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Away From Silicon Valley, the Military Is the Ideal Customer - 26 février 2021
While much has been made of tech’s unwillingness to work with the Pentagon, start-ups are still plumbing the industry’s decades-long ties to the military.
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. — Over the rolling, scrub-spotted hills of the Southern California coast, where defense contractors once tested rockets and lasers for (...)
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AWS, le nuage en or d’Amazon - 10 février 2021
Avec Amazon Web Services, le groupe de Jeff Bezos s’est imposé comme leader de l’informatique dans le cloud. Mais après une décennie de règne incontesté, des nuages commencent à apparaître…
Quel est le point commun entre Engie, Seloger.com, Netflix, Airbus, Goldman Sachs, Radio France, Veolia ou AXA ? Ces entreprises - et (...)
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Silicon Valley Takes the Battlespace - 20 janvier 2021
Through an obscure startup named Rebellion Defense, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt attempts to buy his way into the Biden White House.
Days after winning the November election, Joe Biden announced the names of those staffing his transition. Big Tech landed prominent spots. Among the hundreds of personnel on the (...)
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Comment le capitalisme de surveillance “transforme notre intimité en matière première” - 27 octobre 2020
… et pourquoi il faut lutter contre. Dans “L’Âge du capitalisme de surveillance”, enfin traduit, Shoshana Zuboff, professeure émérite à la Harvard Business School, sonne l’alerte contre les géants du numérique qui nous dépossèdent de nos vies pour mieux les soumettre au marché.
Au temps du tube cathodique, Jacques Ellul, l’un (...)
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Cyber Command has sought to disrupt the world’s largest botnet, hoping to reduce its potential impact on the election - 15 octobre 2020
In recent weeks, the U.S. military has mounted an operation to temporarily disrupt what is described as the world’s largest botnet — one used also to drop ransomware, which officials say is one of the top threats to the 2020 election.
U.S. Cyber Command’s campaign against the Trickbot botnet, an army of at least 1 (...)
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Microsoft spikes to record high after nabbing $10B Pentagon contract - 6 octobre 2020
Microsoft spikes to record high after nabbing $10B Pentagon contract
Microsoft shares touched a record high Monday after the tech giant was awarded a Pentagon cloud-computing contract worth up to $10 billion.
Shares rallied as much as 3.5 percent to a high of $145.67 apiece before paring their gains.
"This (...)
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This Is How the U.S. Military’s Massive Facial Recognition System Works - 15 septembre 2020
Documents obtained by OneZero show how the military captures biometric data around the world
Over the last 15 years, the United States military has developed a new addition to its arsenal. The weapon is deployed around the world, largely invisible, and grows more powerful by the day.
That weapon is a vast (...)
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The long, complicated history of “people analytics” - 9 septembre 2020
If you work for Bank of America, or the US Army, you might have used technology developed by Humanyze. The company grew out of research at MIT’s cross-disciplinary Media Lab and describes its products as “science-backed analytics to drive adaptability.”
If that sounds vague, it might be deliberate. Among the things (...)
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Thousands of contracts highlight quiet ties between Big Tech and U.S. military - 12 juillet 2020
The report offers a new window into the relationship between tech companies and the U.S. government, as well as an important detail about why such contracts are often difficult to find.
Over the past two years, thousands of tech company employees have taken a stand : they do not want their labor and technical (...)
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Pentagon War Game Included Scenario of Gen Z Protests - 21 juin 2020
In the face of protests composed largely of young people, the presence of America’s military on the streets of major cities has been a controversial development. But this isn’t the first time that Generation Z — those born after 1996 — has popped up on the Pentagon’s radar.
Documents obtained by The Intercept via the (...)
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Why Big Tech’s new face recognition bans don’t go far enough - 17 juin 2020
While these tech giants may have stepped back from facial recognition, their bans don’t encompass other technology they supply for police or square with their past lobbying and legislative efforts.
Advocates against flawed facial recognition systems have pushed for limits or bans on the use of these controversial (...)
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U.S. judge puts Amazon challenge to Pentagon JEDI contract on hold - Reuters - 19 avril 2020
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday put on hold a suit by Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) challenging the Pentagon’s decision to award a $10 billion contract to Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O).
Judge Patricia E. Campbell-Smith granted the Pentagon’s request to halt further action on the lawsuit to allow the military to (...)
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says China could supplant Silicon Valley as the world’s tech powerhouse unless the US government steps in - 28 février 2020
Eric Schmidt helped Google conquer the world. Now he’s concerned that China is going to overtake American tech, and he wants the US government’s help.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt urged the United States government to get more invested in the ongoing tech race between China and the US.
In an op-ed published (...)
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Opinion | Eric Schmidt : I Used to Run Google. Silicon Valley Could Lose to China. - 27 février 2020
We can’t win the technology wars without the federal government’s help.
America’s companies and universities innovate like no other places on earth. We are garage start-ups, risk-taking entrepreneurs and intrepid scholars exploring new advances in science and technology. But that is only part of the story.
Many of (...)
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Gamers, l’armée américaine en veut à vos cerveaux - 20 février 2020
Vous êtes doué·e à « Starcraft » ? Le Darpa a un job pour vous : entraîner des essaims de robots.
Le site Digital Trends, qui rapporte le projet, pose d’emblée la comparaison : dans le bon vieux Starfighter de 1984 ou dans le plus récent La Stratégie Ender, adapté d’un roman du même nom paru en 1985, l’armée camoufle le (...)
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Contrat JEDI : Amazon réclame une suspension temporaire de sa mise en œuvre par Microsoft - ZDNet - 29 janvier 2020
Technologie : Amazon Web Services a saisi la justice américaine pour contester l’attribution par le Pentagone à Microsoft du contrat de 10 milliards de dollars portant sur la modernisation des systèmes informatiques de l’armée des Etats-Unis.
Après avoir déposé une plainte fin novembre contre l’attribution du contrat JEDI (...)
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In latest JEDI contract drama, AWS files motion to stop work on project - 28 janvier 2020
When the Department of Defense finally made a decision in October on the decade-long, $10 billion JEDI cloud contract, it seemed that Microsoft had won. But nothing has been simple about this deal from the earliest days, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that last night Amazon filed a motion to stop work on the (...)
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Opinion | You Are Now Remotely Controlled - The New York Times - 26 janvier 2020
Surveillance capitalists control the science and the scientists, the secrets and the truth.
The debate on privacy and law at the Federal Trade CommissionClose X was unusually heated that day. Tech industry executives “argued that they were capable of regulating themselves and that government intervention would be (...)
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Comment les géants de la tech manipulent la recherche sur l’éthique des IA | korii. - 24 janvier 2020
Après le greenwashing, l’ethicalwashing ? Un ancien chercheur du MIT Media Lab témoigne.
Dès 2018, il est devenu difficile de suivre les nombreux scandales liés à l’IA sur fond de contrats controversés : entre Facebook et Cambridge Analytica ; entre Google et le Pentagone sur les drones ; entre Amazon, IBM et la police (...)
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Intelligence artificielle : « Comment adopter une technologie civile dans un contexte militaire ? » - 30 décembre 2019
Les deux chercheurs Charles Cuvelliez et Jean-Jacques Quisquater s’interrogent, dans une tribune au « Monde », sur le recours à l’intelligence artificielle (IA) dans le secteur de la défense et sur ses conséquences parfois difficiles à anticiper. L’IA prendra-t-elle les mêmes décisions qu’un militaire aux commandes ?
Une (...)
