Trolls Are Winning the Internet, Technologists Say
And they're pushing the rest of us toward a “Potemkin internet,” a mere shell of the web we know today.
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Posted on 2017-04-01T04:06:06+0000
Canada’s AI Moment
Today’s blog post is authored by Geoffrey Hinton, Chief Scientific Advisor for the Vector Institute and VP and Engineering Fellow at Google...
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Posted on 2017-04-01T04:03:05+0000
Crowd Funding is Not Allowed in Pakistan: SECP
Crowd funding is not allowed in Pakistan, Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan has said in an official statement, leaving techies wondering about t
Uber Executive’s Lawyers Warn He Could Face Criminal Charges
The executive at the center of an intellectual property fight between Waymo and Uber is exercising his right to avoid self-incrimination in the dispute.
SES-10 MISSION | SpaceX
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will deliver SES-10, a commercial communications satellite for SES, to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO). SES is a world-leading satellite operator, providing reliable and secure satellite communications solutions across the globe. The SES-10 mission will mark a historic…
Hello from the Other Side: Live Demo
Black Hat Asia 2017: Hello From the Other Side Live-streaming a music video over the cache between two Amazon EC2 instances.
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Live demonstration of streaming a video over a covert channel on amazon 2 exploiting cache consistency.
Damn. This is insane.
Posted on 2017-03-31T00:10:15+0000
The $350K Google Salary Is Hurting Startups « The Startup Conference
What’s the #1 need of early-stage tech startups? Experienced software engineers. And they are becoming impossible to find in Silicon Valley, even though they are everywhere.
Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped - BBC News
The House repeals rules requiring broadband providers to get permission before selling your web history.
Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race for American Jobs
Researchers are surprised to see very little employment increase in other occupations to offset the job losses in manufacturing.
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"The paper is all the more significant because the researchers, whose work is highly regarded in their field, had been more sanguine about the effect of technology on jobs. In a paper last year, they said it was likely that increased automation would create new, better jobs, so employment and wages would eventually return to their previous levels. Just as cranes replaced dockworkers but created related jobs for engineers and financiers, the theory goes, new technology has created new jobs for software developers and data analysts.
But that paper was a conceptual exercise. The new one uses real-world data — and suggests a more pessimistic future. The researchers said they were surprised to see very little employment increase in other occupations to offset the job losses in manufacturing. That increase could still happen, they said, but for now there are large numbers of people out of work, with no clear path forward — especially blue-collar men without college degrees."
Posted on 2017-03-29T03:39:23+0000
Wages rise on California farms. Americans still don't want the job
Trump's immigration crackdown is supposed to help U.S. citizens. For California farmers, it's worsening a desperate labor shortage.
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"He hired 483 U.S. applicants, slightly less than a quarter of what he needed; 109 didn’t show up on the first day. Another 321 of them quit, “the vast majority in the first two days,” Carr testified. Only 31 lasted for the entire peach season."
Posted on 2017-03-29T03:37:00+0000