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Submission + - Activision Buys Candy Crush Developer For $5.9bn (inquisitr.com)

Submitted by ForgedArtificer
ForgedArtificer writes: Activision Blizzard picked up Candy Crush Saga developer King Interactive Entertainment tonight for a cool $5.9 billion USD; about 20% above market value. The move likely leaves them owning the top five grossing games of 2015 in America and makes them the most successful game publisher in the world.

Submission + - Pixels DMCA Takedown Even Worse Than We Thought (inquisitr.com)

Submitted by ForgedArtificer
ForgedArtificer writes: So we all know about the Pixels takedown on Vimeo, and that it was pretty bad in a lot of ways.

But did you know that they took down the short film that inspired the movie?

Turns out, the 2010 Pixels, which was taken off Vimeo due to copyright notice, was responsible for inspiring the entire Adam Sandler flick. Unlike Sandler's film, it's critically-acclaimed and has won awards.

Talk about kicking someone when they're already down. First Patrick Jean gets to watch them violate his work and now they're claiming that his work violates theirs.

Submission + - Faster, More-Secure Tor Paper Released (inquisitr.com)

Submitted by ForgedArtificer
ForgedArtificer writes: Researchers from several universities have published a paper detailing how to put together an Onion browser that is far faster (93 gb/s) and far more secure. Dubbed HORNET, expect browsers to start emerging soon as the paper is available to the public.

Submission + - WikiLeaks' Anonymous Leak Submission System Is Back After Nearly Five Years (wired.com)

Submitted by Sparrowvsrevolution
Sparrowvsrevolution writes: On Friday, WikiLeaks announced that it has finally relaunched a beta version of its leak submission system after a 4.5 year hiatus. That file-upload site, which once served as a central tool in WIkiLeaks' leak-collecting mission, runs on the anonymity software Tor to allow uploaders to share documents and tips while protecting their identity from any network eavesdropper, and even from WikiLeaks itself. In 2010 the original submission system went down amid infighting between WikiLeaks’ leaders and several of its disenchanted staffers, including several who left to create their own soon-to-fail project called OpenLeaks.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says that the new system, which was delayed by his legal troubles and the banking industry blockade against the group, is the final result of “four competing research projects" WikiLeaks launched in recent years. He adds that it has several less-visible submission systems in addition to the one it's now revealed. “Currently, we have one public-facing and several private-facing submission systems in operation, cryptographically, operationally and legally secured with national security sourcing in mind,” Assange writes.

Submission + - Microsoft's AI Insults People By Telling Them How Old They Are (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk
mikejuk writes: A Microsoft Research project that lets users upload photos and estimates their age and gender has attracted more attention than expected — not all of it complimentary.
The How-Old.net site demonstrates of some of the capabilities of the Face API included in Microsoft's Project Oxford that was announced at Build.
It may have been expected to be a source of amusement but instead it backfired when people started to upload their own photos and discovered just how wrong its estimates could be. It demonstrates not only that machine learning has a long way to go before it's good at estimating age, but also that machine learning may not be the most politically correct way to go about answering the question "How Old Do I look". It might be better to employ and algorithm that built in all the rules of how to make a polite answer to that request — such as always knock a decade off the age of anyone over 28.
Perhaps this particular neural network needs to learn some social skills before pronouncing how old people look.
However it is capable of telling some truths — a photo of Barak Obama in 2005 gives an estimated age of 46, close to his real age of 44, but just 9 years later in 2014 the age guessing robot places him at 65. It seems that Mr President aged 20 years in less than 10 years of office.
Any one want to be President?

Submission + - Yokohama Accidentally Tweets That NK Missile Is Inbound

Submitted by ForgedArtificer
ForgedArtificer writes: Earlier today, the Crisis Management Office Affairs Bureau for the city of Yokohama, Japan had some startling news for its followers; to wit, a North Korean missile was on its way to Japan.

The tweet stayed up for about 20 minutes before being removed and replaced with an apology.

The city reports that a pre-written tweet was released due to a malfunction in the "mechanism" that would have released the tweet at the appropriate time.

Comment Alarmist (Score 1) 419

by ForgedArtificer (#41566735) Attached to: The Coming Internet Video Crash

Most people in my own country of Canada haven't had unlimited data for years and everyone I know still has a NetFlix account.

Not that I LIKE not having unlimited data but it actually has not limited my internet use to any significant extent.

Comment Freedom? (Score 1) 559

by ForgedArtificer (#41065069) Attached to: California Wants Genetically Modified Foods To Be Labelled

You all speak of the consumer's right to "make an informed choice" but you forget that almost all consumers are uninformed.

My freedom includes the right not to have my right to consume better, genetically-modified food (as backed by actual science) ruined by the paranoia of a propaganda-fueled public.

Please explain to me why I should trust Joe Blow Consumer and his paranoid ability to ruin the market viability of my preferred product, because "his friends say it is bad" over the opinions of actual scientists.

I'm waiting.

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