Vélos en libre-service : même la Chine les régule
▻https://www.latribune.fr/opinions/tribunes/velos-en-libre-service-meme-la-chine-les-regule-821701.html
VU DE CHINE. En Chine, la folie du vélo en libre-service commence à ressembler à une catastrophe économique. Après avoir investi des centaines de millions de dollars pour s’assurer le marché des grandes villes, Ofo et Mobike, les pionniers chinois du secteur, cumulent les dettes.
La Chine a longtemps été « le grand pays des vélo », notamment dans les années 1980. Depuis 2015, les vélos en libre-service sans borne d’attache sont devenus un nouveau phénomène dans le pays. De 2016 à 2017, on est passé de 2 à 23 millions de vélos partagés, et de 19 à 221 millions d’utilisateurs ! Ce nouveau business model, innovant et respectueux de l’environnement, a vite attiré de nombreux investisseurs et entreprises.
Ofo, le pionnier de ce marché, a lancé ses premiers vélos sur le campus de l’université de Pékin en 2015, puis a levé progressivement des fonds. En mars 2018, il a bouclé un tour de table de 866 millions de dollars, mené par Alibaba. Ofo est alors très vite entré dans un mode d’expansion fulgurante. Pour tenir le rythme, l’entreprise a choisi de brûler du cash et de réduire le coût de ses vélos : pas assez performants, ils étaient équipés d’une serrure mécanique qui ne posait pas de vraies difficultés aux voleurs. De plus, au moins 20% de ses vélos tombaient en panne chaque semaine. L’expérience des utilisateurs semblait être plus satisfaisante avec Mobike, qui proposait des vélos de meilleure qualité dotés d’une serrure électronique.
]]>Qu’a-t-on à apprendre des réseaux sociaux chinois ?
▻https://www.zdnet.fr/blogs/social-media-club/smc-focus-qu-a-t-on-a-apprendre-des-reseaux-sociaux-chinois-39886459.htm
En Chine, les réseaux sociaux se sont développés avec des mécanismes radicalement différents de l’occident. Les spécialistes surveillent aujourd’hui ces évolutions de très près, autant pour essayer de pénétrer le marché chinois que pour essayer d’en tirer certaines leçons. En Chine, les réseaux sociaux se sont développés avec des mécanismes parfois radicalement différents de l’occident. Les spécialistes surveillent aujourd’hui ces évolutions de très près, autant pour essayer de pénétrer le marché chinois que (...)
#Alibaba #Google #Sina_Corp #Instagram #WhatsApp #WeChat #Alibaba.com #Amazon #Facebook #Paypal #Skype #Uber #algorithme #smartphone #SocialNetwork #domination #marketing #web #publicité (...)
]]>Bons et mauvais Chinois | René Raphaël & Ling Xi
►https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2019/01/RAPHAEL/59403
Public ou privé, local ou national, individuel ou sectoriel, un système de notation appelé « crédit social » se déploie en Chine. À l’origine, il imitait le système américain, qui attribue une bonne note aux emprunteurs payant régulièrement leurs échéances. Puis il s’est étendu à d’autres types de comportements. Reportage à Hangzhou, siège de l’entreprise Alibaba, et dans les campagnes du Shandong. Source : Le Monde diplomatique
]]>Anne Tercinet : « Entreprises et consommateurs victimes d’abus de position dominante demanderont réparation des préjudices subis »
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2019/06/14/anne-tercinet-entreprises-et-consommateurs-victimes-d-abus-de-position-domin
Si les autorités de la concurrence restent limitées à infliger des amendes, ce sont les actions en justice des consommateurs lésés par les abus de position dominante qui pourraient inquiéter les GAFAM, explique, dans une tribune au « Monde », la professeure de droit. La puissance de Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple et Microsoft (GAFAM) est mondiale. Tout du moins, les situations de monopole dont ces entreprises jouissent dans l’économie numérique affectent l’ensemble du monde occidental - la Chine (...)
#Alibaba #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Tencent #Xiaomi #Amazon #Alibaba.com #Facebook #Baidu #procès #domination #BATX (...)
##GAFAM
Les assistants personnels masculins donnent des directions, les féminins vous épaulent
▻https://www.numerama.com/tech/521282-les-assistants-personnels-masculins-donnent-des-directions-les-femi
Un rapport de l’ONU pointe du doigt les biais sexistes des assistants vocaux que nous utilisons au quotidien. Le genre des assistants vocaux a-t-il une importance ? Si l’on en croit un rapport publié par les Nations Unies (ONU) mercredi 22 mai, il contribuerait en tout cas à véhiculer des clichés sexistes. Les fabricants auraient tendance à choisir une voix masculine pour des objets qui donnent des ordres ou des directives, mais une voix féminine pour des objets qui épaulent et conseillent.
Des (...)
#Apple #Microsoft #BMW #Amazon #AlexaHunches #Assistant #Alexa #Cortana #domotique #Siri #Alibaba.com #Alibaba #biométrie #discrimination #voix #GPS #smartphone (...)
##AliGenie
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« Les opérateurs télécom étaient les maîtres du web, ils en sont devenus les prolétaires »
▻https://usbeketrica.com/article/les-operateurs-telecom-sont-devenus-les-proletaires-du-web
« On peut encore croire à un âge de raison des réseaux », nous dit le chercheur Olivier Auber, qui dans son nouveau livre, Anoptikon (FYP éditions, 2019), plaide pour un changement de perspective afin de faire d’Internet le grand espace de partage qu’il promettait d’être à ses débuts. Il est des livres qui vous confrontent assez rapidement à vos limites. Anoptikon (FYP éditions, 2019), d’Olivier Auber, est de ceux là. Englober dans un seul ouvrage la naissance du langage, le navire de Darwin (le HMS (...)
#Alibaba #Google #Tencent #Xiaomi #Facebook #Alibaba.com #Baidu #BATX #GAFAM #surveillance #web (...)
##art
Bloomberg ( ▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_LP ) vient de sortir un article ( ▻https://bloom.bg/2HuRvsw ) sur le supposé « déclin » de Genève dans le capitalisme globalisé. Illustré de quelques graphs dramatiques (i.e. chute de 25% du nombre de banques en 10 ans), l’article décrit comment Genève n’est plus le refuge européen de choix du capitalisme actuel (Netflix, Alibaba, Amazon, par ex.). L’éventualité d’un refus de la RFFA ce dimanche est vue comme une menace de plus sur la prospérité genevoise. Car pour les capitalistes ce qui compte, c’est la compétitivité fiscale de la région. Au final, c’est l’optimisme qui prime - Genève reste à la première place mondiale pour la fortune qui cherche un abri. Et Total est sur le point de redéployer ici une partie de ses activités londoniennes. Selon le banquier privé Odier, c’est l’optimisme qui manque aux Genevois. Et comment ne pas être renversé-e-s par une rafale d’optimisme quand l’on sait que toutes les crapules capitalistes mondiales aiment notre futur taux d’impôt sur le bénéfice ? #Genève #Capitalisme
]]>« 996.ICU » : quand la tech chinoise se révolte contre ses conditions de travail
▻https://usbeketrica.com/article/996-icu-tech-chinoise-travail
Connaissez-vous le 996 chinois ? Il correspond aux horaires de travail hardcore de l’industrie technologique chinoise. On vous explique. En France, on connaît les trois-huit, qui désigne des horaires de travail tournant, pratiqués dans les usines et les transports. L’équipe A commence sa journée à 5h pour la terminer à 13h, l’équipe B prend alors la main à 13h et l’équipe C, à 21h. Le cycle suivant, l’équipe A commencera à 13h, etc. En Chine, les travailleurs du numérique ont le « 996 », un terme qui (...)
]]>China working on data privacy law but enforcement is a stumbling block | South China Morning Post
▻https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3008844/china-working-data-privacy-law-enforcement-stumbling-block
En Chine des scientifiques s’inquiètent de la collection de données sans limites et des abus possibles par le gouvernment et des acteurs privés. Au niveau politique on essaye d’introduire des lois protégeant les données et la vie privée. D’après l’article les véritables problèmes se poseront lors de l’implémentation d’une nouvelle législation en la matière.
Echo Xie 5 May, 2019 - Biometric data in particular needs to be protected from abuse from the state and businesses, analysts say
Country is expected to have 626 million surveillance cameras fitted with facial recognition software by 2020
In what is seen as a major step to protect citizens’ personal information, especially their biometric data, from abuse, China’s legislators are drafting a new law to safeguard data privacy, according to industry observers – but enforcement remains a major concern.
“China’s private data protection law will be released and implemented soon, because of the fast development of technology, and the huge demand in society,” Zeng Liaoyuan, associate professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, said in an interview .
Technology is rapidly changing life in China but relevant regulations had yet to catch up, Zeng said.
Artificial intelligence and its many applications constitute a major component of China’s national plan. In 2017, the “Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan” called for the country to become the world leader in AI innovation by 2030.
Biometrics authentication is used in computer science as an identification or access control. It includes fingerprinting, face recognition, DNA, iris recognition, palm prints and other methods.
In particular, the use of biometric data has grown exponentially in key areas: scanning users’ fingerprints or face to pay bills, to apply for social security qualification and even to repay loans. But the lack of an overarching law lets companies gain access to vast quantities of an individual’s personal data, a practice that has raised privacy concerns.
During the “two sessions” last month, National People’s Congress spokesman Zhang Yesui said the authorities had hastened the drafting of a law to protect personal data, but did not say when it would be completed or enacted.
One important focus, analysts say, is ensuring that the state does not abuse its power when collecting and using private data, considering the mass surveillance systems installed in China.
“This is a big problem in China,” said Liu Deliang, a law professor at Beijing Normal University. “Because it’s about regulating the government’s abuse of power, so it’s not only a law issue but a constitutional issue.”
The Chinese government is a major collector and user of privacy data. According to IHS Markit, a London-based market research firm, China had 176 million surveillance cameras in operation in 2016 and the number was set to reach 626 million by 2020.
In any proposed law, the misuse of data should be clearly defined and even the government should bear legal responsibility for its misuse, Liu said.
“We can have legislation to prevent the government from misusing private data but the hard thing is how to enforce it.”
Especially crucial, legal experts say, is privacy protection for biometric data.
“Compared with other private data, biometrics has its uniqueness. It could post long-term risk and seriousness of consequence,” said Wu Shenkuo, an associate law professor at Beijing Normal University.
“Therefore, we need to pay more attention to the scope and limitations of collecting and using biometrics.”
Yi Tong, a lawmaker from Beijing, filed a proposal concerning biometrics legislation at the National People’s Congress session last month.
“Once private biometric data is leaked, it’s a lifetime leak and it will put the users’ private data security into greater uncertainty, which might lead to a series of risks,” the proposal said.
Yi suggested clarifying the boundary between state power and private rights, and strengthening the management of companies.
In terms of governance, Wu said China should specify the qualifications entities must have before they can collect, use and process private biometric data. He also said the law should identify which regulatory agencies would certify companies’ information.
There was a need to restrict government behaviour when collecting private data, he said, and suggested some form of compensation for those whose data was misused.
“Private data collection at the government level might involve the need for the public interest,” he said. “In this case, in addition to ensuring the legal procedure, the damage to personal interests should be compensated.”
Still, data leaks, or overcollecting, is common in China.
A survey released by the China Consumers Association in August showed that more than 85 per cent of respondents had suffered some sort of data leak, such as their cellphone numbers being sold to spammers or their bank accounts being stolen.
Another report by the association in November found that of the 100 apps it investigated, 91 had problems with overcollecting private data.
One of them, MeituPic, an image editing software program, was criticised for collecting too much biometric data.
The report also cited Ant Financial Services, the operator of the Alipay online payments service, for the way it collects private data, which it said was incompatible with the national standard. Ant Financial is an affiliate of Alibaba Group, which owns the South China Morning Post.
In January last year, Ant Financial had to apologise publicly for automatically signing up users for a social credit programme without obtaining their consent.
“When a company asks for a user’s private data, it’s unscrupulous, because we don’t have a law to limit their behaviour,” Zeng said.
“Also it’s about business competition. Every company wants to hold its customers, and one way is to collect their information as much as possible.”
Tencent and Alibaba, China’s two largest internet companies, did not respond to requests for comment about the pending legislation.
]]>Microsoft workers decry grueling ’996’ working standard at Chinese tech firms
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/22/microsoft-workers-decry-grueling-996-working-standard-at-chinese-tech-f
A letter on Github demanded companies comply with labor laws, limiting workers to 40 hours a week versus a 12-hour day standard Microsoft employees have published a letter on the software development platform Github in solidarity with tech workers in China. Workers at tech companies in the country have used the Microsoft-owned platform to complain about grueling working conditions and the “996” standard in the industry, a philosophy endorsed by the tech billionaire Jack Ma. The name is (...)
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]]>Better to Give and to Receive: Alibaba’s #open-source Contributions to Flink
▻https://hackernoon.com/better-to-give-and-to-receive-alibabas-open-source-contributions-to-flin
Between its #sql and Runtime layers, Alibaba has helped optimize Apache Flink for large-scale production environments like its ownThis article is part of Alibaba’s Flink series.As an open-source framework for big data #computing, Apache Flink has undergone extensive optimization to meet a range of users’ demands for enhancement. For Alibaba Group, where the framework is deployed in a large-scale production environment, the need for these changes has motivated its real-time computing team to contribute many of Flink’s most valuable optimizations, benefiting the Flink community and Alibaba alike.In this article, we look at Alibaba’s contributions in two key aspects of the framework’s architecture, tracing developments including Flink’s Query Processor, BinaryRow, and AsyncOperator (...)
]]>An Inspiring Story of Mobile-First Approach as a Winning Game Plan
▻https://hackernoon.com/an-inspiring-story-of-mobile-first-approach-as-a-winning-game-plan-a8153
A 2018 study in Ireland found that local consumers checked their phones 55 times per day on average (Mobile Consumer Survey, Deloitte). Photo credit: Shutterstock“There are no experts of tomorrow, only of yesterday,” says Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba and China’s wealthiest person.When Kenny Kline and a friend founded their marketing agency in 2014, the entrepreneurs brought laptops to coffee shops and routinely burned the midnight oil in a cramped New York apartment.Digital marketing is notoriously competitive, and the bootstrapped duo’s prospects looked middling, at best.A Mobile-First Game PlanFueled by late-night lattes, JAKK Media’s founders stuck with their convictions: The future belongs to marketers who could communicate and entertain via iPhones, Samsung devices, and small screens. (...)
#digital-marketing #mobile-strategy #user-engagement #mobile-engagement #smartphones
]]>Introducing UI2CODE : An Automatic #flutter #ui Code Generator
▻https://hackernoon.com/introducing-ui2code-an-automatic-flutter-ui-code-generator-7e0a575c193?s
With the help of AI, Alibaba’s Xianyu tech team is advancing an intelligent tool that renders visual UI design as Flutter code with 100 percent accuracyAs we explored in our recent article on AI-based algorithm development, automation is quickly changing from something to that developers can work on into something that can do developers’ work. While the extent of this shift remains to be seen in the years to come, one major focus today is how AI can tackle the repetitive and tedious aspects of application development so human developers can focus their efforts elsewhere.Now, developers at Alibaba’s Xianyu(闲鱼) second-hand trading platform have launched the UI2CODE project to apply deep learning technology in converting visual user interface images to client-side code. With clear component, (...)
]]>Fescar: A Distributed Transaction Solution Open Sourced by Alibaba
▻https://hackernoon.com/fescar-a-distributed-transaction-solution-open-sourced-by-alibaba-f70c9b
To support microservice-based development, Alibaba has now launched Fescar, an open source version of its Global Transaction Service solution to the problem of distributed transactions.This article is part of the Alibaba Open Source series.In online systems, #microservices have gained recent support from developers as a means of reducing difficulties, enhancing scalability, and facilitating agile development by splitting complex applications into loosely coupled services. However, implementing a seemingly simple function in a micro-serviced system may require calling multiple services and operating multiple databases, introducing a formidable distributed transaction problem for service calls.Currently, distributed transactions are the greatest obstacle to realizing microservices, and (...)
#distributed-systems #programming #open-source #software-development
]]>China’s Alipay digital wallet is entering 7,000 Walgreens stores
▻https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/13/alibaba-walgreens
China’s payments heavyweights have been following tourists abroad as their home market gets crowded. Ant Financial, Alibaba’s financial affiliate with a valuation of $150 billion, now sees its virtual wallet Alipay handling transactions at 3,000 Walgreens stores in the U.S. and is eyeing to reach a roster of 7,000 locations by April. The alliance will make it breezier for Chinese tourists eager to pick up vitamin supplements and cosmetics from the pharmacy giant, doing away with the hassle (...)
]]>WeChat Pay and Alipay are now targeting the 3 million Chinese travelers visiting the U.S. every year
▻https://bonus.usbeketrica.com/article/wechat-pay-and-alipay-are-now-targeting-the-3-million-chinese-tra
As their domestic market is reaching maturity, the two Chinese mobile payment services are looking toward new horizons. But the ongoing trade war could dampen their hopes. In February, Alipay, a Chinese mobile payment app that belongs to the Alibaba Group, forged an alliance with Walgreens, a U.S. pharmacy store chain. Alipay is now handling transactions in 3,000 Walgreens stores in the U.S., and is eyeing to reach 7,000 locations by April. It isn’t the first push made by Alibaba to expand (...)
#7-Eleven #Alibaba #Apple #Google #Stripe #Walgreens #Tencent #Samsung #JPMorgan_Chase #Alibaba.com #Paypal #smartphone #marketing #profiling #Alipay #payement_par_téléphone #voyageurs #WeChatPay #Citcon (...)
]]>L’intelligence artificielle : un instrument de puissance ?
▻https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/083964-008-A/le-dessous-des-cartes
Depuis la mise au point de la machine à décrypter les messages d’Alan Turing, l’intelligence artificielle a fait de gigantesques progrès. Elle se décline aujourd’hui en logiciels pour traders, en robots ménagers, en assistants numériques, et demain, sans doute, en voitures autonomes. Tour d’horizon des États et des géants du numérique qui ont pris la mesure des formidables enjeux de (...)
#Alibaba #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Tencent #Xiaomi #Alibaba.com #Amazon #Baidu #Facebook #Xiaonei #algorithme #bracelet #CCTV #domotique #drone #élections #manipulation #biométrie #données #militarisation #BigData #marketing #surveillance #vidéo-surveillance #Five_Eyes (...)
]]>Roybi Robot Launched TechForChange Initiative with Alibaba Cloud
▻https://hackernoon.com/roybi-robot-launched-techforchange-initiative-with-alibaba-cloud-186bc03
Last year, I had the opportunity to present my company ROYBI, an #ai-powered educational robot for young children, at Alibaba Cloud’s North America contest. My company was selected from hundreds of applicants to be one of the ten finalists to compete at the regional event. This was an exciting experience for me to go on the stage and spread the word about our work in #robotics and early childhood #education.August 2018, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CAIt was particularly a challenging contest because I was presenting an entirely new concept: customizing education through AI and personalizing the learning experience based on every child’s learning ability. It was that exciting moment when the judges announced that ROYBI became the Runner Up and winner of the Alibaba Cloud North (...)
]]>XDL Framework: Delivering powerful Performance for Large-scale Deep Learning Applications
▻https://hackernoon.com/xdl-framework-delivering-powerful-performance-for-large-scale-deep-learn
The Alibaba tech team open sourced its self-developed deep learning framework that goes where others have failedDeep learning AI technologies have brought remarkable breakthroughs to fields including speech recognition, computer vision, and natural language processing, with many of these developments benefiting from the prevalence of open source deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and MxNet. Nevertheless, efforts to bring deep learning to large-scale, industry-level scenarios like advertising, online recommendation, and search scenarios have largely failed due to the inadequacy of available frameworks.Whereas most open source frameworks are designed for low-dimensional, continuous data such as in images and speech, a majority of Internet applications deal with (...)
#artificial-intelligence #data-analysis #machine-learning #deep-learning #hackernoon-top-story
]]>Staying Relevant in the Age of AI: An Alibaba Guide for Algorithm Engineers
▻https://hackernoon.com/staying-relevant-in-the-age-of-ai-an-alibaba-guide-for-algorithm-enginee
As AI becomes adept in a growing range of computing tasks, the people working to develop it could soon find themselves out of a job.As artificial intelligence enters more and more of today’s technologies, aspiring algorithm engineers face a unique dilemma. On the one hand, they must compete to be qualified enough in AI to have development prospects; on the other, they risk becoming obsolete at the hands of the same AI models they are competing to work on.AI today has become such a popular field among developers that those returning to class reunions who have not pursued it risk becoming the butt of their classmates’ jokes. Far from being the new masters of an increasingly automated world, though, algorithm engineers are among those whose work could soon be replaced by the same development (...)
#algorithms #artificial-intelligence #human-development #software-engineering #programming
]]>A Push in the Right Direction: Improving Notification Targeting
▻https://hackernoon.com/a-push-in-the-right-direction-improving-notification-targeting-bec1d9912
To improve data sorting for push notifications, Alibaba’s Xianyu team reworked its approach to database structure, enabling its service to better target user populations.As Alibaba’s second-hand trading platform Xianyu(闲鱼) has grown and developed, the amount of data it has to sort through has risen astronomically. With hundreds of millions of users, each with over one hundred dimensions for data indicators, user data presents a technological challenge for Alibaba: How can you quickly screen for a targeted population to carry out targeted customer operations using push notifications?Pushing is the quickest way for Xianyu to get information to users. The most common pushing method for Xianyu is to first calculate the push population offline, prepare the corresponding push message, and then (...)
#notification-targeting #data-analysis #programming #mobile-app-development #big-data
]]>India Proposes Chinese-Style Internet Censorship - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/technology/india-internet-censorship.html
NEW DELHI — India’s government has proposed giving itself vast new powers to suppress internet content, igniting a heated battle with global technology giants and prompting comparisons to censorship in China.
Under the proposed rules, Indian officials could demand that Facebook, Google, Twitter, TikTok and others remove posts or videos that they deem libelous, invasive of privacy, hateful or deceptive. Internet companies would also have to build automated screening tools to block Indians from seeing “unlawful information or content.” Another provision would weaken the privacy protections of messaging services like WhatsApp so that the authorities could trace messages back to their original senders.
Hum, pas forcément très différent de l’Article 13... quand les Le Pen (équivalent français de Narandra Modi) seront au pouvoir... Pas simple tout ça. Et puis si la Chine n’est plus la seule a devenir le repoussoir universel, où va-t-on ?
Working independently as well as through trade groups, Microsoft, Facebook and dozens of other tech companies are fighting back against the proposals. They criticized the rules as technically impractical and said they were a sharp departure from how the rest of the world regulates “data intermediaries,” a term for companies that host data provided by their customers and users.
In most countries, including under India’s existing laws, such intermediaries are given a “safe harbor.” That means they are exempted from responsibility for illegal or inappropriate content posted on their services, as long as they remove it once notified by a court or another designated authority.
In a filing with the ministry last week, Microsoft said that complying with India’s new standards would be “impossible from the process, legal and technology point of view.”
Officials have offered little public explanation for the proposals, beyond a desire to curb the kind of false rumors about child kidnappers that spread on WhatsApp a year ago and that incited angry mobs to kill two dozen innocent people. That wave of violence has since subsided.
The coming national election has added urgency to the proposals. India’s Election Commission, which administers national and state elections, is considering a ban on all social media content and ads aimed at influencing voters for the 48 hours before voting begins, according to an internal report obtained by the news media. To buttress its legal authority to order such a ban, the commission wrote to the I.T. ministry last week asking it to amend the new rules to specifically prohibit online content that violates election laws or commission orders.
C’est comme si ça me rappelait quelque chose...
Et puis, le Alibaba local est dans la boucle. Y’a que les européens qui n’ont pas champion local à opposer aux GAFAM.
One of the biggest cheerleaders for the new rules was Reliance Jio, a fast-growing mobile phone company controlled by Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest industrialist. Mr. Ambani, an ally of Mr. Modi, has made no secret of his plans to turn Reliance Jio into an all-purpose information service that offers streaming video and music, messaging, money transfer, online shopping, and home broadband services.
In a filing last week, Reliance Jio said the new rules were necessary to combat “miscreants” and urged the government to ignore free-speech protests. The company also said that encrypted messaging services like WhatsApp, “although perceivably beneficial to users, are detrimental to national interest and hence should not be allowed.”
Entre les architectures toxiques des plateformes et la toxicité des lois liberticides, on est malbarre.
]]>La Chine distribue des bons et des mauvais points à ses citoyens
▻https://www.franceinter.fr/monde/la-chine-distribue-des-bons-et-des-mauvais-points-a-ses-citoyens
Depuis mars 2018, le gouvernement chinois a franchi une étape supplémentaire dans la mise en oeuvre de son programme de « crédit social », basé sur la collecte d’informations sur les réseaux sociaux et via les caméras de surveillance intelligentes. Les citoyens « mal notés » sont restreints dans leur accès aux transports. C’est un programme digne d’un épisode de la série Black Mirror qui est actuellement expérimenté par le Parti communiste chinois. Lancé en 2014, en vue de son déploiement effectif en 2020, (...)
#Alibaba #Tencent #Xiaomi #Alibaba.com #Baidu #WeChat #CCTV #activisme #sécuritaire #voyageurs #web #surveillance #vidéo-surveillance #BATX (...)
]]>Huawei : c’est de la politique, stupide !
▻https://www.letemps.ch/opinions/huawei-cest-politique-stupide
Dans la bataille des technologies de l’information et de l’intelligence artificielle, le rôle des Etats est déterminant. Il est temps pour l’Europe de se doter à son tour d’une politique industrielle dans ces secteurs qui domineront le XXIe siècle, écrit Frédéric Koller Pékin a raison. La vingtaine de chefs d’inculpation prononcés cette semaine par un tribunal de New York contre Huawei et sa directrice financière, Meng Wanzhou, ont des « visées politiques ». Pour défendre ses industries, et freiner (...)
#Alibaba #Apple #Google #Huawei #Microsoft #Nokia_Siemens #Sony #Tencent #Alibaba.com #Amazon #Baidu #Facebook #algorithme #spyware #exportation #sécuritaire #concurrence #web #surveillance (...)
##GAFAM
Competing Frameworks: Alibaba Puts #sdk Flutter to the Test
▻https://hackernoon.com/competing-frameworks-alibaba-puts-sdk-flutter-to-the-test-88eb8cf1f35a?s
The team behind Alibaba’s second-hand trading platform Xianyu explores why its SDK of choice beats other competitorsThis article is part of Alibaba’s Utilizing Flutter series.Behind the scenes of Alibaba’s second-hand trading platform Xianyu(闲鱼), a new-generation client architecture is at work supporting its unique business scenarios. Many following its technical development have wondered why this architecture uses the Flutter SDK over other cross-end solutions, generally focusing on the question of performance. In fact, while Flutter pages do show a performance advantage over Native pages in low-end models, the platform’s developers did not even consider performance optimization until after Flutter was already deployed.For the Xianyu team, Flutter’s ease of implementation suited the goal of (...)
#open-source #react #mobile-app-development #software-development
]]>Open Season for Research: Alibaba Releases Cluster Data from 4000 Servers
▻https://hackernoon.com/open-season-for-research-alibaba-releases-cluster-data-from-4000-servers
To help researchers and developers in academia and beyond, Alibaba has now published its Cluster Data V2018 for all to exploreIn IT articles about internet applications, you will often find words such as “large scale” and “mass requests”. These applications all run in large-scale data centers, and readers generally have many questions about those environments. For example, what is the operating status of each machine in the data center? What kinds of applications are running? What are the characteristics of these applications? With the exception of a few senior experts, it is rare for students and corporate researchers to understand these details.Today, Alibaba shares a real #dataset for computer clusters: Alibaba Cluster Data V2018 (attached at the end of article). This dataset provides a (...)
#cloud-computing #data-center #big-data #software-development
]]>En pleine crise des « gilets jaunes », Bruno Le Maire alerte sur les inégalités
▻https://www.latribune.fr/economie/france/en-pleine-crise-des-gilets-jaunes-bruno-le-maire-alerte-sur-les-inegalites
A la veille d’un événement organisé au ministère de l’Economie en compagnie de Melinda Gates, Bruno Le Maire a mis l’accent sur les effets néfastes des écarts de richesse. Reste à savoir comment le gouvernement va s’attaquer à ce sujet dans les prochains alors que la France va présider le G7 finances dédié aux inégalités.
« L’Europe bascule, le capitalisme bascule, les technologies basculent, c’est un moment où le politique est plus que jamais nécessaire. » Dans le contexte du ralentissement de l’économie mondiale et de la montée des populismes, Bruno Le Maire a tiré la sonnette d’alarme ce lundi matin. « Nous pensons que la croissance française reste robuste mais le refus croissant des inégalités et des injustices liées au capitalisme est de plus en plus visible », a expliqué le ministre de l’Economie devant plusieurs journalistes.
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Face à ces signaux d’alerte, le locataire de Bercy indique « qu’il est nécessaire de défendre notre vision du capitalisme. Il y a une place pour une vision française et européenne du système capitaliste ». A l’approche du sommet G7 finances que la France doit présider au mois de juillet prochain à Biarritz, l’ancien ministre de l’agriculture a énuméré les quatre priorités du gouvernement :
D’abord, « construire une fiscalité du XXIème siècle qui doit permettre de financer des biens publics et une justice. » Il a notamment insisté sur la nécessité d’une taxation des géants du numérique en mentionnant les noms des pays européens qui refusaient encore d’appliquer une telle fiscalité. « Il s’agit de la Suède, la Finlande, le Danemark et l’Irlande. » Il a également expliqué qu’il avait appelé récemment le secrétaire au Trésor américain, Steven Mnuchin, lui rappelant qu’il ne voulait pas simplement « cibler les entreprises américaines mais aussi les géants asiatiques (BATX, Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent et Xiaomi) ». Pour les questions de fiscalité, il a plaidé « pour un passage d’un vote à l’unanimité à un vote à la majorité qualifiée au sein de l’Union européenne », pour éviter de nombreux blocages.
Deuzio : mettre en place « une imposition minimale » pour les entreprises qui ont implanté leur siège dans des paradis fiscaux. « Ce sont les plus grandes entreprises qui échappent à l’impôt. L’impôt minimal permet de réduire ces contournements ». A l’automne dernier, le ministre allemand des finances Olaf Scholz avait plaidé également pour la mise en oeuvre d’un tel dispositif. « Une telle initiative serait un prolongement du mécanisme de l’OCDE de lutte contre l’érosion de la base d’imposition et le transfert de bénéfices (BEPS) », soulignait l’agence Reuters.
Troisièmement « limiter la concentration capitalistique ». Sur ce sujet, le ministre a fait référence à certaines entreprises qui réalisent des capitalisations boursières record "à plus de 600, 700 voire 1.000 milliards de dollars". Sans directement la nommer, le ministre faisait référence au géant Apple qui avait franchi la barre symbolique des 1.000 milliards de dollars l’été dernier. Enfin, la réduction des inégalités à l’intérieur des pays développés. M. Le Maire a appelé à construire des outils communs entre tous les pays pour faciliter les comparaisons.
]]>Le guide gastronomique Gault & Millau change de main
▻https://www.lesechos.fr/tech-medias/medias/0600482763286-le-guide-gastronomique-gault-et-millau-passe-sous-pavillon-ru
Le Français Jacques Bally et le Russe Vladislav Skvortsov sont les nouveaux propriétaires du prestigieux guide français. Ils comptent notamment accélérer la digitalisation.
Changement de toque chez Gault & Millau. Près de cinquante ans après sa création, le prestigieux guide gastronomique français a été cédé à un investisseur russe et au Français Jacques Bally, qui prend les rênes de l’entreprise.
« Je travaille à cette reprise depuis 2013, mais à l’époque nous n’avions pas trouvé de terrain d’entente avec le propriétaire Côme de Chérisey », rembobine Jacques Bally, qui a également dirigé le groupe Sibuet. C’est désormais chose faîte.
Propriétaire de la licence russe du guide gastronomique depuis 2016, Jacques Bailly s’est associé avec Vladislav Skvortsov, 32 ans, financier russe passé par la banque VTB. L’attelage détient désormais 100 % des parts de NTI, la holding dont dépend Gault & Millau. Le montant de la transaction est confidentiel.
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Pour l’heure, les deux associés se concentrent sur l’embauche d’un directeur technique, d’un directeur international et d’un « lead developer » afin de procéder à la refonte du site internet.
]]>Exploring Distributed System Theory: Availability and Consistency
▻https://hackernoon.com/exploring-distributed-system-theory-availability-and-consistency-e8c59e0
A senior Alibaba technical expert introduces the #algorithms that overcome limits proposed in the CAP theoremIn distributed systems, availability and consistency are the most basic prevailing issues, for which reason their relationship has been the subject of extensive study. The well-known CAP theorem defines their relationship as mutually exclusive in large-scale distributed environments, where the third factor in such systems, partition tolerance, cannot be treated as a variable. In an attempt to circumvent these issues, the Turing-award winning Paxos Protocol has since been proposed to maximize the efficiency of availability and consistency in such systems. To further address issues prevalent in this the Paxos algorithm, the ZAB Protocol was subsequently developed from an original (...)
#distributed-systems #software-development #high-availability #distributed-system-theory
]]>En Chine, un système de notation des citoyens encore flou mais aux ébauches effrayantes
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2018/12/28/en-chine-un-systeme-de-notation-des-citoyens-encore-flou-mais-aux-ebauches-e
Le « système de crédit social » que souhaite déployer Pékin dès 2020 n’a pas encore été précisément défini. Les premiers tests inquiètent largement les universitaires. Le « système de crédit social » (SCS) que le gouvernement chinois entend mettre en place à compter de 2020 ressemble à un épisode de la série d’anticipation dystopique Black Mirror. Les détails de ce que l’on présente couramment comme un système unifié de notation des citoyens, fonctionnaires et entreprises chinois sont encore flous. Et pour cause (...)
#Alibaba #algorithme #web #surveillance #profiling #SocialCreditSystem #Chaos_Computer_Club (...)
##Sésame
Even Smarter: Achieving #aiops in the Age of Big Data
▻https://hackernoon.com/even-smarter-achieving-aiops-in-the-age-of-big-data-8240be07208?source=r
How is a new era of data challenges changing operation and maintenance for IT? Best practice form the Alibaba tech team.This article is part of the AIOps for Big Data series.The heart of artificial intelligence is data, and companies with a lot of it are constantly working to boost what it can do for them. Beyond that simple fact, though, many continue to wonder what it means to say that data is involved in development practices like AIOps (AI for IT operations), or how data can be used in place of human and even machine-driven analytics.Further questions abound. How can we use machine learning algorithms together with big data-based business operation and maintenance platforms? How can machine learning enhance alarm filtering, anomaly monitoring, automated repairs, and other tasks to (...)
#machine-learning #artificial-intelligence #big-data #big-data-aiops
]]>The DataOps Files I: Project Migration
▻https://hackernoon.com/the-dataops-files-i-project-migration-9f206346d338?source=rss----3a8144e
This article is part 1 of a 5-part mini-series on DataOps at Alibaba. This installment looks at how Alibaba uses a project migration method to remove bottlenecks in its operations with big data platform MaxCompute, among other optimizations.In the world of big data, elaborate computing platforms are a necessary tool for dealing with the sheer scale of processing needs that users’ business goals present. More recently, however, they have also become the focus of efforts to evolve from human decision making toward data-driven decision making in operations and maintenance, creating a series of development challenges for major tech firms like e-commerce giant Alibaba.MaxCompute, formerly known as ODPS, stands alone in Alibaba’s technical ecosystem as an internally-developed big data platform (...)
]]>Algocratie : L’inégalité programmée - #DATAGUEULE 84
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJHfUv9RIY0
Ils sont partout autour de nous et pourtant on s’arrête rarement pour les regarder vraiment : les algorithmes. Puissants outils de calcul, ces lignes de code sont aujourd’hui principalement utilisées pour tenter d’optimiser le monde qui nous entoure. Mais que produit cette optimisation ? Quels sont ses effets sur notre perception de la réalité quand il s’agit de trier des infos ? Et que produisent les algorithmes quand ils deviennent des leviers de décisions incontestables ? Prenons le temps de (...)
#algorithme #domination #criminalité #prédictif #prédiction #santé #solutionnisme #discrimination #NSA #Skynet #Alibaba #Google #Microsoft #Tencent #Apple #Alibaba.com #Baidu #Facebook #BATX (...)
##criminalité ##santé ##GAFAM
When Machines Fix Themselves: Alibaba’s Self-healing Hardware Solution
▻https://hackernoon.com/when-machines-fix-themselves-alibabas-self-healing-hardware-solution-d13
Alibaba is realizing a closed-loop self-healing hardware strategy to automatically resolve failures.In big data systems, operation and maintenance work plays a crucial role in ensuring that service interruptions from hardware and software failures do not threaten the overall stability of platforms. Given the challenges of doing so in massive data environments, groups such as Alibaba are increasingly seeking automated solutions that simplify response efforts from their responsible personnel, with one recent effort being self-healing hardware systems.For Alibaba, offline computing platform MaxCompute handles a massive 95 percent of all data storage and computing needs, which at the growing scale Alibaba’s business already encompasses hundreds of thousands of server units. Among these (...)
#big-data #cloud-computing #system-architecture #machines-fix-themselves #devops
]]>Behind the Scenes on 11.11: A Night in the Life of an Alibaba Engineer
▻https://hackernoon.com/behind-the-scenes-on-11-11-a-night-in-the-life-of-an-alibaba-engineer-3b
Diligent technicians are rarely under the lime light. In this article, we look at what it is like to work at Alibaba during the 11.11 Global Shopping Festival for O&M engineer Ren Ruxian.Alibaba’s annual 11.11 Global Shopping Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2018Alibaba’s 11.11 Global Shopping Festival, set each year on China’s November 11 Singles’ Day, has garnered widespread global attention in recent years. On the eve of this year’s festival, which grossed a record-breaking 30.8 billion dollars, announcements declaring it could be seen in renowned public spaces from New York’s Times Square to the lawn of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and even reflected in London’s Thames River.As it gains recognition, some may wonder what it is like to work behind the scenes of such a massive (...)
#alibaba-engineer #ecommerce #devops #engineering #data-center
]]>Faut-il avoir peur des GAFA chinois ?
▻https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/du-grain-a-moudre/faut-il-avoir-peur-des-gafa-chinois
Méconnus en France, les géants du web chinois, Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomu (les « BATX ») inquiètent. Comment appréhender l’arrivée de tels mastodontes numériques en Europe ? Leurs pratiques sont-elles plus problématiques que celles de Google, Apple, Facebook et Amazon (les « GAFA ») ? Derrière l’acronyme BATX : Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent et Xiaomi, ou les quatre entreprises les plus puissantes de l’économie numérique chinoise. Qui a dit que l’humour n’avait pas de frontières ? Dolce & Gabbana vient (...)
#Alibaba #Tencent #Alibaba.com #Baidu #données #surveillance #BATX #web #BigData
]]>[FranceCulture] Faut-il avoir peur des GAFA chinois ?
▻https://www.laquadrature.net/2018/12/05/franceculture-faut-il-avoir-peur-des-gafa-chinois
Méconnus en France, les géants du web chinois, Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomu (les « BATX ») inquiètent. Comment appréhender l’arrivée de tels mastodontes numériques en Europe ? Leurs pratiques sont-elles plus problématiques que celles de Google, Apple, Facebook…
#Cite_La_Quadrature_du_Net #Revue_de_presse #Vie_privée_-_Données_personnelles #revue_de_presse
]]>Plaza’s MerchantChain — Next Gen #commerce on #blockchain
▻https://hackernoon.com/plazas-merchantchain-next-gen-commerce-on-blockchain-13e9ce338b06?source
Plaza’s MerchantChain — Next Gen Commerce on BlockchainWhat is happening now with Crypto and blockchain technology is how I imagine the internet gold rush happened in the 90’s felt. Since I was too young to experience those years, I am paying extra close attention to what is happening today. The concept behind blockchain technology is trust and transparency. Blockchain will have a massive impact on digital identity, banking, smart contracts, decentralized notary, digital voting and many more. In current scenario sellers need middleman like Amazon, flip-kart, eBay and Alibaba for selling and promote their products all over the world. For selling their products approximately 25% fees paying for e-commerce vendors, that cost they will add in their product cost and finally consumers are paying (...)
]]>New Meaning to Grab and Go: Alibaba Unveils its Unmanned Store
▻https://hackernoon.com/new-meaning-to-grab-and-go-alibaba-unveils-its-unmanned-store-48b9fce72a
Alibaba’s the Tmall Future Store shows how technology can help offline merchants thrive in the e-commerce ageIf you’ve ever waited in line impatiently to pay for groceries, chances are you’ve wished you could escape the typical service experience we all tend to encounter as shoppers. While delivery and e-commerce services offer one alternative for people hoping to avoid the hassle, a more recent effort at Alibaba is making it likely that you’ll soon be shopping in stores that let you walk in, grab what you need, and pay automatically as you walk out, simplifying #retail for shoppers and merchants alike.To showcase its progress, Alibaba recently unveiled an experimental 80-square meter installation of its new Tmall Future Store at the 2018 Yunqi Computing Conference, inviting attendees to (...)
#ecommerce #artificial-intelligence #computer-vision #cloud-computing
]]>China’s Orwellian Social Credit Score Isn’t Real, by Jamie Horsley – Foreign Policy
▻https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/11/16/chinas-orwellian-social-credit-score-isnt-real
Blacklists and monitoring systems are nowhere close to Black Mirror fantasies.
(…) China’s party-state is collecting a vast amount of information on its citizens, and its social credit system and other developments internally and overseas raise many serious concerns. But contrary to the mainstream media narrative on this, Chinese authorities are not assigning a single score that will determine every aspect of every citizen’s life—at least not yet. (…)
The scope, scale, diversity, and language of the evolving system have caused a lot of confusion, particularly with respect to the existence of a single social credit score. There is no such thing as a national “social credit score.”
A few dozen towns and cities in China, as well as private companies running loyalty-type programs for their customers, do currently compute scores, primarily to determine rewards or access to various programs. That was the source of at least some of the confusion. Alibaba’s Sesame Credit program, for instance, which gives rewards on Alibaba’s platforms and easier access to credit through a linked company, was often cited as a precursor of a planned government program, despite being a private enterprise.
#surveillance et #fichage, selon cet article la #Chine ne fait pas tellement pire que le monde (dit) libre : un numéro d’identification national et des fichiers privés.
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