[nexa] “AI research is a dumpster fire and Google’s holding the matches”

2022-05-04 Thread J.C. DE MARTIN
AI research is a dumpster fire and Google’s holding the matches Scientific endeavor is no match for corporate greed https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-research-dumpster-fire-and-googles-holding-the-matches (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

[nexa] Memento | Convegno "Ricerca, educazione e accesso al patrimonio culturale" | 6 maggio 2022, ore 9.00-18.00

2022-05-04 Thread Nexa Media
Gentilissimi, vi ricordiamo che *venerdì**6 maggio*, dalle ore 9.00 alle ore 18.00, presso il Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Aula Marconi, Piazzale Aldo Moro n. 7, Roma, si terrà il convegno organizzato dall'Istituto di Informatica Giuridica e Sistemi Giudiziari, e dal Capitolo Italiano

[nexa] La guerra dell’informazione è senza limiti

2022-05-04 Thread David Schmudde
Buongiorno a tutti, mi permetto di segnalare la traduzione italiana di un mio intervento su QCodeMag sulla guerra dell'informazione per capire meglio le dimensioni del conflitto cibernetico fra Russia e Ucraina dal 2014. "La guerra dell’informazione è senza limiti (e senza limiti sono le c

[nexa] ai for good

2022-05-04 Thread don Luca Peyron
https://news.mit.edu/2021/artificial-intelligence-tool-can-help-detect-melanoma-0402 Cose buone dal mondo recitava una vecchia pubblicità dl _ don Luca Peyron Direttore Ufficio per la Pastorale Universitaria Arcidiocesi di Torino www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83,

[nexa] Why eliminating A.I. bias is harder than it seems

2022-05-04 Thread Enrico Nardelli
... it turns out that mitigating bias is far harder than even many experts assume, as a story last week in the tech publication The Register pointed out https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/01/ai_models_racist/?tpcc=nleyeonai . The story cited a research paper published in the science journal Sc

[nexa] Dave Walden

2022-05-04 Thread J.C. DE MARTIN
*David Walden, a computer scientist who helped develop a machine that would evolve to become the backbone of the internet for decades, died on April 27 at his home in East Sandwich, Mass. He was 79.* The cause was complications of mantle cell lymphoma, his wife, Sara Walden, said. In 1969, M

Re: [nexa] Will Elon Musk’s Twitter 2.0 unmask anonymous Arab dissidents? | Technology News | Al Jazeera

2022-05-04 Thread 380°
Alberto, nexiane sono basito: a qualcuno risulta che sia mai stato possibile pubblicare su Twitter senza autenticazione?!? É molto interessante osservare - ancora una volta - come la più becera disinformazione sia in grado di apparire autorevole citando /a caso/ "activists and experts"; tra l'alt

Re: [nexa] Kaspersky fuori dalla PA: cosa faranno aziende e privati?

2022-05-04 Thread Roberto Resoli
Il 3 maggio 2022 08:47:38 CEST, Mauro Alovisio ha scritto: >Gent.mi > >Segnalo > >https://www.punto-informatico.it/kaspersky-fuori-dalla-pa-cosa-faranno-aziende-e-privati/ > > >Un caro saluto > >Mauro Vitalba Azzollini (giurista) su Domani: https://www.editorialedomani.it/politica/italia/sicure

[nexa] Cook: "The persecution of Julian Assange" (recensione libro di Melzer)

2022-05-04 Thread J.C. DE MARTIN
*The persecution of Julian Assange** * Jonathan Cook 4 May 2022 16:43 UTC /According to UN torture expert, the UK and US have colluded to publicly destroy the WikiLeaks founder – and deter others from exposing their crimes/ // The British home secretary, Priti Patel, will decide this month wh

[nexa] CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders

2022-05-04 Thread J.C. DE MARTIN
*CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders* /Newly released documents showed the CDC planned to use phone location data to monitor schools and churches, and wanted to use the data for many non-COVID-19 purposes, too./ by Joseph Cox The Centers for Dis

[nexa] "Elon Musk and the oligarchs of the ‘Second Gilded Age’ can not only sway the public – they can exploit their data, too"

2022-05-04 Thread J.C. DE MARTIN
*Elon Musk and the oligarchs of the ‘Second Gilded Age’ can not only sway the public – they can exploit their data, too** * Published: April 27, 2022 1.34pm BST /Nolan Higdon// /Lecturer of History and Media Studies, California State University, East Bay During the Gilded Age of the late 19th