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Microsoft Teams goes down as Europe starts working from home
by Giacomo Tesio March 16, 2020

March 16, 2020

https://www.grahamcluley.com/microsoft-teams-goes-down-as-europe-starts-wor… As millions of people across Europe choose to work remotely rather than head into the office in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, a widely-used communication and collaboration tool that allows workers to have video meetings, chat, and share files has gone down. Microsoft Teams posted on its Twitter support account that it was aware that users were experiencing problems using the service: We’re investigating messaging-related functionality problems within Microsoft Teams. Please refer to TM206544 in your admin center for further details. Obviously this is hardly the ideal time for Microsoft Teams to go down. Tweets from Microsoft Teams users As more and more businesses tell their workers not to travel into the office, and more schools switch to teaching pupils online, we’re likely to see more internet services stumble as they attempt to handle the sudden increased usage. And don’t forget – the teams at those companies providing the internet services are likely to have their own workers logging in remotely, trying to fix systems via the laptop on their dining room table. Strange days indeed. Northern Line train at 08.00 this morning. Driver has just reminded us: “All passengers to keep 6 feet apart”. pic.twitter.com/4yuPfk5Qs8 — Robert Howard (@ProfRobHoward) March 16, 2020 Update: Some users are now reporting that Microsoft Teams services have returned to normal. ____ Ulteriore aggiornamento: io confermo che Microsoft Teams NON sta funzionando in questo momento per alcuni utenti. Per altri sì. Si tratta di una delle tante idiozie che il coronavirus sta smascherando: il cloud dei GAFAM è centralizzato, e NON scala all'infinito, checché ne dica il marketing (cui qualsiasi ingegnere competente non darebbe alcun credito... ma cosa volete... è merce rara). I sistemi distribuiti, invece, scalano quanto serve. Ricordiamocelo. Le scuole non hanno bisogno di Google Classroom, Edmodo, Teams, Zoom etc... Hanno bisogno di server in loco, in grado di supportare il carico necessario e non di più. (ed in grado di rappresentare un'infrastruttura informatica riconvertibile in casi di emergenza inattesi) Giacomo

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Google coronavirus website touted by Trump opens for two California counties - Reuters
by Alberto Cammozzo March 16, 2020

March 16, 2020

<https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-google-usa/google-cor…> Technology News March 16, 2020 / 7:20 AM / Updated 5 hours ago Google coronavirus website touted by Trump opens for two California counties Paresh Dave 2 Min Read SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google sister company Verily launched a website late on Sunday that invites adults in northern California to answer questions about their recent health and travel that could result in their getting a free coronavirus test. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Google is seen in Davos, Switzerland Januar 20, 2020. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann U.S. President Donald Trump had thanked Google on Friday for developing a website that he said would help people determine whether they needed a coronavirus test. Verily, a health care technology company owned by Alphabet Inc, said it worked with some employees at fellow Alphabet unit Google, to develop the new website, here The website states Verily is working “with the California governor’s office to direct high-risk individuals to newly-launched testing centers in San Mateo and Santa Clara” counties, sometimes by calling those users directly to set testing appointments. People showing symptoms of the flu-like virus are meant to seek medical care, rather than a test through Verily’s system, the company said. Verily did not respond to request for comment on user activity on the website in its first few hours. More than 162,000 people have been infected by the novel coronavirus and over 6,000 people have died from the disease it causes, COVID-19. Verily said people’s survey responses would be kept in an encrypted Google database, access to which is restricted and monitored. The data would be shared with healthcare authorities but would never be “joined with your data stored in Google products without your explicit permission,” Verily said. In addition, Verily said user-submitted data would be used for research purposes only with permission, though it may ask for that permission in the future. Making a Google account mandatory to use the website drew some criticism on social media. Verily engineer Ryan Seys responded to one of the critical posts by writing on Twitter that “we’re trying to make real impact out here in this time of crisis.”

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Curve esponenziali e modelli matematici
by monica.palmirani March 16, 2020

March 16, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/ Interessante notare che per capire quale strategia (isolamento/non-isolamento/mix dei due) sia la più vincente nel breve e nel lungo periodo è molto importante capire se questo virus lascerà una certa immunità o meno nei guariti/contagiati. Per esempio tutte le influenze stagionali non lasciano una immunità completa per la famiglia delle influenze dell'anno successivo. Per ora questo dato non è noto e quindi la strategia dell'isolamento strong pare proprio essere la sola che si possa adottare in assenza di nuove scoperte scientifiche. -- =========================================== Full professor of Legal Informatics School of Law Coordinator of MSCA-ITN EJD LAST-JD-RIoE Scientific Director of Legal Blockchain Lab Director of the Summer School LEX Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna C.I.R.S.F.I.D. http://www.cirsfid.unibo.it/ Palazzo Dal Monte Gaudenzi - Via Galliera, 3 I - 40121 BOLOGNA (ITALY) Tel +39 051 277217 Fax +39 051 260782 E-mail monica.palmirani(a)unibo.it

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Government okays mass surveillance of Israelis' phones to curb coronavirus | The Times of Israel
by Alberto Cammozzo March 16, 2020

March 16, 2020

<https://www.timesofisrael.com/government-okays-mass-surveillance-of-israeli…> The government on Sunday approved a proposal to allow the Shin Bet security service to perform mass surveillance on Israelis’ phones without requiring a court order in an effort to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, prompting major concerns of privacy and civil liberty violations. The measure will require final approval from the Knesset’s subcommittee on clandestine services before it can be put into action. The Prime Minister’s Office said the Shin Bet will be limited in what data it collects and who within the government will have access to it. In addition, under the proposal, the agency will only be able to use the information in the fight against the coronavirus, and the power is scheduled to end 30 days after it is granted by the Knesset subcommittee. [...]

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L'arte del data analytics
by monica.palmirani March 15, 2020

March 15, 2020

Non mi pare sia circolato in mailing list. https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d… https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-perch%C3%A9-agire-ora-bd6c02ee07… -- =========================================== Full professor of Legal Informatics School of Law Coordinator of MSCA-ITN EJD LAST-JD-RIoE Scientific Director of Legal Blockchain Lab Director of the Summer School LEX Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna C.I.R.S.F.I.D. http://www.cirsfid.unibo.it/ Palazzo Dal Monte Gaudenzi - Via Galliera, 3 I - 40121 BOLOGNA (ITALY) Tel +39 051 277217 Fax +39 051 260782 E-mail monica.palmirani(a)unibo.it

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Appena pubblicato: "COVID-19 outbreak response: first assessment of mobility changes in Italy following lockdown"
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 15, 2020

March 15, 2020

COVID-19 outbreak response: first assessment of mobility changes in Italy following lockdown /Authors:/ /Emanuele Pepe (1), Paolo Bajardi (1), Laetitia Gauvin (1), Filippo Privitera (2), Ciro Cattuto (1,3), Michele Tizzoni (1)/ /1. ISI Foundation/ /2. Cuebiq Inc./ /3. University of Turin/ /*Notice*: this is preliminary analysis, has not yet been peer-reviewed and is updated daily as new data becomes available. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>. A summary of this report can be downloaded here <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bu-QYturpwdrWPKdTTIzwAWoIkPBIOOK/view?usp=…>/ Background The mitigation measures enacted as part of the response to the unfolding SARS-CoV-2 pandemic are unprecedented in their breadth and societal burden. A major challenge in this situation is to quantitatively assess the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions like mobility restrictions and social distancing, to better understand the ensuing reduction of mobility flows, individual mobility changes, and impact on contact patterns. Here we report preliminary results on tackling the above challenges by using de-identified, large-scale data from a location intelligence company, Cuebiq, that has instrumented smartphone apps with high-accuracy location-data collection software. We focus this initial analysis on Italy, where the COVID-19 epidemic has already triggered an unprecedented and escalating series of restrictions on travel and individual mobility of citizens. Continua qui: https://covid19mm.github.io/in-progress/2020/03/13/first-report-assessment.…

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"Coronavirus Tech Handbook"
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 15, 2020

March 15, 2020

*Coronavirus Tech Handbook* a crowdsourced resource for technologists building things related to the coronavirus outbreak https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/

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Israel: Attorney General Approves Cyber Tech to Track Coronavirus Patients
by Luigi Scorca March 15, 2020

March 15, 2020

https://www.haaretz.com/amp/israel-news/.premium-israel-to-use-cyber-tech-t… Luigi

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Post di Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 15, 2020

March 15, 2020

/Traduzione automatica effettuata da Facebook dall'originale ungherese./ https://www.facebook.com/barabasi/posts/10163040501220612 In the next few months, I will most likely become infected. Billions of crown virus will be produced in my body, starting a desperate fight with my immune cells. However, in the absence of chronic disease, in Boston, I hope my immune system will win. Yet I'm really worried about the virus. So much that I think it is inevitable that we will close the world for two months. I don't do this for myself, but for my mother. In the lab since February, we know that the world will stop in mid-March. I mentioned this to a lot of friends weeks ago, but even for me it was hard to understand what this means. Now we start to see it -- it's going to be a hard two months and the best is yet to go. I knew what was going to happen because at the Boston Network Science Institute where I work, my colleagues have been able to predict the spread of the current virus for years. They were followed by is, Ebola, and now it's the crown virus. I'm not moving out to the theory of the problem network - this is what the and is about x. And my school book x. Chapter (http://networksciencebook.com/) The virus caused by the crown virus is a network problem, so a network method and thinking is needed to predict its spread and finally control. Now we understand that the virus cannot be stopped. It will spread regardless of how many countries close their border and how many flights will be cancelled or how many schools have been closed. Where ten patients are in hospital, there are hundreds of infected people in the community. Many will never know that they were infected because they had no signs. But the virus is spreading through them too. We are already over the point that we can stop the spread of Cov-19 with a whom of a stay. Ebola could be written like this, but the crown virus is too contagious and is too spread. In addition, we can't expect shots this year. If it is unstoppable, then why do we put the brake in? Why do we close schools, why do we push the world economy into a recession? For one reason - to slow down. Because this way we can save our parents, our grandparents, and sometimes ourselves. Every model predict that about half of the population will be infected within a year. In the absence of action, the process will follow a well-expected fast growth, a strong peak, then a strong peak. However, there will be no hospital capacity for everyone who needs this. And the top is scary close -- thousands will be infected within weeks if we don't do anything. In the example of Italy, we see what happens when the virus is free -- in the absence of capacity, doctors have to decide over life and death, to help some patients, and let others go without a means. Many continue to lie that we are facing a safe flu virus, which is safe to many of us, because it avoid young people and especially children. This is not true - the crown virus is spread faster than the flu and does not meet immune. By the time the flu reaches Europe in the fall, a large number of population is already vaccinated against it, making it harder to spread. The Crown virus is contagious without obstacles and causes death in the elderly and patients. I'm most worried about the elderly. Everyone who is old or sick in their family, neighbor, house, is responsible. Don't bring the virus home! Make them understand that the danger to them is very real! Make sure they have food, and if they don't, shop for them! Help them to be separate for the next two months! And do your best not to spread the virus, to reduce the load of health care. If we all take cov-19 seriously, we can avoid being sick at the same time. This is how supply and oxygen can remain for those who get serious infection. But if we don't do everything we can to slow down the disease, by the end of the year, a lot of us will be without parents and grandparents.

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Reuters: Special Report: Italy and South Korea virus outbreaks reveal disparity in deaths and tactics
by Luigi Scorca March 15, 2020

March 15, 2020

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-response-specialre/it… Luigi

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