av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 17, 2018 | Lästips
It has never felt worse to be a technology consumer. So what can you do about it?
That’s the question of the year after many of the biggest tech companies were mired in scandal after scandal or exposed as having committed necessary evils to offer the products and services that we have so blissfully enjoyed.
Those instant Amazon deliveries? They sure are convenient, but Amazon warehouse workers in Europe protested the company during Black Friday, describing their working conditions as inhuman.
You might have considered deleting Facebook after the social network confessed that Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm, had improperly obtained the data of millions of users. If that didn’t convince you, maybe the security breach exposing the data of 30 million Facebook accounts did.
Källa: Yes, You Can Be an Ethical Tech Consumer. Here’s How.
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 16, 2018 | Lästips
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in widely used SQLite database software that exposes billions of deployments to hackers.
Dubbed as ’Magellan’ by Tencent’s Blade security team, the newly discovered SQLite flaw could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary or malicious code on affected devices, leak program memory or crash applications.
SQLite is a lightweight, widely used disk-based relational database management system that requires minimal support from operating systems or external libraries, and hence compatible with almost every device, platform, and programming language
The Hacker News
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 16, 2018 | Lästips
Det handlar om blodspår på en brottsplats och hur en enda teori, som inte utmanats och som inte granskats vetenskapligt snabbt får spridning i USAs rättssalar.
How the Dubious Science of Blood-Spatter Analysis Spread Like a Virus
From his basement in upstate New York, Herbert MacDonell launched modern bloodstain-pattern analysis, persuading judge after judge of its reliability. Then he trained hundreds of others. But what if they’re getting it wrong?
Källa: How the Dubious Science of Blood-Spatter Analysis Spread Like a Virus
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 15, 2018 | Lästips
IS ELIZABETH WARREN finished? Is her putative presidential campaign over before it has even begun?
So say a growing number of political pundits and reporters. Her home state newspaper, the Boston Globe, whoch urged the Massachusetts senator to run against Hillary Clinton in 2016, now claims that she is a “divisive figure” and suggests that “there’s reason to be skeptical of her prospective candidacy in 2020.” The New York Times argued on its front page that “the lingering cloud over her likely presidential campaign has only darkened” as a result of her now-infamous DNA test to prove her Native American ancestry. Times reporter Astead Herndon quoted members of the senator’s inner circle saying they were “shocked” and “rattled” by her decision to take the test. Other critics have pointed to recent polls, both at the national and state levels, whoch suggest that support for a Warren presidential bid is waning.
Källa: Elizabeth Warren Has a Track Record of Taking on the Roch and Powerful. Don’t Write Her Off for 2020.
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 14, 2018 | Lästips
Journalists working as factcheckers for Facebook have pushed to end a controversial media partnership with the social network, saying the company has ignored their concerns and failed to use their expertise to combat misinformation.
Current and former Facebook factcheckers told the Guardian that the tech platform’s collaboration with outside reporters has produced minimal results and that they’ve lost trust in Facebook, whoch has repeatedly refused to release meaningful data about the impacts of their work. Some said Facebook’s hiring of a PR firm that used an antisemitic narrative to discredit critics – fueling the same kind of propaganda factcheckers regularly debunk – should be a deal-breaker.
Källa: ’They don’t care’: Facebook factchecking in disarray as journalists push to cut ties
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 11, 2018 | Lästips
GOOGLE IS FACING a renewed wave of criticism from human rights groups over its controversial plan to launch a censored search engine in China.
A coalition of more than 60 leading groups from countries across the world have joined forces to blast the internet giant for failing to address concerns about the secretive China project, known as Dragonfly. They come from countries including China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, France, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Romania, Syria, Tibet, and Vietnam.
Källa: Rights Groups Turn Up Pressure on Google Over China Censorship Ahead of Congressional Hearing
