Connecting dots or Propaganda (You decide) #07
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Quercus considera que Portugal se deve opor ao acordo assinado entre a União Europeia e o Mercosul
Para as questões do Ambiente e da Conservação da Natureza, a Europa “não pode ter dois pesos e duas medidas, e é eticamente reprovável ignorar a destruição da floresta amazónica que atualmente se verifica, apenas para ter carne de vaca mais barata na Europa e poupar dinheiro em taxas alfandegárias”, refere a Associação Nacional De Conservação Da Natureza, alertando que a “proteção do planeta e do clima tem que ser mais importante do que o dinheiro e a carne barata”.
Why helicopter money is the new 'whatever it takes'
Yes, they are very afraid..Exactly seven years ago, President Mario Draghi pledged the European Central Bank (ECB) would do ‘whatever it takes’ to preserve the euro.
"Outdated" AI patent authorship law must be changed, say academics
Ryan Abbott, one of the law professors at the University of Surrey that joined the DABUS project has been invested in the topic of AI patent authorship for years. In 2016, he published a paper on the reasons why AI should be afforded the right to own patents.
Scientists Are Trying to List AI as the Inventor on a New Patent
Couldn't have said it better..The problem with their case, though, is that even the world’s best AI systems are merely tools — they’re not alive or sentient, and they’re not actually “creative” as a person might be.
China’s AI Teachers Could Revolutionize Education Worldwide
China is betting big on the potential of artificial intelligence to revolutionize education.
A newly published MIT Technology Review story details how the nation is embracing AI as both a replacement and a supplement to human teachers — and the outcome of the country’s AI experiment could affect the future of education on a global scale.
What is natural language processing?
These include conversational mechanisms in customer services and healthcare, the extraction of important information from reams of documentation, and even the analysis of emails to control the flow of junk mail.
Broadberry CyberServe Xeon SP2-R1208 review: A beast of a server
And just because, a review of a not bad at all server..The drawbacks of this particular specification are the high fan noise levels and power consumption, as well as the fact that Intel's remote management tools are comparatively basic. On the plus side, it offers a versatile range of storage features teamed with support for Optane DC persistent memory plus 2,933MHz DDR4 memory - and all at a price that the blue chips will have trouble matching.
Apple Card can’t be used to buy crypto
Cryptocurrency fans who were hoping to use Apple’s forthcoming credit card to splash on coin are out of luck. You also won’t be able to use the Apple Card to buy lottery tickets, casino gambling chips in any form, physical or virtual, or foreign currency or travelers checks.
··· As with Apple Pay, there’s a privacy promise too — with a pledge that Apple Card transaction data won’t be sold for advertising or marketing, not by Apple, Goldman or any other partners. Though data may be shared with regulators for financial reporting purposes and so on.
The Apple Card is due to be released in the US next month.
Amazon quietly adds ‘no human review’ option to Alexa settings as voice AIs face privacy scrutiny
Meanwhile people still use this crappy items part of the control.. "It's like putting perfume on a pig!!"The Alexa T&C did not previously inform users of the possibility that audio recordings captured by the service might be manually reviewed by actual humans. (Amazon still doesn’t appear to provide this disclosure on its main website either.)
The Pentagon Is Launching Mass Surveillance Balloons Over America
We're at one step only of experiencing the thought policeThe Pentagon is launching spy balloons over the Midwest to monitor and track individual people and vehicles.
The point of the balloons is “to provide a persistent surveillance system to locate and deter narcotic trafficking and homeland security threats,” according to documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission. But, as The Guardian reports, that also means everyday people will be subjected to sweeping government surveillance — without their knowledge or consent.
For the channel, 5G offers a new landscape of opportunities
The quote, it is precisely what the governments are programming into our minds, they can't start the war, they need us to start it for them.. If we don't stop 5G now it will be too late.."Just because it's not a revolution," Delany says, "doesn't mean it won't cause one."
A Global Security System: An Alternative to War (2018-19 Edition)
“You say you’re against war, but what’s the alternative?”
World War II: US Military Destroyed 66 Japanese Cities Before Planning to Wipe Out the Same Number of Soviet Cities
..they forgot Windows 95..Remember:
Hiroshima, August 6, 1945
Nagasaki, August 9, 1945
2020 Presidential Elections: Feeding the Israel Lobby
Congress gives the Jewish state whatever it wants
More British complicity exposed in latest ‘CIA Torture Unredacted’ report
Between 2001 and 2009, the CIA established a global network of secret prisons (‘black sites’) for the purpose of detaining terrorism suspects, in secret and indefinitely, and interrogating them through the use of torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. The abuses which took place were severe, sustained, and in clear violation of domestic and international law. The perpetrators have never been held to account. The Rendition Project’s website (www.therenditionproject.org.uk), provide the most detailed public account to date of the CIA torture programme.
Normalising utility as willingness to pay
The mean difference method is a bit different: here, two outcomes are chosen at random, and you are asked now much you are willing to pay to shift from the worst outcome to the best. The expectation of that amount is used for normalisation.
Unpatched Flaws in IoT Smart Deadbolt Open Homes to Danger
Researchers have uncovered vulnerabilities in a popular smart deadbolt could allow attackers to remotely unlock doors and break into homes. The manufacturer behind the smart lock, Hickory Hardware, has deployed patches to the affected apps on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
Dasha AI is calling so you don’t have to
“What we definitely know is this will definitely happen,” says CEO and co-founder Vladislav Chernyshov. “Sooner or later the conversational AI/voice AI will replace people everywhere where the technology will allow. And it’s better for us to be the first mover than the last in this field.”
Pai’s FCC orders cities and towns to stop regulating cable broadband
Pai's proposal complained that "some states and localities are purporting to assert authority" to collect fees and impose requirements that aren't explicitly allowed by Title VI, the cable-regulation section that Congress added to communications law with the Cable Act of 1984.
Scammers recruiting money mules on dating sites is on the rise, says FBI
And now, a rising trend: there are more and more suitors looking to tick off a box that would read “mule” if it were that easy to find lovelorn patsies to launder money or run drugs for them. And by “suitors,” I mean romance-scamming crooks, of course.
Don’t let the crooks ‘borrow’ your home router as a hacking server
As a result, crooks who can figure out your SSH password have their own way into your computer, if not your whole network.
Amazon will stop taking orders from Dash buttons at the end of August
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"gratification button" prototype obsolete, ABORT ABORT!!"The Dash button dream is truly dead
Microsoft contractors listen to Skype Translator recordings
While it does state that it collects recordings to improve the service, it doesn't explicitly say that these recordings are reviewed by humans contractors. Likewise, Microsoft's own privacy statement also fails to make this crystal clear.
Binance KYC Data Leak — Crypto Exchange Sets $290,000 Bounty On Blackmailer
In response to the incident, Binance just released an official statement today confirming that "an unidentified individual has threatened and harassed us, demanding 300 BTC in exchange for withholding 10,000 photos that bear similarity to Binance KYC data."
Post at @MaxIgan steemit accountPrevious "dots" can be found here if You want to follow the white rabbit down the hole..
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