30 setembro 2020
A Google Portugal reforçou hoje o seu compromisso com o Governo e os portugueses para apoiar a transição digital e oferecer as ferramentas e a formação que irão ajudar nas competências digitais e na empregabilidade, acelerando a recuperação económica portuguesa. O programa «Grow Portugal with Google» (g.co/GrowPortugal) está alinhado com as prioridades definidas pelo Governo nas competências digitais, empregabilidade, startups e inteligência artificial. https://www.portugal.gov.pt/pt/gc22/comunicacao/noticia?i=google-portugal-e-governo-de-portugal-anunciam-programa-de-cooperacao https://youtu.be/nH2SrqDjUbg
The second Blue OLEx 2020 kicks off, alongside CyCLONe which will push forward the Commission’s Blueprint for rapid emergency responses for large-scale, cross-border cyber incidents or crises. https://www.enisa.europa.eu/news/enisa-news/blue-olex-2020-the-european-union-member-states-launch-the-cyber-crisis-liaison-organisation-network-cyclone/
29 setembro 2020
"Em vez do respeito pela razão, diálogo aberto, liberdade de expressão e direitos individuais e de propriedade, os sistemas políticos em todo o mundo estão a tornar-se cada vez mais autoritários. Enganos e mentiras, manipulação e propaganda, fomento do medo e operações psicológicas estão todas a ser usadas para justificar acções políticas e políticas que destroem vidas. Como continuam os políticos a convencer o público a acabar com a sua liberdade em troca de um pesado controlo governamental? [ 31 more words ] http://tictank.pt/2020/09/29/como-o-bem-maior-e-usado-no-controlo-social/
Artificial intelligence (AI) is surpassing human performance in a growing number of domains. However, there is limited evidence of its economic effects. Using data from a digital platform, we study a key application of AI: machine translation. We find that the introduction of a machine translation system has significantly increased international trade on this platform, increasing exports by 17.5%. Furthermore, heterogeneous treatment effects are all consistent with a substantial reduction in translation-related search costs. Our results provide causal evidence that language barriers significantly hinder trade and that AI has already begun to improve economic efficiency in at least one domain. https://www.nber.org/papers/w24917
28 setembro 2020
Num ano em que cientistas parecem ter entendido tudo errado, um livro a tentar explicar porquê é bizarramente relevante. Claro, a ciência estava em sérios problemas muito antes do início da pandemia e as excelentes "Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth" de Stuart Ritchie já estavam a ser elaboradas. Mas é muito bem-vindo, no entanto, e muito importante. [ 1,921 more word ] http://tictank.pt/2020/09/28/porque-ha-tanta-ciencia-errada-falsa-exagerada-ou-enganadora/
A federal judge halted the Trump administration’s ban of downloads of the video-sharing app TikTok, hours before it was supposed to go into effect late Sunday night. The TikTok ban had been set to take effect at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time. Judge Carl Nichols of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., said earlier that he would decide by the end of the day whether the Trump administration’s national-security concerns were urgent enough for it to go through with the ban, which would have prevented new TikTok downloads by people who don’t already have the app and restrict current users from downloading upgrades that keep it fresh. TikTok argued in court Sunday that the ban on downloads would harm its business. “This is just punitive,” TikTok lawyer John Hall said during Sunday morning’s arguments. “This is just a blunt way to whack the company now while doing nothing to achieve the stated objective of the prohibitions.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktok-makes-its-case-for-last-minute-reprieve-from-u-s-download-ban-11601225594 Government lawyers argued the president had a right to take national security actions, and said the ban was needed because of TikTok’s links to the Chinese government through its parent firm ByteDance. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/sep/28/us-judge-temporarily-blocks-trump-order-banning-tiktok-app-store-downloads
26 setembro 2020
Promoting Transparency and Open Discourse: First, the draft legislation has a series of reforms to promote transparency and open discourse and ensure that platforms are fairer to the public when removing lawful speech from their services. Addressing Illicit Activity Online: The second category of amendments is aimed at incentivizing platforms to address the growing amount of illicit content online, while preserving the core of Section 230’s immunity for defamation claims. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-unveils-proposed-section-230-legislation
The world’s most popular online platforms and the app stores that govern access to them have become a critical gateway to the consumers of digital products and services worldwide. While they can be beneficial when fairly operated, they can also be used by platform owners to hurt developers and consumers. As enforcers, regulators and legislators around the world seek to address these important issues, we, the Coalition for App Fairness, urge them to recognize that every app developer, regardless of size or the nature of the developer’s business, is entitled to fair treatment by these app stores and the platform owners who operate them https://appfairness.org/
25 setembro 2020
Facebook banned political ads a week before the election. After questions from ‘Fast Company,’ it will now ban political ads—including those by the Trump campaign—that claim false victory in the days after November 3. https://www.fastcompany.com/90553532/facebook-will-let-trump-run-ads-on-election-night-prematurely-claiming-victory
the European Commission adopted on 24 September 2020 a digital finance package, including a digital finance strategy and legislative proposals on crypto-assets and digital resilience, for a competitive EU financial sector that gives consumers access to innovative financial products, while ensuring consumer protection and financial stability. https://ec.europa.eu/info/publications/200924-digital-finance-proposals_pt
This report examines how local and regional newspapers around Europe have adapted their editorial and business strategies to remain sustainable in the digital media environment. Although these legacy media continue to derive the majority of their revenues from their print products, they recognise the need to invest in high-quality, distinctive digital content that serves existing readers while attracting the new readers who will ensure their future. https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/publish-less-publish-better-pivoting-paid-local-news
24 setembro 2020
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are issuing this announcement to raise awareness of the potential threat posed by attempts to spread disinformation regarding the results of the 2020 elections. Foreign actors and cybercriminals could create new websites, change existing websites, and create or share corresponding social media content to spread false information in an attempt to discredit the electoral process and undermine confidence in U.S. democratic institutions. https://www.ic3.gov/media/2020/200922.aspx
23 setembro 2020
Part of the challenge of bringing employees back to work is making sure they are safe traveling to and from the job, and that they don't risk getting sick on their lunch break. Why it matters: Companies can deep-clean their workplaces and rethink office layouts in preparation for their staff's return. But if employees are riding public transit to work, or streaming out to nearby restaurants at lunchtime, they could be putting everyone at risk. What's happening: Uber for Business, the ride-sharing firm's enterprise arm, is launching new services today to help companies ensure their staffs can commute safely to work and are well-fed on the job. https://www.axios.com/uber-for-business-employees-8182c6ad-3380-4fcb-9b33-27d766b988ee.html
An unnamed householder in Aberhosan, Powys, was unaware the old set would emit a signal which would interfere with the entire village's broadband. After 18 months engineers began an investigation after a cable replacement programme failed to fix the issue. The embarrassed householder promised not to use the television again. The village now has a stable broadband signal. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-54239180
22 setembro 2020
The Hardware Lottery: George Gilder, an American investor, power-fully described the computer chip as “inscribing worlds on grains of sand” (Gilder, 2000).The performance of an algorithm is fundamentally intertwined with the hardware and software it runs on. This essay proposes the term hardware lottery to describe how these downstream choices determine whether a research idea succeeds or fails. Today the hardware landscape is increasingly heterogeneous. This essay posits that the hardware lottery has not gone away, and the gap between the winners and losers will grow increasingly larger. In order to avoid future hardware lotteries, we need to make it easier to quantify the opportunity cost of settling for the hardware and software we have. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.06489.pdf
Qualquer elemento da rede capaz de ler o tráfego da rede é capaz de ler quais as perguntas de DNS que cada pessoa anda a fazer. Em princípio pode-se pensar que isto não tem grande importância, porque o DNS só indica o site que se quer visitar ou para onde se quer enviar um email. O DNS seria "só metadados”. Com o tempo percebeu-se que esses metadados dão muita informação para quem quiser fazer uma análise e começou-se a falar de como proteger o tráfego de DNS das "escutas” na Internet.
The most-downloaded app of 2010 made the photographs you took on your phone look way cooler. Vintage-effect filters, artful vignettes and a square-frame layout gave your ordinary snaps a pleasingly nostalgic Polaroid appeal. But 10 years later, barely anyone remembers Hipstamatic. It was a different photo-sharing app, which launched snapping at Hipstamatic’s heels on 6 October 2010, that went on to change the world. Last month more than 1 billion people posted photos on Instagram.
21 setembro 2020
A SHARE Foundation apresentou um documentário sobre a vigilância biométrica nos espaços públicos em Belgrado, na Sérvia. O documentário apresenta as posições da iniciativa Thousands of Cameras, que procurar fazer cumprir a Constituição e a legislação, como explica a EDRi. O projecto “Safe City” em Belgrado está a ser desenvolvido pelo governo sérvio e pela empresa chinesa Huawei. Além das videocâmaras, o sistema inclui inteligência artificial para a analítica dos registos das câmaras. Um mapa de colaboração colectiva revelou o dobro das câmaras instaladas relativamente à lista oficial da polícia. http://tictank.pt/2020/09/21/videovigilancia-biometrica-escondida/
O Parlamento aprovou esta sexta-feira, 18 de Setembro, uma recomendação do Partido Socialista (PS) para a criação de uma tarifa social de acesso à Internet. A recomendação está prevista no Plano de Acção para a Transição Digital e não teve no dia anterior "oposição de nenhuma bancada" parlamentar, embora vários partidos tenham apontado a necessidade de "ir mais longe". [ 336 more words ] http://tictank.pt/2020/09/21/internet-social/
Longtime current and former employees say this denial may be a bit misleading. Zuckerberg isn’t easily influenced by politics. But what he does care about—more than anything else perhaps—is Facebook’s ubiquity and its potential for growth. The result, critics say, has been an alliance of convenience between the world’s largest social network and the White House, in which Facebook looks the other way while Trump spreads misinformation about voting that could delegitimize the winner or even swing the election. “Facebook, more so than other platforms, has gone out of its way to not ruffle feathers in the current administration,” says Jesse Lehrich, co-founder of Accountable Tech, an organization making recommendations to tech companies on public-policy issues. “At best, you could say it’s willful negligence.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-09-17/facebook-and-mark-zuckerberg-need-trump-even-more-than-trump-needs-facebook
18 setembro 2020
Os tribunais podem impor a obrigação de ler os EULA mas os utilizadores têm outra interpretação e praticamente nenhum os lê. Os casos ridículos a comprovarem essa decisão provam o desinteresse. Um "End-User License Agreement" (EULA ou acordo de licenciamento com o utilizador final") é um contrato estabelecido entre o fabricante de software e o seu utilizador. Segundo a lei dos EUA, os tribunais podem impor essa "doutrina" aos consumidores, num modelo criticado por ser unilateral: "embora se espere e presuma que os consumidores leiam os seus contratos, os fornecedores geralmente não são obrigados a oferecer contratos legíveis", escrevem os autores de " [ 258 more words ] http://tictank.pt/2020/09/18/um-dever-sem-direitos-que-pode-custar-a-alma/
Download Self Data Cities, the Playbook Autoria: Manon Molins, Chloé Friedlander, Guillaume Jacquart, Fanny Maurel e Sarah Medjek Abril de 2020 “Em contextos urbanos onde os serviços baseados em dados pessoais são numerosos e, ainda assim, as cidades e os cidadãos obtêm pouco valor deles, uma abordagem de Self Data pode muito bem servir para alterar isto - não apenas porque visa proteger a privacidade das pessoas, embora isso seja crucial, mas principalmente porque é sustentada por dar mais poder individual e colectivo pelo uso de dados ”. [ 65 more words ] http://tictank.pt/2020/09/18/self-data-cities-the-playbook-em-ingles/
Centuries of medical practice led to a knowledge explosion, fuelling unprecedented advances in human health. Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and low-cost, contactless sensors have given rise to an ambient intelligence that can potentially improve the physical execution of healthcare delivery. Preliminary results from hospitals and daily living spaces confirm the richness of information gained through ambient sensing. This extraordinary opportunity to illuminate the dark spaces of healthcare requires computer scientists, clinicians and medical researchers to work closely with experts from law, ethics and public policy to create trustworthy ambient intelligence systems for healthcare. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2669-y
17 setembro 2020
German authorities said Thursday that what appears to have been a misdirected hacker attack caused the failure of IT systems at a major hospital in Duesseldorf, and a woman who needed urgent admission died after she had to be taken to another city for treatment. https://www.securityweek.com/german-hospital-hacked-patient-taken-another-city-dies
Ursula von der Leyen e o "Estado da União"
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16 setembro 2020
The article outlines a picture of activism and repressive practices in the digital age, highlighting the backfire effects of information vacuums. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/12770 #Telecoms
The article outlines a picture of activism and repressive practices in the digital age, highlighting the backfire effects of information vacuums. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/12770 #Telecoms
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The bottom line: "It's one of the most aggressive ad fraud schemes that we've seen recently" https://www.axios.com/multiterra-ad-fraud-scheme-911438e5-4a9d-4f2f-9284-e523bbe779f5.html #Media #InSegurança
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15 setembro 2020
Portugal incluído: the present study explores the existing policies and strategies at European and national level, as well as the state-of-play of the use of innovative technologies in justice. Following comprehensive consultations, the study identified 130 projects that use innovative technologies - 93 projects of Member State authorities and the judiciary, 8 – of legal professional organisations and 29 - of ICT companies based on their products and services. The study identified 8 categories of business problems that the projects aim to solve and mapped these problems to 8 business solution categories. https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/4fb8e194-f634-11ea-991b-01aa75ed71a1/language-en
Portugal incluído: the present study explores the existing policies and strategies at European and national level, as well as the state-of-play of the use of innovative technologies in justice. Following comprehensive consultations, the study identified 130 projects that use innovative technologies - 93 projects of Member State authorities and the judiciary, 8 – of legal professional organisations and 29 - of ICT companies based on their products and services. The study identified 8 categories of business problems that the projects aim to solve and mapped these problems to 8 business solution categories. https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/4fb8e194-f634-11ea-991b-01aa75ed71a1/language-en
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Before ‘cyber’ was a prefix for everything internet and computers, it was how mathematicians were going to conquer the world. https://medium.com/@bellmar/a-software-engineers-guide-to-cybernetics-d57c7def1453
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The joyful jumping plumber has been on every Nintendo console and inspired a generation of players. Shigeru Miyamoto, Kenta Motokura, Takashi Tezuka and Yoshiaki Koizumi reflect on his legacy https://www.theguardian.com/games/2020/sep/14/super-mario-at-35-marios-makers-on-nintendos-most-enduring-mascot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWbZFj-cLvk
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14 setembro 2020
Parts of the video game business, in particular sports games, have long been an effective marketing vector for the traditional pop music industry. Placing a song, or even a snippet, into a popular video game can expose that artist to millions of potential new fans. But Riot's continuing success with K/DA (which refers to kills, deaths and assists — statistics tracked in many competitive games) points in a different and potentially more interesting direction. As video games become a lingua franca of global culture, top game properties can extend fully into other forms of entertainment on their own terms. https://www.protocol.com/league-of-legends-k-pop-single-billboard #Artes
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Glenn Greenwald: Why The Media Is SILENT On Julian Assange's Trial
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O modo de operação da polícia secreta soviética Okhrana pode ter enormes semelhanças com as novas redes sociais mas tem uma diferença abismal: agora, os vigiados são quem fornece informações e fotografias de onde estão ou do que fazem. A Okhrana "foi a força policial secreta do Império Russo no final do século XIX e início do século XX. Foi um… [ 328 more words ] http://tictank.pt/2020/09/14/facebook-uma-nova-okhrana/
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11 setembro 2020
When completed, the camera is headed to Cerro Pachón in northern Chile where it will be attached to the Vera Rubin Observatory’s telescope. The hulking camera, which is being put together at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, will be able to capture sweeping panoramas of the night sky, reports Joe Palca for NPR. Once installed at the Rubin Observatory, the camera will spend the following decade surveying roughly 20 billion galaxies. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/camera-bound-space-telescope-takes-3200-megapixel-photos-180975758/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc_iscV1uA0
When completed, the camera is headed to Cerro Pachón in northern Chile where it will be attached to the Vera Rubin Observatory’s telescope. The hulking camera, which is being put together at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, will be able to capture sweeping panoramas of the night sky, reports Joe Palca for NPR. Once installed at the Rubin Observatory, the camera will spend the following decade surveying roughly 20 billion galaxies. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/camera-bound-space-telescope-takes-3200-megapixel-photos-180975758/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc_iscV1uA0
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This is the inside view of how exactly a router operates. You only need to know this if you are poking inside a router implementation. If that is the case, my condolences. https://kamila.is//teaching/how-routers-work/ #Internet
This is the inside view of how exactly a router operates. You only need to know this if you are poking inside a router implementation. If that is the case, my condolences. https://kamila.is//teaching/how-routers-work/ #Internet
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