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Des plateformes en leurs limites - 7 novembre 2018
Le philosophe Nick Srnicek (@n_srnck) est l’auteur avec Alex Williams (@lemonbloodycola) du célèbre manifeste accélérationniste (2013, publié également sous forme de livre en 2017), ainsi que du livre Accélérer le futur : Post-travail & post-capitalisme (2017). Dans leur manifeste et leur livre, les théoriciens de (...)
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Amazon shares sink despite record profit of nearly $3bn - 28 octobre 2018
Company sees fourth quarter of profits greater than $1bn but revenue growth is lower than expected
Amazon has announced a record profit for the last three months of close to $3bn. But the news on Thursday of a $1bn-a-month bonanza was not enough for Wall Street and shares sank on lower-than-expected revenue (...)
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Tech firms make millions from Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda, report finds - 24 octobre 2018
Amazon, Palantir and Microsoft provide tools that aid surveillance, detention and deportation, according to report
Silicon Valley technology corporations including Amazon, Palantir and Microsoft make millions from US immigration enforcement, according to a new report.
They provide tools that aid surveillance, (...)
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Amazon is the invisible backbone of ICE’s immigration crackdown - 22 octobre 2018
Lobbying dollars and a cozy relationship with the government have given the tech giant an outsize influence in the Department of Homeland Security.
In June, when the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) began separating migrant children from their parents, several tech companies came under fire for (...)
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There May Soon Be Three Internets. America’s Won’t Necessarily Be the Best. - 15 octobre 2018
A breakup of the web grants privacy, security and freedom to some, and not so much to others.
In September, Eric Schmidt, the former Google chief executive and Alphabet chairman, said that in the next 10 to 15 years, the internet would most likely be split in two — one internet led by China and one internet led by (...)
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The Global Internet Phenomena Report - 7 octobre 2018
The data in this edition of the Global Internet
Phenomena Report is drawn from Sandvine’s
installed base of over 150 Tier 1 and Tier 2 fixed and
mobile operators worldwide. The report does not
include significant data from either China or India,
but the data represents a portion of Sandvine’s 2.1B
subscribers (...)
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Netflix consomme 15% de la bande passante mondiale (et ça veut dire beaucoup) - 7 octobre 2018
Netflix consomme 15% de la bande passante mondiale, selon le rapport « The Global Internet Phenomena » signé de la société américaine Sandvine. La gourmandise du service de vidéo à la demande le place devant YouTube, qui consomme 11,35 % du trafic mondial. Un tel chiffre signe l’hégémonie indiscutable de la plateforme (...)
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When should a tech company refuse to build tools for the government ? - 26 juin 2018
Silicon Valley workers are revolting against lucrative contracts with US immigration and defense agencies
During the second world war, IBM supplied the Nazis with technology used to help transport millions of people to their deaths in the concentration camps.
The American technology company leased punch-card (...)
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How Amazon Became Corporate America’s Nightmare - 14 mars 2018
Amazon makes no sense. It’s the most befuddling, illogically sprawling, and—to a growing sea of competitors—flat-out terrifying company in the world.
It sells soap and produces televised soap operas. It sells complex computing horsepower to the U.S. government and will dispatch a courier to deliver cold medicine on (...)
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Miscue Calls Attention to Amazon’s Dominance in Cloud Computing - 12 mars 2017
SEATTLE — There have been many opportunities to consider how crucial Amazon has become to the smooth operation of the internet over the past few years.
The most recent involved a case of fat fingers.
That event occurred late last month when an Amazon employee entered an incorrect set of commands on a computer, (...)
