June 2021 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Gara per il cloud nazionale degli enti pubblici
by Antonio Iacono June 10, 2021

June 10, 2021

"Intanto in Parlamento si ragiona su una sorta di 'Cloud Act', cioè una possibile mozione sulla sovranità dei dati per avere garanzie circa la proprietà dei data center del Polo e la gestione a controllo pubblico. La presenza dei player americani, necessaria per la qualità della tecnologia, pone interrogativi sulla applicazione del Cloud Act americano del 2018, che prevede l’obbligo per gli operatori di fornire, in forza di un mandato delle autorità, i dati digitali in loro possesso. Ecco perché i tecnici del governo starebbero studiando uno scudo, prevedendo il pieno controllo almeno sui dati più sensibili." [1] Qualcuno ha notizia di questi "ragionamenti" ? Antonio [1] https://www.linkiesta.it/2021/06/cloud-nazionale-gara

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Incontri dedicati a libri sulla rivoluzione digitale: 18 giugno, ore 16:30 | Nuovo Link per collegarsi all'incontro
by Nexa Media June 10, 2021

June 10, 2021

Gentilissimi, vi ricordiamo che il prossimo appuntamento del ciclo di incontri dedicati a presentare e discutere libri sulla rivoluzione digitale si terrà*venerdì 18 giugno*, dalle ore 16:30 alle ore 18:30 in punto. Ospiti:*Gianmarco Cristofari***(dottorando all’Università degli Studi di Macerata) e*Geert Lovink* (Teorico dei media e critico di internet, Università di Amsterdam). Il dott. Cristofari presenterà il libro di/Benjamin H. Bratton/,* * *The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty*, MIT Press, 2015, con l'illustre partecipazione, in qualità di discussant, di Geert Lovink. Maggiori informazioni sull'incontro sono disponibili alla pagina: https://nexa.polito.it/2021/06/cristofarilovink <https://nexa.polito.it/2021/06/cristofarilovink> Vi segnaliamo che per problemi tecnici l'incontro, diversamente da quanto annunciato in precedenza, si terrà sulla piattaforma BigBlueButton al nuovo indirizzo: https://didattica.polito.it/VClass/NexaEvent <https://didattica.polito.it/VClass/NexaEvent> 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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Doctorow: "Apple’s manorial security"
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 9, 2021

June 9, 2021

*Apple’s manorial security* /Works well, fails badly — think different?// / Cory Doctorow 1 day ago While digital feudalism is practiced by many Big Tech companies, Apple pioneered it and is its standard-bearer. The company rightly points out that the world is full of bandits who will steal your data and money and ruin your life, and it holds itself out as your protector. Apple is a warlord whose fortress has thick walls and battlements bristling with the most ferocious infosec mercs money can buy. Surrender your autonomy by moving to Apple’s fortress — where they choose your which apps and where you get repairs — and they’ll defend you. This arrangement (which should really be called “digital manorialism” because feudalism involved providing men-at-arms to the monarch) has the same problem as all benevolent dictatorships: it works well, but fails badly. [...] continua qui: https://onezero.medium.com/apples-manorial-security-123b141aed0f

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Apple employees push back against returning to the office in internal letter
by don Luca Peyron June 9, 2021

June 9, 2021

Smart o non smart? Buona lettura dl https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/4/22491629/apple-employees-push-back-return… _________________________ 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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Zimmermann: "PGP Marks 30th Anniversary"
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 9, 2021

June 9, 2021

Philip Zimmermann *PGP Marks 30th Anniversary* 6 June 2021 Today marks the 30th anniversary of the release of PGP 1.0. It was on this day in 1991 that Pretty Good Privacy was uploaded to the Internet. I had sent it to a couple of my friends for distribution the day before. This set in motion a decade of struggle to end the US export controls on strong cryptographic software. After PGP version 1.0 was released, a number of volunteer engineers came forward and we made many improvements. In September 1992 we released PGP 2.0 in ten foreign languages, running on several different platforms, upgraded with new functionality, including the distinctive trust model that enabled PGP to become the most widely used method of email encryption. I became the target of a criminal investigation for violating the Arms Export Control Act by allowing PGP to spread around the world. This further propelled PGP's popularity. The government dropped the investigation in early 1996, but the policy debate raged on, until the US export restrictions finally collapsed in 2000. PGP ignited the decade of the Crypto Wars, resulting in all the western democracies dropping their restrictions on the use of strong cryptography. It was a storied and thrilling decade, and a triumph of activism for the right to have a private conversation. I wanted PGP to be used for human rights applications. I wanted it to spread all over the world, especially to places where people needed protection from their own governments. But I couldn't say that out loud during the criminal investigation, because it would help the prosecutor prove intent. […] Continua qui: https://philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/PGP_30th/

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Fwd: [Linuxtrent] German Research Foundation: Data tracking in research
by Roberto Resoli June 9, 2021

June 9, 2021

Inoltro da altra ml pubblica, sperando sia di interesse rob -------- Messaggio Inoltrato -------- Oggetto: [Linuxtrent] German Research Foundation: Data tracking in research Data: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 18:37:01 +0200 ... A: linuxtrent(a)freelists.org Ciao, il Committee on Scientific Library Services and Information Systems della German Research Fundation (DFG) ha pubblicato questo interessante documento sulle pratiche di tracciamento degli utenti da parte degli editori di riviste scientifiche e di servizi di indicizzazione: https://www.dfg.de/download/pdf/foerderung/programme/lis/datentracking_papi… C'è anche un appello da parte di ricercatori (per il momento soprattutto tedeschi) contro il tracciamento dei dati degli utenti che consultano o producono letteratura scientifica che chiede che gli istituti di ricerca sottoscrivano un Declaration of Research Assessment che proibisce di negoziare con aziende che usano il tracciamento degli utenti come business model: https://stoptrackingscience.eu/ I tedeschi su queste cose non scherzano ed hanno già ottenuto risultati concreti contro le pratiche bislacche degli editori scientifici con azioni simili in passato. Spero che anche questa campagna produca risultati. Spero sia di in interesse non solo ad Emanuele :-) Ciao, Daniele

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The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox
by Giuseppe Attardi June 9, 2021

June 9, 2021

Enrico Venuto aveva fatto i conti che farsi in casa il servizio di streaming di Polito costava la metà rispetto a usare cloud commerciali. Questa analisi su larga scala lo conferma. https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap-cloud-lifecycl…

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June 17: Launch of The Public Service Media (PSM) and Public Service Internet Manifesto
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 8, 2021

June 8, 2021

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-the-public-service-media-and-publi… *Launch of The Public Service Media (PSM) and Public Service Internet Manifesto. Online event, Thursday 17 June 2021, 16:00 UK time, 17:00* The Internet and the media landscape are broken. The dominant commercial Internet platforms endanger democracy. The Manifesto stresses the importance of PSM and the creation of a public service Internet for the future of society and safeguarding democracy. In the online event, PSM experts will talk about why they support and signed the Manifesto that is the outcome of a discussion and collaboration process organised as part of the AHRC research network InnoPSM <https://innopsm.net/>: Innovation in Public Service Media Policies. The event takes place on Zoom. After registering on Eventbrite, you will receive the Zoom access data at latest one day in advance of the event. *Introduction and presentation*: Klaus Unterberger (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF Public Value) With*interventions *by Alessandro D'Arma, Roy Cobby Avaria, Leonhard Dobusch, Christian Fuchs, Minna Horowitz, Luciana Musello, Jack L. Qiu, Barbara Thomaß. *The audience of the event will have the opportunity to be among the first to read and sign the Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto.* *About the participants* *Alessandro D'Arma *is Reader in Media and Communication at the University of Westminster and principal investigator of the AHRC Research Network: InnoPSM <https://innopsm.net/>- Innovation in Public Service Media Policies. https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/darma-alessandro <https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/darma-alessandro> *Roy Cobby Avaria *is a research student and PhD candidate at King's College London's Department of Digital Humanities. He works on digital platforms in and the structural transformation of the Global South. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/roy-cobby-avaria(1925fe5e-d6ee-… <https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/roy-cobby-avaria(1925fe5e-d6ee-…> *Leonhard Dobusch* is Professor of Business Administration with a Focus on Organization at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. He is a member of ZDF Fernsehrat (Television Council of ZDF [Second German Television]). https://www.uibk.ac.at/iol/organisation/team/leonhard-dobusch/index.html.en <https://www.uibk.ac.at/iol/organisation/team/leonhard-dobusch/index.html.en> *Christian Fuchs* is Professor of Media and Communication Studies with a focus on digital media at the University of Westminster, where he is the director of the Communication and Media Research Institute. http://fuchsc.net/ <http://fuchsc.net/> *Minna Horowitz* is Docent Professor at the University of Helsinki, Expert at Central European University's Center for Media, Data & Society, and curator of the Global PSM Experts Network. She is co-investigator of the InnoPSM <https://innopsm.net/>research network. https://minnahorowitz.net/ <https://minnahorowitz.net/> *Luciana Musello* is a Lecturer in Media and Communications at Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador. Her research interests include the political economy of the Internet, social media and labour. She is also an art director and communications consultant. https://www.usfq.edu.ec/en/profile/luciana-musello <https://www.usfq.edu.ec/en/profile/luciana-musello> *Jack L. Qiu* is Professor and Research Director at the National University of Singapore's Department of Communications and New Media, where he works on digital media and social change. https://ap5.fas.nus.edu.sg/fass/cnmqlj/ <https://ap5.fas.nus.edu.sg/fass/cnmqlj/> *Barbara Thomaß* is Professor for the International Comparison of Media Systems at Ruhr-University Bochum's Institute for Media Studies. She is a member and Second Deputy Chair of ZDF Verwaltungsrat (ZDF [Second German Television] Board of Directors). https://ifm.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/index.php/institut/personen/thomass/ <https://ifm.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/index.php/institut/personen/thomass/> *Klaus Unterberger* is the Head of ORF Public Value, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF)'s competence centre for the analysis and advancement of public service media's public value. https://zukunft.orf.at/ <https://zukunft.orf.at/>

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Fwd: Colloquia Patavina Math.UniPD: June 8th, 2021 4 PM - Marc'Aurelio Ranzato (Facebook AI Research Lab, NY)
by Silvia Crafa June 8, 2021

June 8, 2021

Ciao Alberto, ho pensato solo ora che magari questo seminario di oggi (!) ti può interessare. E' una cosa tecnica sul ML ma essendo un colloquia di dipartimento dovrebbe essere un po' piu' digeribile. Bye, Silvia > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Francesco Ranzato <ranzato(a)math.unipd.it> > Subject: Colloquia Patavina Math.UniPD: June 8th, 2021 4 PM - Marc'Aurelio Ranzato (Facebook AI Research Lab, NY) > Date: 7 June 2021 at 20:59:14 CEST > To: Francesco Ranzato <ranzato(a)math.unipd.it> > > REMINDER: TOMORROW JUNE 8TH AT 4 PM > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please find below the information for the next Colloquium Patavinum at > the Math Department of the University of Padova. > https://www.math.unipd.it/news/the-curse-and-blessing-of-learning-from-non-… > > We look forward for your participation! > > The Colloquia Committee (F.Ancona, L.Ballan, L.Caravenna, R.Colpi, A.Iovita, F.Ranzato, O.Tommasi) > https://www.math.unipd.it/~ranzato/colloquia/colloquia.html > > -------- LECTURER > Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Facebook AI Research Lab, New York > > -------- WHEN > June 8th, 2021 - From 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm > > -------- WHERE > Online: https://unipd.link/Zoom-Colloquia-Patavina > > -------- TITLE > The curse and blessing of learning from non static datasets > > -------- ABSTRACT > In the classical empirical risk minimization framework of machine learning, > learners observe samples from a dataset all at once. In practice, datasets > are seldom a static object and data arrives a little bit at the time instead. > New chunks of data may be added over time, and their distribution may be even > non-stationary, as it is typical in robotics applications, for instance. > > This new learning setting is clearly more difficult to characterize, but it > offers an unprecedented opportunity to reduce sample complexity. By leveraging > knowledge acquired over the previous chunks of data, the learner has the > potential to more quickly adapt to the new incoming data. Such a learning > setting is related to continual learning and anytime learning, subfields of > machine learning which have seen a recent surge of interest from the research > community interested in learning with limited supervision. > > In this talk, I will formalize this learning setting, propose metrics and > benchmarks to test the ability of learning algorithms to transfer knowledge > acquired in the past. I will also introduce a modular architecture that has > proven to be very effective and efficient across a variety of data streams. > This is a hierarchical mixture of experts that adds new experts over time > to automatically adjust its capacity as more and more data is observed. These > promising results indicate that it might be possible to efficiently leverage > past experience to reduce the amount of supervision needed to learn a new task > and that non-static models can be highly effective at learning from non-static > datasets, opening a new and exciting avenue of research. > > -------- SHORT BIO SPEAKER > Marc’Aurelio Ranzato is a research scientist at the Facebook AI Research > lab in New York City. His research interests are in the area of unsupervised > learning, continual learning and transfer learning, with applications to vision, > natural language understanding and speech recognition. Marc’Aurelio is > originally from Padova in Italy, where he graduated in Electronics Engineering. > Marc’Aurelio has earned a PhD in Computer Science at New York University under > Yann LeCun’s supervision. After a post-doc with Geoffrey Hinton at University > of Toronto, he joined the Google Brain team in 2011. In 2013 he joined Facebook > and was a founding member of the Facebook AI Research lab. Marc’Aurelio has > served as program chair for ICLR 2017, ICLR 2018 and NeurIPS 2020. > He is the general chair of NeurIPS 2021. > > More infos are available here: > https://ranzato.github.io/ >

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[VIDEO] Ecco perché il voto elettronico è (ANCORA) una pessima idea.
by Matteo G.P. Flora June 8, 2021

June 8, 2021

Negli ultimi anni tanto è stato fatto sulla divulgazione delle problematiche del #VotoElettronico, e se ne è parlato spesso, raccontando i come e i perché sia una pessima idea: le contro-argomentazioni sono sempre state le stesse, di base espresse da persone che pensano di avere una soluzione “innovativa” ad un problema che le massime menti informatiche al mondo vedono come l’apocalisse. E no, nessuna ce le ha, le soluzioni alternative, perché si tratta di un problema complesso nel crocevia tra tecnologia e diritti. Ciò nonostante non passa settimana in cui qualcuno non tiri fuori dal cappello l'ennesimo "voto su tecnologia XXX" e ogni settimana qualcuno chiede agli esperti le stesse cose: le cose devono essere cambiate ormai, giusto? Nel senso, c’è questa nuova idea, questa nuova tecnologia, hanno trovato questa nuova cosa e studio, hanno finanziato questa piattaforma, ora aiuterà sicuramente! Vero, che il voto elettronico adesso è dietro l'angolo? No, non lo è. No, davvero. E non lo sarà probabilmente nello spazio di altri 100 anni, a meno di rivoluzioni copernicane. Prendendo le fila dal celeberrimo video di Tom Scott “Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea” e con l'aiuto di stimati professionisti ed amici (anche qui in lista) come Fabio Pietrosanti, Maurizio Lana, Stefano Quintarelli, Stefano Zanero, Davide Del Monte, Stefano Fratepietro che hanno rivisto i testi oggi ho un video per voi, abbiamo pensato di affrontare e spiegare l’argomento una volta per tutte. Ecco perché il voto elettronico è ANCORA una pessima idea. https://youtu.be/GvPZe41S_as -- Per i curiosi di una sola parte: 00:00 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvPZe41S_as&t=0s> - Introduzione: ancora una pessima idea... 01:47 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvPZe41S_as&t=107s> - I requisiti di voto anonimo e segreto 04:30 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvPZe41S_as&t=270s> - Il requisito di fiducia e trasparenza 06:39 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvPZe41S_as&t=399s> - Gli attacchi al voto cartaceo e la scalabilità 08:58 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvPZe41S_as&t=538s> - La questione degli attacchi che scalano 11:25 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvPZe41S_as&t=685s> - Macchine di voto, Open Source, fiducia 13:52 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvPZe41S_as&t=832s> - Macchine di voto e checksum e ancora fiducia 17:37 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvPZe41S_as&t=1057s> - Il trasporto dei voti 20:17 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvPZe41S_as&t=1217s> - Il server centrale e la "fiducia ultima" 22:44 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvPZe41S_as&t=1364s> - L'attacco alla Fiducia (Trump, Biden e Leonardo...) 24:54 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvPZe41S_as&t=1494s> - E cosa ci dici del voto "online"? 27:05 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvPZe41S_as&t=1625s> - Voto elettronico in Estonia e Germania 31:35 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvPZe41S_as&t=1895s> - ...e la BlockChain? 31:53 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvPZe41S_as&t=1913s> - Conclusioni e ringraziamenti -- *Matteo G.P. Flora* *Professor (adj.) *in *C**orporate Reputation <http://matteoflora.com/#prof>** and Storytelling *in MIBE <https://mibe.unipv.it/>, University of Pavia Founder, co-ceo » *THE FOOL <http://matteoflora.com/#aziende> *- *Customer Insights for Reputation and Value Strategy* Partner, co-founder » *42 LAW FIRM <http://matteoflora.com/#aziende> *- *Lawyers for Digital Transformation* Partner, co-founder » *LT42 <http://matteoflora.com/#aziende> *- *Legal-Automation and Legal-Tech* M. +39.347.9676430 - mf(a)thefool.it <http://matteoflora.com/#ci>

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