av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 18, 2019 | Lästips
Beto O’Rourke’s secret membership in America’s oldest hacking group
As the Texas Democrat enters the race for president, members of a group famous for “hactivism” come forward for the first time to claim him as one of their own. There may be no better time to be an American politician rebelling against business as usual. But is the United States ready for O’Rourke’s teenage exploits?
Some things you might know about Beto O’Rourke, the former Texas congressman who just entered the race for president:
• The Democratic contender raised a record amount for a U.S. Senate race in 2018 and almost beat the incumbent in a Republican stronghold, without hiding his support for gun control and Black Lives Matter protests on the football field.
• When he was younger, he was arrested on drunk-driving charges and played in a punk band. Now 46, he still skateboards.
• The charismatic politician with the Kennedy smile is liberal on some issues and libertarian on others, whoch could allow him to cross the country’s political divide.
One thing you didn’t know: While a teenager, O’Rourke acknowledged in an exclusive interview, he belonged to the oldest group of computer hackers in U.S. history.
Källa: Beto O’Rourke’s secret membership in America’s oldest hacking group
av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 17, 2019 | Lästips
Stanford Medicine announces results of unprecedented Apple Heart Study
Stanford Medicine today reported results of the Apple Heart Study, the largest study ever of its kind, whoch enrolled over 400,000 participants from all 50 states in a span of only eight months. Apple and Stanford created the study to evaluate Apple Watch’s irregular rhythm notification, whoch occasionally checks the heart’s rhythm in the background and sends a notification if an irregular heart rhythm appears to be suggestive of atrial fibrillation (AFib). As part of the study, if an irregular heart rhythm was identified, participants received a notification on their Apple Watch and iPhone, a telehealth consultation with a doctor and an electrocardiogram (ECG) patch for additional monitoring.
Källa: Stanford Medicine announces results of unprecedented Apple Heart Study
av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 14, 2019 | Lästips
Aftonbladet har i en serie debattartiklar riktat allvarliga anklagelser mot Martin Kragh, svensk forskare. Anklagelserna har handlat om allt från forskningsfusk till spionage.
Nu har 24 forskare regerat och stöder Martin Kragh i ett upprop. Samtidigt riktas hård kritik mot Aftonbladet för publiceringarna och en av de publicerade artiklarna har nu dragits tillbaka.
Aftonbladets kulturchef har fått hård kritik efter att ha anklagat en svensk forskare för att vara brittisk spion. Men konflikten mellan Åsa Linderborg och Rysslandsforskaren Martin Kragh började redan 2017, då Kragh anklagade Aftonbladets kulturredaktion för att sprida ”Putin-perspektiv”.
En serie publiceringar i Aftonbladet kultur, där en känd svensk Rysslandsforskare pekas ut som brittisk spion, har väckt hård kritik. 24 svenska forskare och Rysslandskännare har i gemensamma upprop kallat publiceringarna för en smutskastningskampanj. Samtidigt får tidningen kritik från flera publicister för bristande källkritik.
24 forskare och Rysslandskännare riktar hård kritik mot Aftonbladet, efter att tidningens kulturchef anklagat en känd svensk forskare för att vara brittisk spion. För första gången sen debatten började i februari ställer Aftonbladet nu upp på en intervju om den kritiserade publiceringen.
Den sjunde mars publicerade Aftonbladet en artikel på sin kultursida av skribenten Tom Andersson där han kritiserar forskaren Martin Kraghs arbete. En knapp vecka senare plockas artikeln ner på grund av att den inte stämde.
av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 14, 2019 | Lästips
Facebook Is Not a Monopoly, but It Should Be Broken Up
ON FRIDAY, DEMOCRATIC presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren announced her plan to break up tech giants Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Google. Her argument goes wobbly in places—does anyone really care that we have Bing in addition to Google?—but the overarching theme is the progressive one about big business getting too big for society’s good.
However, there’s one aspect of contemporary digital capitalism that I think many commenters and antitrust crusaders miss: Silicon Valley isn’t full of monopolists. It’s full of what are (technically) called monopsonists.
A monopsony is a market dominated by one buyer and many sellers; it’s the inverse of a monopoly, and requires entirely different antitrust remedies.
Källa: Facebook Is Not a Monopoly, but It Should Be Broken Up
av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 13, 2019 | Lästips
How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps
In October 2017, a SWAT team descendHur ed on Jameson Lopp’s house in North Carolina. Someone — it still isn’t clear who — had called the police and falsely claimed that a shooter at the home had killed someone and taken a hostage. After the police left, Mr. Lopp received a call threatening more mayhem if he did not make a large ransom payment in Bitcoin.
To scare off future attackers, Mr. Lopp quickly posted a video on Twitter of himself firing off his Kel-Tec 12 gauge shotgun. He also decided he was going to make it much harder for his enemies — and anyone else — to find him ever again.
Källa: How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps
av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 12, 2019 | Lästips
Tim Berners-Lee uppfann webben, nätet så som vi känner det idag men han har delade känslor inför vad nätet har utvecklats till.
The Man Who Invented the World Wide Web Has Mixed Feelings About What the Internet Has Become
(GENEVA) — The inventor of the World Wide Web knows his revolutionary innovation is coming of age, and doesn’t always like what he sees: state-sponsored hacking, online harassment, hate speech and misinformation among the ills of its “digital adolescence.”
Tim Berners-Lee issued a cri-de-coeur letter and spoke to a few reporters Monday on the eve of the 30-year anniversary of his first paper with an outline of what would become the web — a first step toward transforming countless lives and the global economy.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, plans to host Berners-Lee and other web aficionados on Tuesday. “We’re celebrating, but we’re also very concerned,” Berners-Lee said.
Källa: Time
