Make In India: Now government to have its own operating system, may replace Microsoft Windows in future - Aware of the pitfalls of vulnerabilities in its cyberspace following Snowden reports and countless attacks by Chinese hackers on key government websites, Centre has taken a vital step towards having its own operating system (OS) with which it plans to replace all other OSs, including the most popular Microsoft Windows in future.
It’s not just about using software to cheat, which is built into the design of capitalism. "Rather, like a quick paint job before an auction, the cloak of secrecy around software codes conceals the cracks in the foundations. It becomes a dangerous building material."
– Männen byggde maskinerna men det var kvinnor som programmerade dem, säger den svenska datapionjären Elsa-Karin Boestad-Nilsson.När hon 1948 kom till Försvarets forskningsanstalt (FOA) i Stockholm hade hon inte hört talas om datorer, eller matematikmaskiner som de kallades då. Hon hade precis läst färdigt matematik och fysik vid Stockholms högskola, och fått sitt första jobb. Att hon skulle vara med och starta den digitala eran fanns inte på kartan.
Slate, "But as shocking as Volkswagen’s fraud may be, it only heralds more of its kind. It’s time to address one of the most urgent if overlooked tech transparency issues—secret code in the criminal justice system. Today, closed, proprietary software can put you in prison or even on death row. And in most U.S. jurisdictions you still wouldn’t have the right to inspect it. In short, prosecutors have a Volkswagen problem."
The State Duma’s vice speaker has asked the Russian government to ban the use of the Windows 10 OS among Russian civil servants over fears the American software may give access to classified information and Russian officials’ personal data.
Yhdysvalloissa asuva Hursti saavutti kansainvälistä kuuluisuutta, kun hän kymmenen vuotta sitten paljasti vakavia tietoturva-aukkoja Yhdysvaltojen sähköisestä äänestysjärjestelmästä.
Kiista Viron kanssa alkoi viime vuonna, kun Hursti yhdessä Michiganin yliopiston tutkijoiden kanssa tutki Viron e-äänestysjärjestelmää. (https://estoniaevoting.org/)
"The biggest unsolved, but acknowledged, problem is getting the resources to build platforms that can compete with venture capital-funded platforms. ... The answer can be simple. The Black Star Coop brewery and restaurant in Austin, Texas, is owned by its customer-members while the workers manage it."
Andy Greenberg and Kim Zetter Security Date of Publication: 12.28.15.
12.28.15
From cars to medical devices to guns, this was the year hackers found and exploited computers in everything.
" “There’s a message here for TrackingPoint and other companies,” Sandvik told WIRED at the time. “When you put technology on items that haven’t had it before, you run into security challenges you haven’t thought about before.” That rule certainly applies to any consumer-focused company thinking of connecting their product to the Internet of Things. But for those whose product can kill—whether a gun, a medical implant, or a car—let’s hope the lesson is taken more seriously in 2016."
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designing technologies to support collective intelligence.
computational analysis of effective collaboration and deliberation.
the intersection of artificial intelligence, politics, and economics.
These are all the same problem to me.
Fairphone was started by a group of passionate thinkers, designers and makers who want to change the phone industry. As our campaign grew into a social
Wired, June 2016. Welcome to the new world of artificial intelligence. Soon, we won't program computers. We'll train them. Like dolphins. Or dogs. Or humans.
Kaisa Eskola, Joonas Pekkanen, open source, transparency
"Kaisa Eskola 30th May 2016
"The EU-funded D-CENT project develops next generation tools for online democracy and participation. In Helsinki, the piloting has focused on creating ways for citizens to follow the decision making process of the City of Helsinki."
This year the City of Helsinki is rethinking its approach to citizen participation and bottom-up citizen empowerment. The D-CENT project has impacted the roadmap of current e-participation tools in Helsinki by creating open processes, tools, code, and standards. The public beta of the democracy tool developed as part of the D-CENT Helsinki pilot has now been launched as Decisions Helsinki"
By Leila Ueberschlag, October 27, 2016 at 9:51 am.
Since 2012, 15MpaRato, an organized citizen collective based in Barcelona, has been uncovering some of the largest corruption cases that are shaking Spanish politics since the 2008 financial crisis, and is a good example of fighting the impunity of financial corruption.
Merkel has joined a growing number of critics who have highlighted the dangers of receiving information that confirms an existing opinion or is recommended by people with similar ideas.
"Ich bin fast ein bisschen traurig darüber, dass ich den anschließenden Vorträgen nicht lauschen darf...Künstliche Intelligenz wird eines der großen Themenfelder der Zukunft sein. Der Wettbewerb zwischen dem Menschen und seinem Assistenten wird uns noch viel beschäftigen." (Frau Merkel)
According to Adobe, after about 20 minutes of listening to a voice, users can make the voice say whatever they want just by typing it out. Comedian and director Jordan Peele hosted the event and Adobe tech Zeyu Jin demoed the process by editing an interview with Peele’s comedic partner Keegan-Michael Key. Jin took existing audio of Key, then used the software to make him talk about making out with Peele instead of his wife.
September 7, 2015.
"You need two compilers," Lunar explained, "with one that you somehow trust. Then you build the compiler under test twice, once with each compiler, and then you use the compilers that you just built to build the compiler under test again.
"If the output is the same, then no backdoors," he added. "But for this scheme to work, you need to be able to compare that both build outputs are the same. And that’s exactly what we are enabling when having reproducible builds."
According to Lunar, 83 percent of Debian packages are now built reproducibly, and more join the party every day.
"If we look at the code and the binary gets owned because some system somewhere has been compromised, and we don't know about it, then we're doomed," Lunar told the audience.
"Reproducible builds should become the norm. Let's make this the default for all software we produce."
2011. "These days at the I.B.M. Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., there is not a lot of talk of reverse-engineering the brain. Wide-ranging ambitions that narrow over time, Dr. Modha explained, are part of research and discovery, even if his earlier rhetoric was inflated or misunderstood.
“Deciding what not to do is just as important as deciding what to do,” Dr. Modha said. “We’re not trying to replicate the brain. That’s impossible. We don’t know how the brain works, really.” "
“chip-first as an organizing principle gave us a coherent plan.”
"In designing chips that bear some structural resemblance to the brain, so-called neuromorphic chips, neuroscience was a guiding principle as well. Brains are low-power, nimble computing mechanisms — real-world proof that it is possible."
Jeanne Shaheen (D), in NYT: Kaspersky Lab, the cybersecurity company, is close to Putin’s government. So why is the U.S. government using its software?
The Software Freedom Law Center provides legal representation and other law related services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software. Eben Moglen. The Freedom Box
Mishi Chowdhary: It's perfectly possible for a contact tracing app to help us fight COVID-19 while taking our right to privacy seriously. That is what we should demand.
To sum up India’s current situation, the government can order its citizens to use any piece of software without taking any responsibility for its accuracy, security or privacy architecture; it can eliminate the entire system of standards and architecture of the internet by moving fast, breaking things and as its an emergency, citizens can never ask for any review or rights but must feel very proud about this feat.
Aaveita koneessa: Automaattisen sisällönkuvailun arviointia Kirjastoverkkopäivillä 2019
Lehtinen M, Inkinen J & Suominen O (2019). Aaveita koneessa: Automaattisen sisällönkuvailun arviointia Kirjastoverkkopäivillä 2019. Tietolinja, 2019(2). Pysyvä osoite: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2019120445612
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Finto AI on saatavilla osoitteessa ai.finto.fi, josta löytyvän lomakkeen avulla palvelua voi kokeilla ja käyttää. Automaattinen sisällönkuvailu toimii parhaiten opinnäytetyö- ja tietokirja-aineistoissa.
"GPT-3 is the latest and greatest in the AI world, achieving state-of-the-art in a range of tasks. Its main breakthrough is eliminating the need for task-specific fine-tuning. In terms of size, the model drastically scales up once again, reaching 175 billion parameters, or 116x the size of its predecessor."
In 2017, researchers asked: Could AI write most code by 2040? OpenAI’s GPT-3, now in use by beta testers, can already code in any language. Machine-dominated coding is almost at our doorstep. GPT-3…