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• The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM pronounced "A-C-M") and
  the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE -- "eye triple E" )
  are the gold-standard in ICT technical literature, research, trade, and academic information.
  • Get access to their journals through the Seneca Library links above.
• MIT Technology Review > Academic Search Premier > Search within this publication
  • 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2023
  • The worst technology of 2022
  • Our favorite stories of 2022
  • For full access to their journal, use the Seneca Library link above and select any one of the indices.
• Preview of professional life
   
• The Word Is Mightier Than the Algorithm Is language itself the operating system for human-AI collaboration?
• Where are the opportunities? Look at the Constrained Resource Amplification Maxim
  
• Prebunking Google’s Jigsaw project to counter disinformation
  
• A New Science for Describing Unhealthy Online Environments
  • Physics  (aps.org)
  • Researchers develop online hate speech 'shockwave' formula
• Toronto ranks third smartest city in the world | IT World Canada News
• People buy solutions, not technology
• What's next from cyberspace? South Korea has already been there.
• “The future of work will be a race between education and technology." Accenture report: skills acquisition in the age of intelligent technologies
• The Best Free Software of 2023
  
• A Visual Breakdown of Global Music Consumption over half of music listening is delivered by streaming audio -- Spotify and Apple (320kbps) and by video -- YouTube with even worse quality (256kbps)
• ChatGPT Passes Google Coding Interview
• antidote to disinformation is needed
• Toronto-based Pairity, a Canadian tech startup, has built a platform that uses an algorithm to match refugees with sponsors. The USA will start using it.
• Montreal 'smart factory' demonstration.  Video  Overview
• 2023 Tech Trends
• What’s the Biggest Lie on the Internet? clicking [ Agree ] to, "Do you accept the EULA?"
  Or, I got a law degree to understand the EULA, and then clicked NO.
• digital tech with an indigenous perspective.
• Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society. CBC 2020 Massey Lectures
• Infosys to set up digital development centre in Mississauga, create hundreds of jobs in GTA
• How to block Instgram and Facebook from snooping on you.
• Building Canada's Future AI Workforce, comprehensive report by the Information and Communication Technology Council of Canada
  The ICTC study found that 50 per cent of all information technology (IT) departments of companies surveyed in North America are either short-staffed or understaffed in ICT roles. The innovation economy is expected to create an additional 149 million new jobs globally by 2025.
• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals workshop for free
• Is Big Tech ungovernable? - a rather big question. Also see the comments.
• the Right Way to Rescue a Soaking Wet Smartphone is not the rice way.
• The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE To quickly reboot PC-DOS, "Bradley chose the keys by location with the del key across the keyboard from the other two, it seemed unlikely that all three would be accidentally pressed at the same time. Bradley never intended to make the shortcut available to customers, nor did he expect it to enter the pop lexicon. It was meant for him and his fellow coders, for whom every second counted." It was, perhaps, the first keyboard shortcut.
• the basics of quantum computing by Jessica Pointing
• Meet the Excel warriors saving the world from spreadsheet disaster. Excel =ProgrammingByNonProgrammer(errors). Excel needs a linter. It could be done in VBA.
• the surveillance economy is older than you think. It goes back 60 years.
• moz://a says un 4^(< the Internet
• Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer programmers
• IBM 5 in 5: Five ways technology will change our lives within five years.
• Dark Patterns WIRED magazine investigates hidden web architectures that prioritize business models over users' welfare.
• 2020 Vision of the Modern Workplace Don't let the heavy Microsoft advertising put you off. The needs for a good User experience (UX), Simplified IT, Collaboration, and Security are broad IT implementation and deployment issues that many other companies, like Slack, also have solutions for.
• Sorry, eBay and Uber. You're hated.
• Surveillance technology is fraught. from WSJ's The Future of Everything
• A teenager's guide to building the world's best pandemic and protest trackers
• The future belongs to generalists - applying skills in context matters (Week 5), systems thinking matters (APS145, SYS366/466), Google values problem-solvers who have a "general cognitive ability"
• Why restaurants are fed up with food delivery apps -- can you do it better?
• A case for banning facial recognition -- IBM is exiting the face recognition business
• Web Search: Mary Meeker, Internet Trends Report
• Internet and social media: "I'm not sure that humans are supposed to be connected at such scale with such ease." A statement by Charlie Warzel, New York Times Opinion writer, taken out of context and intended to do what social media does -- make you click on it.
• Who are Canada's Tech Workers? How to apply that tech in Ontario Employment in 2030
  combine that info with the Canadian Occupational Projection System
• YouTube is 15 years old
• Apple, Google release their joint technology for pandemic-tracking apps
• open banking -- it sounds similar to open hoteling or open ride sharing but banking is about permanence, AirBnB and Uber are about transience.
• Mary Meeker's Internet Trends Report -- the most highly anticipated slide deck in Silicon Valley
• Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer programmers
• Why Have So Few Women Won the Most Important Award in Computing?
  Since 1966, 70 computer scientists have won the Turing Award. Only three have been women.
• hiring managers say they often value emotional intelligence more highly than IQ
• The smart city debate lack of data oversight in proposed Sidewalk Labs plan
• the iPad enabled a new way to wait on tables in restaurants and a regulatory change pushed new customers. a Canadian success story. (via G&M subscription or library)
• From snowboarder to multi-billionaire in 15 years: Tobias Lütke, Shopify Founder and CEO
• annual Internet Trends Report 2019 — the most highly anticipated slide deck in Silicon Valley
• "Deep-fakes" are here, now what? Mozilla reports
  Deep-fakes can be used for good. e.g. David Beckham appearing to speak in many languages for the Malaria Must Die initiative.
• In the tech world, a liberal arts education along with creative and social skills can get you far. Don't believe me? Would you believe Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, or Jeff Bezos?
  Why America's obsession with STEM education is dangerous
• 2020 trends CIO strategy
• Ottawa-based SmartCone uses IoT to alert to life-threatening dangers
• the Web's 30th birthday party Tuesday 12 March 2019
• Ten Breakthrough Technologies -- most of them use software
• In the dark: The cost of Canada's data deficit
  The best algorithm in the world does no good without good data.
• Canadians will be warned if a general election might being compromised by foreign actors or hackers
• World Wide Web Foundation  News Summary: current and past, News and Blogs, publications (e.g. women's rights online)
• The Tech Revolt: conversations with employees pushing for a more ethical Silicon Valley
  A sometimes pointed, sometimes resigned conversation with engineers, designers, research scientists, and job candidates who are pushing for a more ethical Silicon Valley
• The walls have ears (Sign on to Library system is needed)
• The long, dangerous road to the world of driverless cars
• In 2019, we should beware the robo-interviewer - problems with algorithms, bias, and you getting a job.
• Top 10 IoT vulnerabilities of 2018
• Cyber security: the disasters of 2018 and predictions for 2019
• No HQ2? No problem: Tech is booming in the GTA

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• World Wide Web Foundation
• Women in Tech | IT World Canada
• Gender Justice from the World Wide Web Foundation in recognizing International Women's Day
  • The online crisis facing women and girls threatens global progress on gender equality
  • Why the web needs to work for women and girls
  • The gender gap in internet access: using a women-centred method
  • 8 on March 8: Eight great resources for a web that works for women and girls
• 10 ways how diversity helps us work better as programmers and developers
• How to Be a Good Senior Developer
• moz://a
  • Data Futures Lab
  • What Can You Trust On The Internet? AI designed to force your behaviour,
    see reading list on "online manipulation"
  • Mozilla Explains -- unpacks complex tech topics in five minutes or less, jargon-free.
  • Internet Health Report
  • Mozilla pulse Discover and collaborate on projects for a healthy internet.
    Pulse captures and broadcasts a stream of projects by the mozilla network.
  • Mozilla Manifesto -- Pledge for a Healthy Internet
  • IRL podcast from Mozilla -- Because Online Life Is Real Life
  • 5 things you can do to counter misinformation -- Internet Citizen
• Human Data Commons Foundation
  • a non-profit based in Vancouver that works to make data collection more salient, ethical and beneficial to the well-being of humanity.
• The ACM's 2019 A.M. Turing Award was won by Canadians
• National Data Strategy for Canada
• Our built-in biases and tips for resisting fake news
  • SIFT: Stop. Investigate the source. Find better coverage. Trace claims, quotes, and media to the original context.
• the bizarre world of internet trolls and propagandists TED talk What you can do about it at 13:01

Security

• AI expert says report findings proof onset of ‘Terminal AI’ has begun | IT World Canada News thanks to ChatGPT
  • Credential Stealing Phishing Prevention | SlashNext
  • The State of Phishing 2023 | SlashNext
• defend against deepfake content
• Cyber attacks work because CISOs don’t do basic security: Microsoft | IT World Canada News
• Cybersecurity Will Not Thrive In Darkness: A Critical Analysis of Proposed Amendments in Bill C-26 to the Telecommunications Act -- from the highly reputable Citizen Lab at U of T
• Spot and Avoid Dark Patterns on the Web
• Google quantum-safe cryptography. See this and Open Quantum Safe
• fake manufacturing firm set up by Trend Micro to gather intelligence
• 800+ Million Emails (plus personally identifiable information) Leaked by Email Verification Service (March 7. 2019)
• Cloud Security 2.0
• CYBERSECURITY FRAMEWORK
• The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach
  • have i been pwned?
  • The ‘Biggest EVER' Collection of Hacked Passwords Is Not That Bad
• Cybersecurity Threats from a credible organization
• Are you really you? Please authenticate yourself

Privacy

• Privacy by Design becomes an ISO standard
• DuckDuckGo Privacy recommendations
• a technological ecosystem that is highly invasive and prone to serial abuse
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says businesses must place greater weight on what he called "data dignity".
• the Brave browser for speed, security and privacy
• Tech Giants Have Hijacked the Web. It's Time for a Reboot Elixxir inrupt Blockstack
• Seneca's Privacy Office
• Privacy Commissioner of Canada: sound advice on online privacy, tracking, and cookies
• Big Data isn't a series of 1s and 0s—it's living people.
  The language we use to describe data can also help us fix its problems
• Canada's Digital Charter, unaddressed issues remain, five issues
• You're Not Alone When You're on Google
• Ranking Digital Rights Annual reports assessing the human rights impact of companies that create, manage and facilitate vast digital networks and spaces.
• An idea that is sure to keep you safe from feeling secure. Paranoid about paranoia anyone?
• The Privacy Project from The New York Times (may need to go through the Seneca library for access)
  • "over the last two decades, new technologies coupled with new theories of value have transformed the economics of privacy. A drastic decrease in the cost of mass surveillance (thanks to the internet) has increased the value of two types of asset: our data and our attention." Tim Wu
  • We Are Drowning in Data
    infographic of companies that slice, track, re-target and bid on your data to make ads appear on your screens -- also known as "marketing technology landscape."
• Firefox Send: Provides Free File Transfers while Keeping your Personal Information Private
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff
  • "If you're not paying, you're the product." We aren't even the product any more, it is argued, we're the raw material.
  • This is the fight for the soul of our information civilization. Welcome to the third decade.
  • The Surveillance Economy podcast
  • Facebook and Google won't change
  • see articles in the Business Collection -- search for "Shoshana Zuboff"
• Facebook and privacy, a story of frenemies.
  • Facebook offered users privacy wall, then let tech giants around it
• The House That Spied on Me and their TED talk
• Life Without the Tech Giants She set out to try and block Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from getting access to her money, data and attention...for just one week.
• Data Brokers
  • if you use a smartphone or a credit card, it's not difficult for a company to determine if you've just gone through a break-up, if you're pregnant or trying to lose weight, whether you're an extrovert, what medicine you take, where you've been, and even how you swipe and tap on your smartphone.
  • CrackedLabs surveil the surveilors

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• AI is manufacturing, not creating.
• 3 laws of robotics and AI
• The Hype, Peril, and Promise of Artificial Intelligence - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• We are hurtling toward a glitchy, spammy, scammy, AI-powered internet | MIT Technology Review
  The people paid to train AI are outsourcing their work… to AI | MIT Technology Review
  The news: Many people who are paid to train AI models may be themselves outsourcing that work to AI, a new study has found.
  How they did it: Researchers hired 44 people on the gig work platform Amazon Mechanical Turk to summarize 16 extracts from medical research papers, then analyzed their responses for telltale signs they’d been produced by AI models. They estimated that somewhere between 33% and 46% of the workers had used AI models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT to complete the task.
  Why it matters: Using AI-generated data to train AI could introduce further errors into already error-prone models. If they generate incorrect output that is itself used to train other AI models, the errors can be absorbed by those models and amplified over time, making it more and more difficult to work out their origins.
• We are all AI’s free data workers (MIT Tech Review)
• Ethan Mollick | Substack has many thoughtful things to say about AI
• AI startup Cohere (Toronto) in talks to raise funding at $6-billion plus valuation - The Globe and Mail
• I’m a [USA] Congressman Who Codes. AI Freaks Me Out.
• Overview of Canada’s National Quantum Strategy
• Rise of the machines: 2023 could be the year of artificial intelligence - The Globe and Mail
• 20 Entertaining Uses of ChatGPT You Never Knew Were Possible (substack.com)
• Copilot -- AI code 4U.  It’s Like GPT-3 but for Code—Fun, Fast, and Full of Flaws
• AlphaZero
• Machine Learning Gotcha
• Artificial intelligence is already woven into our lives, but the risks are not widely understood. Mozilla's Executive Director takes a closer look
• Turing's Imitation Game is AI's highest form of flattery – and it's writing its own story
• https://www.stateof.ai/ key dimensions in annual report: Research, Talent, Industry, China, Politics and Public opinion.
• AI executive summary
• AI & Machine Learning news
• IT World Canada AI news
• AI bias and detection toolkit
• integrate.ai on algorithmic bias
• How Machine Learning at Netflix controls what they promote to you...even if they misrepresent the content. Also has job postings.
• We Need to Save Ignorance From AI
• AI/ML application -- The data game: How information on flight patterns and parking lots can reveal a stock's future market price. by TIM SHUFELT, APRIL 19, 2019, The Globe and Mail. (use Seneca library for access)

Cloud

• IT World Canada Cloud news
• Industrial IoT white papers

Programming

• 5 Skills All 10x Engineers Have in Common
• The inside story of how ChatGPT was built from the people who made it | MIT Technology Review
• How an elevator's software crash inspired Rust
• Professional programmers take notes and learn just like students should:
  • A software developer’s guide to personal knowledge management (PKM)
    (It is the practical application of how brains work consistent with psychology and how-humans-learn research.)
  • Where do you put the notes? In Obsidian -- created by two programmers from U of Waterloo (one of the world's best Comp.Sci. schools 120km west of Seneca) see
• 4 Code Smells That Are Probably Already in Your Code | by Paul Knulst | Dec, 2022 | Towards Data Science
• Tiny Snippets of Code That Changed The World | by Clive Thompson | Nov, 2022 | Better Programming

Legal

• The Case for Regulating Platform Design
  There is a critical distinction between a platform’s own harmful product design and its hosting of harmful third-party content.
  It is liable for its design, but not content posted by users. e.g. Snapchat's Speed Filter
  YouTube is not liable for the content in ISIS videos and cat videos, but it's algorithm for Watch Next and Recommended for You is not neutral. YouTube designed its recommendation features to increase user engagement and ad revenue which is a form of content creation. Secondly, it material contributes to harm which they are liable for because their algo prioritizes outrageous and sensational material, and encourages and monetarily rewards users for creating such content. That the same algo promotes both cat videos and conspiracy theories with harmful information is to be irresponsible. (If my nose happened to be in the way of your fist when you were swinging your arm, that does not make it my fault that you hit me.)
• Understanding Canadian cybersecurity laws. latest installment with links to previous