Новости за 04.11.2021

The Australian government gave Clearview AI the boot earlier this week after determining the company had no right to scrape and maintain its citizens’ data. If you or anyone else has ever uploaded a picture with your face in it to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or just about any website, there’s a very good chance you’re in Clearview AI‘s database. What does that mean? Clearview AI employees, millions of law enforcement agents, and anyone with access to the company’s data (which was recently exposed... Читать дальше...

Naturally, our beloved tech giants Google and Apple want you to exclusively use their own billing systems for in-app purchases on mobiles and tablets. For that reason, they have been facing global scrutiny for forcing developers to user their payment systems and charging them with an up to 30% commission. Governments around the world have been seeking to curb their control, but to no avail. Until now. South Korea’s “anti-Google” law has… worked! Perhaps you remember that in August South Korea passed a new bill... Читать дальше...

With brands increasingly engaging in social change campaigns and leveraging their influence to be “purpose-led”, the time has come to ask a couple of big questions: is this a viable strategy, and how skeptical should we be of so-called “brand activism”? In recent weeks alone, Ben & Jerry’s has launched a new ice-cream flavor called “Change is Brewing” to support Black-owned businesses and raise awareness of the People’s Response Act, proposed legislation to establish a new public safety agency in the US. Читать дальше...

As more people are getting their hands on the incredible M1 Max MacBook Pro, a question is arising: why? The machine is eye-wateringly expensive and people on Twitter (where else?) are up in arms about it. 6000 dollars … What a fkin joke. Who needs 8tb ssd man and M1 max is good and all but this is just robbery. https://t.co/3UYSuMgIJZ — Baby (@DanAtreides01) October 19, 2021 Honestly? It’s a reasonable concern. The most tricked-out version of the 16-inch M1 Max MacBook Pro will cost you $6,099, before tax ... Читать дальше...

Among all the posturing and grandstanding about climate change, you’ll see something that’s noticeably absent at COP26 in Glasgow this week — cycling.  I saw a tweet this morning (I love Twitter), and it asked an excellent question:  Why is no one talking about #bicycles at #COP26? ????????????????????@cathmckenna — Dave Robertson (@DaveBikeSki) November 4, 2021 Seriously, where are all the bikes and ebikes? How about some cargo bikes — they could be used to tow a few politicians far better than car cavalcades. Читать дальше...

For those of you who own a Tesla and have been wishing for an alternative to Spotify, we have some good news: Tidal is now supported. The new in-car app is part of Tesla’s 2021.40 software update, released on Tuesday.  Here’s the release note: TIDAL streaming is now available from the Media menu with a TIDAL account. You can listen to TIDAL playlists or albums in high-quality audio by connecting to Wi-Fi and pressing Download on the selected content. ok, so the TACC chime is for countries outside of China now, I misread the code I guess. Читать дальше...

TLDR: The 2022 Ultimate Cybersecurity Analyst Preparation Bundle features over 50 hours of training to learn all the tricks of digital security while getting certified as an expert in the field. Here are a pair of statistics that can tell you almost everything you need to know about the state of cybersecurity in our modern business world. According to a survey by Deloitte of over 500 corporate executives, an overwhelming 98 percent of them said they’d come face-to-face with at least one cybersecurity incident over the past year. Читать дальше...

Zoom meeting after Zoom meeting, while trying to feed, entertain and beg-to-sleep an infant whose day care had closed, I needed a break but couldn’t really take one in April of 2020. Enter memes. Between work, moving the laundry and taking care of my own dogs, I could sneak a peak at Instagram and chuckle at images of very excited pups, psyched that their humans were now home all day, every day. I study media processes and effects, which is the psychology of how media messages can affect you. As the pandemic dragged on... Читать дальше...

With COP26 in full swing, Democrats in the US House of Representatives are slowly working on doing their part to fight climate change. Their focus? The heart and soul of America: the big-ass car. This week they announced further amendments to the current Build Back Better Act before the House which offers some big wins for social spending and sustainable transport. The bill before the house is all part of a $3.5 trillion budget dedicated to social and environmental benefits. But let’s dig into how... Читать дальше...

“I know other languages, I don’t need to learn Rust” – sound familiar? If you haven’t started learning about Rust yet, you may want to change your tune. According to a recent study by technology training company, O’Reilly, developers who code in Rust receive the highest average salary compared to other programming languages. Rust has been steadily growing in popularity for the last number of years. In fact, according to this year’s StackOverflow developer survey, Rust is the most beloved language by developers. Читать дальше...

The 2021 Kindle Paperwhite is simply the best ereader for the majority of people who actually want an ereader. It improves on its predecessors in the places it matters most, and starting at $140, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better combination of features and quality. Perhaps more importantly, it might be the first Kindle Paperwhite really worth upgrading to in years — and I’d argue it’s a better choice than the fancier Oasis too. The screen is bigger The new Kindle Paperwhite is the same size as its predecessor... Читать дальше...

Microsoft recently announced it will soon offer ‘invitation only’ access to GPT-3 via Azure. This is a weird bit of news. We all saw it coming the moment Microsoft tossed Open AI a cool $1B for “pre AGI technologies” (AGI, artificial general intelligence, doesn’t exist yet, so literally everything is a pre AGI tech lol). But it’s unclear exactly what this means for OpenAI going forward. Back in 2019, when the two companies inked the partnership, it seemed like OpenAI was going to beef up Azure’s backbone. Читать дальше...

It’s that time again, the UN conference on climate change COP26, is on again in Glasgow. Attendees arrive by train, ride in double-decker electric buses, and receive escort by police riding modified electric Harley-Davidson LiveWire motorcycles. But don’t get too excited — those motorbikes are loaners only.  Let’s talk about the big fat elephant in the room at COP26 – transport and specifically the energy that powers transport and how one country has managed to fuck things up so spectacularly — Australia. Читать дальше...

Thirty years ago the height of posh was owning a portable landline phone. Now our smartphones are personal computers that can process natural language commands and run AI models on-device. In another 30 years, according to the experts, we’ll have flying cars, robot butlers, and colonies on Mars. Right? Maybe, maybe not. The next 30 years of computer advances don’t seem quite as certain as the last were. We’re pushing up against Moore’s law and beginning to get diminishing returns when it comes to creating more powerful classical systems. Читать дальше...