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    thibnton @thibnton PUBLIC DOMAIN 8/12/2016

    Non, on n’a certainement pas encore touché le fond avec ces histoires de fake news. Continuons à creuser : Facebook and Google make lies as pretty as truth - How AMP and Instant Articles camouflage fake news
    ▻http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/6/13850230/fake-news-sites-google-search-facebook-instant-articles

    The fake news problem we’re facing isn’t just about articles gaining traffic from Facebook timelines or Google search results. It’s also an issue of news literacy — a reader’s ability to discern credible news. And it’s getting harder to tell on sight alone which sites are trustworthy. On a Facebook timeline or Google search feed, every story comes prepackaged in the same skin, whether it’s a months-long investigation from The Washington Post or completely fabricated clickbait.

    While feed formatting isn’t anything new, platforms like Google AMP, Facebook Instant Articles, and Apple News are also further breaking down the relationship between good design and credibility. In a platform world, all publishers end up looking more similar than different. That makes separating the real from the fake even harder.

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    thibnton @thibnton PUBLIC DOMAIN 1/12/2016

    Est-ce que #Facebook rachète ces boîtes parce qu’il ne connaît pas (encore) tous les secrets de la #viralité ? Ou par réflexe hégémonique ?

    #Facebook buys CrowdTangle, the tool publishers use to win the internet
    ▻http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/11/13594338/facebook-acquires-crowdtangle

    CrowdTangle joins Facebook’s existing publisher analytics tools, which include Signal (for discovering which news stories are trending) and Page Insights (which offer analytics tools for pages.) “Thanks to this partnership, our platform is only going to get more powerful,” CrowdTangle’s founders said in a blog post. “All of our partners can not only expect the same quality of product, level of support, and pace of innovation they have come to expect from us, but they should and can expect even more from us going forward.”

    Sur la viralité des #hoax et les moyens de les repérer :

    · How Fake News Goes Viral : A Case Study
    ▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/business/media/how-fake-news-spreads.html

    · Reuters built an #algorithm to flag and verify breaking news on Twitter
    ▻http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/1/13804542/reuters-algorithm-breaking-news-twitter

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    7h37 @7h37 21/11/2016
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    All Queens Must Die
    ▻http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/25/12608928/santa-cruz-island-argentine-ants-extermination-nature-conservancy
    Sur l’île de Santa Cruz, au large de la Californie, depuis les années 1980, on a tué des dizaines de milliers de vaches, moutons et cochons (avec snipers néo-zélandais spécialisés dans la traque d’animaux domestiques)...

    The snipers tracked the collared, so-called Judas pigs back to their kind and, only if and when they could destroy a group all at once, opened fire. Any pig left alive, even wounded, would become all the more skittish and difficult to find. It would teach others to fear helicopters overhead.

    ...en plus des colonies d’abeilles, ceci dans le but de faire revenir l’île à son état virginal.
    Maintenant, la dernière espèce invasive à éliminer, c’est la fourmi d’Argentine, et ça a l’air coton.

    Boser needed to poison all the queens at once. If she did that, Santa Cruz would be one step closer to perfection.

    Les questions sur ce massacre viennent à la fin.

    Still, the eradication effort seemed extreme, like a grand experiment in whole system ecology. By trying to turn the island back into what it once was, undoing the human hand with more human hands, where were we going?

    Apparemment le même genre de plan pour « préserver la #biodiversité » (celle-ci justifiant de telles extrémités aux yeux des scientifiques impliqués) a déjà été déployé aux Galapagos avec l’éradication (c’est le terme scientifique) de 80000 chèvres (sur l’île de Santiago seulement, parce que ça a atteint 100000 sur Isabela).
    ▻http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/08/09/galapagos-week-when-conservation-means-killing

    The logistical details are fascinating. The first phase, from December 2001 to January 2004, was ground hunting. Researchers recruited locals, many of whom had never hunted before, and taught them how to use hunting dogs, rifles, radios, telemetry and GPS. Then they started the cold and systematic business of killing.

    Puis on retrouve les snipers néo-zélandais.

    [...] The ground-hunting phase of the project killed 53,782 goats. The second phase was three months of aerial attacks, by specialized hunters from New Zealand using semi-automatic rifles.

    Semblerait toutefois qu’il y ait d’autres techniques un peu moins barbares qui existent, genre déplacer ces pauvres bêtes ailleurs.

    “Eradications are simply the most cost-effective approach,” he said.

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    thibnton @thibnton PUBLIC DOMAIN 28/09/2016

    Elon Musk’s proposed spaceship could send 100 people to Mars in 80 days
    ▻http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/27/13058990/mars-mission-spaceship-announced-elon-musk-spacex/in/12838307

    The trip will work like this: First, the spaceship will launch out of Pad 39A, which is under development right now at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. At liftoff, the booster will have 127,800 kilonewtons of thrust, or 28,730,000 pounds of thrust. Then, the spaceship and booster separate.

    The spaceship heads to orbit, while the booster heads back to Earth, coming back within about 20 minutes. Back on Earth, the booster lands on a launch mount and a propellant tanker is loaded onto the booster. The entire unit — now filled with fuel — lifts off again. It joins with the spaceship, which is then refueled in orbit. The propellant tankers will go up anywhere from three to five times to fill the tanks of the spaceship.

    The spaceship finally departs for Mars. To make the trip more attractive for its crew members, Musk promises that it’ll be “really fun” with zero-G games, movies, cabins, games, a restaurant.

    Similarly, it’s inefficient to bring propellant for the return trip. Ideally, a team would build a propellant plant on Mars and send the ships back that way. (This is supposedly possible given the natural resources on the Red Planet.)

    #mars #espace #spacex #facile #fun

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  • @fil
    Fil @fil 7/08/2016

    Welcome to AirSpace, by Kyle Chayka | Illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg | The Verge
    ▻http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/3/12325104/airbnb-aesthetic-global-minimalism-startup-gentrification
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    “Every coffee place looks the same,” Schwarzmann says. The new cafe resembles all the other coffee shops Foursquare suggests, whether in Odessa, Beijing, Los Angeles, or Seoul: the same raw wood tables, exposed brick, and hanging Edison bulbs.

    It’s not that these generic cafes are part of global chains like Starbucks or Costa Coffee, with designs that spring from the same corporate cookie cutter. Rather, they have all independently decided to adopt the same faux-artisanal aesthetic. Digital platforms like #Foursquare are producing “a harmonization of tastes” across the world

    (...)

    #Airbnb is a prominent example. Even as it markets unique places as consumable goods, it helps its users travel without actually having to change their environment, or leave the warm embrace of AirSpace.

    (...)

    In April of this year, another [Airbnb] spot parodied tourist behavior — selfie sticks, Segway tours — and set it against the “authentic” activities — falling asleep on the couch reading a book or watching your child build a pillow fort — enabled by a stay with one of the platform’s hosts. It offered a vision of possessiveness, in which visitors consume recognizable symbols rather than encountering unfamiliar ones: “The local coffee shop is yours, too.”

    #design #uniformisation #faux #goût #silicon_valley #tourisme #gentrification

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  • @etraces
    etraces @etraces 2/08/2016

    New database aims to track the global surveillance industry
    ▻http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/1/12340348/surveillance-industry-index-database-privacy-international

    Privacy International releases searchable database on more than 520 surveillance companies and the powerful tools they sell to governments Privacy International, a London-based watchdog, has launched a new searchable database on hundreds of surveillance companies across the world, as part of an effort to track a murky industry. Created in collaboration with Transparency Toolkit, the Surveillance Industry Index (SII) includes information on more than 520 surveillance companies, as well as (...)

    #Gamma_International #Cerebro #surveillance #surveillance #surveillance #Privacy_International #spyware (...)

    ##FinFisher

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  • @fil
    Fil @fil 23/04/2016

    Five burning questions about Magic Leap after Wired’s huge profile | The Verge
    ▻http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/19/11459498/five-burning-questions-about-magic-leap-after-wireds-huge-profile
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    Wired ran an enormous profile on mysterious AR startup Magic Leap today, written by legendary tech journalist Kevin Kelly. It’s incredible, and you should read it, if only because Kelly’s obvious love and enthusiasm for virtual and augmented reality is infectious and energizing.

    But the piece also raises many, many more questions about Magic Leap than it answers — and given the extreme opacity that’s surrounded Magic Leap, that’s pretty notable. (To catch you up: Magic Leap is a secretive company that’s raised over a billion in funding from #Silicon_Valley giants like Google and Andreesen Horowitz, but it’s never given a public demo

    ▻http://www.wired.com/2016/04/magic-leap-vr

    #son #réalité_virtuelle #hype

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    The secret rules of the #internet | The Verge
    ▻http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/13/11387934/internet-moderator-history-youtube-facebook-reddit-censorship-free-speech

    Mora-Blanco is one of more than a dozen current and former employees and contractors of major internet platforms from YouTube to Facebook who spoke to us candidly about the dawn of content moderation. Many of these individuals are going public with their experiences for the first time. Their stories reveal how the boundaries of free speech were drawn during a period of explosive growth for a high-stakes public domain, one that did not exist for most of human history. As law professor Jeffrey Rosen first said many years ago of Facebook, these platforms have “more power in determining who can speak and who can be heard around the globe than any Supreme Court justice, any king or any president.”

    #free_speech #modération #surveillance #contrôle #liberté_d'expression #féminisme à plusieurs niveaux (ne serait-ce que parce que la grande majorité des modérateurices sont des femmes et mal payées), #blackface etc etc ; énorme article donc

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    etraces @etraces 21/04/2016
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    British spies tapped surveillance database to send a birthday card
    ▻http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/21/11476968/uk-spy-agencies-bulk-personal-datasets-privacy-international

    New documents reveal spies’ casual approach to citizens’ personal data Internal documents from UK spy agencies have revealed how mass surveillance techniques are used to collect dossiers of citizens’ personal data. The files — which include internal memos from MI5, MI6, and GCHQ — show that the intelligence services have been gathering personal information into searchable “bulk personal datasets” or BPDs for years. These files can include travel records, financial data, and communications data (...)

    #GCHQ #données #MI5 #Midi_System #surveillance

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  • @fil
    Fil @fil 11/03/2016

    DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis on how AI will shape the future | The Verge
    ▻http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/10/11192774/demis-hassabis-interview-alphago-google-deepmind-ai

    Just talking about the significance for AI (...) the other big thing you’ve heard me talk about is the difference between this and Deep Blue. So Deep Blue is a hand-crafted program where the programmers distilled the information from chess grandmasters into specific rules and heuristics, whereas we’ve imbued AlphaGo with the ability to learn and then it’s learnt it through practice and study, which is much more human-like.

    sur la capacité de l’approche :

    We think this algorithm can work without any supervision. The Atari games that we did last year, playing from the pixels — that didn’t bootstrap from any human knowledge, that started literally from doing random things on screen.

    #apprentissage #machine_learning #jeux_video #IA #go

    Q: The main future uses of AI that you’ve brought up this week have been healthcare, smartphone assistants, and robotics. (...)
    A: the sort of things you’ll see this kind of AI do is medical diagnosis of images and then maybe longitudinal tracking of vital signs or quantified self over time, and helping people have healthier lifestyles. (…) we’re just doing it all for free

    sur la capacité de calcul :

    AlphaGo doesn’t actually use that much hardware in play, but we needed a lot of hardware to train it and do all the different versions and have them play each other in tournaments on the cloud. That takes quite a lot of hardware to do efficiently, so we couldn’t have done it in this time frame without those [Google] resources.

    applications pour la #recherche :

    What I’m really excited to use this kind of AI for is science, and advancing that faster. I’d like to see AI-assisted science where you have effectively AI research assistants that do a lot of the drudgery work and surface interesting articles, find structure in vast amounts of data, and then surface that to the human experts and scientists who can make quicker breakthroughs.

    du #data_mining sur les publications

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  • @etraces
    etraces @etraces 28/02/2016

    European companies sold powerful surveillance technology to Egypt, report says
    ▻http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/24/11104524/egypt-surveillance-nokia-finfisher-hacking-team-spyware

    Privacy International investigation sheds light on Egyptian intelligence agency that operates in total secrecy European companies have been selling powerful surveillance technology to a secretive government intelligence agency in Egypt, according to an investigation from Privacy International, a London-based watchdog organization. The report, published Wednesday, sheds light on how Finnish, German, and Italian firms sold technology to the Technical Research Department (TDR), an Egyptian (...) #Hacking_Team #cheval_de_Troie #exportation_de_technologies_de_surveillance #firme_de_surveillance #surveillance #surveillance #Nokia_Siemens #écoutes (...)

    ##FinFisher

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    Fil @fil 23/02/2016
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    #Facebook is using AI to make detailed maps of where people live | The Verge
    ▻http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/22/11075456/facebook-population-density-maps-internet-org

    The project is part of Facebook’s Connectivity Lab, the technical arm of its #Internet.org initiative that deals with #drones, #satellites, and lasers for delivering #internet to rural areas and developing countries. With better maps, the company is able to determine whether Wi-Fi hotspots or cellular technologies are better for bringing people online — and helping them sign up for Facebook naturally.

    FACEBOOK ANALYZED 20 COUNTRIES COVERING 21.6 MILLION SQUARE KILOMETERS

    To generate the maps, Connectivity Lab worked with Facebook’s data science division, infrastructure unit, and #machine_learning and #artificial_intelligence groups.

    OK.

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