The Eye on the Nile
Phishing attack on government opponents in Egypt - with apps from the Play Store
Specialists reveal a sophisticated phishing attack in Egypt. Android apps that made it into the Play Store without catching the eye were involved.
Back in March 2019, Amnesty International published a report that uncovered a targeted attack against journalists and human rights activists in Egypt. The victims even received an e-mail from Google warning them that government-backed attackers attempted to steal their passwords. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2019/03/phishing-attacks-using-third-party-applications-against-egyptian-civil-society-organizations/
According to the report, the attackers did not rely on traditional phishing methods or credential-stealing payloads, but rather utilized a stealthier and more efficient way of accessing the victims’ inboxes: a technique known as “OAuth Phishing”. By abusing third-party applications for popular mailing services such as Gmail or Outlook, the attackers manipulated victims into granting them full access to their e-mails.
Recently, we were able to find previously unknown or undisclosed malicious artifacts belonging to this operation. A new website we attributed to this malicious activity revealed that the attackers are going after their prey in more than one way, and might even be hiding in plain sight: developing mobile applications to monitor their targets, and hosting them on Google’s official Play Store.
After we notified Google about the involved applications, they quickly took them off of the Play Store and banned the associated developer.
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https://research.checkpoint.com/the-eye-on-the-nile/
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Phishing attack on government opponents in Egypt - with apps from the Play Store
Specialists reveal a sophisticated phishing attack in Egypt. Android apps that made it into the Play Store without catching the eye were involved.
Back in March 2019, Amnesty International published a report that uncovered a targeted attack against journalists and human rights activists in Egypt. The victims even received an e-mail from Google warning them that government-backed attackers attempted to steal their passwords. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2019/03/phishing-attacks-using-third-party-applications-against-egyptian-civil-society-organizations/
According to the report, the attackers did not rely on traditional phishing methods or credential-stealing payloads, but rather utilized a stealthier and more efficient way of accessing the victims’ inboxes: a technique known as “OAuth Phishing”. By abusing third-party applications for popular mailing services such as Gmail or Outlook, the attackers manipulated victims into granting them full access to their e-mails.
Recently, we were able to find previously unknown or undisclosed malicious artifacts belonging to this operation. A new website we attributed to this malicious activity revealed that the attackers are going after their prey in more than one way, and might even be hiding in plain sight: developing mobile applications to monitor their targets, and hosting them on Google’s official Play Store.
After we notified Google about the involved applications, they quickly took them off of the Play Store and banned the associated developer.
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https://research.checkpoint.com/the-eye-on-the-nile/
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Legal firm claims Fortnite made to be "as addictive as possible"
A Montreal legal firm is pursuing legal action on behalf of parents, comparing the game to tobacco and cocaine.
Many parents know the problems with overlong sessions of their children, in Canada now two minors want to sue against manufacturer Epic Games. The development studio has specifically produced Fortnite in such a way that it is the most addictive game, her lawyers say.
A 10-year-old and a 15-year-old applied to a court in Montréal for a class-action lawsuit against Epic Games. Their lawyers' accusation: The US development studio Epic Games deliberately programmed Fortnite Battle Royale "to be the most addictive game", the newspaper La Presse quotes. Epic had worked with psychologists and tried to avoid any "loss of attention" in experiments with test persons.
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https://www.gamereactor.eu/legal-firm-claims-fortnite-made-to-be-as-addictive-as-possible/
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https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justice-et-faits-divers/201910/03/01-5243992-demande-daction-collective-fortnite-comme-la-cigarette-.php
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A Montreal legal firm is pursuing legal action on behalf of parents, comparing the game to tobacco and cocaine.
Many parents know the problems with overlong sessions of their children, in Canada now two minors want to sue against manufacturer Epic Games. The development studio has specifically produced Fortnite in such a way that it is the most addictive game, her lawyers say.
A 10-year-old and a 15-year-old applied to a court in Montréal for a class-action lawsuit against Epic Games. Their lawyers' accusation: The US development studio Epic Games deliberately programmed Fortnite Battle Royale "to be the most addictive game", the newspaper La Presse quotes. Epic had worked with psychologists and tried to avoid any "loss of attention" in experiments with test persons.
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https://www.gamereactor.eu/legal-firm-claims-fortnite-made-to-be-as-addictive-as-possible/
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https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justice-et-faits-divers/201910/03/01-5243992-demande-daction-collective-fortnite-comme-la-cigarette-.php
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3G Internet and Confidence in Government
How does the internet affect government approval? Using surveys of 840,537 individuals from 2,232 subnational regions in 116 countries in 2008-2017 from the Gallup World Poll and the global expansion of 3G networks, we show that an increase in internet access reduces government approval and increases the perception of corruption in government. This effect is present only when the internet is not censored and is stronger when traditional media is censored. Actual incidents of corruption translate into higher corruption perception only in places covered by 3G. In Europe, the expansion of mobile internet increased vote shares of anti-establishment populist parties.
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID3456747_code3025720.pdf?abstractid=3456747&mirid=1
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3456747
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How does the internet affect government approval? Using surveys of 840,537 individuals from 2,232 subnational regions in 116 countries in 2008-2017 from the Gallup World Poll and the global expansion of 3G networks, we show that an increase in internet access reduces government approval and increases the perception of corruption in government. This effect is present only when the internet is not censored and is stronger when traditional media is censored. Actual incidents of corruption translate into higher corruption perception only in places covered by 3G. In Europe, the expansion of mobile internet increased vote shares of anti-establishment populist parties.
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID3456747_code3025720.pdf?abstractid=3456747&mirid=1
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3456747
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Leaked drone footage purports to show Xinjiang prisoners blindfolded and tied up
Drone footage anonymously posted to YouTube appears to show hundreds of male prisoners in Xinjiang, western China, tied up and wearing blindfolds.
China has installed a 21st century police state in the region, where the US has accused Beijing of housing more than a million Uighur Muslims in "concentration camps."
https://www.businessinsider.de/china-xinjiang-prisoners-blindfolded-tied-up-leaked-drone-footage-2019-10
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Drone footage anonymously posted to YouTube appears to show hundreds of male prisoners in Xinjiang, western China, tied up and wearing blindfolds.
China has installed a 21st century police state in the region, where the US has accused Beijing of housing more than a million Uighur Muslims in "concentration camps."
https://www.businessinsider.de/china-xinjiang-prisoners-blindfolded-tied-up-leaked-drone-footage-2019-10
#china #xinjiang #prisioners #drone #footage #why #thinkabout
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FBI misused surveillance data, spied on its own, FISA ruling finds
Contractor looked up relatives; data was used to vet agents, sources in US.
In an October 2018 ruling unsealed and posted on October 8, 2019 by the Office of the Director of Intelligence, the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) found that the employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had inappropriately used data collected under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The FBI was found to have misused surveillance data to look into American residents, including other FBI employees and their family members, making large-scale queries that did not distinguish between US persons and foreign intelligence targets.
The revelation drew immediate outcry from privacy advocates and renewed calls for the termination of FISA and USA FREEDOM Act that authorized bulk intelligence collection. President Donald Trump signed a bill extending Section 702 collection authorizations for six years in 2018; the Office of the Director of National Intelligence announced earlier this year that the administration would seek the extension of authority for collection of call data granted under the USA FREEDOM Act.
In a statement emailed to Ars Technica, ACLU Senior Legislative Counsel Neema Singh Guliani, said:
"The government should not be able to spy on our calls and emails without a warrant. Any surveillance legislation considered by Congress this year must include reforms that address the disturbing abuses detailed in these opinions. Congress and the courts now have even more reason to prohibit warrantless searches of our information, and to permanently close the door on any collection of information that is not to or from a surveillance target."
https://icontherecord.tumblr.com/post/188217887058/release-of-documents-related-to-the-2018-fisa
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/unsealed-fisa-ruling-slaps-fbi-for-misuse-of-surveillance-data/
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Contractor looked up relatives; data was used to vet agents, sources in US.
In an October 2018 ruling unsealed and posted on October 8, 2019 by the Office of the Director of Intelligence, the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) found that the employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had inappropriately used data collected under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The FBI was found to have misused surveillance data to look into American residents, including other FBI employees and their family members, making large-scale queries that did not distinguish between US persons and foreign intelligence targets.
The revelation drew immediate outcry from privacy advocates and renewed calls for the termination of FISA and USA FREEDOM Act that authorized bulk intelligence collection. President Donald Trump signed a bill extending Section 702 collection authorizations for six years in 2018; the Office of the Director of National Intelligence announced earlier this year that the administration would seek the extension of authority for collection of call data granted under the USA FREEDOM Act.
In a statement emailed to Ars Technica, ACLU Senior Legislative Counsel Neema Singh Guliani, said:
"The government should not be able to spy on our calls and emails without a warrant. Any surveillance legislation considered by Congress this year must include reforms that address the disturbing abuses detailed in these opinions. Congress and the courts now have even more reason to prohibit warrantless searches of our information, and to permanently close the door on any collection of information that is not to or from a surveillance target."
https://icontherecord.tumblr.com/post/188217887058/release-of-documents-related-to-the-2018-fisa
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/unsealed-fisa-ruling-slaps-fbi-for-misuse-of-surveillance-data/
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This is how you kick facial recognition out of your town
Bans on the technology have mostly focused on law enforcement, but there’s a growing movement to get it out of school, parks, and private businesses too.
In San Francisco, a cop can’t use facial recognition technology on a person arrested. But a landlord can use it on a tenant, and a school district can use it on students.
This is where we find ourselves, smack in the middle of an era when cameras on the corner can automatically recognize passersby, whether they like it or not. The question of who should be able to use this technology, and who shouldn’t, remains largely unanswered in the US. So far, American backlash against facial recognition has been directed mainly at law enforcement. San Francisco and Oakland, as well as Somerville, Massachusetts, have all banned police from using the technology in the past year because the algorithms aren’t accurate for people of color and women. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has even called for a moratorium on police use.
Private companies and property owners have had no such restrictions, and facial recognition is increasingly cropping up in apartment buildings, hotels, and more. Privacy advocates worry that constant surveillance will lead to discrimination and have a chilling effect on free speech—and the American public isn’t very comfortable with it either. According to a recent survey by Pew Research, people in the US actually feel better about cops using facial recognition than they do about private businesses.
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https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614477/facial-recognition-law-enforcement-surveillance-private-industry-regulation-ban-backlash/
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Bans on the technology have mostly focused on law enforcement, but there’s a growing movement to get it out of school, parks, and private businesses too.
In San Francisco, a cop can’t use facial recognition technology on a person arrested. But a landlord can use it on a tenant, and a school district can use it on students.
This is where we find ourselves, smack in the middle of an era when cameras on the corner can automatically recognize passersby, whether they like it or not. The question of who should be able to use this technology, and who shouldn’t, remains largely unanswered in the US. So far, American backlash against facial recognition has been directed mainly at law enforcement. San Francisco and Oakland, as well as Somerville, Massachusetts, have all banned police from using the technology in the past year because the algorithms aren’t accurate for people of color and women. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has even called for a moratorium on police use.
Private companies and property owners have had no such restrictions, and facial recognition is increasingly cropping up in apartment buildings, hotels, and more. Privacy advocates worry that constant surveillance will lead to discrimination and have a chilling effect on free speech—and the American public isn’t very comfortable with it either. According to a recent survey by Pew Research, people in the US actually feel better about cops using facial recognition than they do about private businesses.
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https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614477/facial-recognition-law-enforcement-surveillance-private-industry-regulation-ban-backlash/
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Revealed: Google made large contributions to climate change deniers
Firm’s public calls for climate action contrast with backing for conservative thinktanks
Google has made “substantial” contributions to some of the most notorious climate deniers in Washington despite its insistence that it supports political action on the climate crisis.
Among hundreds of groups the company has listed on its website as beneficiaries of its political giving are more than a dozen organisations that have campaigned against climate legislation, questioned the need for action, or actively sought to roll back Obama-era environmental protections.
The list includes the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a conservative policy group that was instrumental in convincing the Trump administration to abandon the Paris agreement and has criticised the White House for not dismantling more environmental rules.
Google said it was disappointed by the US decision to abandon the global climate deal, but has continued to support CEI.
Google is also listed as a sponsor for an upcoming annual meeting of the State Policy Network (SPN), an umbrella organisation that supports conservative groups including the Heartland Institute, a radical anti-science group that has chided the teenage activist Greta Thunberg for “climate delusion hysterics”.
SPN members recently created a “climate pledge” website that falsely states “our natural environment is getting better” and “there is no climate crisis”.
👉🏼 The obscure law that explains why Google backs climate deniers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/obscure-law-google-climate-deniers-section-230
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/google-contributions-climate-change-deniers
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Firm’s public calls for climate action contrast with backing for conservative thinktanks
Google has made “substantial” contributions to some of the most notorious climate deniers in Washington despite its insistence that it supports political action on the climate crisis.
Among hundreds of groups the company has listed on its website as beneficiaries of its political giving are more than a dozen organisations that have campaigned against climate legislation, questioned the need for action, or actively sought to roll back Obama-era environmental protections.
The list includes the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a conservative policy group that was instrumental in convincing the Trump administration to abandon the Paris agreement and has criticised the White House for not dismantling more environmental rules.
Google said it was disappointed by the US decision to abandon the global climate deal, but has continued to support CEI.
Google is also listed as a sponsor for an upcoming annual meeting of the State Policy Network (SPN), an umbrella organisation that supports conservative groups including the Heartland Institute, a radical anti-science group that has chided the teenage activist Greta Thunberg for “climate delusion hysterics”.
SPN members recently created a “climate pledge” website that falsely states “our natural environment is getting better” and “there is no climate crisis”.
👉🏼 The obscure law that explains why Google backs climate deniers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/obscure-law-google-climate-deniers-section-230
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/google-contributions-climate-change-deniers
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Escort forums in Italy and the Netherlands hacked, user data put up for sale
A third forum for zoophilia and bestiality fans was also hacked. User data put up for sale as well.
A Bulgarian hacker has breached two online forums dedicated to sex workers, stolen user information, which he's now selling on a hacking forum.
The two forums are EscortForumIt.xxx and Hookers.nl -- serving sex workers and customers in Italy and the Netherlands, where prostitution is legal.
Both forums have confirmed the breaches this week.
vBulletin zero-day strikes again
Both were running outdated versions of the vBulletin forum software. The hacker told ZDNet this week in an email that he used a vBulletin zero-day (CVE-2019-16759) disclosed at the end of September to breach the two sites.
The hacker is now selling the data on a publicly-available hacking forum. Stolen data includes usernames, email addresses, and password hashes -- obtained from both forums, with 33k records from the Italian one, and 300k from the Dutch one.
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/escort-forums-in-italy-and-the-netherlands-hacked-user-data-put-up-for-sale/
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A third forum for zoophilia and bestiality fans was also hacked. User data put up for sale as well.
A Bulgarian hacker has breached two online forums dedicated to sex workers, stolen user information, which he's now selling on a hacking forum.
The two forums are EscortForumIt.xxx and Hookers.nl -- serving sex workers and customers in Italy and the Netherlands, where prostitution is legal.
Both forums have confirmed the breaches this week.
vBulletin zero-day strikes again
Both were running outdated versions of the vBulletin forum software. The hacker told ZDNet this week in an email that he used a vBulletin zero-day (CVE-2019-16759) disclosed at the end of September to breach the two sites.
The hacker is now selling the data on a publicly-available hacking forum. Stolen data includes usernames, email addresses, and password hashes -- obtained from both forums, with 33k records from the Italian one, and 300k from the Dutch one.
👉🏼 Read more:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/escort-forums-in-italy-and-the-netherlands-hacked-user-data-put-up-for-sale/
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How Photos of Your Kids Are Powering Surveillance Technology
Millions of Flickr images were sucked into a database called MegaFace. Now some of those faces may have the ability to sue.
The pictures of Chloe and Jasper Papa as kids are typically goofy fare: grinning with their parents; sticking their tongues out; costumed for Halloween. Their mother, Dominique Allman Papa, uploaded them to Flickr after joining the photo-sharing site in 2005.
None of them could have foreseen that 14 years later, those images would reside in an unprecedentedly huge facial-recognition database called MegaFace. Containing the likenesses of nearly 700,000 individuals, it has been downloaded by dozens of companies to train a new generation of face-identification algorithms, used to track protesters, surveil terrorists, spot problem gamblers and spy on the public at large. The average age of the people in the database, its creators have said, is 16.
“It’s gross and uncomfortable,” said Mx. Papa, who is now 19 and attending college in Oregon. “I wish they would have asked me first if I wanted to be part of it. I think artificial intelligence is cool and I want it to be smarter, but generally you ask people to participate in research. I learned that in high school biology.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/11/technology/flickr-facial-recognition.html
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Millions of Flickr images were sucked into a database called MegaFace. Now some of those faces may have the ability to sue.
The pictures of Chloe and Jasper Papa as kids are typically goofy fare: grinning with their parents; sticking their tongues out; costumed for Halloween. Their mother, Dominique Allman Papa, uploaded them to Flickr after joining the photo-sharing site in 2005.
None of them could have foreseen that 14 years later, those images would reside in an unprecedentedly huge facial-recognition database called MegaFace. Containing the likenesses of nearly 700,000 individuals, it has been downloaded by dozens of companies to train a new generation of face-identification algorithms, used to track protesters, surveil terrorists, spot problem gamblers and spy on the public at large. The average age of the people in the database, its creators have said, is 16.
“It’s gross and uncomfortable,” said Mx. Papa, who is now 19 and attending college in Oregon. “I wish they would have asked me first if I wanted to be part of it. I think artificial intelligence is cool and I want it to be smarter, but generally you ask people to participate in research. I learned that in high school biology.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/11/technology/flickr-facial-recognition.html
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Social Credit Scoring In China Extends To Foreign Businesses, Creates New Risks
China's Sesame Credit system of scoring Chinese citizens on a code of personal conduct moves up a notch as foreign corporations begin to fall under a similar system.
Beginning next year, compliance will be enforced by China's Ministry of Public Security over access to corporate data housed on Chinese servers.
Foreign companies are being advised to reevaluate their data collection processes in light of this new action. The effect could be a further decoupling of US-China tech and trade activities.
"Foreign companies will have to decide whether it is worth the risk to sell or manufacture in China. This new lead could lead to diversification of supply chains or decoupling," said David Jacobson, who teaches global business strategy at the SMU Cox School of Business and is a visiting professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
The new cybersecurity laws give the Chinese government access to files, contracts, copyrights, business strategies and phone records with no permission asked, according to Jacobson. The rules first went into effect in 2018 but compliance was not enforced.
But starting in 2020, China is demanding that businesses collect and feed internal information into a centralized data system. The data will be used to quantify the moral codes of corporations, and the individuals that run them, and reward or punish accordingly.
Corporations will be judged on compliance, bill payments, party support by both management and employees, according to Jacobson. He noted that the representation of Communist Party in Chinese company meetings or as board of director supervisors is becoming "much more pervasive."
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccafannin/2019/10/08/social-credit-scoring-in-china-extends-to-foreign-businesses-creates-new-risks
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China's Sesame Credit system of scoring Chinese citizens on a code of personal conduct moves up a notch as foreign corporations begin to fall under a similar system.
Beginning next year, compliance will be enforced by China's Ministry of Public Security over access to corporate data housed on Chinese servers.
Foreign companies are being advised to reevaluate their data collection processes in light of this new action. The effect could be a further decoupling of US-China tech and trade activities.
"Foreign companies will have to decide whether it is worth the risk to sell or manufacture in China. This new lead could lead to diversification of supply chains or decoupling," said David Jacobson, who teaches global business strategy at the SMU Cox School of Business and is a visiting professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
The new cybersecurity laws give the Chinese government access to files, contracts, copyrights, business strategies and phone records with no permission asked, according to Jacobson. The rules first went into effect in 2018 but compliance was not enforced.
But starting in 2020, China is demanding that businesses collect and feed internal information into a centralized data system. The data will be used to quantify the moral codes of corporations, and the individuals that run them, and reward or punish accordingly.
Corporations will be judged on compliance, bill payments, party support by both management and employees, according to Jacobson. He noted that the representation of Communist Party in Chinese company meetings or as board of director supervisors is becoming "much more pervasive."
👉🏼 Read more:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccafannin/2019/10/08/social-credit-scoring-in-china-extends-to-foreign-businesses-creates-new-risks
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Breaking: Visa, Mastercard, eBay, Stripe All Leave Libra
Wow. Within the span of an hour or two, reports have revealed that Facebook’s crypto project, Libra, suffered some heavy blows.
It first started on Friday morning, with the Financial Times revealing that both eBay, the e-commerce/online marketplace giant, and Stripe, a fintech giant, have dropped out of the Libra Association.
Speaking to the outlet, an eBay spokesperson asserted that while the company “respects the vision of Libra”, the American firm will not be moving ahead with its participation in the Association, citing a focus on ” rolling out eBay’s managed payments experience for our customers.”
Stripe made a similar comment, telling the FT that it is “supportive of projects that aim to make online commerce more accessible for people”, but will not be moving forward with the Facebook-backed crypto project at this time.
Within the hour or two after the FT’s revelatory report, both Mastercard and Visa — seen by many in the crypto community to be the Association’s two most important partners — also revealed that they will be rescending their membership. In their own comment, Visa cited Libra’s inability to “fully satisfy all requisite regulatory expectations.”
FIVE household names have pulled out of $LIBRA (Visa, Paypal, Stripe, Ebay, and Mastercard). I doubt they'll be the last.
Regulators are stonewalling it.
Zuck is testifying before Congress Oct. 23rd.
Now you can long/short its chance of even launching: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-07/facebook-skeptics-now-have-derivatives-to-bet-on-libra-delays
— The Crypto Dog📈 (@TheCryptoDog) October 11, 2019
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Wow. Within the span of an hour or two, reports have revealed that Facebook’s crypto project, Libra, suffered some heavy blows.
It first started on Friday morning, with the Financial Times revealing that both eBay, the e-commerce/online marketplace giant, and Stripe, a fintech giant, have dropped out of the Libra Association.
Speaking to the outlet, an eBay spokesperson asserted that while the company “respects the vision of Libra”, the American firm will not be moving ahead with its participation in the Association, citing a focus on ” rolling out eBay’s managed payments experience for our customers.”
Stripe made a similar comment, telling the FT that it is “supportive of projects that aim to make online commerce more accessible for people”, but will not be moving forward with the Facebook-backed crypto project at this time.
Within the hour or two after the FT’s revelatory report, both Mastercard and Visa — seen by many in the crypto community to be the Association’s two most important partners — also revealed that they will be rescending their membership. In their own comment, Visa cited Libra’s inability to “fully satisfy all requisite regulatory expectations.”
FIVE household names have pulled out of $LIBRA (Visa, Paypal, Stripe, Ebay, and Mastercard). I doubt they'll be the last.
Regulators are stonewalling it.
Zuck is testifying before Congress Oct. 23rd.
Now you can long/short its chance of even launching: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-07/facebook-skeptics-now-have-derivatives-to-bet-on-libra-delays
— The Crypto Dog📈 (@TheCryptoDog) October 11, 2019
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„Dopamin“: Miniserie über die Suchtmechanismen von Tinder, Facebook und Co.
„Die tun alles, um dich süchtig zu machen“, heißt es über #Tinder, #Facebook, #CandyCrush, #Instagram, #YouTube, #Snapchat, #Uber und #Twitter in der Miniserie von #Arte. In acht Folgen wird genau erklärt, welche Mechanismen in unserem Gehirn ausgelöst werden, damit wir dranbleiben.
📺 Dopamin - Facebook
📺 Dopamin - Tinder
📺 Dopamin - Candy Crush
📺 Dopamin - Instagram
📺 Dopamin - YouTube
📺 Dopamin - Snapchat
📺 Dopamin - Uber
📺 Dopamin - Twitter
💡 Eigentlich wissen wir das ja längst:
Candy Crush, Tinder, Facebook und Konsorten sind vor allem eins – Zeitfresser. Trotzdem fällt es uns extrem schwer, das #Smartphone einfach mal links liegen zu lassen und nicht alle paar Minuten zu checken, was es Neues gibt. Zumal das, was uns dann als Neuigkeit präsentiert wird, nur in den seltensten Fällen Nachrichtenwert hat oder uns wirklich weiterbringt. Trotzdem ziehen wir uns seitenweise Tante Monikas Bilder aus Paris rein, schwören, „nur noch ein Level“ bei Candy Crush zu absolvieren, lassen uns von der Autoplay-Funktion in immer abstrusere Untiefen von Youtube entführen und können einfach nicht genug kriegen von niedlichen Katzenfotos auf Instagram. Was stimmt nicht mit uns?
https://t3n.de/news/dopamin-miniserie-ueber-tinder-1204497/
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„Die tun alles, um dich süchtig zu machen“, heißt es über #Tinder, #Facebook, #CandyCrush, #Instagram, #YouTube, #Snapchat, #Uber und #Twitter in der Miniserie von #Arte. In acht Folgen wird genau erklärt, welche Mechanismen in unserem Gehirn ausgelöst werden, damit wir dranbleiben.
📺 Dopamin - Facebook
📺 Dopamin - Tinder
📺 Dopamin - Candy Crush
📺 Dopamin - Instagram
📺 Dopamin - YouTube
📺 Dopamin - Snapchat
📺 Dopamin - Uber
📺 Dopamin - Twitter
💡 Eigentlich wissen wir das ja längst:
Candy Crush, Tinder, Facebook und Konsorten sind vor allem eins – Zeitfresser. Trotzdem fällt es uns extrem schwer, das #Smartphone einfach mal links liegen zu lassen und nicht alle paar Minuten zu checken, was es Neues gibt. Zumal das, was uns dann als Neuigkeit präsentiert wird, nur in den seltensten Fällen Nachrichtenwert hat oder uns wirklich weiterbringt. Trotzdem ziehen wir uns seitenweise Tante Monikas Bilder aus Paris rein, schwören, „nur noch ein Level“ bei Candy Crush zu absolvieren, lassen uns von der Autoplay-Funktion in immer abstrusere Untiefen von Youtube entführen und können einfach nicht genug kriegen von niedlichen Katzenfotos auf Instagram. Was stimmt nicht mit uns?
https://t3n.de/news/dopamin-miniserie-ueber-tinder-1204497/
#Tinder #Facebook #CandyCrush #Instagram #YouTube #Snapchat #Uber #Twitter #Dopamin #Video #nachdenken
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Chinese Citizens Will Have to Scan Their Faces to Get Internet Access and New Phone Numbers
Starting December 1, Chinese citizens will have to allow telecommunications carriers to scan their faces when signing up for internet access or to get a new phone number.
The new rule was announced by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on September 27 (link in Chinese). Roughly translated via Google, the statement says the reason for the new changes is to “earnestly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of citizens in the cyberspace.” On top of requiring carriers to use facial recognition to see whether an applicant matches their ID, people will no longer be able to transfer SIM cards to others. Lastly, MIIT wants carriers to verify whether mobile or landline phones are correctly registered under real names, and terminate those that aren’t. At the end of its statement, MIIT somewhat ominously notes that it will “increase supervision and inspection, strengthen assessment accountability, supervise the implementation of work, [and] continue to strictly promote the real-name registration management of telephone users.”
On the surface, it may not seem bad to cut down on fraud—but the underlying implication is that this gives the Chinese government yet another means of controlling what people say, see, and do online. Registering your face in exchange for internet access just makes it easier to track what you post on social media, and what websites you might frequent. The Chinese government already has a vise-grip on the internet, in which sites like Facebook and Twitter are blocked.
That iron grip also extends to non-Chinese companies. This past week, Apple removed an app used by pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong in a bid to appease the government, as well as the Quartz news app in China for its coverage of the protests. Earlier this year, Microsoft’s Bing search engine was briefly blocked for unclear reasons. And Google has been developing a censored search engine for China. Codenamed Project Dragonfly, Google’s censored search purportedly blacklists certain search terms dictated by the government but crucially, also ties all searches to specific phone numbers. In July, a top Google exec told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the company has terminated the project but skepticism on how dead the search engine for China really is lives on.
👉🏼 Read more:
https://gizmodo.com/chinese-citizens-will-have-to-scan-their-faces-to-get-i-1838936778
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Starting December 1, Chinese citizens will have to allow telecommunications carriers to scan their faces when signing up for internet access or to get a new phone number.
The new rule was announced by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on September 27 (link in Chinese). Roughly translated via Google, the statement says the reason for the new changes is to “earnestly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of citizens in the cyberspace.” On top of requiring carriers to use facial recognition to see whether an applicant matches their ID, people will no longer be able to transfer SIM cards to others. Lastly, MIIT wants carriers to verify whether mobile or landline phones are correctly registered under real names, and terminate those that aren’t. At the end of its statement, MIIT somewhat ominously notes that it will “increase supervision and inspection, strengthen assessment accountability, supervise the implementation of work, [and] continue to strictly promote the real-name registration management of telephone users.”
On the surface, it may not seem bad to cut down on fraud—but the underlying implication is that this gives the Chinese government yet another means of controlling what people say, see, and do online. Registering your face in exchange for internet access just makes it easier to track what you post on social media, and what websites you might frequent. The Chinese government already has a vise-grip on the internet, in which sites like Facebook and Twitter are blocked.
That iron grip also extends to non-Chinese companies. This past week, Apple removed an app used by pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong in a bid to appease the government, as well as the Quartz news app in China for its coverage of the protests. Earlier this year, Microsoft’s Bing search engine was briefly blocked for unclear reasons. And Google has been developing a censored search engine for China. Codenamed Project Dragonfly, Google’s censored search purportedly blacklists certain search terms dictated by the government but crucially, also ties all searches to specific phone numbers. In July, a top Google exec told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the company has terminated the project but skepticism on how dead the search engine for China really is lives on.
👉🏼 Read more:
https://gizmodo.com/chinese-citizens-will-have-to-scan-their-faces-to-get-i-1838936778
#China #facial #recognition #surveillance #thinkabout #why
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Awesome macOS open source applications
List of awesome open source applications for macOS. This list contains a lot of native, and cross-platform apps. The main goal of this repository is to find free open source apps and start contributing. Feel free to contribute to the list, any suggestions are welcome!
💡 https://github.com/serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps
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List of awesome open source applications for macOS. This list contains a lot of native, and cross-platform apps. The main goal of this repository is to find free open source apps and start contributing. Feel free to contribute to the list, any suggestions are welcome!
💡 https://github.com/serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps
#macOS #opensource #apps #applications
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"The urgency of the crisis is now so great that many scientists feel, as humans, that we now have a moral duty to take radical action"
* Climate crisis prompts radical move by scientists
* More than 2,700 activists arrested globally in past week
* Signatories cite 'moral duty' to act (Updates numbers of signatories, adds comment from IPCC author)
LONDON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Almost 400 scientists have endorsed a civil disobedience campaign aimed at forcing governments to take rapid action to tackle climate change, warning that failure could inflict "incalculable human suffering."
In a joint declaration, climate scientists, physicists, biologists, engineers and others from at least 20 countries broke with the caution traditionally associated with academia to side with peaceful protesters courting arrest from Amsterdam to Melbourne.
Wearing white laboratory coats to symbolise their research credentials, a group of about 20 of the signatories gathered on Saturday to read out the text outside London's century-old Science Museum in the city's upmarket Kensington district.
"We believe that the continued governmental inaction over the climate and ecological crisis now justifies peaceful and non-violent protest and direct action, even if this goes beyond the bounds of the current law," said Emily Grossman, a science broadcaster with a PhD in molecular biology. She read the declaration on behalf of the group.
"We therefore support those who are rising up peacefully against governments around the world that are failing to act proportionately to the scale of the crisis," she said.
The declaration was coordinated by a group of scientists who support Extinction Rebellion, a civil disobedience campaign that formed in Britain a year ago and has since sparked offshoots in dozens of countries.
The group launched a fresh wave of international actions on Monday, aiming to get governments to address an ecological crisis caused by climate change and accelerating extinctions of plant and animal species.
A total of 1,307 volunteers had since been arrested at various protests in London by 2030 GMT on Saturday, Extinction Rebellion said. A further 1,463 volunteers have been arrested in the past week in another 20 cities, including Brussels, Amsterdam, New York, Sydney and Toronto, according to the group's tally. More protests in this latest wave are due in the coming days.
While many scientists have shunned overt political debate, fearing that being perceived as activists might undermine their claims to objectivity, the 395 academics who had signed the declaration by 1100 GMT on Sunday chose to defy convention.
"The urgency of the crisis is now so great that many scientists feel, as humans, that we now have a moral duty to take radical action," Grossman told Reuters.
Other signatories included several scientists who contributed to the U.N.-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has produced a series of reports underscoring the urgency of dramatic cuts in carbon emissions.
"We can't allow the role of scientists to be to just write papers and publish them in obscure journals and hope somehow that somebody out there will pay attention," Julia Steinberger, an ecological economist at the University of Leeds and a lead IPCC author, told Reuters.
"We need to be rethinking the role of the scientist and engage with how social change happens at a massive and urgent scale," she said. "We can't allow science as usual."
Extinction Rebellion's flag is a stylised symbol of an hourglass in a circle, and its disruptive tactics include peacefully occupying bridges and roads.
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https://news.trust.org/item/20191013012429-9u1nq/
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* Climate crisis prompts radical move by scientists
* More than 2,700 activists arrested globally in past week
* Signatories cite 'moral duty' to act (Updates numbers of signatories, adds comment from IPCC author)
LONDON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Almost 400 scientists have endorsed a civil disobedience campaign aimed at forcing governments to take rapid action to tackle climate change, warning that failure could inflict "incalculable human suffering."
In a joint declaration, climate scientists, physicists, biologists, engineers and others from at least 20 countries broke with the caution traditionally associated with academia to side with peaceful protesters courting arrest from Amsterdam to Melbourne.
Wearing white laboratory coats to symbolise their research credentials, a group of about 20 of the signatories gathered on Saturday to read out the text outside London's century-old Science Museum in the city's upmarket Kensington district.
"We believe that the continued governmental inaction over the climate and ecological crisis now justifies peaceful and non-violent protest and direct action, even if this goes beyond the bounds of the current law," said Emily Grossman, a science broadcaster with a PhD in molecular biology. She read the declaration on behalf of the group.
"We therefore support those who are rising up peacefully against governments around the world that are failing to act proportionately to the scale of the crisis," she said.
The declaration was coordinated by a group of scientists who support Extinction Rebellion, a civil disobedience campaign that formed in Britain a year ago and has since sparked offshoots in dozens of countries.
The group launched a fresh wave of international actions on Monday, aiming to get governments to address an ecological crisis caused by climate change and accelerating extinctions of plant and animal species.
A total of 1,307 volunteers had since been arrested at various protests in London by 2030 GMT on Saturday, Extinction Rebellion said. A further 1,463 volunteers have been arrested in the past week in another 20 cities, including Brussels, Amsterdam, New York, Sydney and Toronto, according to the group's tally. More protests in this latest wave are due in the coming days.
While many scientists have shunned overt political debate, fearing that being perceived as activists might undermine their claims to objectivity, the 395 academics who had signed the declaration by 1100 GMT on Sunday chose to defy convention.
"The urgency of the crisis is now so great that many scientists feel, as humans, that we now have a moral duty to take radical action," Grossman told Reuters.
Other signatories included several scientists who contributed to the U.N.-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has produced a series of reports underscoring the urgency of dramatic cuts in carbon emissions.
"We can't allow the role of scientists to be to just write papers and publish them in obscure journals and hope somehow that somebody out there will pay attention," Julia Steinberger, an ecological economist at the University of Leeds and a lead IPCC author, told Reuters.
"We need to be rethinking the role of the scientist and engage with how social change happens at a massive and urgent scale," she said. "We can't allow science as usual."
Extinction Rebellion's flag is a stylised symbol of an hourglass in a circle, and its disruptive tactics include peacefully occupying bridges and roads.
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https://news.trust.org/item/20191013012429-9u1nq/
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Dismantling Big Tech: A User's Manual
Dismantling Big Tech: A User’s Manual
Congress, the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice and state governments across the U.S. are investigating the tech giants for anti-competitive behavior. This week on #Decrypted, #Bloomberg Technology’s Eric Newcomer walks us through those #investigations, and outlines how a #Democratic president may take it even further in 2021.
📻 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2019-10-09/dismantling-big-tech-a-user-s-manual-podcast
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Congress, the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice and state governments across the U.S. are investigating the tech giants for anti-competitive behavior. This week on #Decrypted, #Bloomberg Technology’s Eric Newcomer walks us through those #investigations, and outlines how a #Democratic president may take it even further in 2021.
📻 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2019-10-09/dismantling-big-tech-a-user-s-manual-podcast
#BigTech #podcast
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Got YouTube Regrets? - Thousands do!
.....(....)
Let’s send a message to YouTube that they need to recommend responsibly...
No regrets!
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/youtube-regrets/
#YouTube #Google #DeleteGoogle #NoRegrets #Mozilla
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Let’s send a message to YouTube that they need to recommend responsibly...
No regrets!
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/youtube-regrets/
#YouTube #Google #DeleteGoogle #NoRegrets #Mozilla
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Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor
In an exclusive global series, the Guardian lays bare the tech revolution transforming the welfare system worldwide – while penalising the most vulnerable
All around the world, from small-town Illinois in the US to Rochdale in England, from Perth, Australia, to Dumka in northern India, a revolution is under way in how governments treat the poor.
You can’t see it happening, and may have heard nothing about it. It’s being planned by engineers and coders behind closed doors, in secure government locations far from public view.
Only mathematicians and computer scientists fully understand the sea change, powered as it is by artificial intelligence (AI), predictive algorithms, risk modeling and biometrics. But if you are one of the millions of vulnerable people at the receiving end of the radical reshaping of welfare benefits, you know it is real and that its consequences can be serious – even deadly.
The Guardian has spent the past three months investigating how billions are being poured into AI innovations that are explosively recasting how low-income people interact with the state. Together, our reporters in the US, Britain, India and Australia have explored what amounts to the birth of the digital welfare state.
Their dispatches reveal how unemployment benefits, child support, housing and food subsidies and much more are being scrambled online. Vast sums are being spent by governments across the industrialized and developing worlds on automating poverty and in the process, turning the needs of vulnerable citizens into numbers, replacing the judgment of human caseworkers with the cold, bloodless decision-making of machines.
At its most forbidding, Guardian reporters paint a picture of a 21st-century Dickensian dystopia that is taking shape with breakneck speed. The American political scientist Virginia Eubanks has a phrase for it: “The digital poorhouse.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/14/automating-poverty-algorithms-punish-poor
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In an exclusive global series, the Guardian lays bare the tech revolution transforming the welfare system worldwide – while penalising the most vulnerable
All around the world, from small-town Illinois in the US to Rochdale in England, from Perth, Australia, to Dumka in northern India, a revolution is under way in how governments treat the poor.
You can’t see it happening, and may have heard nothing about it. It’s being planned by engineers and coders behind closed doors, in secure government locations far from public view.
Only mathematicians and computer scientists fully understand the sea change, powered as it is by artificial intelligence (AI), predictive algorithms, risk modeling and biometrics. But if you are one of the millions of vulnerable people at the receiving end of the radical reshaping of welfare benefits, you know it is real and that its consequences can be serious – even deadly.
The Guardian has spent the past three months investigating how billions are being poured into AI innovations that are explosively recasting how low-income people interact with the state. Together, our reporters in the US, Britain, India and Australia have explored what amounts to the birth of the digital welfare state.
Their dispatches reveal how unemployment benefits, child support, housing and food subsidies and much more are being scrambled online. Vast sums are being spent by governments across the industrialized and developing worlds on automating poverty and in the process, turning the needs of vulnerable citizens into numbers, replacing the judgment of human caseworkers with the cold, bloodless decision-making of machines.
At its most forbidding, Guardian reporters paint a picture of a 21st-century Dickensian dystopia that is taking shape with breakneck speed. The American political scientist Virginia Eubanks has a phrase for it: “The digital poorhouse.”
👉🏼 Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/14/automating-poverty-algorithms-punish-poor
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2,500 More MS-DOS Games Playable at the Archive
Another few thousand DOS Games are playable at the Internet Archive! Since our initial announcement in 2015, we’ve added occasional new games here and there to the collection, but this will be our biggest update yet, ranging from tiny recent independent productions to long-forgotten big-name releases from decades ago.
👉🏼 Software Library: MS-DOS Games
Software for MS-DOS machines that represent entertainment and games. The collection includes action, strategy, adventure and other unique genres of game and entertainment software. Through the use of the EM-DOSBOX in-browser emulator, these programs are bootable and playable. Please be aware this browser-based emulation is still in beta - contact Jason Scott, Software Curator, if there are issues or questions. Thanks to eXo for contributions and assistance with this archive.
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games?and%5B%5D=emulator_start%3A%2Aiafix%2A&sin=&sort=-publicdate
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Another few thousand DOS Games are playable at the Internet Archive! Since our initial announcement in 2015, we’ve added occasional new games here and there to the collection, but this will be our biggest update yet, ranging from tiny recent independent productions to long-forgotten big-name releases from decades ago.
👉🏼 Software Library: MS-DOS Games
Software for MS-DOS machines that represent entertainment and games. The collection includes action, strategy, adventure and other unique genres of game and entertainment software. Through the use of the EM-DOSBOX in-browser emulator, these programs are bootable and playable. Please be aware this browser-based emulation is still in beta - contact Jason Scott, Software Curator, if there are issues or questions. Thanks to eXo for contributions and assistance with this archive.
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games?and%5B%5D=emulator_start%3A%2Aiafix%2A&sin=&sort=-publicdate
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DeepFake Audio Detection
With the popularity and capabilities of audio deep fakes on the rise, creating defenses against deep fakes used for malicious intent is becoming more important than ever.
We built a fake audio detection model with Foundations Atlas, for anyone to use. If you'd like to read more about why we decided to build this, click here.
Here are two examples of short audio clips in ./data/example_clips/ folder. One of them is real and the other is fake.
This repository provides the code for a fake audio detection model built using Foundations Atlas. It also includes a pre-trained model and inference code, which you can test on any of your own audio files.
👉🏼 GitHub:
https://github.com/dessa-public/fake-voice-detection
👉🏼 Detecting Audio Deepfakes With AI
Why We Built A Detector For Audio Deepfakes, And How You Can Too
https://medium.com/dessa-news/detecting-audio-deepfakes-f2edfd8e2b35
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With the popularity and capabilities of audio deep fakes on the rise, creating defenses against deep fakes used for malicious intent is becoming more important than ever.
We built a fake audio detection model with Foundations Atlas, for anyone to use. If you'd like to read more about why we decided to build this, click here.
Here are two examples of short audio clips in ./data/example_clips/ folder. One of them is real and the other is fake.
This repository provides the code for a fake audio detection model built using Foundations Atlas. It also includes a pre-trained model and inference code, which you can test on any of your own audio files.
👉🏼 GitHub:
https://github.com/dessa-public/fake-voice-detection
👉🏼 Detecting Audio Deepfakes With AI
Why We Built A Detector For Audio Deepfakes, And How You Can Too
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Meet America’s newest military giant: Amazon
The Pentagon’s controversial $10bn JEDI cloud computing deal is one of the most lucrative defense contracts ever. Amazon’s in pole position to win—and its move into the military has been a long time coming.
In July, when President Donald Trump was in the Oval Office with the Dutch prime minister, he took a few moments to answer questions from reporters. His comments, in typical fashion, covered disparate subjects—from job creation to the “squad” of congresswomen he attacks regularly to sanctions against Turkey. Then a reporter asked him about an obscure Pentagon contract called JEDI, and whether he planned to intervene in it.
“Which one is that?” Trump asked. “The Amazon?”
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https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614487/meet-americas-newest-military-giant-amazon/
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The Pentagon’s controversial $10bn JEDI cloud computing deal is one of the most lucrative defense contracts ever. Amazon’s in pole position to win—and its move into the military has been a long time coming.
In July, when President Donald Trump was in the Oval Office with the Dutch prime minister, he took a few moments to answer questions from reporters. His comments, in typical fashion, covered disparate subjects—from job creation to the “squad” of congresswomen he attacks regularly to sanctions against Turkey. Then a reporter asked him about an obscure Pentagon contract called JEDI, and whether he planned to intervene in it.
“Which one is that?” Trump asked. “The Amazon?”
👉🏼 Read more:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614487/meet-americas-newest-military-giant-amazon/
#USA #DeleteAmazon #amazon #military
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