Günther Oettinger will sein geplantes Leistungsschutzrecht erklären – mit fragwürdigen Studien, ungebetener Berufsberatung und – wichtig – ohne jede Sachkenntnis. Außerdem scheint er nur Überschriften zu lesen. (Günther Oettinger, Google)
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“Kathleen” is an outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter. Last Tuesday she took to Twitter to criticize the Trump campaign's Skittles refugee poster, calling it a “disgusting ad.” Shortly after, @leslymill — who goes by the name Adorable Deplorable — replied, “i LOVE THE AD. Describes the complexity of the “PROBLEM perfectly.”
The political disagreement — very common on Twitter — peaked when @leslymill replied to Kathleen&039;s tweet with an unsolicited photo of a child holding a knife and a newly severed head with the caption, “your heading for a deep hole.” The photo, according to the website tangentcode.org, is from a video titled “Information Office of the State of Homs offers families (and ) the liquidation of a Captain in the Army Alnasiri” and shows a child soldier, believed to be associated with ISIS, beheading a man and posing with his head.
After seeing the photo, Kathleen reported the tweet to Twitter using its report forms. Soon after, Twitter replied that its investigation found the alleged violent and threatening tweet did not violate Twitter’s rules, which prohibit tweets involving violent threats, harassment, and hateful conduct. Twitter’s rules explicitly state that one may not “threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or disease.”
This is not uncommon. In a recent BuzzFeed News survey, which asked over 2,700 Twitter users about abuse, 90% of respondents alleged that Twitter didn’t do anything when they reported abuse.
For Kathleen — who asked to remain anonymous (and use a pseudonym) so as not to receive more targeted abuse — the harassment is unsurprising, but unnerving. “I&039;ve worked online since 1985, so I&039;ve seen it all,” she told BuzzFeed News. “But that doesn&039;t mean I think it is ok.”
Kathleen&039;s case also raises questions about Twitter&039;s ability to help protect its users from unwanted graphic imagery — the kind frequently used by abusers and trolls to threaten. Reached for comment, Twitter directed BuzzFeed News to a passage from an August blog post on countering violent extremism. The passage notes that “there is no one &039;magic algorithm&039; for identifying terrorist content on the Internet.” It also cites “proprietary spam-fighting tools, to supplement reports from our users and help identify repeat account abuse.” These tools, according to the post, identified “more than one third of the accounts we ultimately suspended for promoting terrorism.”
The post, however, doesn’t address terroristic or graphic imagery that has been co-opted by Twitter accounts that do not explicitly promote terrorism or violence against others. In @leslymill&039;s case, horrific images of death are often used in rebuttal to opposing views, or to express sentiments like “This Is the Real Face of Islam.”
When asked to clarify if the company evaluates graphic images such as beheadings on an individual basis, granting exceptions for newsworthiness, Twitter directed BuzzFeed News to a past statement noting that when evaluating media removal requests, “Twitter considers public interest factors such as the newsworthiness of the content and may not be able to honor every request.” The company declined to provide further details about its handling of Kathleen&039;s abuse report.
But roughly three hours after BuzzFeed News contacted Twitter about Kathleen&039;s report, the tweet she&039;d flagged as abusive disappeared from @leslymills’ timeline. Twitter did not respond to queries about its deletion.
Reached for comment, @leslymill did not directly answer questions about being contacted by Twitter for possible terms of use violations. The account subsequently tweeted that it had been asked by Twitter to remove a picture, though it is not clear whether that picture was the one Kathleen reported. “I was asked to remove it…,” @leslymill explained. “So I guess I shouldn&039;t share those photoes…wonder why they don&039;t tell me.”
Quelle: <a href="Twitter Says This ISIS Beheading Photo Doesn&039;t Qualify As Abuse“>BuzzFeed
Deep Silver vertreibt die Einzelhandelsversionen von Kingdom Come Deliverance für PC und Konsolen. Für das digitale Geschäft des Mittelalter-Rollenspiels zeichnen teils die Entwickler verantwortlich. (Kingdom Come Deliverance, PSN)
Quelle: Golem
Raspbian wird zukünftig mit einem neuen Desktop ausgeliefert. Mit dem Wechsel geht auch ein neuer Standard-Browser einher. Youtube-Videos im Browser werden zukünftig mit Hardwareunterstützung ausgegeben. (Raspberry Pi, Server)
Quelle: Golem
Die Fuze-Hülle für das iPhone 7 und iPhone 7 Plus soll dank eingebautem Akku nicht nur für mehr Laufzeit sorgen, sondern auch einen Klinkenanschluss haben. So könnten Anwender wie gehabt ihre normalen Kopfhörer verwenden – falls das Projekt denn per Crowdfunding finanziert wird. (Crowdfunding, Apple)
Quelle: Golem
Kaum einen begeistert GBit/s im Mobilfunk, weil die Netzbetreiber mit hohen Preisaufschlägen die Nutzer von der Technik ausschließen. Diese Gier hat Huawei heute kritisiert. (Glasfaser, Long Term Evolution)
Quelle: Golem
Gegen die Zahlung einer recht hohen Geldstrafe wird nicht weiter gegen den Dating-Dienst Lovoo ermittelt. Vorgeworfen wurde dem Dresdner Unternehmen, dass mit weiblichen Fake-Profilen Nutzer abgezockt worden seien. (Verbraucherschutz, Internet)
Quelle: Golem
Die Welt versucht noch, explodierende Note-7-Smartphones emotional zu verarbeiten, da heißt es: Auch Samsungs Waschmaschinen detonieren. Das Phänomen ist aber nicht neu. (Samsung, Stiftung Warentest)
Quelle: Golem
In recent years, an abundance of data has presented new challenges to companies.
Increasingly, they’ve been turning to high-performance computing (HPC) to tackle these challenges.
HPC is the process of aggregating computing power to accelerate system performance to solve large computation problems in science, engineering or business. The infrastructure for high-performance computing can be costly, so many have decided to host HPC in the cloud.
The steps below show you how to define an HPC cloud instance on SoftLayer, the IBM infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform.
1. Identify your workload and business requirements.
Before setting up an HPC environment, first consider the workload that you’ll host in the cloud. Then consider the business requirements of the solution. Based on these requirements, the infrastructure team can develop the underlying SoftLayer infrastructure needed to harness the power of HPC in the cloud: a solution that will help the business meet its identified and targeted objectives.
2. Set up the HPC-on-cloud instance.
Now that you’ve identified the technical and non-functional requirements of the workload, it’s time to set up the SoftLayer HPC environment. IBM can assist you with the design and development of your SoftLayer HPC environment, or you can use the SoftLayer self-service portal.
For example, let’s assume the infrastructure team has identified the need for an HPC instance to support its Hadoop workload. Though SoftLayer offers both bare metal and virtual compute nodes, in this case you should select bare metal (dedicated) servers with NVIDIA Tesla GPUs. By using NVIDIA GPUs, the processor of the bare metal server will be able to manage the high compute requirements of the Hadoop workload to accelerate processing performance.
You have the option of hourly or monthly pricing, and you will select the number of bare metal servers you need to meet the operational requirements of the identified workload.
3. Configure the servers.
During server configuration and setup, you can select the operating system, memory and storage. These selections should be based on application workload and technical requirements. You can also select the location of the data center where the high-performance computing instance will be hosted. If the workload requires higher throughput with low latency, you should add InfiniBand, which can support up to 56 GB per second of throughput for your HPC on SoftLayer compute instance.
One advantage of the HPC SoftLayer environment is the ability to “auto scale.” This feature allows you to design a Hadoop workload based on steady-state utilization requirements. During peak workload compute utilization, the HPC compute instance will automatically spin up additional compute resources to meet the processing demands of the workload. After utilization has returned to the defined steady state and the “cooldown” period has been met, the system will automatically de-provision the additional resources.
4. Reap the benefits.
By defining your HPC cloud instance on SoftLayer, you receive the benefits of a consumption model that gives you the flexibility to increase or decrease resources based on the changing demands of your business. With SoftLayer, you can take full advantage of the benefits of hosting HPC on the cloud. Check out the post “Empowering high-performance computing in the cloud” to learn more.
To learn more about HPC and other technology and features available with SoftLayer, check out our Cloud How-To webcast series.
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Quelle: Thoughts on Cloud
TDC ist der erste Kabelnetzbetreiber, der sein Netz bereits auf Docsis 3.1 ausbaut. Nächstes Jahr soll der Prozess bereits abgeschlossen sein. (Kabelnetz, Huawei)
Quelle: Golem
