Tag: software studies

• The Hottest App in China Teaches Citizens About Their Leader — and, Yes, There’s a Test

  April 8, 2019

  CHANGSHA, China — Inside a fishing gear store on a busy city street, the owner sits behind a counter, furiously tapping a smartphone to improve his score on an app… more ›

• Russia Is Tricking GPS to Protect Putin

  April 8, 2019

  The Kremlin’s manipulation of global navigation systems is more extensive than previously understood. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/03/russia-is-tricking-gps-to-protect-putin/ more ›

• Smart weapons

  April 8, 2019

  “Smart weapons need smart people to tell them smart things. They need positioning coordinates. They need navigation systems,” https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/03/russia-is-tricking-gps-to-protect-putin/ more ›

• The frantic, unprecedented race to save 700,000 NSFW Tumblrs for posterity

  April 4, 2019

  GeoCities, Vine, Friendster–communities live, thrive, and often die on the net. But the two-week timeframe in which content will disappear from Tumblr is unprecedented, says Jason Scott. https://www.fastcompany.com/90279321/the-frantic-unprecedented-race-to-save-700000-nsfw-tumblr-for-posterity more ›

• When the Web Loses Its Memory

  April 4, 2019

  Diana poured her passionate fandom into Thorvaenn, her Tumblr account, for years. Marvel and Thor in particular became the primary focus for the GIFs she made, for her meticulous recommendations,… more ›

• Fake Lanes

  April 3, 2019

  In the scene we build, if the vehicle knows that the fake lane is pointing to the reverse lane, it should ignore this fake lane and then it could avoid… more ›

• Small stickers on the ground trick Tesla autopilot into steering into opposing traffic lane

  April 3, 2019

  By adding noise to lane-markings, they were able to fool the autopilot into losing the lanes altogether, however, the patches they had to apply to the lane-markings would not be… more ›

• Small stickers on the ground trick Tesla autopilot into steering into opposing traffic lane

  April 3, 2019

  Researchers from Tencent Keen Security Lab have published a report detailing their successful attacks on Tesla firmware, including remote control over the steering, and an adversarial example attack on the… more ›

• The Chinese takeover of Indian app ecosystem

  April 1, 2019

  For those trying to make sense of the Chinese dominance of the Indian app ecosystem, these are familiar statements. Yet, until about a year or a little more ago, these… more ›

• Warner Signs Algorithm to Record Deal

  March 26, 2019

  Skip to main contentTagsSigningIndustry NewsVideoWTF https://pitchfork.com/news/warner-signs-algorithm-to-record-deal/ more ›