse impacts by our Home timeline algorithm,” the post said. Twitter said it would make its research available to outsiders such as academics and it is preparing to let third parties have wider access to its data, in a move likely to put further pressure on Facebook to do the same. Facebook is being urged by politicians on both sides of the Atlantic to distribute its research to third parties after tens of thousands of internal documents – which included revelations that the company knew its Instagram app damaged teenage mental health – were leaked by the whistleblower Frances Haugen. The Twitter study compared the two ways in which a user can view their timeline: the first uses an algorithm to provide a tailored view of tweets that the user might be interested in based on the accounts they interact with most and other factors; the other is the more traditional timeline in which the user reads the most recent posts in reverse chronological order. The study compared the two types of timeline by considering whether some politicians, political parties or news outlets were more amplified than others. The study analysed millions of tweets from elected officials between 1 April and 15 August 2020 and hundreds of millions of tweets from news organisations, largely in the US, over the same period. Twitter said it would make its research available to third parties but said privacy concerns prevented it from making available the “raw data”. The post said: “We are making aggregated datasets available for third party researchers who wish to reproduce our main findings and validate our methodology, upon request.” Twitter added that it was preparing to make internal data available to external sources on a regular basis. The company said its machine-learning ethics, transparency and accountability team was finalising plans in a way that would protect user privacy. “This approach is new and hasn’t been used at this scale, but we are optimistic that it will address the privacy-vs-accountability tradeoffs that can hinder algorithmic transparency,” said Twitter. “We’re excited about the opportunities this work may unlock for future collaboration with external researchers looking to reproduce, validate and extend our internal research.”

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THE DETERMINED MATH TUTOR TEACHING CALCULUS ON PORNHUB
by don Luca Peyron Oct. 23, 2021

Oct. 23, 2021

Sorvolo sul sesto comandamento! Buona lettura dl https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/math-lessons-on-pornhub _________________________ don Luca Peyron Direttore Ufficio per la Pastorale Universitaria Arcidiocesi di Torino www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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NATO releases first-ever strategy for Artificial Intelligence
by don Luca Peyron Oct. 23, 2021

Oct. 23, 2021

E giunse anche lei.... dl https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_187934.htm _________________________ don Luca Peyron Direttore Ufficio per la Pastorale Universitaria Arcidiocesi di Torino www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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Facebook crisis grows as new whistleblower and leaked documents emerge | Facebook | The Guardian
by Alberto Cammozzo Oct. 23, 2021

Oct. 23, 2021

<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/22/facebook-whistleblower-h…> Facebook faced mounting pressure on Friday after a new whistleblower accused it of knowingly hosting hate speech and illegal activity, even as leaked documents shed further light on how the company failed to heed internal concerns over election misinformation. Allegations by the new whistleblower, who spoke to the Washington Post, were reportedly contained in a complaint to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the US agency that handles regulation to protect investors in publicly traded companies. In the complaint, the former employee detailed how Facebook officials frequently declined to enforce safety rules for fear of angering Donald Trump and his allies or offsetting the company’s huge growth. In one alleged incident, Tucker Bounds, a Facebook communications official, dismissed concerns about the platform’s role in 2016 election manipulation. “It will be a flash in the pan,” Bounds said, according to the affidavit, as reported by the Post. “Some legislators will get pissy. And then in a few weeks they will move on to something else. Meanwhile, we are printing money in the basement, and we are fine.” The claims echo those of the whistleblower Frances Haugen, a former Facebook product manager who has said the company repeatedly prioritizes profit over public safety. Haugen’s recent damning testimony before the US Congress, and forthcoming testimony before the UK parliament, has prompted a major PR crisis for the social network, which is said to be readying plans for a rebrand. [...]

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