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Submission + - Project Veritas Exposes Twitter "Shadow Banning", Blocking Opposing Views (zerohedge.com) 6

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In the latest of a series of undercover operations targeting the mainstream media and now Social Media, James O'Keefe of Project Veritas has just dropped a new undercover video which reveals Twitter "shadow banning" and creating algorithms that censor certain ideas. The first clip features a former Twitter software engineer who explains how/why Twitter "shadow bans" certain users:

Abhinav Vadrevu: "One strategy is to shadow ban so you have ultimate control. The idea of a shadow ban is that you ban someone but they don't know they've been banned, because they keep posting but no one sees their content." "So they just think that no one is engaging with their content, when in reality, no one is seeing it. I don't know if Twitter does this anymore."

Submission + - Twitter really does suppress accounts of Republicans (projectveritas.com)

Submitted by mi
mi writes: Mr. O'Keefe of Project Veritas has talked to former Twitter employees and posted a new video. Some of the bits are:
  • shadow banning: “they just think that no one is engaging with their content, when in reality, no one is seeing it”
  • "if it was a pro-Trump thing and I’m anti-Trump I banned his whole account it’s at your discretion"
  • "A lot of unwritten rules It was never written it was more said"
  • "you have like five thousand keywords to describe a redneck the majority of it are for Republicans"

We usually think, Twitter has a right to do this. But, if the practice negatively affects its investors, then maybe not — and the accusations should make the company a target of a criminal investigation.

Submission + - Jack In the Box CEO Says 'It Just Makes Sense' To Replace Workers With Robots (grubstreet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Per Business Insider, Jack in the Box CEO Leonard Comma told an industry crowd that “it just makes sense” to swap cashiers for inanimate machines in the year 2018. Not because he thinks 2018 will be the year that fast food gets technologized so much as it’s the year that Jack in the Box’s home state of California increases the minimum wage to $11. In fact, wage bumps hit 18 states this year, with California on pace to become the first $15-wage state in coming years — a prospect that terrifies industry executives. Jack in the Box has flirted with the idea of installing automated kiosks before. As early as 2009, it tested them out, and apparently found that they increase store efficiency and average check totals — not bad at all if money’s your bottom line. But according to Comma, the chain’s executives balked because the upfront cost of converting from people to machines was still too great. What a difference a dollar an hour apparently makes: He told the crowd that with “the rising costs of labor,” it’s time to start thinking about automating restaurants.

Comment erase before entry (Score 4, Interesting) 71

by dmitrygr (#55872245) Attached to: New US Customs Guidelines Limit Copying Files and Searching Cloud Data
I've been asked by them to unlock my phone. I happily do. Same for laptop. This is because, expecting this shit, I SCP all the things I care about to me home computer before returning to USA and erase my laptop and phone. They are welcome to inspect the "welcome to android" screen on my phone and "no bootable disk found" screen on my laptop.

Submission + - Reading the Unreadable: Inside the PSoC4 SROM (hackaday.com) 1

Submitted by dmitrygr
dmitrygr writes: This article explains how I figured out how Cypress's jury-rigged "supervisor" mode in the PSoC4 family works, dumped the secret unreadable SROM, exploited it, and found a way to unlock extra flash in the PSoC4 as well as how you can develop scary rootkits for touchpads and touchscreens that use Cypress chips. I provide the code to do this yourself as well as as much guidance as I possibly can, for now. Along the way I explain how this was all done and what steps it took. This article encompasses a work of about a month.

Submission + - Updating a 1996 plane GPS the 2016 way (dmitry.gr)

Submitted by dmitrygr
dmitrygr writes: Reverse engineering the old GPS's data card schematics, format, encryption, etc to produce a modern tool to update it, followed by the current open-sourcing of the schematics and code for said new tool.

Comment Re:Not fixing the underlying cause (Score 2) 51

Spoken like a person who's never designed battery-powered systems. People do not understand the distinction between backgrounded and killed. You might (perhaps maybe) but the general user does not. Add to this the general incompetence of your average "app" writer, and you're left with hundreds of background threads keeping your CPU wake and making your battery life shit. What android does (and iOS too) is the only sane thing to do when on batteries: do your best to make as few things run as possible. Have special APIs for background tasks that actually need to happen in background (downloading, updates, audio).

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