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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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Il mistero dell'X-37, la nave spaziale segreta (e senza equipaggio) del governo americano

Money quote: "There’s no crew on board operating X-37B, but the vehicle can autonomously descend back through Earth’s atmosphere and land horizontally on a runway, just like the NASA Space Shuttle used to do when it was in operation."

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/26/experimental-u-s-air-force-space-plane-breaks-previous-record-for-orbital-spaceflight/
Il presidente e Ceo della News Media Alliance ha parole dure per i big dell'internet e suggerimenti radicali più in generale. Tipo: pagate per le vostre news.

Money quote. "We can start with the fact that “free” isn’t a good business model for quality journalism. Facebook and Google flatly refuse to pay for news even though they license many other types of content. Both companies have deals to pay music publishers when copyrighted songs play on their platforms. And the companies also aggressively bid to stream live sports and entertainment content to run on Facebook Watch and YouTube. These deals are varied and often secret, but none of them are based on “free.” Why are the platforms so unwilling to pay news publishers for access to the quality journalism that users need and value?"

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/opinion/google-facebook-fake-news-journalism.html
La storia dei Captcha (dietro l'acronimo c'è una dei nomi più assurdi che abbia mai incontrato: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart). E cosa significano per l'intelligenzaa artificiale.

Money quote: "Because CAPTCHA is such an elegant tool for training AI, any given test could only ever be temporary, something its inventors acknowledged at the outset. With all those researchers, scammers, and ordinary humans solving billions of puzzles just at the threshold of what AI can do, at some point the machines were going to pass us by. In 2014, Google pitted one of its machine learning algorithms against humans in solving the most distorted text CAPTCHAs: the computer got the test right 99.8 percent of the time, while the humans got a mere 33 percent."

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18205610/google-captcha-ai-robot-human-difficult-artificial-intelligence
Silenzio, parla l'hacker

Money quote: "What is it about the computer that makes it become such an obsession for young guys?

Well, it's power at your fingertips. You can control all these computers from the government, from the military, from large corporations. And if you know what you're doing, you can travel through the internet at your will, with no restrictions. That's power; it's a power trip."

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/hackers/interviews/anon.html
Per i più interessati a seguire le mie peripezie giornalistiche, mentre settimana scorsa ero a Shanghai ho continuato a scrivere per CorCom, ma il grande firewall della Cina mi ha impedito di acchiappare le notizie pubblicate e rimetterle qui. Rimedio in giornata, pian piano
Com'è stare a Hong Kong durante i giorni delle proteste.

Money quote: "The time and location of protests are set via social media alchemy; once you get notified about one, you descend through a spotless mall onto a bright and clean train platform, get whisked away by a train that arrives almost immediately, step out into another mall, then finally walk outside into overwhelming heat and a gathering group of demonstrators.

When it’s over, whether the demonstrators have dispersed of their own will, or are running from rubber bullets and tear gas, you duck into another mall, and another train, and within minutes are back in a land of infinite hypercommerce, tiny alleys and posh hotels with their lobby on the 40th floor of a skyscraper."

https://idlewords.com/2019/08/a_walk_in_hong_kong.htm
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