Roughly a third of the content published by Bloomberg News uses some form of automated technology. The system used by the company, Cyborg, is able to assist reporters in churning out thousands of articles on company earnings reports each quarter.
Looking back to Milton Friedman’s prescient remarks in 1999, just as the internet was taking hold, his clarity about the future of an internet-connected economy was striking:
“The one thing that’s missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash. A method where buying on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B, without A knowing B or B knowing A.”
A snooping VPN is a contradiction in terms. The people responsible at Facebook should be put in jail. Now they’ll probably just rebrand and continue the practice under a different name and a different 1000 page EULA.
David Chaum has just announced a private internet thingy. No time to read his long thread here yet, but I think it will be worth checking out if anyone cares to do so, and a summary topic would be very helpful to folk here.
This guy was way ahead of his time on the things we care about.
I’ve just watched the following interview with George Gilder, regarding his new book “Life After Google” and I most definitely believe it’s worth the watch, as it touches so much on the vision of the SAFE Network. Intelligent and thought-provoking:
Gaudry blamed the issue on Russian officials using a variant of the ElGamal encryption scheme that used encryption key sizes that were too small to be secure. This meant that modern computers could break the encryption scheme within minutes.
Just received the latest SAFE Gossip email. And very good it is too. Quick question - why not reproduce these on the website? Good for SEO and very easily done.
On the subject of AWS and its power-grab, people might like this.
Among the guidelines, AWS said it won’t approve the use of terms like “multi-cloud,” “cross cloud,” “any cloud,” “every cloud,” “or any other language that implies designing or supporting more than one cloud provider.”