av Mikael Winterkvist | okt 30, 2019 | Lästips
Just before 8 pm on February 9, 2018, high in the northeastern mountains of South Korea, Sang-jin Oh was sitting on a plastic chair a few dozen rows up from the floor of Pyeongchang’s vast, pentagonal Olympic Stadium. He wore a gray and red official Olympicsjacket that kept him warm despite the near-freezing weather, and his seat, behind the press section, had a clear view of the raised, circular stage a few hundred feet in front of him. The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony was about to start.
As the lights darkened around the roofless structure, anticipation buzzed through the 35,000-person crowd, the glow of their phone screens floating like fireflies around the stadium. Few felt that anticipation more intensely than Oh. For more than three years, the 47-year-old civil servant had been director of technology for the Pyeongchang Olympics organizing committee. He’d overseen the setup of an IT infrastructure for the games comprising more than 10,000 PCs, more than 20,000 mobile devices, 6,300 Wi-Fi routers, and 300 servers in two Seoul data centers.
Källa: Inside Olympic Destroyer, the Most Deceptive Hack in History
av Mikael Winterkvist | okt 30, 2019 | Lästips
Tidningen Journalisten har besökt Public Service och TVHuset
Det här reportaget skulle ha handlat om SVT Nyheters onlinestrategi. Men det tog en helt annan vändning. Vårt besök blev som att öppna dammluckorna. Aldrig har vi fått så många mejl och telefonsamtal om problem på en arbetsplats. Medarbetare berättar om problem med arbetsmiljön, med ledarskapet och om en journalistik som skaver. I kritiken finns en omtanke om public service, men allt fler undrar vart SVT är på väg. Klarar man ens det viktiga uppdraget att skildra hela Sverige?
Genom källor inne på SVT har vi på Journalisten under hösten tagit del av besöksstatistik på SVTs sajt, med topplistor över mest lästa nyhetsartiklar, mest tittade videoklipp och genomsnittliga tittartider. Det är inga företagshemligheter direkt, men statistiken har väckt frågor. Framför allt verkar videostarterna vara få med tanke på hur mycket SVT har satsat på att lyfta fram nyhetsvideon i digitala kanaler.
Många dagar ligger det mest populära videoklippet på cirka 40 000 starter, vissa dagar på mindre än hälften av det. För ett företag med en digital miljonpublik verkar SVT Nyheters onlinevideor ha svårt att nå ut.
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av Mikael Winterkvist | okt 28, 2019 | Lästips
Jim Baker var under flera år en av toppchefer inom USAs federala polis, FBI. I den rollen drev han hårt kravet på att Apple, Google, Facebook med flera skulle tvingas att lämna ifrån sig krypteringsnycklar, alternativt tvingas att lägga in bakdörrar i program, appar och tjänster. Nu har Jim Baker tänkt om.
Jim Baker har tänkt om – helt, och har nu övergett kravet på bakdörrar och att teknikföretag ska tvingas att försämra sina produkter och lämna ifrån sig krypteringsnycklar.
av Mikael Winterkvist | okt 25, 2019 | Lästips
Are we really doing this again? After the pivot to video. After Instant Articles. After news was deleted from the News Feed. Once more, Facebook dangles extra traffic, and journalism outlets leap through its hoop and into its cage.
Tomorrow, Facebook will unveil its News tab [Update: Here’s the announcement and our coverage]. About 200 publishers are already aboard including the Wall Street Journal and BuzzFeed News, and some will be paid. None seem to have learned the lesson of platform risk.
When you build on someone else’s land, don’t be surprised when you’re bulldozed. And really, given Facebook’s flawless track record of pulling the rug out from under publishers, no one should be surprised.
av Mikael Winterkvist | okt 20, 2019 | Lästips
Apple’s Enterprise Growth: Why free OS updates play a key role – 9to5Mac
If you have become an Apple fan in the past decade or so, you are used to yearly operating system updates for free. If you have been a Mac user longer than that, you remember actually paying for OS updates every 18 months or so. I know Halloween is coming up, so I’ll inform you of something even scarier: we had to wait in a line to buy a new version of OS X on a CD. While we’ve gotten used to free OS updates as consumers, it has been a big help to Apple in the enterprise. This week, I want to explain why frequent and free OS updates are a big help for Apple’s growth in the enterprise.
Källa: Apple’s Enterprise Growth: Why free OS updates play a key role – 9to5Mac
av Mikael Winterkvist | okt 14, 2019 | Lästips
Millions were left wondering if the apocalypse had finally come on Sunday after the game Fortnite was suddenly obliterated in an implosion and everything went dark.
Some 5.5 million people watched the live event “The End” on YouTube and Twitch that was hyped by creator Epic Games. An estimated 250 million people play the last-man-standing game online around the world.
When players logged on around 2 p.m. EST, they could access only a single mode called “The End.” Those players were then shocked ― and a bit horrified ― when a meteor and six rockets formed a giant rift.
The final image that appeared on the screen was a pulsating black hole with a blue halo. Multitudes were still watching it hours later, waiting and hoping for more.
https://twitter.com/FortniteBR/status/1183459753852362752?s=20
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