Sunday, September 23, 2018

It’s not just the elections. “It’s not suspicious if they agree with me.”
FCC Shielding Evidence Of Suspected Russian Role In Ending Net Neutrality: Lawsuit
The American public is a victim of an “orchestrated campaign by the Russian to corrupt” democratic rule-making, The New York Times argues.
The Federal Communications Commission has obstinately hidden information concerning its system for gathering public input about its unpopular plan to kill net neutrality — regardless of signs of Russian manipulation of the comment procedure, according to a New York Times lawsuit.
The newspaper’s Freedom of Information Act requests concerning the comment system were turned down repeatedly by the FCC as the Times attempted to investigate possible influence by Russia after huge numbers of comments were linked to Russian emails.
Stonewalling by the FCC has made the the American public the “victim of an orchestrated campaign by the Russians to corrupt the notice-and-comment process and undermine an important step in the democratic process of rule-making,” states the Times’ lawsuit, which was filed Thursday in U.S.District Court in the Southern District of New York.
The agency also ignored similar demands — at least nine times — from the New York attorney general last year as his office investigated millions of suspicious comments.


(Related) Fodder for our debate on what they should do.
How Can Social Media Firms Tackle Hate Speech?




For my architecture students. “Open the pod bay doors, Hal.”
AI Weekly: Transparency challenges stand in the way of ambient computing
… For example, if you tell an Echo speaker, “Alexa, good night,” it might say in response, “By the way, your living room light is on. Do you want me to turn it off?”
This sort of personalized, contextual experience — commonly referred to as ambient computing — was once the stuff of science fiction, but advancements in artificial intelligence (and ambitious new startups taking full advantage of those advancements) are fast making it a reality.


(Related)
For Museums, Augmented Reality Is the Next Frontier




For my geeks.
A great many websites are run using a trio of services: Apache, MySQL, and PHP. It is a tried and tested combination which works phenomenally well, most of the time.
… First thing first: what is a WAMP server? WAMP stands for Windows Apache, MySQL, and PHP.




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