The Singularity is Back

An open letter orchestrated by the Future of Life Institute calling for a six months moratorium on research in artificial intelligence, quoting risks attached to ‘the loss of control’ over self-improving AI. The experts — and cosignatories such as opinionated oligarchs notwithstanding — insist that the risks are both existential and imminent. The Singularity is back in

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Press Release: Information Theory Measures Bitcoin’s Real Value

Scientists at Sapience.org have made a breakthrough in understanding the real value of bitcoin Their discovery challenges the current understanding of the value of currencies and provides a way to calculate expected prices without relying on price history A relation discovered between information theory and finance could have far-reaching implications for monetary policy and Forex

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Five More Lessons About Documentation: A follow-up to Mark Birch’s “Developer Documentation”

Last week’s DevBizOps blog entry (“Developer Documentation: Developers don’t like writing docs, what’s the alternative?“) asked: How programmers can get their answers from documentation, and are there alternatives? As ever Mark’s post advises on questions every developer has to ask in understanding software. Open source or proprietary, documentation is necessary either for using, extending, or

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Should Facebook be broken up? The lesson of Policy Vacuums

Facebook has recently revised their privacy policy by virtually admitting to errors made in the 2016 presidential elections campaign. But that’s clearly not enough. Is legislation required? Is government intervention appropriate? Should Facebook be broken up? What about other information giants? Here to help us answer this question is the term ‘policy vacuum’ introduced in 2005 by Jim Moor, a professor of ethics in Dartmouth College and celebrated technology ethicist.

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HSBC’s New Securities Blockchain Will Control $20B

HSBC will upgrade their blockchain technology to control $20 billion in assets by March 2020. Digital Vault, the blockchain HSBC announced today, will control assets referred to as “private placements”, which are securities bought on private markets. Digital Vault will use distributed ledger technology to “give investors real-time access to their records”.

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