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31 August, 2017
29 August, 2017
Tesla claiming the Model X P100D is the fastest-accelerating sport utility vehicle in history — zero to 100km/h in as quick as 3.1 seconds. The (in) famous Ludicrous Mode is alive and well, giving the driver a rollercoaster-esque feel of acceleration, and autopilot, while still in beta, is another standout feature from the Model S. Autopilot is more than a novelty; while it’s somewhat crazy and exhilarating to let the car drive itself on the freeway with minimum human intervention, after driving 10 hours between states, it’s clear how helpful that really is.
Labels:
Artificial Intelligence,
ICT Capability,
Robotics
25 August, 2017
With so many different kinds of robots, how do you define what one is? It's a physical thing―engineers agree on that, at least. But ask three different roboticists to define a robot and you’ll get three different answers. This isn't a trivial semantic conundrum: Thinking about what a robot really is has implications for how humanity deals with the unfolding robo-revolution.
22 August, 2017
Students in NSW will not sit NAPLAN tests online until schools are confident they are ready to move from pen and paper, according to the Education Minister Rob Stokes, who said he supported the use of handwriting in exams and was "very aware" of the concerns of teachers. Mr Stokes' comments come as the NSW Teachers Federation began collecting feedback from teachers and principals about the school readiness tests, which are under way in thousands of schools across NSW to assess whether schools will be in a position to move to online NAPLAN testing from next year. But data collected by the NSW Department of Education show that the students who sat the school readiness test last week reported that they liked doing it on a computer. Of the 12,500 responses from students, more than 77 per cent were positive.
Labels:
Education,
ICT Capability,
Literacy,
Numeracy
21 August, 2017
Thousands of subscribers to the National Broadband Network will be refunded after the nation’s biggest telco launched an investigation into overcharging. In May, Telstra announced it would refund almost 8000 customers after it emerged they were being charged for internet speeds that could never be obtained under the fibre-to-the-node delivery system that was implemented by the federal Coalition in 2013. Optus yesterday said it was now “undertaking a similar process” and would work to ascertain how many customers had been affected and to refund those who had been short-changed.
Bregman's notion of a shorter work week is not designed to provide more time to sit on the couch massaging the remote control. "When I talk about the 15-hour work week, I'm talking about doing less paid work that we don't really care about so that we can do more things that are actually valuable," he said. "Whether it's volunteer work or caring for our kids or elderly. We need to update our idea of what work is." He said shortening the work week, in tandem with implementing a universal basic income, would offer people the freedom to decide what to do with their life while providing a level of financial security. Bregman said working fewer hours would reduce stress and workplace accidents. He also said countries with shorter working weeks had less income inequality and greater gender equality.
THE BIG PROMISE of driverless cars is that they'll save lives by preventing crashes. Computers don't fall asleep, get drunk, or glance at that tweet. Robocar technology could save tens, even hundreds, of thousands of lives each year. Such cars remain years away, of course, but you can find an autonomous vehicle saving lives on the road right now, in Colorado.
The Federal Court ruled in favour of film distributor Village Roadshow which brought legal proceedings against telco services to force them to block domain names for services used to illegally download movies and other programs. Federal Court Justice John Nicholas on Friday ordered internet providers, including Telstra, Optus, TPG and Vocus, to take "reasonable steps" to disable access to 42 websites that breach copyright laws, such as Pirate Bay, within 15 days.
Labels:
Ethical,
ICT Capability,
Intellectual Property,
Sustainability
18 August, 2017
17 August, 2017
16 August, 2017
A DRIVERLESS bus will ferry passengers around Tonsley within months, and recharge at a solar garage, in two Adelaide firsts at Flinders University. A $320,000 solar garage will be built at the Tonsley campus, capable of recharging about six electric vehicles at once — including the new autonomous bus. The garage would be available for anyone to recharge their electric vehicles for free, and would also act as an education centre to spread awareness about green transport.
Labels:
Education,
ICT Capability,
research,
Robotics,
Sustainability
14 August, 2017
This system is called the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), or colloquially, the “world computer.” Code is run publicly, but users are pseudonymous. It’s like Amazon Web Services, except instead of Amazon as the seller and users as the buyer, users can play either role. No individual controls the system. That makes Ethereum something genuinely new—something unprecedented. Decentralized apps, or DApps, are programs that run on the world computer. “Run,” however, might not be the right word, because Ethereum-the-computer is dreadfully slow
Labels:
History,
ICT Capability,
research
Queensland Police are now actively operating the next-generation of crime fighting technology: Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR). In Queensland alone, the tech has been used to accurately scan number plates over 23 million times in the last 15 months. Fitted to police vehicles across the state, ANPR scanners have the ability to fight crime in ways previously the domain of science fiction.
Labels:
ICT Capability,
Privacy
11 August, 2017
The new copycats: How Facebook squashes competition from start-ups
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wall-street-journal/the-new-copycats-how-facebook-squashes-competition-from-startups/news-story/3095f438b5880566c65b73c84453c79f
Labels:
Ethical,
ICT Capability,
Intellectual Property,
Social
10 August, 2017
Play Protect encompasses several features that were completely separate until now. There’s malware scanning, lost phone tracking and locking, and Chrome Safe Browsing. The anti-malware features leverage Google’s machine learning platform to monitor apps for suspicious behavior, removing them from your phone before they can cause damage. You may be perplexed, wondering if Android had built-in malware scanning before. Yes, it did, but Google was very bad at making that known.
Labels:
Cybersafety
Starcraft II has been a target for Alphabet’s DeepMind AI research for a while now – the UK AI company took on Blizzard’s sci-fi strategy game starting last year, and announced plans to create an open AI research environment based on the game to make it possible for others to contribute to the effort of creating a virtual agent who can best the top human StarCraft players in the world. The whole goal here is to come up with AI that can play StarCraft II better than any human can, in much the same way that DeepMind did with its AlphaGo software for playing the ancient physical board game of Go.
Deeplearning.ai is home to a series of online courses Ng says will help spread the benefits of recent advances in machine learning far beyond big tech companies such as Google and Baidu. The courses offer coders without an AI background training in how to use deep learning, the technique behind the current frenzy of investment in AI. “This sounds naive, but I want us to build a new AI-powered society,” Ng tells WIRED. “The only way to build this is if there are hundreds of thousands of people with the skills to do things like improve the water supply for your city or help resource allocation in developing economies.”
09 August, 2017
02 August, 2017
IN 2010, STEVE Jobs banished Adobe Flash from the iPhone. It was too insecure, Jobs wrote, too proprietary, too resource-intensive, too unaccommodating for a platform run by fingertips instead of mouse clicks. All of those gripes hold true. And now Adobe itself has finally conceded. The company announced Tuesday that it would “stop updating and distributing the Flash Player,” giving the end of 2020 as its end-of-life date.
Labels:
Cybersafety,
Game,
Graphic Design,
History,
ICT Capability
About 7000 year 11 students will sit a new critical thinking exam this year, which has been developed as universities and employers stress jobs of the future will require more than the traditional subjects taught in the Higher School Certificate. The optional 90-minute online test includes 60 questions that assess logical reasoning and analytical reasoning skills, and students get a detailed report on how they performed in relation to their peers and the areas they need to improve.
Labels:
Critical + Creative Thinking,
Education
28 July, 2017
The highly competitive entry tests for NSW selective schools will be overhauled as the state government moves to address concerns that wealthy families are gaming the system by engaging tutors for their children. "Parents can spend more than $20,000 a year on preparation for [opportunity class] or selective high school tests," NSW Department of Education secretary Mark Scott told the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children conference in Sydney on Friday.
You may need to impress a machine the next time you apply for a job. And be careful what you put online. These job-vetting machines may not like your blogs and social media posts. The fact these capabilities have been in the pipeline has been known for some time. But now they’re out there and companies are using them. IBM has told The Australian that several local firms are using IBM Watson’s artificial intelligence skills to initially vet applicants for jobs. Watson narrows down the applicants list before humans move in to make final choices.
23 July, 2017
Australia will get its first taste of a global phenomenon today when the event centre at Sydney’s Star casino hosts one leg of the group stages of the Overwatch World Cup. Overwatch is a multiplayer online video game set on a dystopian Earth where two six-player teams take part in a series of skirmishes between 24 predefined characters called heroes.
Labels:
3D,
Game,
Intercultural Understanding,
Social
09 July, 2017
Mind you, the current system has plenty of flaws. Let’s face it: money is created by economists in the ivory towers of central banks and by licensed banks lending what has been deposited with them, which stays deposited at the same time as being lent, thereby multiplying. Money creation by banks is a privatised demand-driven system that periodically comes unstuck because banks either over-lend, or lend unwisely, so that the money gets lost and the original depositors’ savings evaporate — although these days most banks are “too big to fail”, and therefore implicitly guaranteed by taxpayers. The other problem with the current system is that although the value of money is fairly stable, it tends to devalue over time as a result of deliberate inflation. Central banks have been trying to get inflation up for a decade, in order to reduce the face value of the world’s excessive debt. Following the adoption of independent “price stability mandates” by central banks in the 1970s and 1980s, prices have been anything but stable: inflation has averaged 3.5-4 per cent per annum, dramatically reducing the value of money ($1000 40 years ago would now be worth a quarter of that). So those pushing for non-fiat money, that is money not controlled by central bankers and/or politicians, have a point: under the current system, governments debauch the currency for their own purposes and periodically banks blow it up through greed and incompetence. But the people trying to build an alternative system are basically anarchists. In fact, I’d say that global governments will soon need to declare that cryptocurrencies will never become legal tender, and legislate to that effect. You can play with them, and have fun trading and gambling, but actual money? Nah. That’s not to say blockchain, the technology behind cryptocurrencies, is also a scam, far from it. In fact, it looks a truly revolutionary technology that is likely to change the world through mass disintermediation — but not disintermediation of government.
06 July, 2017
According to futurist Thomas Frey, in 14 years it will be a big deal when students learn from robot teachers over the internet. Frey’s prediction comes amid a boom in artificial intelligence research. Google is developing DeepMind, a complex piece of machine-learning software. IBM is developing Watson-powered robots. Amazon is developing drone delivery.
05 July, 2017
Named the ‘Red Belly Blockchain’, the new system being developed by the University of Sydney’s School of Information Technologies will allow secure and almost instantaneous digital transfer of virtual currencies across the world. “In recent testing, our blockchain achieved the best performance we have seen so far – with more than 440,000 transactions per second on 100 machines,” said University of Sydney academic Dr Vincent Gramoli, who heads up the Concurrent Systems Research Group developing the technology. “In comparison, VISA’s network has a peak capacity of around 56,000 transactions per second and the Bitcoin network is limited to around seven transactions per second.”
A makerspace can be any place where students can get creative, whether a classroom, library or garden. It's not about the space, but the innovation mindset that the space promotes. In this article, we unpack everything you need to create your own collaborative makerspace at school.
Labels:
3D,
Critical + Creative Thinking,
Education,
Game,
ICT Capability,
Literacy,
Numeracy,
Robotics,
Women in IT
03 July, 2017
Online retail giant Amazon has invented a new way of sending out its deliveries, filing a patent for ‘drone skyscrapers’. According to the designs the tower would have several launching spots where remotely operated drones would be loaded with a package and then take off. Amazon, which will be launching in Australia this year, is planning to use drones to deliver smaller packages and has already begun testing drone delivery
Labels:
ICT Capability,
research,
Robotics
Centrelink is using controversial high-tech phone-breaking devices to reveal secrets hidden by suspected fraudsters in their smart phones. The agency says it uses the technology in strict accordance with the law and only when it has obtained a warrant when investigating cases of serious fraud. But experts have warned the use of the 'Universal Forensic Extraction Devices' is jeopardising the communications security of Australians.
Labels:
Cybersafety,
Ethical,
Privacy
28 June, 2017
A ransomware attack has struck computers across the globe, taking out servers at Russia's biggest oil company, disrupting operations at Ukrainian banks and shutting down computers at multinational shipping and advertising firms. An adviser to Ukraine's Interior Minister said the virus got into computer systems via "phishing" emails written in Russian and Ukrainian, designed to lure employees into opening them. According to the state security agency, the emails contained infected Word documents or PDF files as attachments.
Labels:
Cybersafety
26 June, 2017
Google says its computers will soon stop reading the emails of its Gmail users to personalise their ads, a move that addresses a longstanding privacy concern about a product that is central to its growing corporate services business. The core unit of Alphabet has mined users’ emails for personal data to serve them more relevant ads since it launched Gmail in 2004, which almost immediately sparked privacy concerns.
21 June, 2017
The fact NBN Co has both “theoretical” speeds — the speeds it expects homes not yet connected will achieve — and actual speeds post-connection also raises questions as to the necessity of a $7 million federal government program to monitor connection speeds in 4000 homes. Industry experts interviewed by The Australian have raised concerns NBN Co has widespread detailed net speed information and is not releasing it publicly but only to retail telco providers, who may have financial incentives to suppress the information.
19 June, 2017
Experts believe the algorithms used to encrypt online messages will be useless in a decade or two, as computers become powerful enough to crack them. An alternative is to tag messages with light particles entangled with each other through the weird properties of quantum physics. However, until now, physicists have succeeded in transmitting entangled particles only about 100km. Over longer distances, light leaches out of the optical fibres used for ground-based telecommunications, which degrades the quantum signal.
Labels:
Cybersafety,
ICT Capability,
research
16 June, 2017
More than half of all students starting a bachelor degree at an Australian university are now admitted on a basis other than their Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank (ATAR), despite this cohort having one of the highest dropout rates. Nearly 56 per cent of students commencing bachelor degrees were admitted based on criteria other than ATAR in 2015
Labels:
Critical + Creative Thinking,
Education,
Literacy,
Numeracy
13 June, 2017
Microsoft and developer Mojang have announced a significant update to Minecraft that will let people play and create together regardless of whether they're using mobile phones, game consoles or PCs. Dubbed the "Better Together" update, the changes to the immensely popular game were announced at Microsoft's media briefing ahead of this week's E3 expo in Los Angeles. Once the update rolls out in the coming months, the newest versions of the game — including the Pocket Edition, Xbox One Edition, Nintendo Switch edition and more — will be renamed simply to Minecraft and will become functionally identical.
Sydney taxis will be able to turn off their meters as part of a radical package of reforms designed to help them compete with ridesharing firms such as Uber. Although new regulations haven’t been finalised, fare deregulation will mean the end of fixed taxi fare rates. Passengers will hunt for the lowest fare they can get with various taxi firms and Uber, when they book a ride by phone or through an app.
In mixed and augmented reality, Apple could be the winner. It wasn’t the most prominent announcement, but this week Apple released ARKit, development software that will let coders build augmented reality experiences for iPhone and iPad. Already the developer community is buzzing, with some early applications already completed. Very soon iPhone users will be able to sample augmented reality applications of better quality than Pokemon Go, which introduced the globe to the AR concept.
Labels:
3D,
Artificial Intelligence
05 June, 2017
The cocktail party problem refers to the challenge of following a single person’s speech in a room full of surrounding chatter and noise. With a little concentration, humans can focus in on what a particular person is saying. But when we want technology to separate the speech of a targeted person from the simultaneous conversations of others—as we do with hands-free telephony when a caller is in a car with kids in the back seat—the results leave much to be desired. Until now, that is, says Mitsubishi Electric. The company demonstrated its speech separation technology at its annual R&D Open House in Tokyo on 24 May. In one type of demonstration, two people spoke a sentence in different languages simultaneously into a single microphone.
31 May, 2017
30 May, 2017
There’s no doubt that some drone owners will see this as a company trying to crack down on what they’re allowed to do with a piece of hardware they purchased. As someone with pervasive concerns for how personal data is used and sold these days, I’m sympathetic to some of those arguments. Drones can serve incredibly valuable functions, from remote delivery or gathering footage as part of a story, to getting a view of a problem or unfolding situation that would be impossible to source in any other way. The flip side to this equation, of course, is that drone strikes and near-misses have skyrocketed in recent years. Some have argued that the FAA has overblown the risk of a drone strike, given the small size and lightweight design of most drones. But trying to quickly determine whether a drone is of a type that could cause plane damage while closing on the diminutive craft is clearly not an option.
29 May, 2017
27 May, 2017
The Law Society of NSW, the peak representative body for solicitors, this year released a report on the future of the legal profession that identified the need for future law graduates to be equipped with technological and business skills to meet changing employer demands. The report follows stark findings that only 74.1 per cent of law undergraduates looking for full-time employment were successful in finding jobs in 2015, compared with 88.4 per cent of graduates in 2005, according to a report by Graduate Careers Australia.
22 May, 2017
"In lessons involving direct instruction, teachers can teach 40 or 50 students as easily as 20," Mr Bowden said. "But with numeracy, for example, we know these 10 students need remedial work and one teacher can take them aside while a different teachers takes all the students who are on track. "It's a recognition that students learn at difference paces." Schools should either move all classes to a composite structure, or none, Associate Professor Linley Cornish said. "Schools only having some composite classes sets up a stigma, and parents start to think, 'should my child be in a different class, is my child being disadvantaged?'," she said.
As a keen, heavy investor in Bitcoin was quoted as saying last week: “I think that something has to replace the current monetary insanity. It may or may not be Bitcoin. I don’t know what it is. I’m worried about the system — the integrity of the system. You can’t navigate that by working within the system. You have to be outside the system. Bitcoin is outside the system.”
15 May, 2017
Blockchain’s public interface, at its most basic, is a string of shared data made up of a series of uniquely ordered alphabetical letters and numbers, timestamped and immutable. Yet, through this, blockchain can fundamentally change existing organisational structures, not merely as an evolutionary development, but potentially as a transformational technology. While it continues to develop, we need explore the opportunities that blockchain technology can offer and the consequences of not getting it right. We are living in a world where ‘for good’ has become zeitgeist and is often interpreted as 'social good'. However to set the scene of the discussion it is really important to note that 'for good' is not limited to non-profit activities or the third sector. There are incredibly varied views of what 'for good' means – for creative industries, it is transparency and fair distribution of royalties; for refugees, it is establishing or protecting identity; for charities, it is about accountability; and for government, it is about delivering better services to the public.
NAB-owned online bank UBank has launched Robochat, an AI-powered chatbot that’s here to help filling out home loan forms. Robochat exists as an upgrade to Ubank’s home loan live-chat service and is ready to answer most of your questions in mere seconds. For now, Robochat can only answer queries relevant to the home loan application, but in the future it might be able to pre-fill your forms or dole out tips and extra information, says Ubank’s head of digital, Jeremy Hubbard.
Labels:
Artificial Intelligence
The ransomware strain WannaCry (also known as WanaCrypt0r and WCry) that caused Friday’s barrage appears to be a new variant of a type that first appeared in late March. This new version has only gained steam since its initial barrage, with tens of thousands of infections in 74 countries so far today as of publication time. Its reach extends beyond the UK and Spain, into Russia, Taiwan, France, Japan, and dozens more countries. One reason WannaCry has proven so vicious? It seems to leverage a Windows vulnerability known as EternalBlue that allegedly originated with the NSA.
Labels:
Cybersafety,
Ethical
09 May, 2017
SINCE TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION became the norm for web services that care about securing your accounts, it’s started to feel like a security blanket, an extra layer keeping your data safe no matter whether your password is as strong as 8$&]$@I)9[P&4^s or as dumb as dadada. But a two-factor setup—which for most users requires a temporary code generated on, or sent to, your phone in addition to a password—isn’t an invincibility spell. Especially if that second factor is delivered via text message.
Labels:
Cybersafety
08 May, 2017
04 May, 2017
28 April, 2017
PISA report: The three measures by which Australia's students are ahead of Finland's. Australian students are twice as likely to say they expect to go to university as students in Finland, nearly 35 per cent more likely to say they want to be one of the best in their class, and three times as likely to have a paid job while they're at school, a global study into student wellbeing has found.
10 April, 2017
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has welcomed the Federal Government’s announcement today that it will fund a new broadband performance monitoring program to provide Australian consumers with accurate and independent information about broadband speeds.After appointing a qualified testing provider, the ACCC will commence the program in May 2017, and will provide comparative information for consumers during the second half of the year.
Sydney's Catholic schools will have selective entrance tests for the first time this year, with high schools across the diocese to offer places in selective streams for gifted and talented students. In a bid to stretch their brightest students and stop a drift to high-achieving public selective schools, Sydney Catholic Schools has been developing an external selection test with the Australian Council for Educational Research, which year 6 students will be able to sit in term three this year.
Labels:
Asia Connection,
Education,
Literacy,
Numeracy
06 April, 2017
05 April, 2017
A VIDEO game portraying the streets of Adelaide has drawn criticism from police, who say any representation of stations or officers could be breaking the law. But the young designer has said the game had been “misrepresented”. The game, called P Platers, is in the development stage. The open-world game give players to freedom to do what they want, which could include violence and is based on the hugely successful Grand Theft Auto series.
31 March, 2017
ON TUESDAY, THE House of Representatives voted to reverse regulations that would have stopped internet service providers from selling your web-browsing data without your explicit consent. It’s a disappointing setback for anyone who doesn’t want big telecoms profiting off of their personal data. So what to do? Try a Virtual Private Network. It won’t fix all your privacy problems, but a VPN’s a decent start.
29 March, 2017
The National Broadband Network has blamed Telstra for internet download speeds as low as 1/500th of what customers are paying for and claimed the telco giant has been selling super-fast plans in areas where those high speeds don’t exist. Tensions between the NBN Co, which is owned by the federal government, and internet retailers erupted yesterday after The Australian produced five case studies of Telstra customers reporting substandard internet speeds.
Labels:
Ethical,
ICT Capability,
research
28 March, 2017
"Don't teach your kids coding," says New York Times journalist Thomas Friedman. "Well – teach it if you want. But before you teach them coding, teach them digital civics: how to talk to one another on the internet, how to understand fact from fiction." The internet is a sewer "of untreated, unfiltered information," he told his audience of teachers and international education leaders at a conference in Dubai on the weekend, "and if we don't build the values filters so our children can interact in this environment, with real values ... we have a real problem."
22 March, 2017
The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2017. 1 JavaScript 2 Java 3 Python 4 PHP 5 C# 5 C++ 7 CSS 7 Ruby 9 C 10 Objective-C 11 Scala 11 Shell 11 Swift 14 R 15 Go 15 Perl 17 TypeScript 18 PowerShell 19 Haskell 20 Clojure 20 CoffeeScript 20 Lua 20 Matlab
Labels:
Education,
ICT Capability,
Sustainability
16 March, 2017
“The whole direction when you were sent to school is about getting to university, and the whole focus of year 11 and 12 is what mark you get. We’ve become a nation that’s testing people all the time, when we need to become a nation that’s skilling people,” she told news.com.au. Ms Westacott said the way the Australian school system was set up — with targets to complete a year 12 education — was misguided, and that kids should be free to make informed choices about continuing their education from year nine.
With every major US wireless carrier now offering unlimited data plans, consumers don't need to log on to a Wi-Fi network to avoid costly overage charges anymore, which threatens to render Wi-Fi obsolete. And with new competitive technologies crowding in, the future looks even dimmer.
Labels:
ICT Capability,
Sustainability
14 March, 2017
10 March, 2017
Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has responded to a challenge from Atlassian's Mike Cannon-Brookes, and doubled down on his company's pledge to help solve South Australia's energy crisis. "Tesla will get the system installed and working 100 days from contract signature or it is free," Musk tweeted on Friday in response to earlier correspondence from the Sydney based software billionaire.
Founders entering the Techstars Adelaide accelerator will have access to two great start-up minds dedicated to helping them do more, faster.” The program, slated to kick off in July, will connect 10 start-ups from all over the world to a network of community founders, mentors, investors, and corporate partners including seven of the world’s top defence industry companies: BAE, Thales, Austal, SAAB, ASC, Rheinmetall and DCNS. “I’m looking for companies that will be of interest to the Australian military, but also have a broader purpose,” Mr Gold told News Corp. “I expect there’ll be some great South Australian companies, but we will almost certainly be bringing some companies here from around the world. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for founders who want to develop and commercialise technologies such as internet of things, big data, sensors, drones and robotics.”
09 March, 2017
THE NSA, IT seems, isn’t the only American spy agency hacking the world. Judging by a new, nearly 9,000-page trove of secrets from WikiLeaks, the CIA has developed its own surprisingly wide array of intrusion tools, too. On Tuesday morning, WikiLeaks released what it’s calling Vault 7, an unprecedented collection of internal CIA files—what appear to be a kind of web-based Wiki—that catalog the agency’s apparent hacking techniques. And while the hoards of security researchers poring through the documents have yet to find any actual code among its spilled secrets, it details surprising capabilities, from dozens of exploits targeting Android and iOS to advanced PC-compromise techniques and detailed attempts to hack Samsung smart TVs, turning them into silent listening devices.
Labels:
Critical + Creative Thinking,
Cybersafety,
Ethical,
Privacy
06 March, 2017
Uber has for years engaged in a worldwide program to deceive authorities in markets where its low-cost ride-hailing service was being resisted by law enforcement, or in some instances, had been outright banned, including Australia. The program, which involves a tool called Greyball, uses data collected from Uber's app and other techniques to identify and circumvent officials. Uber used these to evade authorities in Australia, China, South Korea and Italy
Labels:
Cybersafety,
Ethical
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