2019 Daily Tech News Show


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3			Coming up on DTNS Which facial recognition systems can be fooled by a mask, delivery drivers in Mexico take safety into own hands, and surgeons that give you an Instagram face.	Twitch Chat
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6			This is the Daily Tech News for Monday Dec 16th, 2019. In LA, I'm Tom Merritt
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15		sl	An FBI investigation led to Darryl Polo and Luis Villarino pleading guilty to copyright infringement charges for operating iStreamItAll, a subscription-based streaming site, and Jetflix, an illegal TV streaming service. As part of his plea agreement, Polo said he emailed members of iStreamItAll to cancel licensed services in favor of pirated content. He also admitted to earning $1 million from his piracy operations, and to downloading the content from torrent websites.	https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/12/15/istreamitall-jetflix-operators-busted-illegal-streaming/2658505001/
16		tm	ICANN is reviewing the pending sale of PIR, the management of the .ORG domain, from the nonprofit Internet Society to private equity company Ethos Capital. ICANN has requested information from PIR. ICANN has 30 days after it receives the responses to provide or withhold its consent for the sale. ICANN approved a change to eliminate price caps on .org domain names a few months ago.	https://cms.arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/controversial-sale-of-org-domain-manager-faces-review-at-icann/
17		sl	Ernest Byaruhanga, an executive at the nonprofit entity AFRINIC, has resigned following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions of dollars worth of IPv4 addresses to online marketers. The allegations stemmed from a three-year investigation by California-based freelance researcher Ron Guilmette, who since 2016 has been tracking several large swaths of IP address blocks set aside for use by African entities that ended up at Internet marketing firms based in other continents.	https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/12/the-great-50m-african-ip-address-heist/
18		tm	TechCrunch's sources say Uber is in advanced talks to sell its Uber Eats India business to Indian rival Zomato. Uber launched Uber Eats in India in mid-2017, and reportedly peaked at 600,000 orders per day, compared to more than 1 million daily orders from Zomato and another local rival Swiggy.	https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/15/ubereats-india-zomato/
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20	:33	sl	Google paused the rollout of Chrome 79 on Android following reports of missing data for apps that use Android's built-in WebView. Chrome 79 changes where web data is stored, but didn't properly migrate data from localStorage and WebSQL. As a result, some apps and sites do not show local data, which isn't deleted, just inaccessible after the update. Google confirmed the bug and is working on a fix which it says may take a week.	https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/12/15/google-pauses-chrome-79-rollout-on-android-after-bug-wipes-data-in-some-apps/
21	:35	tm	The Verge's Casey Newton has another writeup of the experiences of content moderators. Previously he wrote about Facebook, This time is Google and YouTube, including its contractors at Accenture in Austin. Moderators view five hours of video per day. While those working on some content enjoy the job, those working on disturbing content describe feeling anxiety, depression, night terrors, and other severe mental health consequences. While full-time Google moderators get medical care and months of paid medical leave for PTSD, contractors do not. Moderators from both Google and Accenture have been diagnosed with PTSD, chromic anxiety and other long-term mental health issues.	https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/16/21021005/google-youtube-moderators-ptsd-accenture-violent-disturbing-content-interviews-video
22	:39	sl	Intel has acquired Israel-based Habana Labs which develops programmable AI and machine learning accelerators for cloud datacenters. Its Gaudi AI Training processor promises 4x the throughput of an equivalent number of GPUs at half the energy per chip. And its Goya AI Inference Processor promises 3x the inferencing performance measures by throughput and latency. Habana also has an environment called SynapseAI for deploying AI workloads. Habana will come on board along with previous acquisitions Movidius, Altera, Nirvana and Vertex.ai. Intel's AI Chip revenues reached $3.5 billion this year up from $1 billion in 2017 and predicted to grow annually by 30%.	https://venturebeat.com/2019/12/16/intel-acquires-ai-chip-startup-habana-labs-for-2-billion/
23	:42	tm	Fortune reports on a test of facial recognitions systems by AI company Kneron. Kneron created high quality 3D masks to fool payment systems from AliPay and WeChat in China. The Kneron team also was able to access a self-boarding terminal in the Netherlands and pay fare to board a train in China, both by using a picture on a. Phone screen. The masks were high quality items made any a specialty mask maker in Japan. Kneron also said it could not fool Apple's Face ID on the iPhone X. Kneron's CEO Albert Liu said. "The technology is available to fix these issues but firms have not upgraded it." Kneron makes its own facial recognition technology.	https://www.engadget.com/2019/12/16/facial-recognition-fooled-masks/
24	:45	sl	Jia Tolentino at the New Yorker wrote a detailed account of what she dubs "the Instagram face", a real-life version of a filtered person based on cosmetic surgery. Tolentino describes it as a young face with no pores, high cheekbones, catlike eyes and long lashes. The nose is small and the lips are full. She says it looks like "a direct descendant of Kim Kardashian West, Bella Hadid, Emily Ratajkowski, and Kendall Jenner." Tolentino met with multiple plastic surgeons in LA to get price quotes and suggestions, and walked away despondent that this is our new normal.	https://www.newyorker.com/culture/decade-in-review/the-age-of-instagram-face
25	:50	tm	Freelance journalist Martha Pskowski posted at Medium's OneZero about delivery drivers in Mexico for companies like Didi, Uber, Sin Delantal and Rappi, who use WhatsApp groups and Google Maps to help each other stay safe in high crime neighborhoods. While companies offer support hotlines and sometimes insurance, workers don't feel they are always taken seriously so have started to rely on each other. The workers comment crashes, injuries, harassment and robberies among other things. WhatsApp helps them monitor each other and Google Maps marks locations of past robberies and addresses to avoid. A group called "Ni un repartidor menos" has almost 1,000 members across four different WhatsApp groups. They also use a Google Doc to share contact info and receive a registry number that they write on backpacks for identification.	https://onezero.medium.com/uber-delivery-workers-in-mexico-track-thieves-through-a-secret-whatsapp-network-d5795a0e3b41	[[In October, Google reported that, in the past year, it had removed 160,000 pieces of content for containing violent extremism from Blogger, Google Photos, and Google Drive alone — about 438 per day.]]
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34			Chris Christensen aka the Amateur Traveler has a handy translation tip for travelers to China	amateurtraveler.com
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40			During the episode 3671 pre-show discussion about the IPv4 heist, I started thinking about the eventual IPv6 future and was wondering if you foresee a future where the rules regarding an IP address not being a person being re-evaluated. Just a thought. Love the show. Your humble boss, Brandon Sudat
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42			Hey DTNS Gang, There was talk of VPNs on Friday's show, so I just wanted to remind users of Google FI that you have a free VPN built right into the service - you just need to turn it on. It's worked great for me from day one. If you're worried about using Google as your VPN provider, Google says they don't store data going through the VPN, but it may use the metadata to improve their service. The Verge has more information at this link: Surf safe and have a great Holiday!, -Chris	https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/13/18089834/project-fi-enhanced-network-vpn-privacy-google-announcement.
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