• ?Chrome: Stop future computers from cracking current encryption – CNET

  “Google released a beta test version of its Chrome browser that attempts to keep your data secure even if today’s uncrackable encryption becomes tomorrow’s code-breaking cakewalk.

  The Chrome 54 beta gets the ability to encipher data sent to and from websites with a technology called CECPQ1. It “protects against future attacks using large quantum computers,” Google said in a blog post Thursday.”

  Tags: ITGS, encryption, chrome, cracking, algorithm, quantum, security, anonymity, privacy

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• Amazon pushes customers towards pricier products, report claims | Technology | The Guardian

  “Amazon’s algorithms encourage customers pay more than they need to for popular products and appear to give more prominence to items that benefit the retail giant, according to an investigation by ProPublica.

  The investigation looked at 250 frequently purchased products over several weeks to see which ones were chosen to appear in the highly-prized “buy box” that pops up first as a suggested purchase. “

  Tags: algorithms, amazon, policiesandstandards, peopleandmachines, ITGS

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• Facebook deletes Norwegian PM’s post as ‘napalm girl’ row escalates | Technology | The Guardian

  In her intervention on Friday, the Norwegian prime minister wrote that the photograph, entitled The Terror of War and featuring the naked nine-year-old Kim Phúc running away from a napalm attack, had “shaped world history”.

  Solberg added: “I appreciate the work Facebook and other media do to stop content and pictures showing abuse and violence … But Facebook is wrong when they censor such images.”

  Tags: ITGS, censorship, facebook, equality of access

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• A beauty contest was judged by AI and the robots didn’t like dark skin | Technology | The Guardian

  The ensuing controversy has sparked renewed debates about the ways in which algorithms can perpetuate biases, yielding unintended and often offensive results.

  Tags: ITGS, algorithm, bias, people and machines

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• Russian YouTuber facing five years in jail after playing Pokémon Go in church | Technology | The Guardian

  “A Russian YouTuber could face five years in jail after he filmed himself playing Pokémon Go in a church.

  Ruslan Sokolovsky was filmed catching Pokémon in the Church of All Saints in Yekaterinburg at the beginning of August, when the Pokémon Go hype was at its height.”

  Tags: ITGS, russian, pokémon, globalisation, culturaldiversity, peopleandmachines

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• Quantum Computers Are Coming. The World Might Not Be Ready. – Bloomberg View

  “As dire as that sounds, panic isn’t in order just yet. Researchers are already working on “quantum-resistant” encryption. Some companies claim to have made significant progress in the field. Google, among others, is working on a new form of security for its browser that might rebuff a quantum algorithm.”

  Tags: ITGS, quantum, computers, encryption

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• Facebook fires trending team, and algorithm without humans goes crazy | Technology | The Guardian

  “Facebook announced late Friday that it had eliminated jobs in its trending module, the part of its news division where staff curated popular news for Facebook users. Over the weekend, the fully automated Facebook trending module pushed out a false story about Fox News host Megyn Kelly, a controversial piece about a comedian’s four-letter word attack on rightwing pundit Ann Coulter”

  Tags: ITGS, facebook, algorithm, humans, ai, news, authenticity, reliability, peopleandmachines

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• Microsoft apologises after Bing translates ‘Daesh’ into ‘Saudi Arabia’ | Technology | The Guardian

  “Najjar told the Huffington Post that the error was most likely due to Bing’s use of crowdsourced translations. The service can promote alternative translations to the top spot if they receive suggestions from about 1,000 people, which means that without manual correction it is possible to manipulate the system and substitute the correct translation for an alternative.”

  Tags: ITGS, ai, microsoft, authenticity, reliability, peopleandmachines, system

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• Self-driving taxis roll out in Singapore – beating Uber to it | Technology | The Guardian

  “In fact the $60bn multinational has just been scooped by Nutonomy, a small MIT spin-out whose electric self-driving cabs have already started picking up real customers in a Singapore business park. Initially, riders will use Nutonomy’s own app to summon hail a Mitsubishi i-Miev or a Renault Zoe, ramping up to a dozen vehicles in the coming months.”

  Tags: singapore, ITGS, peopleandmachines, ai, autonomous, car

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• Creator of chatbot that beat 160,000 parking fines now tackling homelessness | Technology | The Guardian

  “London-born Stanford student Joshua Browder created DoNotPay initially to help people appeal against fines for unpaid parking tickets. Dubbed “the world’s first robot lawyer”, Browder later programmed it to deal with a wider range of legal issues, such as claiming for delayed flights and trains and payment protection insurance (PPI).”

  Tags: ITGS, social media, peopleandmachines, authenticity

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• China launches quantum satellite for ‘hack-proof’ communications | World news | The Guardian

  ““The satellite’s two-year mission will be to develop ‘hack-proof’ quantum communications, allowing users to send messages securely and at speeds faster than light,” Xinhua reported.”

  Tags: ITGS, quantum, anonymity, security, politics and government, encryption

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• Password strength meters fail to spot easy-to-crack examples | Technology | The Guardian

  “Instead password strength meters measure entropy – the amount of time or energy needed to crack a password using brute force methods. The longer and more complex the password, the longer it will take to crack by simply iterating through a list of all possible passwords. According to Stockley, however, brute force is a password cracker’s last resort.”

  Tags: password, strength, meters, reliability, ITGS, integrity, security

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• ‘We’re just rentals’: Uber drivers ask where they fit in a self-driving future | Technology | The Guardian

  “Ingram, a 60-year-old Uber driver in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, had just learned that Uber would be deploying autonomous cars to accept fares in her city within weeks. The announcement on Thursday morning sent shockwaves through the community of about 4,000 drivers that serve Pennsylvania’s second largest city. “

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• Google Maps Palestine row: why neutrality in tech is an impossible dream | Leigh Alexander | Technology | The Guardian

  “Imagine if it would have more of an impact for Palestine to be recognised as a sovereign country by Google than by the UN. It’s a suggestion that’s caught fire – a five-month-old online petition demanding Palestine be labeled and bordered in Google Maps has gained more than 250,000 signatures just over the past few days.”

  Tags: google, google maps, palestine, neutrality, globalisation, ITGS, peopleandmachines, control

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• Rich and poor teenagers use the web differently – here’s what this is doing to inequality | World Economic Forum

  ““Equal access does imply equal opportunities,” says the report, which goes on to point out that while anyone can use the internet to learn about the world, improve their skills or apply for a well-paid job, disadvantaged students are less likely to be aware of the opportunities that digital technology offers.

  “They may not have the knowledge or skills required to turn online opportunities into real opportunities,” the report says.”

  Tags: ITGS, globalisation, equalityofaccess

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• Is an algorithm any less racist than a human? | Technology | The Guardian

  “There’s an increasingly popular solution to this problem: why not let an intelligent algorithm make hiring decisions for you? Surely, the thinking goes, a computer is more able to be impartial than a person, and can simply look at the relevant data vectors to select the most qualified people from a heap of applications, removing human bias and making the process more efficient to boot.”

  Tags: ITGS, algorithm, human, peopleandmachines, bias

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• Turkey coup plotters’ use of ‘amateur’ app helped unveil their network | Technology | The Guardian

  “Security experts who looked at the app, known as ByLock, at the request of Reuters said it appeared to be the work of amateur software developers and had left important information about its users unencrypted.”

  Tags: turkey, app, network, ITGS, encryption

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• Russia and other states could hack the US election by attacking voting machines / Boing Boing

  “Bruce Schneier makes the point that if the Russian state is behind the DNC hacks, there’s no reason to expect that its attacks on the US political system will end there. Voting machines are so notoriously terrible that they’d be a very tempting target for Russia or other states that want to influence the outcome in 2016 (or merely destabilize the US by calling into question the outcome in an election). “

  Tags: ITGS, security, control

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• ‘Dalek’ commands can hijack smartphones – BBC News

  “Researchers have demonstrated how garbled speech commands hidden in radio or video broadcasts could be used to control a smartphone.

  The clips, which sound like the Daleks from Doctor Who, can be difficult for humans to understand but still trigger a phone’s voice control functionality.

  The commands could make a smartphone share its location data, make calls and access compromised websites.”

  Tags: ITGS, commands, smartphones, security, system

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• How the internet was invented | Technology | The Guardian

  “In response, the architects of the internet developed a kind of digital Esperanto: a common language that enabled data to travel across any network. In 1974, two Arpa researchers named Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf published an early blueprint. Drawing on conversations happening throughout the international networking community, they sketched a design for “a simple but very flexible protocol”: a universal set of rules for how computers should communicate.”

  Tags: reliability, integrity, policiesandstandards, ITGS, internet, protocols

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• For 90 years, lightbulbs were designed to burn out. Now that’s coming to LED bulbs. / Boing Boing

  “It’s been less than a year since Philips pushed out a firmware update that gave its light fixtures the ability to detect and reject non-Philips lightbulbs — and thanks to laws like the DMCA, which have metastasized in the IoT era, it’s a potential felony to alter your light fixture to override this behavior and force it to work with non-Philips bulbs.”

  Tags: IOT, ITGS, reliability, policiesandstandards, control

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