Contractors working for Microsoft are listening to personal conversations of Skype users conducted through the app’s translation service, according to a cache of internal documents, screenshots, and audio recordings obtained by Motherboard. From a report: Although Skype’s website says that the company may analyze audio of phone calls that a user wants to translate in order to improve the chat platform’s…
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Decades-Old Computer Science ‘Boolean Sensitivity’ Conjecture Solved in Two Pages
Long-time Slashdot reader Faizdog writes: The “sensitivity” conjecture stumped many top computer scientists, yet the new proof is so simple that one researcher summed it up in a single tweet. “This conjecture has stood as one of the most frustrating and embarrassing open problems in all of combinatorics and theoretical computer science,” wrote Scott Aaronson of the University of Texas, Austin,…
Skype Snap App Remains Hopelessly Outdated
An anonymous reader shares a report: The official Skype Snap app for Linux has not been updated in nearly six months, and Microsoft is yet to say why. When introducing the cross-distro build in early 2018, the company said the Skype Snap app would give it the “… ability to push the latest features straight to our users, no matter which…
David Foster Wallace was wrong about video calling
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/5/18518355/infinite-jest-video-calling-david-foster-wallace…
Should Vendors Start Adding Physical On/Off Switches To Devices That Can Spy On Us?
Larry Sanger, American internet project developer and co-founder of Wikipedia, argues in a blog post that vendors must start adding physical on/off switches to webcams, smartphone cameras/mics, and other devices that spy on us. He writes: Have you ever noticed that your webcam doesn’t have an “off” switch? I looked on Amazon, and I couldn’t find any webcams for sale that…
I Tried Skype’s New 50-Person Video Calling Feature, My Personal Hell
Humanity has dreamed of live video calling between groups of people since the late 19th century—almost since the invention of the telephone. Today, in the comparatively futuristic year of 2019, what we’ve been granted are a slew of imperfect video conferencing applications like Skype, Google Hangouts, and Zoom. It’s rare that I’ve seen someone successfully… Continue reading I Tried Skype’s New 50-Person Video Calling Feature, My Personal Hell