Are they responding to new rules or AT&T's
$100 million fine? I guess saying you will comply with the law
sounds better.
Sprint stopped slowing traffic on its network for
customers who use a lot of data in order to make sure it is complying
with the new net neutrality rules, The Wall Street Journal
reported.
Explains a lot, doesn't it.
Top FAA
Official Says 'Not My Problem'
The FAA’s VP of Safety and Technical Training
says cheating on FAA air traffic control exams and corruption in the
air traffic control hiring process is not his problem. Joseph
Teixeira, the FAA administrator in charge of safety standards is also
in charge of leading the agency’s technical training and
certification of air traffic controllers and technicians.
The Art of CyberWar. What to do when the other
guys are as smart as you are...
The US-led campaign against ISIL is going well in
neither the terrestrial nor cyber realms. ISIL’s successful
offensives against Ramadi in Iraq and Palmyra in Syria in late May
triggered controversies that the Paris meeting of the anti-ISIL
coalition in early June did little to resolve. The State Department
followed this bad news with an unflattering post-Paris assessment
of US and coalition efforts against ISIL’s online offensive. The
New York Times described
this document as painting a “dismal picture of the efforts by the
Obama administration and its foreign allies to combat the Islamic
State’s message machine, portraying a fractured coalition that
cannot get its own message straight.” This perspective reinforced
a Washington Post article
from early May about problems with US counter-militant messaging in
the Bush and Obama administrations.
Countering ISIL’s use of the Internet,
especially social media, has clearly confounded the United States and
its partners.
… Two new publications issued this week
analyze the problems ISIL’s online activities create and offer
recommendations to improve countermeasures. In a Council on Foreign
Relations Cyber
Brief, I focus on challenges the US government and tech companies
face in taking down online content associated with ISIL without
compromising commitments to free speech. In a Wikistrat report,
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Nathaniel Barr argue that ISIL is
“winning its propaganda war” against Western powers and advise
the United States on how to strengthen online counter-messaging
activities.
[You
should check out WikiStrat http://www.wikistrat.com/
Bob]
Might fit into one of my Computer Security
classes.
WikiLeaks
Dumps 276,000 More Documents from Sony Hack
The new release adds to more than 30,000 documents
published by WikiLeaks in April. Both groups of documents can be
searched on the WikiLeaks page.
Hey, we've got all these users, how can we use
them? (Aside from making them watch all those Ads)
Google News
Lab launches three new projects focused on crowd-sourced journalism
The News Lab at Google, run by former YouTube
executive Olivia Ma, launched three interesting projects on Thursday,
all of which are focused to some extent on crowd-sourced or networked
journalism. The first, known as YouTube
Newswire, is a joint venture between the video platform and
Storyful, the News Corp.-owned service that specializes
in verifying content that comes from social media.
… The Google News Lab also
announced the launch of another interesting project on Thursday
called the First Draft Coalition. This is a working group of
agencies focused on crowd-sourced journalism, including Storyful, the
Eyewitness Media Hub, Bellingcat,
the Reported.ly unit of First Look Media, Meedan, Emergent and
Verification Junkie. All will be contributing to a new site for
verification and ethics training, which will feature tools and
research.
… Bellingcat also open-sources all of the data
that it generates, including photos and video, using
a database tool called Silk, which allows anyone to contribute
their own content to the project or update information, and also
allows other media outlets or sites to embed the content easily on
their own sites.
The third project from Google is called The
WITNESS Media Lab, and is a partnership with a
non-profit group called WITNESS that trains non-journalists in
how to report on injustice and human-rights violations around the
world.
(Related) Why? Or, What Google learned by
analyzing their data.
Google
Trends Now Shows the Web’s Obsessions in Real Time
Google Trends has long
been a tool for journalists tracking what people wanted to know about
in the recent past. The function hasn’t changed, but the tense
has: Trends now tracks stories in real time, giving unfettered access
to what the Internet wants to know in the moment.
Trends had been largely
unchanged since 2012, a helpful but slightly backdated look at
subjects people were searching for over the last day or more. As of
today, you can see minute-by-minute information culled from the 100
billion searches that take place on Google at any given month. Not
only that, but Trends now pulls in information from Google News and
YouTube, for a fuller view of what people want to know.
If I use a Google
mapping App to guide a tour, am I a Google employee? (Digest Item
#1)
Uber
Drivers Are Employees In California
Basically no one works for Uber – at least,
that’s what the $40 billion company claims. The more than 167,000
drivers around the world are all independent contractors, driving
their own cars, all of whom just happen to use Uber’s technology to
find customers.
That
might be changing, at least in California. A ruling by The
California Labor Commission this week awarded San Francisco resident
Barbara Ann Berwick, a former Uber driver, $4,000 in “unpaid wages”
– something independent contractors are not entitled to.
Uber, and other sharing
economy companies like TaskRabbit and Handy, could end up seeing
similar scrutiny throughout the golden state. Uber,
for its part, claims the ruling applies only to Berwick.
[From
the Reuters article:
Uber said in a statement
that officials in five other states have found that its drivers are
independent contractors.
And in 2012, the same
California commission found that another Uber driver was an
independent contractor, citing evidence such as the ability of the
driver to determine his own hours.
… But the
commission said Uber controls
the tools [The
software that summons a ride? Bob] driver use, monitors
their approval ratings and terminates their access to the system if
their ratings fall below 4.6 stars.
Perhaps there isn't a
“One model fits all” solution?
Artist
rebellion against Apple Music grows as independent labels say they
won't participate in the launch
Independent record labels are concerned that by
giving away their music for free during Apple Music's three month
free trial, they will essentially be footing the bill for Apple's
launch.
So they are bailing on the music-streaming app.
Took 'em long enough.
NHTSA’s
Database Now Lists All Affected Vehicles
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Jun 18, 2015
“If
your vehicle is manufactured by BMW, Chrysler, Daimler Trucks, Ford,
General Motors, Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Subaru, or Toyota,
you may be affected by a recall on airbags. The recall affects
nearly 34 million vehicles in the U.S. If your vehicle is
manufactured by the brands listed above use the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) VIN
search tool or a specific
vehicle-maker’s site to confirm if you are affected by the
recall. If your vehicle is listed, contact
the manufacturer [Actually,
the manufacturers want you to contact the dealers. Bob]
to find out when you can get your vehicle fixed and at no cost to
you. You can also continue to check for updates
on this recall or subscribe
to
NHTSA’s
Recall Notification E-mail System.”
A skill my students should master? Law and
journalism as well as piloting tips...
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