[en] Harvard "Teaches a Valuable Lesson"
"#History has long taught us that such #appeasement doesn’t work when concession is seen as weakness - or even as surrender."
"Even critics of higher #education and Trump allies believe #Trump is dramatically overplaying his hand."
"This battle is one as vital as higher education has ever faced."
https://time.com/7278903/harvard-teaches-leaders-valuable-lesson/
#harvard #university #research @academicchatter #time #MediaHighlights
[de] ComCom-Verfügung: Swisscom muss Init7 ein Zero-Settlement-Peering gewähren
Nach dem #BVGer-Entscheid 2020 musste der Telekom-Regulator #ComCom das Gesuch von #Init7 von 2013 (!) für #Interkonnektion mit #Swisscom neu beurteilen.
"Im Verlauf des Verfahrens zeigte sich ... dass Swisscom zusammen mit der Deutschen Telekom ein Kartell gebildet hat, um von Content-Anbietern Zahlungen zu erzwingen."
#MediaHighlights
#zerosettlementpeering #peering #isp #weko #ftth
[en] Microsoft Goes Open Source 😄 - Not Really Intentionally
"... breach was worse than initially understood and that the Russian hackers accessed Microsoft source code."
"... string of breaches affecting the company that have raised major questions in Washington about Microsoft’s security posture."
https://cyberscoop.com/microsoft-cozy-bear-russia/
#MediaHighlights #microsoft #opensource #oss #foss #sourcecode #hacking #hacker #breach #insecure #security #cybersecurity #infosec #ictsecurity #itsecurity #threat
[en] Google litigation (USA) in antitrust case: what is Google accused of?
"80 to 90 percent of just about everything in the U.S. has as its default the Google search engine"
"... did they take action that damaged the competitive process?"
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/09/breaking-down-google-antitrust-case/
#google #litigation #antitrust #accusation #harvardgazette #usa #doj #departmentofjustice
[en] To fight financial illiteracy, we mapped our money system as waterworks
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"... most of us remain unfamiliar with the jargon of economists, bankers and tax experts. As in 2009, today’s democracies continue to be divided into what Taibbi describes as a “two-tiered state, one with plugged-in financial bureaucrats above and clueless customers below.”
#financial #finance #literacy #illiteracy #money #moneysystem #cds #cdo #economics #trickledown
#MediaHighlights
[en] To fight financial illiteracy, we mapped our money system as waterworks
"... most of us remain unfamiliar with the jargon of economists, bankers and tax experts. As in 2009, today’s democracies continue to be divided into what Taibbi describes as a “two-tiered state, one with plugged-in financial bureaucrats above and clueless customers below.”
#financial #finance #literacy #illiteracy #money #moneysystem #cds #cdo #economics #trickledown
#MediaHighlights
[en] Schneier: Automatically enforce laws, sue ... at mass scale?
"Imagine a future in which AIs automatically interpret - and enforce - laws"
"Some legal scholars predict that computationally personalized law and its automated enforcement are the future of law."
"... This system would present an unprecedented threat to freedom. ..."
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/07/ai-and-microdirectives.html
#microdirective #freedom #lawenforcement #airegulation #ai #llm #gpt4 #artificialintelligence #chatgpt #MediaHighlights
[en] White House announcement: AI corp. pledge to mitigate the risks of the emerging technology
"... most influential companies building artificial intelligence have agreed to a voluntary pledge to mitigate the risks of the emerging technology ..."
"The companies ... vowed to allow independent security experts to test their systems before they are released to the public ..."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/21/ai-white-house-pledge-openai-google-meta/
#airegulation #ai #llm #gpt4 #artificialintelligence #chatgpt #MediaHighlights
Ban End-to-End Encryption in the EU?
"Leaked Government Document Shows Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End Encryption"
https://www.wired.com/story/europe-break-encryption-leaked-document-csa-law/
#cybersecurity #ictsecurity #itsecurity #infosec #privacy #security #cryptography #encryption #e2e #ee #endtoendencryption #goingdark #csam #cryptographer #technologist #whatsapp #signal #messenger
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[en] Android: Logging of Sensitive Data and Leak to Third Parties
"Logging of sensitive data in the Android ecosystem ..."
"... Logging of “activity” names can inadvertently reveal information about users through their app usage. "
Paper Prepub:
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec23fall-prepub-89-lyons.pdf
Media EL PAÍS:
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-05-22/this-is-how-android-apps-reveal-our-secrets-without-us-being-aware-of-it.html
#MediaHighlights
#ResearchHighlights
#android #dataleak #leak #mobilesecurity #ictsecurity #itsecurity #infosec #itsec #privacy #security #thirdparty
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