might be time for some governmental intervention, but it’s sure not going to be easy.
The OPLIN 4cast Posts
This week, a friend said to me, “If Facebook fell into the sun about now, I’m not sure I’d be sad.” Personally, I was having…
OPLIN 4Cast #635: The new Hololens brings improvements and controversies
Posted in 4cast, and Mixed reality
While we’ve likely become accustomed to at least the concepts of augmented and virtual realities, if not the actual devices, the newer idea of mixed…
Last week, the non-profit artificial intelligence research company OpenAI announced that they had built a neural network language model, GPT-2, that is so good at this game that OpenAI felt it would be irresponsible of them to make it available to others.
Amazon is having quite a week. A good deal of it has been focused on the alleged sextortion of Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos by The National Enquirer.…
As headlines go, another story about Facebook in trouble over their mishandling of user data is “Dog Bites Man,” isn’t it? But when TechCrunch revealed…
Just two days ago, on January 28th, the U.S. recognized the 22nd annual occurrence of National Privacy Day. Didn’t even know there was such a…
There are two big breaking stories about exploits involving DNS — Domain Name Service, the “phonebook of the internet.” One involves a type of spamming…
OPLIN 4Cast #629: The life-changing magic of tidying our digital selves
Posted in 4cast, and Organization
I am lucky in that I have a wonderful, loving mother-in-law. While she has many wonderful qualities, organization, especially digital, is not one of them.…
OPLIN 4Cast #628: Voice assistants are spreading like a fungus
Posted in 4cast, and Voice-activated assistants
I was a toddler when Star Trek first aired, and I’m told that I was a fan from the beginning. (My sister eventually learned to fake-faint…