Interesting design choice.
Parking
Meters Are Rejecting Credit Cards in Y2K-Type Glitch
… The meters’ credit card payment software
was configured to end on
Jan. 1, resulting in the mass malfunction, the city’s
Department of Transportation said. Parkeon, the vendor that
developed the payment system, failed to update the software,
officials said.
Sean Renn, a spokesman for the Flowbird Group,
which owns Parkeon, said an
anti-fraud security setting disabled the card payment system,
causing the outage. The company provided the city with a software
fix on Thursday, he added.
… City
workers were on sidewalks, reconfiguring the software meter by meter,
Transportation Department officials said.
They said they had no estimate for how long the
job would take. The city has 14,000 meters covering some 85,000
spaces.
Who will do it in 2020?
Fresh
Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of
control’
An
explosive leak of tens of thousands of documents from the defunct
data firm Cambridge
Analytica
is
set to expose the inner workings of the company that collapsed after
the Observer
revealed
it had misappropriated 87
million Facebook profiles.
More
than 100,000 documents relating to work in 68 countries that will lay
bare the global infrastructure of an operation used to manipulate
voters on “an industrial scale” are set to be released over the
next months.
It
comes as Christopher
Steele,
the ex-head of MI6’s Russia desk and the intelligence expert behind
the so-called “Steele dossier” into Trump’s relationship with
Russia, said that while the company had closed down, the
failure to properly punish bad actors meant that the prospects for
manipulation of the US election this year were even worse.
The
release of documents began on New Year’s Day on an anonymous
Twitter account, @HindsightFiles,
with links to material on elections in Malaysia, Kenya and Brazil.
The documents were revealed to have come from Brittany
Kaiser,
an ex-Cambridge Analytica employee turned whistleblower, and to be
the same ones subpoenaed by Robert
Mueller’s investigation into
Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
I fall into the two finger category.
TypingDNA
raises $7 million for AI that identifies people by how they type
… TypingDNA
—
which was founded in Romania in 2016 by Adrian Gheara, Cristian
Tamas, and Techstars alum Raul Popa, and which recently moved its
headquarters to New York — provides typing biometrics
authentication as a service, enabling companies to recognize people
by the way they type.
… TypingDNA’s platform records dynamic
statistics about pressed keyboard keys and turns them into typing
patterns, which its proprietary engine analyzes and verifies against
patterns collected from real-world users. As Popa explains, the way
a person types on a keyboard is unique and fairly difficult to
replicate — in point of fact, it’s behaviorally rich enough to
reveal biometric traits like gender and age.
Perspective.
S. Korea
starts universal super high-speed Internet service
South Korea has started offering super high-speed
Internet services for the entire country that will allow universal,
convenient access to online data, the government said on Sunday.
“High-speed internet has been designated as a
universal service that everyone is entitled to receive no matter
where they are,” the Ministry of Science and ICT said.
… The move makes the country the eighth in the
world to offer universal high-speed Internet to all citizens, but the
transmission speed of 100 mega bit per second (100 Mbps) is the
fastest by far, the ministry said.
The US, Spain, Switzerland, Finland, Malta,
Croatia and Sweden have all introduced universal service, although
the average speed offered stands at 10 Mbps for the US with many
others getting access speeds of just 1-2 Mbps.
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