industryterm:web use

Be Careful Celebrating Google’s New Ad Blocker. Here’s What’s Really Going On.
▻https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/be-careful-celebrating-googles-new-ad-blocker-heres-whats-really-going

Google, a data mining and extraction company that sells personal information to advertisers, has hit upon a neat idea to consolidate its already-dominant business : block competitors from appearing on its platforms. The company announced that it would establish an ad blocker for the Chrome web browser, which has become the most popular in America, employed by nearly half of the nation’s web users. The ad blocker — which Google is calling a “filter” — would roll out next year, and would be the (...)

#Google #AdBlock #données #data-mining

Broadband Providers Will Need Permission to Collect Private Data - The New York Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/28/technology/fcc-tightens-privacy-rules-for-broadband-providers.html

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It was the first time the F.C.C. has passed such online protections. The agency made privacy rules for phones and cable television in the past, but high-speed internet providers, including AT&T and Verizon Communications, were not held to any privacy restrictions, even though those behemoth companies have arguably one of the most expansive views of the habits of web users.

The passage of the rules deal a blow to telecommunications and cable companies like AT&T and Comcast, which rely on such user data to serve sophisticated targeted advertising. The fallout may affect AT&T’s $85.4 billion bid for Time Warner, which was announced last week, because one of the stated ambitions of the blockbuster deal was to combine resources to move more forcefully into targeted advertising.

The F.C.C. rules also have their limits. Online ad juggernauts, including Google, Facebook and other web companies, are not subject to the new regulations. The F.C.C. does not have jurisdiction over web companies. Those companies are instead required to follow general consumer protection rules enforced by the Federal Trade Commission. That means Google does not have to explicitly ask people permission first to gather web browsing habits, for example.

Microsoft Plumbs Ocean’s Depths to Test Underwater Data Center
►http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/01/technology/microsoft-plumbs-oceans-depths-to-test-underwater-data-center.html

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Putting the gear under cold ocean water could fix the [heat] problem. It may also answer the exponentially growing energy demands of the computing world because #Microsoft is considering pairing the system either with a turbine or a tidal energy system to generate electricity.

The effort, code-named Project #Natick, might lead to strands of giant steel tubes linked by fiber optic cables placed on the seafloor. Another possibility would suspend containers shaped like jelly beans beneath the surface to capture the ocean current with turbines that generate electricity.

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The underwater server containers could also help make web services work faster. Much of the world’s population now lives in urban centers close to oceans but far away from #data_centers usually built in out-of-the-way places with lots of room. The ability to place computing power near users lowers the delay, or latency, people experience, which is a big issue for web users.

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The research group has started designing an underwater system that will be three times as large [as the first trial]. It will be built in collaboration with a yet-to-be-chosen developer of an ocean-based alternative-energy system. The Microsoft engineers said they expected a new trial to begin next year, possibly near Florida or in Northern Europe, where there are extensive ocean energy projects underway.

[Mailman-Announce] ANNOUNCE : The GNU #Mailman 3 suite, beta 1 preview
▻https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2014-April/000191.html

Première beta de Mailman version 3 :

On behalf of the Mailman development team, I am happy
to announce the first beta release of the full Mailman 3 suite.

This release includes:

- Postorius 1.0.0b1 (Year of the Parrot), our new Django-based web user
interface for list owners and list members.

- HyperKitty 1.0.0b1, the fantastic new Django-based archiver.

- Mailman Core 3.0b4 (Time and Motion), the mailing list engine and
administrative REST API.

- The mailman-bundler package 3.0b1, a helpful buildout-based tool for
putting it all together.

Deep #Web Users Are Ready To Launch Silk Road #2.0
▻http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/04/deep-web-users-are-ready-to-launch-silk-road-2-0

User RR writes: “We have SilkRoad v2.0 ready to launch and is now in its final testing stages. Our site has all the features of the original one and we have kept the same style of forum for your ease.” […] Users are already planning ways to keep the new site secure. This includes the creation of something called BitWasp, an “#open_source, anonymous #bitcoin marketplace specifically built for use in conjunction with Tor or I2P via the h#idden services such as .onion #websites and eepsites.”

Obama May Back F.B.I. Plan to Wiretap Web Users - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/us/politics/obama-may-back-fbi-plan-to-wiretap-web-users.html?pagewanted=all

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people who communicate using the Internet rather than by traditional phone services, according to officials familiar with the deliberations.

Chinese officials apologise to woman in forced abortion
►http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-18453995

City officials in China have apologised to a woman who was forced to have an abortion and suspended three people responsible, state media reports.

This came after photos showing a foetus and the mother, Feng Jiamei, shocked web users.

She was made to undergo the procedure in Shaanxi province in the seventh month of pregnancy, local officials said after investigating.

Chinese law clearly prohibits abortions beyond six months.

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#chine #avortement_forcé #enfant_unique

Flat Icons & Icon Fonts | CSS-Tricks
►http://css-tricks.com/flat-icons-icon-fonts

Icon Fonts...

are awesome. They typically come with standard vectors as well if you prefer working with them that way, but these icon projects go the extra mile in offering an @font-face compatible font for web use.

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#CSS #icônes

Asynchronous UIs - the future of web user interfaces
►http://alexmaccaw.co.uk/posts/async_ui

asynchronous user interfaces, or AUIs. The key to this is that interfaces should be completely non-blocking. Interactions should be resolved instantly; there should be no loading messages or spinners. Requests to the server should be decoupled from the interface.
(...)
– Move state & view rendering to the client side
– Intelligently preload data
– #Asynchronous server communication

#web #javascript via @0gust1