Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse – “The latest available data from the Immigrant Court indicates that as of February 1, 2019 the court is still playing catch up in the aftermath of the five-week partial government shutdown. It is therefore still too early to get an accurate reading of just how much larger the backlog has… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 2019
UK Cairncross Review: a sustainable future for journalism
“The Cairncross Review into the future of the UK news industry has delivered its final report, with recommendations on how to safeguard the future sustainability of the UK press. 12 February 2019. Online platforms should have a ‘news quality obligation’ to improve trust in news they host, overseen by a regulator Government should explore direct… Continue Reading
Zittrain and Zuckerberg discuss encryption ‘information fiduciaries’ and targeted advertisements
Harvard Law Today: “Should Facebook be considered an “information fiduciary” when it comes to the privacy of its clients? How should we weigh the pros and cons of encryption schemes which might bolster privacy and data security at the risk of shutting out law enforcement? And why shouldn’t Facebook tell users how much advertising revenue… Continue Reading
Welcome to the Financial Times Lexicon
ft.com Lexicon – “Browse thousands of words and phrases selected by Financial Times editors and suggest new terms for the glossary.” Continue Reading
Emoji are showing up in court cases exponentially
and courts aren’t prepared – The Verge: “Bay Area prosecutors were trying to prove that a man arrested during a prostitution sting was guilty of pimping charges, and among the evidence was a series of Instagram DMs he’d allegedly sent to a woman. One read: “Teamwork make the dream work” with high heels and money… Continue Reading
Can PowerPoint speak aloud & read the text in my slideshows?
PCWorld: “Can PowerPoint speak aloud and read the text in my slideshows? Yes, it can. Using the Speak command, also known as the Text to Speech (TTS) feature, PowerPoint can read the text in your slideshows and in your notes out loud. Be advised, however, that there is not a pause and continue feature with… Continue Reading
Internet Privacy – Additional Federal Authority Could Enhance Consumer Protection and Provide Flexibility
Internet Privacy: Additional Federal Authority Could Enhance Consumer Protection and Provide Flexibility GAO-19-52: Published: Jan 15, 2019. Publicly Released: Feb 13, 2019. “In April 2018, Facebook said that up to 87 million users’ personal data may have been improperly disclosed. This was one of many recent Internet privacy incidents. We found that there is no… Continue Reading
Whale falls – studying how decaying carcasses may become deep sea biodiversity generators
The New Yorker – “…Whale falls, as marine biologists call such events, create pop-up habitats that may serve as stepping stones for organisms migrating from methane seeps or hydrothermal vents to other parts of the ocean. Precisely how this works, and which species colonize the carcass as it degrades, were open questions…In the late two-thousands,… Continue Reading
Study – Password Managers: Under the Hood of Secrets Management
Independent Security Evaluators: “Password managers allow the storage and retrieval of sensitive information from an encrypted database. Users rely on them to provide better security guarantees against trivial exfiltration than alternative ways of storing passwords, such as an unsecured flat text file. In this paper we propose security guarantees password managers should offer and examine… Continue Reading
The Decline of Computers As a General Purpose Technology
Thompson, Neil and Spanuth, Svenja, The Decline of Computers As a General Purpose Technology: Why Deep Learning and the End of Moore’s Law are Fragmenting Computing (November 20, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3287769 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3287769 “It is a triumph of technology and of economics that our computer chips are so universal. Countless applications are only… Continue Reading
Google – Fighting disinformation across our products
Google Blog: “Providing useful and trusted information at the scale that the Internet has reached is enormously complex and an important responsibility. Adding to that complexity, over the last several years we’ve seen organized campaigns use online platforms to deliberately spread false or misleading information. We have twenty years of experience in these information challenges… Continue Reading
A Look at Past and Future Climate Change in Less Than a Minute
Yale Environment 360: “Two new videos visualize how drastically global temperatures have changed since 1900 — and how much worse they will get by the end of this century. The data visualizations, created by Antti Lipponen, a research scientist at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, depict 200 years of climate change in each of the world’s… Continue Reading
