This morning, Associated Press (AP) had the story that Russians have succeeded in hacking into the US energy grid, though they were then expelled. From the CNBC version:
U.S. national security officials said the FBI, the Homeland Security Department and American intelligence agencies determined that Russian intelligence and others were behind the attacks on the energy sector. The officials said the Russians deliberately chose U.S. energy industry targets, obtaining access to computer systems and then conducting “network reconnaissance” of industrial control systems that run American factories and the electricity grid. Tiếp tục đọc “What it means that the Russians-hacking-US-energy-grid story is being leaked in a big way now”→
Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security (MoPS) thinks it is killing two birds with one stone by passing new laws regulating data storage. But it could soon find out it has no use for two dead birds while the stone flies off and damages the economy.
In June 2017, the MoPS proposed a draft cybersecurity law that requires all foreign online service providers (including Facebook, Google and Twitter) to store their Vietnamese users’ data exclusively in Vietnamese data centres — a practice known as ‘data localisation’. Foreign tech firms would likely have Vietnamese partners run their local data centres, manage domestic service sales and handle government requests for user data. The proposal has sparked a heated debate between those who believe in its benefits and those who warn against its serious threats to economic development. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam’s new internet law will make the economy lag”→
The Open Conversational Web” with Open Source AI at Asia’s Leading Open Technology Conference
FOSSASIA teams up with Science Centre Singapore and Lifelong Learning Institute for Asia’s premier open technology summit. The FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit is taking place from March 22-25, 2018 under the tagline “The Open Conversational Web” with a strong focus on Artificial Intelligence and Cloud for the Industry 4.0. More than 200 speakers will fly in to present at the event. International exhibitors will showcase their latest advancements and meet developers in a careers fair.
The FOSSASIA Open Tech Summit is an annual tech event featuring tech icons from around the world since 2009. The event is all about the latest and greatest open source technologies and their impact and applications on business and society. With more than 3,000 attendees the FOSSASIA Summit is the biggest gathering of Open Source developers and businesses in Asia. A great feature of 2018 is the expanded exhibition space where tech businesses, SMEs and startups converge with developers and customers and meet potential candidates in a careers fair. Tiếp tục đọc “FOSSASIA Summit 2018: OpenTechSummit March 22-25, 2018”→
Eight months after Apple CEO Tim Cook staged a very public spat with U.S. law officials over accessing users’ private data, Alibaba executive chairman Jack Ma is moving in the opposite direction. Sort through our country’s data, he told Chinese law officials last Friday, it can help pinpoint terrorist activity.Tiếp tục đọc “Why Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Is Cozying Up With China’s Cops”→
Thái Bình Thứ Sáu, 5/1/2018, 07:07
Uber là một trong những ông lớn công nghệ bị công chúng phản đối năm 2017 sau khi bùng ra nhiều vụ tai tiếng đến nỗi nhà sáng lập công ty phải từ chức. Ảnh: The Guardian
(TBKTSG) – Khi cuốn sách của Jonathan Taplin “Move Fast and Break Things” (Di chuyển nhanh và Phá vỡ mọi thứ) được xuất bản ở Anh hồi tháng 4-2017, cái nhan đề phụ của nó “How Facebook, Google và Amazon cornered culture and undermined democracy” (Facebook, Google và Amazon đã lũng đoạn văn hóa và xói mòn nền dân chủ như thế nào) đã bị gạch bỏ bởi vì nhà xuất bản nghĩ rằng nhận định đó không có cơ sở. Nhưng lần tái bản vào đầu năm 2018, nhan đề phụ đó sẽ được khôi phục. Tác giả Taplin cho rằng “Đã có sự thay đổi rất lớn trong sáu tháng qua; trước đó mọi người dường như đang ngủ mê”.
The information minister has pledged to push for more control over foreign tech giants such as Google and Facebook.
Facebook, the world’s biggest social network and the most popular in Vietnam, has acted upon a request by Vietnamese authorities to remove 159 anti-government accounts, a senior government official has said.
The network has removed accounts that defamed or criticized Vietnam’s leaders, and those that spread propaganda against the government and the ruling Communist Party, Truong Minh Tuan, Minister of Information and Communication, said at a meeting on Friday.
Ashin Wirathu in 2013. He has been barred from public preaching in Myanmar since March.CreditAdam Dean for The New York Times
Myanmar’s government has barred Ashin Wirathu, an ultranationalist Buddhist monk, from public preaching for the past year, saying his speeches helped fuel the violence against the country’s Rohingya ethnic group that the United Nations calls ethnic cleansing.
So he has turned to an even more powerful and ubiquitous platform to get his message out — Facebook.
DW_Skype has apparently joined the lengthening list of internet communication tools on China’s blacklist, with Apple saying it was ordered to clear its download store of apps that violate national laws.
If you poke around the microjob website Fiverr.com you’ll discover that you can have thousands and thousands of “views” delivered to the youtube video of your choosing for just a few bucks. But don’t get excited; you can’t just buy youtube super stardom. When you order one of these gigs you’re actually buying hits that are disguised to look like views. So 15,000 real people will NOT be watching your video. Your view count is simply going to get inflated by 15,000. Some of these bogus views are generated by bots but in many cases hackers will secretly embed a video on a popular web page. Every time someone accesses that page the video automatically plays….albeit silently and invisibly. Tiếp tục đọc “Làm sao để có hàng chục triệu views giả trên youtube – How to get fake views?”→
lexology_If you’re reading this, the chances are that you will have come across the concept of Artificial Intelligence in your prior researches. Like most issues “du jour“, a lot has been written on the topic which falls into two categories – material either presupposes a level of prior computer- science based knowledge or; more commonly is thinly disguised salesware which doesn’t convey a lot. Tiếp tục đọc “Artificial Intelligence: The Real Legal Issues”→
VietNamNet Bridge – The digital content industry is witnessing a shift in devices from computers to smartphones.
But state management policies have not changed, making is difficult for digital content firms to do business as they have to both comply with the laws and satisfy requirements set by platform providers.
Vietnam’s fixed line market has seen a significant decline after peaking in 2009, according to Reportbuyer, a leading industry intelligence solution that provides all market research reports from top publishers. Market penetration fell from 20.1 per cent in 2009 to 10.5 per cent in 2012 and 5.7 per cent in 2016.
Having come late to the internet, meanwhile, Vietnam is finally embracing the higher access speeds offered by various broadband platforms.
VNexpress_Chiều 13/11, Quốc hội thảo luận ở tổ về dự án Luật An ninh mạng. Thượng tướng Tô Lâm – Bộ trưởng Công an, cho biết Bộ được phân công chủ trì soạn thảo dự luật này và đã rất thận trọng trong thực hiện, vì đây là nội dung liên quan đến quyền tự do, dân chủ của nhân dân.
“Đây cũng là vấn đề rất khó, không chỉ Việt Nam mà với thế giới”, Bộ trưởng nói.
fortune_Eight months after Apple CEO Tim Cook staged a very public spat with U.S. law officials over accessing users’ private data, Alibaba executive chairman Jack Ma is moving in the opposite direction. Sort through our country’s data, he told Chinese law officials last Friday, it can help pinpoint terrorist activity.Tiếp tục đọc “Why Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Is Cozying Up With China’s Cops”→
In 2017, the 20,000km-long AAG cable was disrupted four times and maintenance work had to be undertaken. — Photo fwallpapers.com
Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — The undersea Asia-America Gateway (AAG) internet cable – one of the six cables connecting Việt Nam with the rest of the world – has ruptured since Tuesday morning.
This is the fifth time the cable has broken this year, slowing down internet speed in the country.
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