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Meet Jasper, Jahangir Mohammed's fast-growing yet near-invisible company helping to power the internet of things.

“The internet of things is not about things,” says Mohammed, a burly Indian with meaty hands and a beaming gap-toothed smile. “It's about becoming connected.” Once connected, each “thing” is “part of a bigger fabric,” he says. “And you can make money off the fabric by making the thing a conduit through which services are delivered. So that means you need software to create, launch, manage, bill, and monetize the service. That was our original insight.”

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Mongoose: Twitter States the Obvious – State-Sponsored Hacks of Individual Accounts Now Routine

IO Deeds of War

What Twitter does not say is that the USG is just as culpable as others.

Twitter Now Alerts Users To State-Sponsored Attacks

More than 20 accounts were compromised by “state-sponsored actors” of unknown origin, according to email warnings sent by Twitter.

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Stephen E. Arnold: The Falseness of the Internet — False Online Reviews and Twitters Baby Steps Toward Integrity

IO Impotency

Has Twitter finally killed the mess of the false online review?

A business has built up around false online reviews where people offer to post reviews for money. But an increasing clampdown from regulators and new apps that analyse real-time social media are finally bringing such practices to an end, says Monty Munford

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Yoda: Internet Sucks 1 – Zuckerberg’s Deeply Flawed Idea for Automated Teaching

04 Education, IO Impotency

Mark Zuckerberg’s Automated Teaching Idea Is Deeply Flawed

By Natalia Kucirkova and Elizabeth FitzGerald 12/12/15 at 3:59 PM

EXTRACT

Although the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Personalized Learning Platform is not part of Facebook, the underlying principles are the same: human work is replaced by technology, as algorithms provide users with content based on an analysis of their past behavior and demonstrated interests. . . . Zuckerberg’s idea of personalized learning has three major flaws.

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Yoda: Internet Sucks 2 – Zuckerberg’s Wasted Billions

Civil Society, IO Impotency

One Idea for What Mark Zuckerberg Can Do With His $45 Billion

Save public discourse and debate!

By Anne Applebaum

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced he wants to give away $45 billion. I’m sure he needs some advice on how to spend it. Here’s mine: He should use it to undo the terrible damage done by Facebook and other forms of social media to democratic debate and civilized discussion all over the world. Weak democracies are the most vulnerable to the curse of Facebook.

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Yoda: Internet Sucks 3 – Pirate Bay Founder “The Internet is shit today.”

IO Impotency

Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’

“The internet is shit today. It’s broken. It was probably always broken, but it’s worse than ever.” My conversation with, Peter Sunde, one of the founders and spokespersons of The Pirate Bay, did not start out optimistically. There’s good reason for that: In the last couple of months, the contemporary download culture shows heavy signs of defeat in the battle for the internet.

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