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
av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 23, 2020 | Lästips
Apples satsning på AR, Augmented Reality, är ingen hemlighet och trots att det är Apples hemliga vapen så har du redan AR – i din iPhone.
Sometime in the not-too-distant future, Apple will reportedly unveil an augmented- or mixed-reality headset. Apple hasn’t discussed any headgear yet. But augmented reality is alive and well on the iPhone — and it’s getting better fast.
Apple began its AR journey in 2017, making a splash with virtual Ikea furniture and realistic-looking outdoor Pokemon Go battles. This year, I’ve been standing on street corners scanning fire hydrants with Apple’s new iPhone 12 Pro. I’ve mapped my house’s interior. I’ve navigated lava rivers on my floors.
In many ways, Apple’s depth-sensing lidar sensor on the latest iPhones and iPads, with its advanced 3D-scanning possibilities, feels like the backbone of the Apple headsets of the future.
CNet
av Mikael Winterkvist | nov 13, 2020 | Lästips
På torsdagskvällen lanserade Apple macOS Big Sur och fick samtidigt stora problem med ett av sina säkerhetssystemen – en funktion som kontrollerar de program du startar i din Mac.
macOS kontrollerar nämligen program som du startar och det görs med kommunikation med Apple – om datorn är uppkopplad. Jeffrey Paul är säkerhetskonsult, hackare och grundare av EEQJ, ett konsultföretag.
It’s here. It happened. Did you notice?
I’m speaking, of course, of the world that Richard Stallman predicted in 1997. The one Cory Doctorow also warned us about.
On modern versions of macOS, you simply can’t power on your computer, launch a text editor or eBook reader, and write or read, without a log of your activity being transmitted and stored.
It turns out that in the current version of the macOS, the OS sends to Apple a hash (unique identifier) of each and every program you run, when you run it. Lots of people didn’t realize this, because it’s silent and invisible and it fails instantly and gracefully when you’re offline, but today the server got really slowand it didn’t hit the fail-fast code path, and everyone’s apps failed to open if they were connected to the internet.
Jeffrey Paul
Tack till Christoffer för tipset.
