av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 21, 2019 | Lästips
The report from Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur, sets out in forensic detail concerns about the behaviour of Saudi Arabia, both before and after the murder of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
It also details the potential threats posed to journalists and academics by the kingdom’s use of intrusive spyware.
This is a threat the Guardian has had to assess with some seriousness in recent months.
Earlier this year, the Guardian was warned it was being targeted by a cybersecurity unit in Saudi Arabia that had been ordered to “hack” into the email accounts of journalists investigating the various crises engulfing the royal court.
Källa: Guardian told it was target of Saudi hacking unit after Khashoggi killing
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 11, 2019 | Lästips
Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017.
They had encountered significant turbulence in the product line over the preceding years, especially Macs. It was a rough time to be a pro Mac user.
The “trash can” 2013 Mac Pro addressed only a fraction of the needs solved by the previous “cheese grater” towers, aged quickly without critical upgrade paths, and suffered from high GPU-failure rates from its cooling solution — all because its design prioritized size and appearance over performance and versatility in the one Mac model that should never make that tradeoff.
Over the next few years, it became clear that the Mac Pro was an embarrassing, outdated flop that Apple seemed to have little intention of ever updating, leaving its customers feeling unheard and abandoned. I think Apple learned a small lesson from it, but they learned a much bigger one a few years later.
Apple is Listening
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 9, 2019 | Lästips
The Making of a YouTube Radical
Caleb Cain pulled a Glock pistol from his waistband, took out the magazine and casually tossed both onto the kitchen counter.
“I bought it the day after I got death threats,” he said.
The threats, Mr. Cain explained, came from right-wing trolls in response to a video he had posted on YouTube a few days earlier. In the video, he told the story of how, as a liberal college dropout struggling to find his place in the world, he had gotten sucked into a vortex of far-right politics on YouTube.
“I fell down the alt-right rabbit hole,” he said in the video.
Källa: The Making of a YouTube Radical
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 8, 2019 | Lästips
Tuesday’s episode of the Alex Jones Show on InfoWars featured the conspiracy theorist reading a satirical article about abortion written by the persona of Nick Mullen, a New York comedian known for his uber-successful podcast, Cum Town.
Cum Town is hosted by comedians Nick Mullen, Stavros Halkias, and Adam Friedland. Prior to his success on the show, Mullen worked as a comedian in Austin where he was a finalist in the city’s annual “Funniest Person in Austin” competition in 2011. Mullen padded his stand-up comedy career with a variety of other creative ventures.
Källa: Alex Jones Read a Satirical Article Written Under Pseudonym on His Show
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 8, 2019 | Lästips
Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. This month we’re adding the stories of important L.G.B.T.Q. figures.
LONDON — His genius embraced the first visions of modern computing and produced seminal insights into what became known as “artificial intelligence.” As one of the most influential code breakers of World War II, his cryptology yielded intelligence believed to have hastened the Allied victory.
But, at his death several years later, much of his secretive wartime accomplishments remained classified, far from public view in a nation seized by the security concerns of the Cold War. Instead, by the narrow standards of his day, his reputation was sullied.
Källa: Overlooked No More: Alan Turing, Condemned Code Breaker and Computer Visionary
av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 7, 2019 | Lästips
Två män, luggslitna, på samhällets botten inser att vänskapen kan rädda livet på dem båda.
Om väggklockans tick är ljudet av tid som går, är tystnaden däremellan ensamhetens läte. Däri ryms sekunderna som han nu ska fylla. Det här är en berättelse av Magnus Wennman och Erik Wiman om Pekka och Mattes vänskap och hur den tar slut.
Källa: Pekka och Matte – en historia om vänskap av Magnus Wennman – Pekka & Matte
