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Just thought it may be worth having a news thread for all things technological and internet related - articles and info that may interest to - or may affect - us members on here…

There are also a fair few Technology based threads in the Media Index Thread (under the Technology section 😉)

 

Tim Berners-Lee launches campaign to save the web from abuse’:-

A ‘Magna Carta for the web’ will protect people’s rights online from threats such as fake news, prejudice and hate, says founder of the internet.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/05/tim-berners-lee-launches-campaign-to-save-the-web-from-abuse

^ Am intrigued to see how this is meant to work - and if it will actually work (or have an effect)… roll on May 2019 - and anything else that helps meanwhile.

 

A little patience goes a long way on this old-school Rebel base. If you are having issues finding what you are looking for, these will be of some help…

Welcome to the OriginalTrilogy.com | Introduce yourself in here | Useful info within : About : Help : Site Rules : Fan Project Rules : Announcements
How do I do this?’ on the OriginalTrilogy.com; some info & answers + FAQs - includes info on how to search for projects and threads on the OT•com

A Project Index for Star Wars Preservations (Harmy’s Despecialized & 4K77/80/83 etc) : A Project Index for Star Wars Fan Edits (adywan & Hal 9000 etc)

… and take your time to look around this site before posting - to get a feel for this place. Don’t just lazily make yet another thread asking for projects.

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From a couple of weeks ago, though may be of interest who missed it…
 

Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones’:-

Italian investigation found software updates ‘significantly reduced performance’, hastening new purchases.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/24/apple-samsung-fined-for-slowing-down-phones

or…

Finally, someone takes a stand against Apple, Samsung for slowing people’s phones. Just a few million dollars, tho’:-

Smartmobe-borking updates make Italians see red.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/24/apple_samsung_fined/
 

A little patience goes a long way on this old-school Rebel base. If you are having issues finding what you are looking for, these will be of some help…

Welcome to the OriginalTrilogy.com | Introduce yourself in here | Useful info within : About : Help : Site Rules : Fan Project Rules : Announcements
How do I do this?’ on the OriginalTrilogy.com; some info & answers + FAQs - includes info on how to search for projects and threads on the OT•com

A Project Index for Star Wars Preservations (Harmy’s Despecialized & 4K77/80/83 etc) : A Project Index for Star Wars Fan Edits (adywan & Hal 9000 etc)

… and take your time to look around this site before posting - to get a feel for this place. Don’t just lazily make yet another thread asking for projects.

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^ Apologies mate. I’d somehow overlooked your technology thread when coming up with the idea for this one - I’ll keep this thread as more of an ‘IT news’ thread - if good with you? No worries if not - I’ll ask the mods to lock/delete this one if you wish?

 

Facebook quietly admits role in Myanmar killing fields – but fret not, it will do better next time’:-

Social networks played key role in genocide says UN, Amnesty.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/06/facebook_myanmar_report/
 

A little patience goes a long way on this old-school Rebel base. If you are having issues finding what you are looking for, these will be of some help…

Welcome to the OriginalTrilogy.com | Introduce yourself in here | Useful info within : About : Help : Site Rules : Fan Project Rules : Announcements
How do I do this?’ on the OriginalTrilogy.com; some info & answers + FAQs - includes info on how to search for projects and threads on the OT•com

A Project Index for Star Wars Preservations (Harmy’s Despecialized & 4K77/80/83 etc) : A Project Index for Star Wars Fan Edits (adywan & Hal 9000 etc)

… and take your time to look around this site before posting - to get a feel for this place. Don’t just lazily make yet another thread asking for projects.

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Samsung folding smartphone revealed to developers’…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46130071

(with a bit of illustrated history of how mobile phone screens have evolved over the years)
 

A little patience goes a long way on this old-school Rebel base. If you are having issues finding what you are looking for, these will be of some help…

Welcome to the OriginalTrilogy.com | Introduce yourself in here | Useful info within : About : Help : Site Rules : Fan Project Rules : Announcements
How do I do this?’ on the OriginalTrilogy.com; some info & answers + FAQs - includes info on how to search for projects and threads on the OT•com

A Project Index for Star Wars Preservations (Harmy’s Despecialized & 4K77/80/83 etc) : A Project Index for Star Wars Fan Edits (adywan & Hal 9000 etc)

… and take your time to look around this site before posting - to get a feel for this place. Don’t just lazily make yet another thread asking for projects.

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Google Play Offering All Movie Rentals Just For $0.99 On Thanksgiving’…

https://fossbytes.com/google-play-offering-all-movie-rentals-cents-99-on-thanksgiving/
 

A little patience goes a long way on this old-school Rebel base. If you are having issues finding what you are looking for, these will be of some help…

Welcome to the OriginalTrilogy.com | Introduce yourself in here | Useful info within : About : Help : Site Rules : Fan Project Rules : Announcements
How do I do this?’ on the OriginalTrilogy.com; some info & answers + FAQs - includes info on how to search for projects and threads on the OT•com

A Project Index for Star Wars Preservations (Harmy’s Despecialized & 4K77/80/83 etc) : A Project Index for Star Wars Fan Edits (adywan & Hal 9000 etc)

… and take your time to look around this site before posting - to get a feel for this place. Don’t just lazily make yet another thread asking for projects.

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Space Odyssey helps launch first 8K TV channel’…

Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey will help launch the world’s first super-high definition 8K television channel on Saturday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46403539
 

A little patience goes a long way on this old-school Rebel base. If you are having issues finding what you are looking for, these will be of some help…

Welcome to the OriginalTrilogy.com | Introduce yourself in here | Useful info within : About : Help : Site Rules : Fan Project Rules : Announcements
How do I do this?’ on the OriginalTrilogy.com; some info & answers + FAQs - includes info on how to search for projects and threads on the OT•com

A Project Index for Star Wars Preservations (Harmy’s Despecialized & 4K77/80/83 etc) : A Project Index for Star Wars Fan Edits (adywan & Hal 9000 etc)

… and take your time to look around this site before posting - to get a feel for this place. Don’t just lazily make yet another thread asking for projects.

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Tim Berners-Lee: ‘Stop web’s downward plunge to dysfunctional future’:-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47524474

‘Global action is required to tackle the web’s “downward plunge to a dysfunctional future”, its inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has told the BBC.’
 

^ an intriguing article (with video - and a few useful links contained within) on how data breaches, hacking and misinformation could be tackled - along with three specific areas of ‘dysfunction’ that he said were harming the web today:-

• malicious activity such as hacking and harassment
• problematic system design such as business models that reward clickbait
• unintended consequences - such as aggressive or polarised discussions

 

and also Tim Berners-Lee on 30 years of the web: ‘If we dream a little, we can get the web we want’:-

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/12/tim-berners-lee-on-30-years-of-the-web-if-we-dream-a-little-we-can-get-the-web-we-want
 

A little patience goes a long way on this old-school Rebel base. If you are having issues finding what you are looking for, these will be of some help…

Welcome to the OriginalTrilogy.com | Introduce yourself in here | Useful info within : About : Help : Site Rules : Fan Project Rules : Announcements
How do I do this?’ on the OriginalTrilogy.com; some info & answers + FAQs - includes info on how to search for projects and threads on the OT•com

A Project Index for Star Wars Preservations (Harmy’s Despecialized & 4K77/80/83 etc) : A Project Index for Star Wars Fan Edits (adywan & Hal 9000 etc)

… and take your time to look around this site before posting - to get a feel for this place. Don’t just lazily make yet another thread asking for projects.

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a round-up of some of the Russian-based interference in other states’ affairs over the past few years (and likely to come again soon…)
 

‘Russian “troll slayer” goes undercover at troll factory, finds hundreds working in rotating shifts’ (March 2019):-

https://www.unian.info/world/10486230-russian-troll-slayer-goes-undercover-at-troll-factory-finds-hundreds-working-in-rotating-shifts.html

and

‘The trolls are winning, says Russian troll hunter’ - at the Pri website (March 2019)

‘The St. Petersburg Troll Factory Targets Elections from Germany to the United States’ - at the euvsdisinfo website (April 2019)

‘Project Veritas Is Breaking Facebook’s “Authentic Behavior” Rule. Now What?’ - at the intercept website (June 2019)

‘Web of deceit: disinformation could prove the most powerful weapon of all’ - at The Spectator website (August 2019)
 

a little wider background on the issue…

‘Former employees expose inner workings of Russian troll farm’ - at the abc news website (2017)

‘Meet The Activist Who Uncovered The Russian Troll Factory Named In The Mueller Probe’ - at the NPR website (2018)

‘The Russians Who Exposed Russia’s Trolls’ - at the medium website (2018)

‘How Russian Trolls Used Meme Warfare to Divide America’ - at Wired website (2018)

‘Russian trolls who interfered in 2016 U.S. election also made ad money, report says’ - at the nbc news website (2019)

 


 

Brave accuses Google of trampling Europe’s GDPR with stealthy netizen-stalking adverts’:-

Our ads? Stomping on people’s privacy? Never! Not us! sobs search giant

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/04/google_gdpr_brave (as ever with The Reg, the comments section is always worth a read too)
 

A little patience goes a long way on this old-school Rebel base. If you are having issues finding what you are looking for, these will be of some help…

Welcome to the OriginalTrilogy.com | Introduce yourself in here | Useful info within : About : Help : Site Rules : Fan Project Rules : Announcements
How do I do this?’ on the OriginalTrilogy.com; some info & answers + FAQs - includes info on how to search for projects and threads on the OT•com

A Project Index for Star Wars Preservations (Harmy’s Despecialized & 4K77/80/83 etc) : A Project Index for Star Wars Fan Edits (adywan & Hal 9000 etc)

… and take your time to look around this site before posting - to get a feel for this place. Don’t just lazily make yet another thread asking for projects.

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‘Report: Apple Won’t Let Siri Say Feminism’:

https://gizmodo.com/report-apple-wont-let-siri-say-feminism-1837927620

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/06/apple-rewrote-siri-to-deflect-questions-about-feminism

& https://gizmodo.com/apple-contractors-reportedly-overhear-sensitive-informa-1836760314
 

These IOT devices and the main social media outlets create more trouble than they are worth. They are reluctant to act on the issues they cause, deflect (literally) away criticism and even questions, and yet are content to profit from them.

Tighten Up and then turn it all the way up to 11!

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YouTube advertises big brands alongside fake cancer cure videos’:-

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-49483681

‘YouTube’s algorithm promotes fake cancer cures in a number of languages and the site runs adverts for major brands and universities next to misleading videos, a BBC investigation has found.’

‘Searching YouTube across 10 languages, the BBC found more than 80 videos containing health misinformation - mainly bogus cancer cures. Ten of the videos found had more than a million views. Many were accompanied by adverts.’

^ more information and other links are within the link.

 

I will aim to find some more positive news on the subject of the internet and technology next time 😃

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Russian trolls’ chief target was ‘black US voters’ in 2016’:-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49987657
 

'A Senate inquiry has concluded that a Russian fake-news campaign targeted “no single group… more than African-Americans.”

It says Russian operatives used social media to deter black people from voting and planted subtly racist content to incite conflict between ethnicities.

The report comes two years into the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into the 2016 election.

Social media firms say they are trying to prevent it from happening again.

Thousands of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and You Tube accounts created by the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency (IRA) were aimed at harming Hillary Clinton’s campaign and supporting Donald Trump, the committee concludes.

More than 66% of Facebook adverts posted by the Russian troll farm contained a term related to race.

African-American community voters were discouraged from voting, and from supporting Hillary Clinton.’

^ more in the article linked above.

 

The Report itself:-

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Report_Volume2.pdf

 


 

Remember the FBI’s promise it wasn’t abusing the NSA’s data on US citizens? Well, guess what…

Turns out the Feds make the CIA and NSA actually look good

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/08/fbi_spying_abuse

^ as ever with El Reg, the comments section is well worth a read too 😉

 


 

Twitter: No, really, we’re very sorry we sold your security info for a boatload of cash’…

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/09/twitter_data_leak/
 

A little patience goes a long way on this old-school Rebel base. If you are having issues finding what you are looking for, these will be of some help…

Welcome to the OriginalTrilogy.com | Introduce yourself in here | Useful info within : About : Help : Site Rules : Fan Project Rules : Announcements
How do I do this?’ on the OriginalTrilogy.com; some info & answers + FAQs - includes info on how to search for projects and threads on the OT•com

A Project Index for Star Wars Preservations (Harmy’s Despecialized & 4K77/80/83 etc) : A Project Index for Star Wars Fan Edits (adywan & Hal 9000 etc)

… and take your time to look around this site before posting - to get a feel for this place. Don’t just lazily make yet another thread asking for projects.

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‘Blizzard bosses reduce gamer’s ban and release prize money’:

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-50026401

It appears too little too late to be of any honest intention from Blizzard, the damage has already been done, to what signifcance, who knows?

 

Is there a reason why not many people post in here? I thought a tech news thread would be more popular on a sci-fi site like this?

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Force-Abel said:

Is there a reason why not many people post in here? I thought a tech news thread would be more popular on a sci-fi site like this?

Probably because every subforum not pertaining to Star Wars or fanedits are dead as doornails.