Lästipset: A Study on Driverless-Car Ethics Offers a Troubling Look Into Our Values

av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 17, 2019 | Lästips

The first time Azim Shariff met Iyad Rahwan—the first real time, after communicating with him by phone and e-mail—was in a driverless car. It was November, 2012, and Rahwan, a thirty-four-year-old professor of computing and information science, was researching artificial intelligence at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, a university in Abu Dhabi.

He was eager to explore how concepts within psychology—including social networks and collective reasoning—might inform machine learning, but there were few psychologists working in the U.A.E. Shariff, a thirty-one-year-old with wild hair and expressive eyebrows, was teaching psychology at New York University’s campus in Abu Dhabi; he guesses that he was one of four research psychologists in the region at the time, an estimate that Rahwan told me “doesn’t sound like an exaggeration.” Rahwan cold-e-mailed Shariff and invited him to visit his research group.

Källa: A Study on Driverless-Car Ethics Offers a Troubling Look Into Our Values

Hacker who stole 620 million records strikes again, stealing 127 million more

av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 15, 2019 | Lästips

A hacker who stole close to 620 million user records from 16 websites has stolen another 127 million records from eight more websites, TechCrunch has learned.

The hacker, whose listing was the previously disclosed data for about $20,000 in bitcoin on a dark web marketplace, stole the data last year from several major sites — some that had already been disclosed, like more than 151 million records from MyFitnessPal and 25 million records from Animoto. But several other hacked sites on the marketplace listing didn’t know or hadn’t disclosed yet — such as 500px and Coffee Meets Bagel.

The Register, whoch first reported the story, said the data included names, email addresses and scrambled passwords, and in some cases other login and account data — though no financial data was included.

Källa: Hacker who stole 620 million records strikes again, stealing 127 million more

India Proposes Chinese-Style Internet Censorship

av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 15, 2019 | Lästips

NEW DELHI — India’s government has proposed giving itself vast new powers to suppress internet content, igniting a heated battle with global technology giants and prompting comparisons to censorship in China.

Under the proposed rules, Indian officials could demand that Facebook, Google, Twitter, TikTok and others remove posts or videos that they deem libelous, invasive of privacy, hateful or deceptive. Internet companies would also have to build automated screening tools to block Indians from seeing “unlawful information or content.” Another provision would weaken the privacy protections of messaging services like WhatsApp so that the authorities could trace messages back to their original senders.

Källa: India Proposes Chinese-Style Internet Censorship

Först när Mats var död förstod föräldrarna värdet av hans gaming

av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 9, 2019 | Lästips

Robert och Trude sörjde sonens ensamma liv i rullstol. Men när Mats dog tände vänner över hela Europa ljus för honom.

Den här artikeln publicerades första gången den 27 januari på nrk.no – läs norska originalet här

– Vi var ju väldigt traditionella. Ville inte att han skulle vända på dygnet och sådana saker, säger Robert Steen.

Det är 23 augusti 2018. Robert sitter på ett kafé ett stenkast från sitt kontor i Oslo rådhus och berättar om sin son. Han säger att det gör ont, men också känns bra att berätta.

– I efterhand tänker jag att vi borde ha intresserat oss mer för spelvärlden han var så mycket i. Att vi inte gjorde det tog ifrån oss en möjlighet vi inte förstod att vi hade, säger Robert.

Källa: Först när Mats var död förstod föräldrarna värdet av hans gaming

Lästipset: The Machine Stops

av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 8, 2019 | Lästips

My favorite aunt, Auntie Len, when she was in her eighties, told me that she had not had too much difficulty adjusting to all the things that were new in her lifetime—jet planes, space travel, plastics, and so on—but that she could not accustom herself to the disappearance of the old. “Where have all the horses gone?” she would sometimes say. Born in 1892, she had grown up in a London full of carriages and horses.

I have similar feelings myself. A few years ago, I was walking with my niece Liz down Mill Lane, a road near the house in London where I grew up. I stopped at a railway bridge where I had loved leaning over the railings as a child. I watched various electric and diesel trains go by, and after a few minutes Liz, growing impatient, asked, “What are you waiting for?” I said that I was waiting for a steam train. Liz looked at me as if I were crazy.

Källa: The Machine Stops

Lästipset: Därför är svenska föräldrar mer avslappnade än amerikanska

av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 7, 2019 | Lästips

En intressant iakttagelse, bok och fakta som pekar mot att i ett mer jämställt samhälle så kan föräldrar slappnar av på ett annat sätt när det handlar om barnuppfostran.

Why Swedes Are Chiller Parents Than Americans

Fabrizio Zilibotti was born in Italy and met his wife (who’s Spanish) in London. Their daughter was born in Sweden, where she spent some of her childhood before the family moved to the U.K. and then Switzerland.

As he spent time in each of these countries, Zilibotti—who now lives in the U.S., teaching economics at Yale—became intrigued by the variety of parenting philosophies he encountered, from Sweden’s laissez-faire style of child-rearing to the U.K’s more rule-oriented approach. Parents in every country, he reasoned, loved their children more or less equally, so it seemed a little puzzling that they had such divergent ideas about what was best for their kids.

The Atlantic