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Opinion: AI For Good Is Often Bad

November 19, 2019
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-ai-for-good-is-often-bad/ 11.18.2019 Trying to solve poverty, crime, and disease with (often biased) technology doesn’t address their root causes. Excerpt: “While AI for good programs often warrant genuine excitement, they should also invite increased scrutiny. Good intentions are not enough when it comes to deploying AI for those in greatest need. In fact, the fanfare...
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Nov

Appeals court rules 5G cell sites can’t skip environmental and historical review

November 18, 2019
Source: https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/appeals-court-rules-5g-cell-sites-cant-skip-environmental-and-historical-review-081219.html By Mark Huffman 08/12/2019 Consumer Affairs The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has encountered another roadblock in its effort to speed the rollout of 5G wireless service. A federal court has ruled that the agency overstepped its bounds when it tried to exempt 5G cell sites from environmental impact and historic preservation reviews. The FCC is...
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Nov

Satellite stock Intelsat drops 40% after FCC 5G decision

November 18, 2019
PUBLISHED MON, NOV 18 Michael Sheetz The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced on Monday that it will publicly auction off a valuable telecommunications asset, in a move investors viewed as a blow to U.S. satellite communications provider Intelsat. Shares of Intelsat dropped 40% in heavy trading volume after FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a tweet that his...
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Nov

The energy industry practices for a ‘black swan’ cyberattack that could take down the grid

November 18, 2019
PUBLISHED SAT, NOV 16 2019 Kate Fazzini More than 6,500 government officials and big players in the energy sector came together this week to conduct a simulated cyberattack on the electrical grid. The event is called GridEx, and takes place every two years. It imagines the U.S. under attack from a foreign country, through the...
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Nov

[Press release] Brain cancers : 4 times more new cases of glioblastoma in 2018 according to Public Health France

November 18, 2019
18 Nov 2019 In July 2019 (updated in September 2019), the French Public Health Agency “Santé Publique France“, together with the Francim cancer registries, the Hospices Civils de Lyon and the Institut National du Cancer, published national estimates of cancer incidence and mortality in metropolitan France between 1990 and 2018. These are based on the...
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18
Nov

AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS ARE CHANGING THE NATURE OF WARFARE. BUT THERE’S A PROBLEM.

November 18, 2019
Article by Molly Callahan November 15, 2019 Snippet: In 2018, a Russian state-run news agency announced that Russian forces had deployed a remote-controlled robotic tank to Syria. Despite all this, Haner and Garcia found that there is little oversight or regulation when it comes to developing autonomous weapons, and even less public discourse about it. “These things are happening...
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18
Nov

Laguna council seeks to address residents’ concerns as it considers new 5G-related rules

November 18, 2019
By LILLY NGUYEN NOV. 13, 2019 During a nearly three-hour hearing on possible municipal code amendments aimed at bringing Laguna Beach into compliance with federal rules, residents made one thing clear to the City Council — they don’t want 5G in their town. Council members heard that message loud and clear and directed city staff...
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17
Nov

Phonegate: MEP Michèle Rivasi questions the European Commission

November 17, 2019
15 Nov 2019 Following the invitation on October 1, 2019 to the European Parliament of Dr Marc Arazi by MEPs Philippe Lamberts, Michèle Rivasi and Klaus Buchner of the Greens/EFA, and the alert issued to parliamentarians and organisations gathered at this event on the Phonegate health and industrial scandal, a written question was tabled by Michèle Rivasi...
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17
Nov

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

November 17, 2019
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called “surveillance capitalism,” and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance...
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