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Large Redmond Collider: CERN reveals plan to shift from Microsoft to open-source code after tenfold license fee hike
by Antonio Vetro' June 18, 2019

June 18, 2019

La motivazione della -ancora ipotetica- decisione sarebbe nel costo del rinnovo della licenza, che Microsoft avrebbe moltiplicato per 10 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/13/cern_microsoft/

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Il salto triplo dell’Africa tra innovazione digitale, svolta “green” e cooperazione
by don Luca Peyron June 18, 2019

June 18, 2019

Sguardi al di là del Mediterraneo. Buona lettura Dl https://www.agi.it/economia/africa_innovazione_digitale_green-5668016/news/…

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Linked Democracy (book)
by Eleonora Bassi June 18, 2019

June 18, 2019

Segnalo una stimolante lettura: *Linked Democracy. Foundations, Tools, and Applications* by *Poblet*, Marta, *Casanovas*, Pompeu, *Rodríguez-Doncel*, Víctor SpringerBriefs in Law, 2019 (disponibile in open access) https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030133627 This open access book shows the factors linking information flow, social intelligence, rights management and modelling with epistemic democracy, offering licensed linked data along with information about the rights involved. This model of democracy for the web of data brings new challenges for the social organisation of knowledge, collective innovation, and the coordination of actions. Licensed linked data, licensed linguistic linked data, right expression languages, semantic web regulatory models, electronic institutions, artificial socio-cognitive systems are examples of regulatory and institutional design (regulations by design). The web has been massively populated with both data and services, and semantically structured data, the linked data cloud, facilitates and fosters human-machine interaction. Linked data aims to create ecosystems to make it possible to browse, discover, exploit and reuse data sets for applications. Rights Expression Languages semi-automatically regulate the use and reuse of content. Buona lettura, Eleonora

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presentazione volume di Ausiello
by Angelo Raffaele Meo June 18, 2019

June 18, 2019

caro JC, io sono disponibile a presentare il volume "The making of a new science di Giorgio Ausiello". Egli è: Editor-in-C ef of the journal Theoretical Computer Science Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Springer LNCS series Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science Member of Editorial board of Computer Science Review Member of Editorial board of the International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science Member of the Technical Committee on Foundations of Computer Science (TC1) International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) Member of Academia Europaea since 1996 In 2014 has been nominated Fellow of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) Raf

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Hong Kong
by don Luca Peyron June 18, 2019

June 18, 2019

Grande fratello con occhi a mandorla, manifestazioni e libertà di espressione in salsa cinese Buona lettura Dl https://www.agi.it/blog-italia/riccardo-luna/hong_kong_protesta_tecnologie_…

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NYT: "U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid"
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 17, 2019

June 17, 2019

*U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid** * By David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth June 15, 2019 WASHINGTON — The United States is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s electric power grid in a warning to President Vladimir V. Putin and a demonstration of how the Trump administration is using new authorities to deploy cybertools more aggressively, current and former government officials said. In interviews over the past three months, the officials described the previously unreported deployment of American computer code inside Russia’s grid and other targets as a classified companion to more publicly discussed action directed at Moscow’s disinformation and hacking units around the 2018 midterm elections. [...] continua qui: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/15/us/politics/trump-cyber-russia-grid.html

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70° Nexa Lunch Seminar | 26 giugno 2019
by Nexa Media June 17, 2019

June 17, 2019

Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-70> NEXA 70° Nexa Lunch Seminar Mercoledi 26 giugno 2019, ore 13.00 - 14.00 Politecnico di Torino http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-70 Understanding Airbnb in Southern European cities Speaker Chiara Iacovone (Future Urban Legacy lab) This event will be webcast live: https://nexa.polito.it/nexa-hangout-on-air Short-term rental platforms are strongly present in the current debate over socio-spatial dynamics of contemporary cities as commodifying actors of public and private spaces. *Airbnb, as the most ubiquitous and pervasive of these platforms*, is being scrutinized by the press and by academics. The purpose of this project is to question the economic structure of Airbnb and to unveil hidden phenomena as dynamics in the ongoing polarization of society, and therefore *interpreting Airbnb as an indicator of social discomfort and precariousness rather than of innovation*. Assuming this statement, the discourse regarding platform urbanism could be implemented and considered an additional tool to investigate inequalities in cities, giving relevance to place-based information and what it can possibly imply in a human geographical perspective. The paper focuses on post-crisis cities, in particular on a set of major Southern European ones (Athens, Thessaloniki, Palermo, Naples, Lisbon, Porto, Seville, Madrid) so as *to trace and visualize specific socio-spatial effects of the economic crisis *through the analysis of platform urbanization. The results will be shown with the aim of collecting cases and comparing them, to obtain a broader frame to analyze the phenomenon. /Ingresso libero - Sarà disponibile un leggero rinfresco per coloro che si saranno registrati su http://lunch70.eventbrite.com entro il 24 giugno./ BIOGRAFIE - e informazioni supplementari [Iacovone] *Chiara IACOVONE* is a PhD candidate in Urban and Regional Development at Polytechnic of Turin and member of the interdepartmental center Future Urban Legacy Lab <https://full.polito.it/>. Her research project focuses on the analysis of financialization of housing market through sharing economies in Southern European cities. Letture consigliate e link utili: * Aalbers, M. B. (2016). /The financialization of housing: A political economy approach/. Routledge. * Hadjimichalis, C. (2017). /Crisis spaces: Structures, struggles and solidarity in Southern Europe/. Routledge. * Marcuse, P., & Madden, D. (2016)./In defense of housing: The politics of crisis/. Verso Books. * Slee, T. (2017). /What's yours is mine: Against the Sharing Economy/. Or Books. * Wachsmuth, D., & Weisler, A. (2018). /Airbnb and the rent gap: Gentrification through the sharing economy. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space/, 50(6), 1147-1170. 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> #nexalunchseminar <https://twitter.com/search?q=%23nexalunchseminar&src=typd> #chiaraiacovone <https://twitter.com/chiara_iacovone> #FULL <https://twitter.com/urbanlegacylab> 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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Bitcoin causing CO2 emissions comparable to Hamburg
by antonio.vetro＠polito.it June 17, 2019

June 17, 2019

Nuova evidenza sul problema della sostenibilità ambientale di Bitcoin, stavolta fornita da ricercatori della Technische Universität München https://www.tum.de/nc/en/about-tum/news/press-releases/details/35499/ AV == Sent from my wireless device ==

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Joseph Choonara reviews Zuboff "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism"
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 15, 2019

June 15, 2019

/"There is much to admire in Zuboff’s work, particularly the mass of evidence she assembles. However, her single-minded obsession leads to a common pitfall in literature of this kind. It is one thing to identify a central feature of contemporary capitalism, quite another to announce a new paradigm — the “new economic order” of surveillance capitalism — that shades all other aspects of the system.// // //Such an approach involves minimising criticisms of earlier phases of capitalism and downplaying the extent to which the tech giants are simply outgrowths of capitalist logic."// / jc *The logic of capital online** * June 2019 (447) By Joseph Choonara *Shoshana Zuboff’s new book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, explores the world of the giant tech companies such as Google, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon. We all know they collect our data for profitable uses; how deeply does this affect capitalist relations, asks Joseph Choonara.* ** I was part of the last generation in Britain to experience childhood before the Internet. It still seemed miraculous when, in the mid-1990s, it became possible to browse the Web, using search engines such as Altavista and Lycos — Google being as yet neither a search engine nor a verb. The Internet had none of the pervasiveness it has today. Mobile phones, for those who had them, were mostly used for phone calls. Beyond my university computer room, going online meant using a dial-up modem with speeds one thousandth of my current connection. [...] continua qui: http://socialistreview.org.uk/447/logic-capital-online

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by Alberto Cammozzo June 15, 2019

June 15, 2019

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