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Yellow Vests

‘Armageddon’ rioting breaks out in Paris as extremist demonstrators hijack May Day protests

Rioting broke out in Paris today as thousands gathered for May Day protests dubbed 'Armageddon' by extremist demonstrators. Thugs from the so-called Black Bloc anti-capitalist movement were involved in running battles with police soon after 1pm, when there h…

bubmagMay 1, 2019

Yellow Vests

French police fire tear gas at protesters in Paris May Day rally

PARIS (Reuters) - French police fired tear gas to push back masked demonstrators in central Paris on Wednesday as thousands of people used an annual May Day rally to protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s policies. Labor unions and so-called “yellow ve…

bubmagMay 1, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

Anti-Putin protesters arrested in Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg (AFP) - Some 2,000 anti-Kremlin protesters joined May Day rallies in Saint Petersburg, chanting slogans critical of President Vladimir Putin, as police arrested more than 30 people. Protesters included supporters of top opposition leader Ale…

bubmagMay 1, 2019

CCTV

Latest NSI CCTV Code of Practice comes into effect

VIDEO SURVEILLANCE NSI technical manager Matthew Holliday discusses the code at the NSI Summit 2019 The latest edition of the National Security Inspectorates (NSI) CCTV Code of Practice for the design, installation and maintenance of CCTV surveillance syste…

bubmagMay 1, 2019

Feudalism

Cambridge’s slavery inquiry will raise more questions than it answers

Can the past hold the present to ransom? Can we be culpable for our predecessors’ actions? Knotty questions of this kind have long been debated in British universities. But now these abstractions are finding new and controversial expression. Yesterday, the U…

bubmagMay 1, 2019

Julian Assange

Julian Assange Sentenced to 1 Year in Prison For Jumping Bail in London

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks in prison, just shy of a year, for jumping bail in London back in the summer of 2012. Assange appeared before a UK court this morning and received close to the maximum sentence, but may only serv…

bubmagMay 1, 2019

Machine Learning

Here are the 7 requirements for building ethical AI, according to the EU commission

In October, Amazon had to discontinue an artificial intelligencepowered recruiting tool after it discovered the system was biased against female applicants. In 2016, a ProPublica investigation revealed a recidivism assessment tool that used machine learning w…

bubmagMay 1, 2019

Julian Assange

Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange gets sentenced to 50 weeks in jail

Julian Assange, the co-founder of Wikileaks, has been sentenced to 50 weeks in jail by a UK court for violating his bail conditions. Assange was arrested last month and removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in London by police. SEE ALSO: 'The Daily Show' reca…

bubmagMay 1, 2019

VR

The Morning After: Facebook’s new look

A quieter period for iPhone sales.Apple's services are making more money than ever Apple raked in over $31 billion thanks to iPhone sales, compared to $37.6 billion this time in 2018. As you might expect, that had a pretty significant effect on Apple's overa…

bubmagMay 1, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

These Are the 10 ‘Most Urgent’ Cases of Threats to Press Freedom Around the World

A freelance reporter missing in Tanzania, a newspaper editor facing censorship in South Sudan and two journalists detained in Nicaragua are all among those on this month’s list of the 10 Most Urgent threats to press freedom. The list — released monthly by th…

bubmagMay 1, 2019

‘Armageddon’ rioting breaks out in Paris as extremist demonstrators hijack May Day protests

French police fire tear gas at protesters in Paris May Day rally

Anti-Putin protesters arrested in Saint Petersburg

Latest NSI CCTV Code of Practice comes into effect

Cambridge’s slavery inquiry will raise more questions than it answers

Julian Assange Sentenced to 1 Year in Prison For Jumping Bail in London

Here are the 7 requirements for building ethical AI, according to the EU commission

Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange gets sentenced to 50 weeks in jail

The Morning After: Facebook’s new look

These Are the 10 ‘Most Urgent’ Cases of Threats to Press Freedom Around the World

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