The Madness of the Digital Gulag - Press Review

1) Since early October, YouTube's IT cartel has reduced download
speeds for all alternative clients. Only Premium account users can
download and watch videos at good speed. All others are required
to use a speed in the region of 65 kib / sec. This is due to the fact
that the IT cartel has transferred all services to its own servers. It
looks like things are going to the end of this project. An IT fall
always starts with over-monetization.
2) A team of specialists from Facebook is engaged in a research
project Ego4D to develop systems based on artificial intelligence
that can constantly spy on people's lives using video and
participate in everyday tasks. Facebook researchers have highlighted
a number of skills the company develops in these systems, including
"episodic memory" and "audiovisual diarization." According to the
IT cartel, the systems trained by Ego4D will one day be used in
assistant robots or first-person cameras to navigate the world
around them. For example, in prisons (author).
3) Ghost Robotics and SWORD International presented an
autonomous four-legged robot with a rapid-fire assault rifle on its
back at the US Army Association convention in Washington.
Reported by The Verge. The basis of the new combat system is
the Vision 60 robotic dog from Ghost Robotics, similar to the Spot
robot from Boston Dynamics. It is already used by the US Army
for regular operations: guarding bases and patrolling dangerous areas
like swamps - but so far without weapons on board. Now the robot
dog is equipped with a special purpose unmanned rifle produced by
SWORD International with a caliber of 6.5 millimeters, to which a
silencer can be attached.
4) The social network LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft, will stop
working in China due to increased control of the Internet by the
authorities, according to Reuters. In May, LinkedIn was on the list
of 105 apps that the Chinese regulator accused of illegally
collecting and using user information. The social network was
instructed to abandon this practice. But they couldn't do it.