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Fwd: Live AIDA e-Lecture by Prof. Fredrik Heintz: “Towards Trustworthy AI – Integrating Reasoning and Learning”, 22nd February 2022 17:00-18:00 CET
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 10, 2022

Feb. 10, 2022

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Live AIDA e-Lecture by Prof. Fredrik Heintz: “Towards Trustworthy AI – Integrating Reasoning and Learning”, 22nd February 2022 17:00-18:00 CET Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 08:34:03 +0200 From: Ioanna Koroni <ioannakoroni(a)csd.auth.gr> Dear AI scientist/engineer/student/enthusiast, *Prof. Fredrik Heintz, *a prominent AI researcher internationally, will deliver the e-lecture: *‘Towards Trustworthy AI - Integrating Reasoning and Learning’*, on Tuesday 22nd^February 2022 17:00-18:00 CET (8:00-9:00 am PST), (12:00 am-1:00am CST), see details in: http://www.i-aida.org/event_cat/ai-lectures/ <http://www.i-aida.org/event_cat/ai-lectures/> You can join for free using the zoom link: https://authgr.zoom.us/j/91262043831 & Passcode: 148148 The *International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA)* <http://www.i-aida.org/>, a joint initiative of the European R&D projects AI4Media <https://ai4media.eu/>, ELISE <https://www.elise-ai.eu/>, Humane AI Net <https://www.humane-ai.eu/>, TAILOR <https://tailor-network.eu/>and VISION <https://www.vision4ai.eu/>, is very pleased to offer you top quality scientific lectures on several current hot AI topics. Lectures are typically held once per week, Tuesdays 17:00-18:00 CET (8:00-9:00 am PST), (12:00 am-1:00am CST). Attendance is free. ** The lectures are disseminated through multiple channels and email lists (we apologize if you received it through various channels). If you want to stay informed on future lectures, you can register in the email lists AIDA email list <https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/aida> and CVML email list <https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/cvml>. Best regards Profs. M. Chetouani, P. Flach, B. O’Sullivan, I. Pitas, N. Sebe

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La nuova piattaforma AlloggiatiWeb della Polizia di Stato
by Michele Pinassi Feb. 9, 2022

Feb. 9, 2022

Carissimi, non posso trattenermi dal condividere con Voi l'emozione (sono ironico) di aver fatto accesso con il "nuovo" sistema di autenticazione del Portale AlloggiatiWeb della Polizia di Stato, dove le strutture ricettive (dagli alberghi ai B&B) devolo registrare prontamente l'arrivo degli ospiti, in ottemperanza all'art. 109 del T.U.L.P.S. Fino a poche settimane fa, il portale (https://alloggiatiweb.poliziadistato.it/PortaleAlloggiati/) necessitava dell'uso di credenziali e certificato SSL emesso ad-hoc per l'accesso all'area di lavoro. Poi hanno "inventato" una soluzione decisamente "innovativa": l'uso di una "tabella di codici", una matrice di codici di accesso 4x4 che deve essere inserita nell'apposito "sistema di verifica" dopo l'autenticazione consueta con username e password: Condivido con voi la frustrazione di dover avere a che fare, per obblighi di legge, con strumenti simili. Tuttavia, rassereniamoci: è quasi venerdì e da due giorni RaidForums è off-line. MP -- Michele Pinassi

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[pubblicità] Passotto: Verificatore Automatico Green Pass
by 380° Feb. 9, 2022

Feb. 9, 2022

Buongiorno, https://passotto.com/ --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Automatizza la verifica del Green Pass nel tuo locale: evita imbarazzi, sanzioni e inconvenienti [...] 01. Scansione QR Code Ill PassOttO sfrutta le chiavi di cifratura e i server governativi europei. Non memorizza o comunica le informazioni a terze parti 02. Scansione Tessera Sanitaria Scansiona il tesserino sanitario o inserisci manualmente il tuo codice fiscale per validare i dati del tuo Green Pass (OPZIONALE – CONFIGURABILE) 03. Stampa Attraverso la stampa di un ticket del tutto anonimo, il Cliente può effettuare l’accesso in tutta sicurezza e, in caso di necessità, mostrare il ticket al personale incaricato [...] L’Offerta include: - gestione da remoto del dispositivo tramite PassOttO Cloud - aggiornamenti automatici garanzia guasti - assistenza tecnica remota Inoltre, nel caso venissero modificate le regole attuali sul Green Pass, contattaci e potrai usare il PassOttO con qualunque tua app! --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- qui c'è un esempio dello scontrino anonimo prodotto dall'apparecchio: https://nitter.net/freedom8315/status/1491352583734456321#m saluti, 380° -- 380° (Giovanni Biscuolo public alter ego) «Noi, incompetenti come siamo, non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché» Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>.

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Neo-Nazis and QAnon: how Canadian truckers’ anti-vaccine protest was steered by extremists | Canada | The Guardian
by Alberto Cammozzo Feb. 9, 2022

Feb. 9, 2022

Il modulo è lo stesso anche in Italia, e non da ieri: propaganda su FB e coordinamento su Telegram. Trattandosi di piattaforme non sicure e considerate come mezzi di sorveglianza mi sorprendo: evidentemente la sorveglianza non è quella delle autorità nazionali. <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/08/canada-ottawa-trucker-protest…> Thousands of demonstrators have successfully occupied Canada’s frigid capital for days, <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/07/ottawa-protesters-defy-deadli…> and say they plan on staying as long as it takes to thwart the country’s vaccine requirements. The brazen occupation of Ottawa <https://www.theguardian.com/discover-cool-canada/ottawa> came as a result of unprecedented coordination between various anti-vaccine and anti-government organizations and activists, and has been seized on by similar groups around the world. It may herald the revenge of the anti-vaxxers. The so-called “freedom convoy” – which departed for Ottawa on 23 January – was the brainchild of James Bauder, an admitted conspiracy theorist who has endorsed the QAnon movement and called Covid-19 “the biggest political scam in history”. Bauder’s group, Canada <https://www.theguardian.com/world/canada> Unity, contends that vaccine mandates and passports are illegal under Canada’s constitution, the Nuremberg Code and a host of other international conventions. Bauder has long been a fringe figure, but his movement caught a gulf stream of support after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced last year that truckers crossing the US-Canada border would need to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. The supposed plight of the truckers proved to be a compelling public relations angle and attracted an array of fellow travelers. Until now, a litany of organizations had protested Canada’s strict public health measures, but largely in isolation. One such group, Hold Fast Canada, had organized pickets of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s headquarters, where they claimed that concentration camps had already been introduced in the country. Another group, Action4Canada, launched legal challenges to mask and vaccine mandates. In one 400-page court filing, they allege that the “false pronouncement of a Covid-19 ‘pandemic’” was carried out, at least in part, by Bill Gates and a “New World (Economic) Order” to facilitate the injection of 5G-enabled microchips into the population. Both groups are listed as “participating groups” on the Canada Unity website, and sent vehicles and personnel to join the convoy. Other organizers joined Bauder, including Chris Barber, a Saskatchewan trucker who was fined $14,000 in October for violating provincial public health measures; Tamara Lich, an activist for a fringe political party advocating that Western Canada should become an independent state; Benjamin Dichter, who has warned of the “growing Islamization of Canada”; and Pat King, an anti-government agitator who has repeatedly called for Trudeau to be arrested. Since they have arrived in Ottawa, the extreme elements of the protest have been visible: neo-Nazi and Confederate flags were seen flying, QAnon logos were emblazoned on trucks and signs and stickers were pasted to telephone poles around the occupied area bear Trudeau’s face, reading: “Wanted for crimes against humanity.” The official line from Bauder and his co-organizers, however, has remained focused; in a Facebook live broadcast, Bauder instructed his supporters to “stop talking about the vaccine” and instead stick to message of “freedom”. Such strict message control has attracted mainstream support. Numerous members of the Conservative party, Canada’s official opposition, have come out to meet the protesters. Elon Musk and Donald Trump have both endorsed the convoy. Fox broadcasters Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson have provided glowing updates on the continuing occupation. Bauder vowed the convoy would camp out in Ottawa until their demands are met, insisting to his followers that a “memorandum of understanding <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/07/ottawa-protests-explainer-vac…>” would force the government’s hand, possibly even triggering fresh elections, if enough people sign. A Canada Unity organizer went further, saying it would require the Senate to “go after the prime minister” for “corruption” and “fascism”. There is no legal basis for those claims. King has laid out a more direct plan of action to the occupiers: “What we want to focus on is our politicians, their houses, their locations,” he said in a January Facebook stream. If political pressure doesn’t work, King said, blocking major supply chains “will be later on”. Soon after, the head of security for Parliament issued an extraordinary warning to Members of Parliament to avoid the protest entirely, for their own safety. The occupiers have deliberately made life difficult for anyone in Ottawa’s downtown core. Trucks have been laying on their air horns throughout the day, often well into the early morning hours. An Ottawa court granted an injunction Monday afternoon, ordering that the honking must cease. In the shadow of Parliament, a flatbed truck was converted into a stage – functioning as a speaker’s corner during the day, where far-right politicians and occupiers took the microphone to decry Trudeau and Covid vaccines. At night, the stage functions as a DJ booth for raucous dance parties. Technology has made the occupation even easier: drivers share information on routes and the best ways to evade police barricades via the walkie talkie app Zello. Organizers in other cities use the secure messaging app Telegram to share information, coordinate messaging and plan solidarity protests. The occupiers now have the resources to stay for an extended period of time: they have raised more than C$6mthrough various crowdfunding platforms, in cash and Bitcoin, despite having been booted from GoFundMe’s platform <https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/feb/07/gofundme-criticism-pulling-f…> after raising over C$10m. The Ottawa occupation is proof that a few thousand determined protesters can overwhelm police and shut down major cities with enough vehicles and coordination. Solidarity convoys have already shut down the busy Coutts border crossing between Alberta and Montana, strained police resources in Toronto and Quebec City, and activists as far away as Helsinki, Canberra, London, and Brussels have taken not. On the convoy channels, protestors warn this is just the beginning.

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The whole world should be worried by the ‘siege of Ottawa’. This is about much more than a few anti-vaxx truckers | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian
by Alberto Cammozzo Feb. 9, 2022

Feb. 9, 2022

<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/08/ottawa-truckers-prote…> What the truck is going on in Canada? No offence to Ottawa, but it’s not the most exciting place in the world. Over the past couple of weeks, however, the Canadian capital has been embroiled in drama: hundreds of truckers, ostensibly protesting against vaccine mandates, have brought the city to a standstill. Members of the so-called “Freedom Truck Convoy” have been blaring horns, desecrating war memorials and setting off fireworks <https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/07/canada-police-seen-getting-tough-as-trucker…>. Residents are being driven to distraction. The police chief has called the situation a “siege <https://nbcmontana.com/news/coronavirus/mandate-critics-in-us-elsewhere-see…>”; the Ontario premier called it “an occupation <https://www.npr.org/2022/02/04/1078415610/covid-canada-gofundme-protests>”. On Monday, the city’s mayor, Jim Watson, declared a state of emergency <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/07/ottawa-declares-state-of-emer…>. There’s a lot going on in the world right now. If you’re not Canadian, then the protest in Ottawa might not be top of your list of things to worry about. But I’m afraid you should be worried. You should certainly be paying attention. What’s unfolding in Ottawa is not a grassroots protest that has spontaneously erupted out of the frustration of local lorry drivers. Rather, it’s an astroturfed <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/feb/08/what-is-astroturfing> movement – one that creates an impression of widespread grassroots support where little exists – funded by a global network of highly organised far-right groups and amplified by Facebook’s misinformation machine. The drama may be centred in Canada, but what is unfolding has repercussions for us all. That’s a big claim, so let me break it down. We’ll start with the Canadian lorry drivers. The people protesting against vaccine mandates, it can’t be stressed enough, are by no means representative of the Canadian haulage industry as a whole. Just 10% of cross-border drivers refused the jabs, according to the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA), meaning that from 15 January they can no longer cross back into Canada without quarantine. The CTA, along with other major industry organisations, has disavowed the protest. The protesters don’t represent the vast majority of lorry drivers, nor are they representative of public sentiment towards vaccines in Canada – a country where 84% of the population <https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vaccination-coverage/>, children included, have received at least one vaccine dose. They are, as Justin Trudeau has said, a “small fringe” <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/28/canada-truckers-covid-vaccine…>. They may be a fringe minority, but that doesn’t mean you should (as Trudeau seems to be doing) downplay or dismiss them. For one, they have a lot of powerful supporters. The usual crowd of rightwing politicians in the US, including Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, have been cheering them on. They have also been getting millions of dollars in funding across crowdfunding sites from international donors. “Donations from abroad are quite a common part of any large crowdfunding campaign,” Ciaran O’Connor, an expert on online extremism at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, told Politico <https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/06/ottawa-truckers-convoy-galvanizes-…>. “But the scale of this one is unprecedented.” Another reason why you should take the Ottawa protests seriously? Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, fringe groups can have an outsize influence. I’m sure you’ve heard of troll farms: organised groups that weaponise social media to spread misinformation, promote division and influence public opinion. Get this: in the long run-up to the 2020 US elections, Facebook’s most popular pages for Christian and Black American content were being run by eastern European troll farms. According to an internal Facebook report written in late 2019 and leaked to MIT Technology Review <https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook-troll-farms-re…>, troll farms were reaching 140 million users every month. Three-quarters of these users had never followed any of the pages: they’d had the content thrust upon them by Facebook’s engagement-hungry content-recommendation system. “Our platform has given the largest voice in the African American community to a handful of bad actors, who, based on their media production practices, have never had an interaction with an African American,” wrote the report’s author, a former senior-level data scientist at Facebook. “Instead of users choosing to receive content from these actors, it is our platform that is choosing to give [these troll farms] an enormous reach.” After that report was leaked in September, Facebook made a lot of noises about how it was aggressively cracking down on troll farms. Has it followed through on these promises? Meta Platforms, Facebook’s owner, said on Monday <https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-says-it-removed-scammers-canada-con…> that it had removed dozens of scam pages associated with the convoy protest from Facebook; however, there are still a huge number of recently created pages supporting the hauliers, with suspiciously large numbers of followers. Meanwhile, on Telegram, a social network favoured by the right, people across the world are urging each other to replicate the tactics in Canada in their home towns <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/07/world/canada/canada-protesters-ottawa.ht…>. Canada may not be on the brink of civil war, but what is happening in Ottawa is one small front in a global information war. And the baddies, I’m afraid to say, are winning.

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GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe's consent popups are unlawful
by Giacomo Tesio Feb. 8, 2022

Feb. 8, 2022

Google, Amazon, and the entire tracking industry relies on IAB Europe’s consent system, which has now been found to be illegal following complaints coordinated by ICCL. EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and Microsoft’s online advertising businesses. [...] The consent popup system known as the “Transparency & Consent Framework” (TCF) is on 80% of the European internet. The tracking industry claimed it was a measure to comply with the GDPR. Today, GDPR enforcers ruled that this consent spam has, in fact, deprived hundreds of millions of Europeans of their fundamental rights. [...] # Deletion of data All data collected through the TCF must now be deleted by the more than 1,000 companies that pay IAB Europe to use the TCF. This includes Google’s, Amazon’s and Microsoft’s online advertising businesses. The decision said those who implement the TCF must “take the appropriate measures, in line with Articles 24 and 25 GDPR, ensuring that personal data that has been collected in breach of Articles 5 and 6 GDPR is no longer processed and removed accordingly” Continua su: https://www.iccl.ie/news/gdpr-enforcer-rules-that-iab-europes-consent-popup… Io vorrei farvi riflettere su questo: ipotiziamo che Google domani affermi di aver cancellato tutti i dati raccolti illegalmente sulla base del TCF. Chi verifica che non sta semplicemente mentendo? Una volta che i dati sono stati processati e compressi/compilati (ovvero offuscati) in un software programmato statisticamente (aka "AI") chi andrà a decomprimerli e deoffuscarli per verificare la loro eliminazione? Naturalmente si potrebbe imporre a Google di rieseguire tutti i processi di programmazione statistica (ovvero tutti i "training" delle proprie "AI") da zero e SENZA quei dati. Ma dovrebbero rieffettuare tutto il processo in pubblico (rivelando i propri peziosissimi segreti industriali) altrimenti sarebbe impossibile verificare che tali dati NON vengano utilizzati. Sappiamo tutti che questo NON accadrà. Google continuerà ad utilizzare tutti i dati raccolti, perché nessuno può veramente dimostrare che lo sta facendo. Idem Amazon, Microsoft e tutte le aziende grandi (e lontane) abbastanza da poter deridere la Legge e soprattutto i diritti di noi europei. Che ci lasciamo deridere. Intanto migliaia di scuole italiane continuano ad usare Google Classroom. Giacomo

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Bloomberg: «Russia invades Ukraina» inadvertently published
by 380° Feb. 8, 2022

Feb. 8, 2022

Buongiorno nexiane, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-04/statement-on-publishing-… --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Statement on Publishing Error Bloomberg News 5 febbraio 2022, 00:19 CET We prepare headlines for many scenarios and the headline “Russia Invades Ukraine” was inadvertently published around 4 p.m. ET today on our website. We deeply regret the error. The headline has been removed and we are investigating the cause. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Forse uno zelante redattore ha inavvertitamente fatto click sul bottone sbagliato per colpa dell'ansia di battere sul tempo i concorrenti?!? Saremmo davvero curiosi di venire a conoscenza dei risultati dell'indagine sulle cause Dell'incidente al momento parlano pochi media, mi pare: - https://www.rt.com/russia/548394-bloomberg-russia-invades-ukraine/ - https://nypost.com/2022/02/04/bloomberg-accidentally-reports-that-russia-in… il link redirigeva ad una "error page" (404?): che razza di CMS usano in Bloomberg?!? ...ma /soprattutto/, come diavolo è possibile che un colosso delle notizie abbia preparato /solo/ i titoli e non l'articolo?!? Come si chiamerebbe 'sto genere di articoli: coccodilli geopolitici? Saluti, 380° -- 380° (Giovanni Biscuolo public alter ego) «Noi, incompetenti come siamo, non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché» Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>.

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della serie #avevoaltriprogrammi 😘
by Anna Masera Feb. 8, 2022

Feb. 8, 2022

Cari amici Nexiani dal 21 febbraio sarò a Brescia, ma a Torino tengo casa e un pezzo di cuore resta a voi…continuerò a seguirvi con attenzione! https://www.primaonline.it/2022/02/06/344425/anna-masera-vice-direttore-web… Un abbraccio Anna Masera Inviato da iPhone

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Peter Thiel, PayPal founder and Trump ally, to step down from Meta board | Facebook | The Guardian
by Alberto Cammozzo Feb. 8, 2022

Feb. 8, 2022

<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/07/peter-thiel-meta-faceboo…> Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, is stepping down from the board of Facebook’s parent company, Meta, after 17 years. Thiel, Facebook’s longest-serving board member and a major donor to the Republican party, plans to focus on backing Donald Trump’s allies in the November midterm elections, according to the New York Times. He recently donated $10m each to the Senate campaigns of Blake Masters, who is running for a seat in Arizona, and JD Vance, who is running in Ohio. Masters is the chief operating officer of Thiel’s family office and Vance used to work at one of Thiel’s venture funds. Thiel has long been a controversial figure on Facebook’s 10-person board, particularly as one of a few major tech figures who vocally supported Trump. Thiel, who donated millions of dollars to Trump’s campaign and served on the ex-president’s transition team, was seen by critics as a part of the reason Facebook did not take down Trump’s posts that violated its community standards. Thiel is a close confidant of Zuckerberg’s. He accompanied him to a private dinner with Trump in 2019 and has successfully advocated he withstand pressure to take political speech and ads off the platform. But recently he has publicly criticized Facebook’s content moderation decisions, saying he’d “take QAnon and Pizzagate conspiracy theories any day over a Ministry of Truth”. Thiel joined Facebook’s board in 2005, a year after the company was founded and seven years before its made its debut on Wall Street. The company said on Monday that he would stay on until Meta’s next shareholder meeting later this year, where he would not stand for re-election. “Peter has been a valuable member of our board and I’m deeply grateful for everything he’s done for our company,” said Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Meta, in a statement. “Peter is truly an original thinker who you can bring your hardest problems and get unique suggestions.” In a statement on Monday, Thiel called Zuckerberg “one of the great entrepreneurs of our time” and praised his “intelligence, energy and conscientiousness”.

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Meta's threats are a huge opportunity. The EU must NOT waste them
by M. Fioretti Feb. 8, 2022

Feb. 8, 2022

La mia proposta di accogliere calorosamente e celermente le "minacce" di Meta, per fare finalmente la cosa giusta. https://stop.zona-m.net/2022/02/metas-threats-are-a-huge-opportunity.-the-e… -- Help me write my NEXT MILLION WORDS for digital awareness: https://stop.zona-m.net/2021/10/funding-2021-2022/

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