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Palestine

Design publication Journal Safar tackles the lack of documentation of creativity in the Middle East

Based in Beirut, Journal Safar is a biannual and bilingual publication created to give agency to graphic design as a field that plays an integral and important role in cultural production specifically regional cultural production. Taking its name from the Ara…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Apple stops Siri grading program globally, future iOS update to provide opt-in/out controls

In response to privacy concerns raised a few days ago in an article by the British newspaper the Guardian, Apple has temporarily suspended the Siri grading program globally, saying that an upcoming iOS software update will give its customers new controls so t…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Apple is suspending Siri quality control due to recent privacy concerns

We heard earlier this week, how Apple has been using human contractors to listen to Siri recordings as part of a quality control system. These measures are meant to help Apple improve the service by seeing how Siri is responding to user requests. However, it…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Silk Road

UK’s new foreign secretary calls on China to respect ‘peaceful protest’ in Hong Kong

The new administration of Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson has made its first comment concerning Hong Kong, calling on China to respect peaceful protests in the former British colony. Dominic Raab, Britain's new foreign secretary and de facto deputy pr…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Nukes

Russia Is In Violation Of Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, U.S. Says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) The United States formally withdrew from a landmark nuclear missile pact with Russia on Friday after determining that Moscow was in violation of the treaty and had no plans to come into compliance with it. U.S. President Donald Trump mad…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Privacy: Google stops transcribing Assistant recordings and Apple stops listening to Siri recordings

Following the revelations that Apple contractors are listening to recordings of things people say to Siri, and Google workers are manually transcribing Assistant recordings, both companies have said they will cease the practice -- at least temporarily. Both …

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Christianity

Erick Erickson, It’s Time to Get Out of Pete Buttigieg’s Bedroom

Erick Erickson really doesnt like that presidential primary candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg is gay, and refuses to repent for his sin of having gay sex. Erickson has much to say about it, an exhausting amount. For all that they profess their disgust about it,…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

Saudi Arabia just made its first direct investment in a European startup, and it supports a VC theory about the kingdom’s power in tech

Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) has made its first major, direct investment in a European tech company, participating in a $550 million funding round in Babylon Health. The round values Babylon Health at $2 billion, and will help fund the compa…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Xi Jinping

U.S. formally withdraws from 1987 nuclear pact with Russia

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States formally withdrew from a landmark nuclear missile pact with Russia on Friday after determining that Moscow was in violation of the treaty and had no plans to come into compliance with it. U.S. President Donald Trump …

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Putin

Cold War-era arms-control pact officially dead, fueling fears of new nuclear race

The United States will withdraw from a landmark Cold War arms-control pact on Friday, six months after the Trump administration declared Russia in material breach of the treaty and said Moscow hadn't made an effort to return to compliance. The death of the I…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Design publication Journal Safar tackles the lack of documentation of creativity in the Middle East

Apple stops Siri grading program globally, future iOS update to provide opt-in/out controls

Apple is suspending Siri quality control due to recent privacy concerns

UK’s new foreign secretary calls on China to respect ‘peaceful protest’ in Hong Kong

Russia Is In Violation Of Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, U.S. Says

Privacy: Google stops transcribing Assistant recordings and Apple stops listening to Siri recordings

Erick Erickson, It’s Time to Get Out of Pete Buttigieg’s Bedroom

Saudi Arabia just made its first direct investment in a European startup, and it supports a VC theory about the kingdom’s power in tech

U.S. formally withdraws from 1987 nuclear pact with Russia

Cold War-era arms-control pact officially dead, fueling fears of new nuclear race

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