EnigmaticWorld Posted August 13, 2020 Author Share Posted August 13, 2020 Government Cameras Hidden on Private Property? Welcome to Open Fields https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/77722/government-cameras-hidden-on-private-property-welcome-to-open.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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EnigmaticWorld Posted August 15, 2020 Author Share Posted August 15, 2020 We are complicit in our employer's deeds Published 2020-05-05 on Drew DeVault's blog Tim Bray’s excellent “Bye Amazon” post inspired me to take this article off of my backlog, where it has been sitting for a few weeks. I applaud Tim for stepping down from a company that has demonstrated itself incompatible with his sense of right and wrong, and I want to take a moment to remind you that the rest of us in the tech industry have the same opportunity — no, the same obligation as Tim did. As software engineers, we enjoy high salaries and extremely good job security. A good software engineer with only a couple of years of experience under their belt can expect to have an offer within 1 or 2 months of starting their search. It can seem a little scary and stressful, but if you’re a programmer already working at $company and you’re looking for a change, you’re better off than 99% of your non-technical friends. In tech, hardly anyone is “trapped” at a bad job; or at least we don’t have a good excuse for not trying for something better. Tim calls out Amazon’s terrible, unhealthy working conditions and retaliation against staff who speak up or try to organize.1 Google conducts mass surveillance, kowtows to oppressive regimes, and punishes workers who stand up to them. Less obvious stuff, too — Apple builds walled gardens and makes targeted attacks on open standards, Facebook is a giant surveillance tool which routinely disregards the law, the same behavior which made Uber and Airbnb into the giants they are today, all while fostering a “gig” culture in which the poor have no stability or security. Mass surveillance, contempt of the law, tax evasion, oppression of the poor, of minorities… this is what our industry is known for, and it’s our fault. This is why I hold my peers accountable for working at companies which are making a negative impact on the world around them. As a general rule, it costs a business your salary × 1.5 to employ you, given the overhead of benefits, HR, training, and so on. When you’re making a cool half-million annual salary from $bigcorp, it’s because they expect to make at least ¾ of a million that they wouldn’t be making without you. It does not make economic sense for them to hire you if this weren’t the case. Your contribution makes a big difference. If the best defense we have for working at these companies is the Nuremberg defense, that doesn’t reflect well on us. But, maybe you would object, maybe you would have the courage to say “no” when asked to do these things. Maybe you would, but someday, a cool project will come across your inbox - machine learning! Big data! Cloud scale! It’s everything you were promised when you took the job, and have more fun with it for a few months than you have had in a long time. Your superiors are thrilled - “it’s perfect!”, they say, and it’s not until they take it and start feeding it real-world data that you realize exactly what you have built. Doublethink quickly steps in to protect your ego from the cognitive dissonance, and you take another little step towards becoming the person you once swore never to be. The rapid computerization of society has decreased the time necessary to build novel machines one thousand-fold. This endows us with a great responsibility, because whatever we build with them, the changes they bring to society will be upon us much, much faster than any changes to come before. Every software developer possesses alone the potential of 50 engineers living just 100 years ago. We can apply this power for good or for ill, but it’s up to each of us to make a deliberate choice on the matter. https://drewdevault.com/2020/05/05/We-are-complicit-in-our-employers-deeds.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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EnigmaticWorld Posted August 16, 2020 Author Share Posted August 16, 2020 Amazon taking over empty J.C. Penney and Sears stores means the end of the mall: former retail CEO https://news.yahoo.com/amazon-taking-over-empty-jc-penney-stores-means-the-end-of-the-mall-former-retail-ceo-155616339.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaticWorld Posted August 16, 2020 Author Share Posted August 16, 2020 https://www.cnet.com/news/europes-largest-3d-printer-just-made-its-first-two-story-house/ Instagram kept deleted photos and messages on its servers for more than a year https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/14/21368602/instagram-kept-deleted-photos-messages-on-servers-year-bug-fixed We need a full investigation into Siri's secret surveillance campaign Quote Now, in a 20 May letter to EU privacy regulators, the whistleblower, Thomas Le Bonniec, renounced his non-disclosure agreement with Apple and demanded that regulatory authorities investigate Apple. He told the EU that while working for Apple his work included listening to the private conversations of people all over Europe talking about their cancer, dead relatives, religion, sexuality, pornography, relationships and drug use, among other topics, in secret recordings made by Siri and sent to Apple without their knowledge. Le Bonniec said regulators needed to take action because big tech companies “are basically wiretapping entire populations”. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/14/apple-siri-secret-surveillance-campaign-investigation Lawsuit: Zoom Lied About Security Measures, End-to-End Encryption https://www.legalreader.com/lawsuit-zoom-lied-security-measures-end-to-end-encryption/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaticWorld Posted August 16, 2020 Author Share Posted August 16, 2020 Damn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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EnigmaticWorld Posted August 17, 2020 Author Share Posted August 17, 2020 'Cyborg' technology could enable new diagnostics, merger of humans and AI https://phys.org/news/2020-08-cyborg-technology-enable-diagnostics-merger.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaticWorld Posted August 17, 2020 Author Share Posted August 17, 2020 With drones, robots and sensors, IDF readies Ground Forces for future war https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-drones-robots-and-sensors-idf-readies-ground-forces-for-future-war/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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EnigmaticWorld Posted August 18, 2020 Author Share Posted August 18, 2020 Secret Service Paid to Get Americans' Location Data Without a Warrant, Documents Show Quote Babel Street is a shadowy organization that offers a product called Locate X that is reportedly used to gather anonymized location data from a host of popular apps that users have unwittingly installed on their phones. When we say “unwittingly,” we mean that not everyone is aware that random innocuous apps are often bundling and anonymizing their data to be sold off to the highest bidder. https://gizmodo.com/secret-service-bought-access-to-americans-location-data-1844752501 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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EnigmaticWorld Posted August 18, 2020 Author Share Posted August 18, 2020 What is Triller and why is it suing TikTok? Here is your shortcut guide https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-18/what-is-triller-and-why-is-it-suing-tiktok-shorcut-guide/12568206 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oddsnsods Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 New “Cyborg” Technology Could Enable Merger of Humans and AI https://scitechdaily.com/new-cyborg-technology-could-enable-merger-of-humans-and-ai/ They been pushing this is the media today heavily..all positive vibes of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oddsnsods Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 Your Brain, With a USB Port in It: Elon Musk’s Neuralink Vision Divides Experts https://www.cbronline.com/in-depth/neuralink-update-brain-machine-interface Even the experts think Musk is a bullshitter. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaticWorld Posted August 21, 2020 Author Share Posted August 21, 2020 iFarm Raises $4 million to automate urban farming with AI and drones venturebeat.com/2020/08/20/ifarm-raises-4-million-to-automate-urban-farming-with-ai-and-drones/ BrainChip, Magik Eye working on biometric gesture, object recognition, classification www.biometricupdate.com/202008/brainchip-magik-eye-working-on-biometric-gesture-object-recognition-classification Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaticWorld Posted August 22, 2020 Author Share Posted August 22, 2020 New AI voice cloning app. https://www.producthunt.com/posts/the-parodist-app Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaticWorld Posted August 22, 2020 Author Share Posted August 22, 2020 Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War Features Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov. Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War is official, will be ‘inspired by actual events’ www.theverge.com/2020/8/19/21376314/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-treyarch-raven-activision Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaticWorld Posted August 22, 2020 Author Share Posted August 22, 2020 AI Defeats Human F-16 Pilot in DARPA’s AlphaDogFight Trials Final Event https://www.techeblog.com/ai-human-f16-alphadogfight-trials/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bombadil Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 Great app on iPad called science alert. Can’t vouch for affiliations etc, but updated regularly. Each article only brief with further links. Should interest some here. Would post links etc but have no idea how to and little interest in finding out at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaticWorld Posted August 22, 2020 Author Share Posted August 22, 2020 Keep seething, subversives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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oddsnsods Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 Geordie Rose describing demonic portals.. D-wave Quantum computer is the AI beast matrix. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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