I really wish this were The Onion.
Wow, there are other people like me?
In the past five years, virtually every realm of society has been disrupted as a consequence of "software eating the world." None of our social, legal or political institutions have caught up with this tectonic shift, and those responsible for governing, for providing security, and for protecting our rights are reeling.
Technology seems to have disrupted the frameworks guarding human rights.
The most touching story I've read in a while. RIP, Mr. Bob Ebeling.
For Facebook and other platforms like it, [these] incidents [...] betray a larger, existential difficulty: How can you possibly impose a single moral framework on a vast and varying patchwork of global communities?
From the algorithmic structures that underlie your News Feed to the process of community management and censorship, Facebook pushes its worldview and moral framework on its user base.
The National Security Agency director and three past National Security Agency directors, a former CIA director, a former Homeland Security secretary have all said that they're much more sympathetic with Apple in this case.
— Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism official. (via NPR)
A funny yet serious look at the encryption debate. I won't spoil it for you.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver covers encryption, and man does he do a good job.
Thus began the Crypto Wars. The government warned that unrestrained crypto would empower "bad guys" (terrorists, drug lords, kiddie porn purveyors). Business interests and privacy advocates argued that the only ones hurt would be citizens seeking to protect their information.
Eventually the Clinton administration ended the first skirmish in the Crypto Wars. The FBI has re-ignited the conflict.
A huge milestone has just been reached in the field of artificial intelligence: AlphaGo, a program developed by Google's DeepMind unit, has defeated legendary Go player Lee Se-dol in the first of five historic matches being held in Seoul, South Korea.