Most people don’t tag their precise location in Tweets, so we’re removing this ability to simplify your Tweeting experience. You’ll still be able to tag your precise location in Tweets through our updated camera. It’s helpful when sharing on-the-ground moments.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) 18 juin 2019
“Google says it has fixed an issue that allowed old owners of Nest security cameras to continue to view a feed from the device, even after deregistering it from their account. The issue could have potentially allowed an old owner of one of the cameras to continue to look through it, even after selling it to someone else. The new owner would have had no indication that a stranger could be able to look inside their home. ”
Source : Used Nest cameras had bug that let previous owners peer into homes – The Verge
“We present a method for detecting one very popular Photoshop manipulation — image warping applied to human faces — using a model trained entirely using fake images that were automatically generated by scripting Photoshop itself. We show that our model outperforms humans at the task of recognizing manipulated images, can predict the specific location of edits, and in some cases can be used to « undo » a manipulation to reconstruct the original, unedited image.”
Source : Detecting Photoshopped Faces by Scripting Photoshop
“Using a Shazam-like technology, the app would record audio to identify soccer games, and use the geolocation of the phone to locate which bars were streaming without licenses. El Diario reports that fans have downloaded that app more than 10 million times, essentially turning them into undercover narcs.”
Source : LaLiga’s app listened in on fans to catch bars illegally streaming soccer – The Verge
“Mais comment fonctionne vraiment cet objet connecté, conçu en Allemagne, produit en Chine par la marque SilverCrest et commercialisé par Lidl en France, Allemagne, Belgique, Suisse et Grande-Bretagne ? Numerama a découvert, avec l’aide de deux Français, que certaines caractéristiques de l’appareil soulevaient des interrogations. Notre enquête montre notamment qu’un micro a été installé dans le Monsieur Cuisine Connect, sans que sa présence ne soit indiquée, et sans qu’il n’y ait de justification apparente.”
“Google has been arguing that by stopping it from dealing with Huawei, the US risks creating two kinds of Android operating system: the genuine version and a hybrid one. The hybrid one is likely to have more bugs in it than the Google one, and so could put Huawei phones more at risk of being hacked, not least by China.”
Source : Google warns of US national security risks from Huawei ban | Financial Times
“Les critères d’analyse des risques concurrentiels sont-ils mauvais ? Notre analyse de ces marchés numériques était beaucoup trop étroite : pour WhatsApp, la définition de marché était la messagerie instantanée, pour Instagram, celle d’application de photo en ligne. Mais, dans son cœur, Facebook veut capter notre attention, pour apprendre sur nous et proposer de la publicité hyperciblée. Comme Google. Il faut considérer ces entreprises comme des négociants en attention.”
Source : « Facebook a induit la Commission européenne en erreur lors du rachat de WhatsApp »
“In order to ensure the government is added to the conversation in secret, GCHQ’s proposal would require messaging apps, service providers, and operating systems to change their software so that it would 1) change the encryption schemes used, and/or 2) mislead users by suppressing the notifications that routinely appear when a new communicant joins a chat.”
Source : Apple and WhatsApp condemn GCHQ plans to eavesdrop on encrypted chats | UK news | The Guardian
J’ai peu de mots pour qualifier cet acte d’une rare stupidité. « Top of Images » participe de la manipulation des imaginaires propre à la publicité, mais en se livrant de surcroit à un détournement de l’un des biens communs les plus précieux du monde contemporain : Wikipédia.
Photos du post de Mike Dickison (@adzebill), dont le thread mérite d’être parcouru, en plus de celui de Ad Age (@adage).
Cet acte participe de ces choses en apparences insignifiantes, qui dégradent pourtant chaque jour un peu plus les biens communs au profit de quelques intérêts particuliers, étend insidieusement la publicité à toutes les sphères de nos existences et révèlent le cynisme et la manifeste incompréhension du monde contemporain de ceux qui se croient à ce point au-dessus de tout.
Comment concevoir tout le processus qui a conduit une telle marque à s’engager dans une manipulation de la sorte, sans la moindre alerte, sans la moindre personne pour dire : « mais on a tout à perdre à faire cela, cela ne peut pas fonctionner, tôt ou tard, cela se saura, et on perdra bien plus que ce que nous pouvons y gagner ». Non, manifestement, personne n’a alerté cette marque prestigieuse de ce à quoi elle s’exposait. Au contraire, ses promoteurs étaient fiers de leur acte, telle une victoire sur les communs, un signe de leur supériorité à déconstruire les imaginaires collectifs à leur seul profit.
‘“Our mission is to expand our frontiers so that our consumers can overcome their limits. With the ‘Top of Images’ project, we achieved our positioning and placed our products in a fully contextualized manner as items that go hand in hand with these destinations, » explained Fabricio Luzzi, CEO of The North Face Brazil in a statement. According to the agency, the biggest obstacle of the campaign was updating the photos without attracting attention of Wikipedia moderators to sustain the brand’s presence for as long as possible, as site editors could change them at any time.’
À présent, The North Face a le privilège de faire partie des rares entreprises à s’être livrées à ce type de pratique et à une description de leur marque dont il n’est pas certain que The North Face en sorte grandie.
Source : The North Face used Wikipedia to climb to the top of Google search results | AdAge
‘The American companies’ moves are likely to escalate tensions between Washington and Beijing, elevating fears that President Donald Trump’s goal is to contain China, triggering a protracted cold war between the world’s biggest economies. In addition to a trade fight that has rattled global markets for months, the U.S. has pressured both allies and foes to avoid using Huawei for 5G networks that will form the backbone of the modern economy.“The extreme scenario of Huawei’s telecom network unit failing would set China back many years and might even be viewed as an act of war by China,” Koontz wrote. “Such a failure would have massive global telecom market implications.”’
Source : Trump Huawei Ban Ripples Across Industry as Supplies Halted – Bloomberg
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