av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 19, 2020 | Lästips
Facebook har attackerat Apple i en rad tidningsannonser som köpts och publicerats i flera av USAs största dagstidningar. Detta sedan Apple beslutat att rulla ut en teknisk lösning som krftigft försvårar den sociala mediajättens möjligheter att samla in användares information.
Kara Swisher, känd amerikansk journalist och teknikskribent har givit sin syn på en striden mellan Apple och Facebook:
If there’s anything that Facebook has learned from its many years of cozying up to the Trump administration, it’s figuring out that shamelessness works.
That is the only explanation I can come up with after seeing the social networking giant’s righteous ad campaign this week against Apple.
Casting itself as the protector of small businesses in full-page ads in — irony alert — big newspapers, Facebook is criticizing Apple for planning to give users of its popular devices like the iPhone more control over the data they share with third-party apps.
Starting next year, Apple will ask mobile users to “opt in” to accept third-party tracking of their digital activity (right now, the system defaults to tracking and requires users to “opt out” if they don’t want to be followed). Facebook relies on tracking to target ads at customers.
New York Times
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 8, 2020 | Lästips
Det finns en rad allvarliga buggar i iOT-enheter, uppkopplade prylar, som aldrig kanske kommer att åtgärdas och som därmed är ett hot mot vår säkerhet. Det handlar om allvarliga buggar i allt från kameror till routrar och väderstationer.
Det är buggar i kommunikatiopnsprotokoll, de funktioner som de här produkterna kommunicerar via (TCP/iP) och det är buggar som finns i miljontals enheter.
YES, AT THIS point it’s a cliche that cheap, generic internet of things products can harbor vulnerabilities that potentially expose millions or even billions of devices. And yet it’s no less urgent each time. Now, new research from the IoT security firm Forescout highlights 33 flaws in an open source internet protocol bundles that potentially expose millions of embedded devices to attacks like information interception, denial of service, and total takeover. The affected devices run the gamut: smart home sensors and lights, barcode readers, enterprise network equipment, building automation systems, and even industrial control equipment. They’re difficult if not impossible to patch—and introduce real risk that attackers could exploit these flaws as a first step into a vast array of networks.
Wired
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 5, 2020 | Lästips
Quibi skulle bli en utmanare till Netflix med korta avsnitt anpassade för en mobil skärm. Jeffrey Katzenberg, tidigare chef på Disney, höll i rodret och en lång rad investerare hade satsat stora summor.
Quibi satsade hundratals miljoner dollar på innehåll, marknadsföring och på en tjänst som skulle bli stor, snabbt. Quibi fick aldrig fart på sin tjänst, lockade aldrig några stora skaror cigh ganska snart stod det klart att den nya videotjänsten hade problem, allvarliga problem på mer ön ett plan.
BBC har intervjuer flera anställda för att få svar på frågan varför Quibi misslyckades?
BBC
av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 29, 2020 | Lästips
AI, artificiell intelligens, kan bli en teknik som kan användas i en rad olika sammanhang, för mänsklighetens bästa men det kan också bli en teknik som används och missbrukas av diktaturer och totalitära regimer.
Brittiska BBC har granskat och analyserat AI och vad som skulle kunna hända om tekniken missbrukas.
What would totalitarian governments of the past have looked like if they were never defeated? The Nazis operated with 20th Century technology and it still took a world war to stop them. How much more powerful – and permanent – could the Nazis have been if they had beat the US to the atomic bomb? Controlling the most advanced technology of the time could have solidified Nazi power and changed the course of history.
When we think of existential risks, events like nuclear war or asteroid impacts often come to mind. Yet there’s one future threat that is less well known – and while it doesn’t involve the extinction of our species, it could be just as bad.
BBC
av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 24, 2020 | Lästips
En mindre grupp användare i sociala medier ligger bakom stora delar av all den desinformation som spridits med pågående om ett omfattande valfusk i det amerikanska valet. En av ”superspridarna” är Eric Trump, Trumps son, skriver News York Times.
På morgonen den 5 november drog Eric Trump igång, vad som utvecklats till en egen kampanj, på twitter med påståenden om valfusk, manipulerade rösträkningsdatorer och med krav om att röster ska räknas om. Påståenden som saknar grund:
https://twitter.com/EricTrump/status/1324477977044963328?s=20
Inledningen
New research from Avaaz, a global human rights group, the Elections Integrity Partnership and The New York Times shows how a small group of people — mostly right-wing personalities with outsized influence on social media — helped spread the false voter-fraud narrative that led to those rallies.
That group, like the guests of a large wedding held during the pandemic, were “superspreaders” of misinformation around voter fraud, seeding falsehoods that include the claims that dead people voted, voting machines had technical glitches, and mail-in ballots were not correctly counted.
“Because of how Facebook’s algorithm functions, these superspreaders are capable of priming a discourse,” said Fadi Quran, a director at Avaaz. “There is often this assumption that misinformation or rumors just catch on. These superspreaders show that there is an intentional effort to redefine the public narrative.”
New York Times har kartlagt vilka som spridit uppgifterna, var spridningen startade och vilka som varit mest aktiva.
New York Times
av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 23, 2020 | Lästips
What the EU Gets Right—and the US Gets Wrong—About Antitrust
THERE’S A GROWING bipartisan consensus in the US to rein in the massive power accumulated by dominant tech firms. From state capitals to Congress, officials have launched multiple investigations of whether the big four of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are now forces more for harm than good and whether their size and scale demand government action to curtail them or potentially break them up.
US regulators have not yet shown all their cards, but they should pause before arguing that too big equals anticompetitive, or seeking to break up or substantially restructure the tech giants. Instead, they might want to look to Europe.
Källa: What the EU Gets Right—and the US Gets Wrong—About Antitrust
