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Played, reviewed and fact-checked. With the Yakuza. Several months ago, I introduced you to Jake Adelstein, the fearless-to-a-fault Jewish-American reporter who spent 12 years as a crime beat reporter in Japan and wrote about it in his book Tokyo Vice . In Tokyo Vice , we meet Adelstein's arch-nemesis, a former yakuza boss named Tadamasa Goto; we also learn Adelstein he has a hodge podge of allies in the pervasive Japanese underworld. Turns out he's good enough friends with a few high-ranking gangster bosses that he was able to convince them to conduct an experiment for Boing Boing: to evaluate Yakuza 3 , a popular video game about the infamous gangsters created for ordinary citizens. And so it was that Adelstein showed up at a shady real estate office in Tokyo one Thursday afternoon with a pack of cigarettes and a bottle of Duty-Free whiskey to teach these gangsters how to h...

Header /5611/boinboing report this ad / Cory Doctorow / 9:28 am Wed Mar 29, 2017 /5611/boinboing See all deals /5611/boinboing Twitter Facebook RSS In a newly revised paper in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition , a group of French and Swiss computer science researchers show that "a very small perturbation vector that causes natural images to be misclassified with high probability" -- that is, a minor image transformation can beat machine learning systems nearly every time. /5611/boinboing report this ad What's more, the researchers show evidence that similar tiny distortions exist in other kinds of data-types that confound all machine-learning systems! The "universal adversarial preturbation" changes images in ways that are imperceptible to the human eye, but devastating to machine vision. The research is typical of ...

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By Cory Doctorow - Share this article Tweet This article is based on a keynote speech to the Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin, Dec. 2011. General-purpose computers are astounding. They're so astounding that our society still struggles to come to grips with them, what they're for, how to accommodate them, and how to cope with them. This brings us back to something you might be sick of reading about: copyright . But bear with me, because this is about something more important. The shape of the copyright wars clues us into an upcoming fight over the destiny of the general-purpose computer itself. In the beginning, we had packaged software and we had sneakernet. We had floppy disks in ziplock bags, in cardboard boxes, hung on pegs in shops, and sold like candy bars and magazines. They were eminently susceptible to duplication, were duplicated quickly, and widely, a...

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Federated Media Leaderboard ad at the top Google search box. Blog Features Podcasts Video Forums • Submit a link Subhead America's National Security Agency gathers unfathomable mountains of Internet communications from fiber optic taps and other means, but it says it only retains and searches the communications of "targeted" individuals who've done something suspicious. Guess what? If you read Boing Boing, you've been targeted. Cory Doctorow digs into Xkeyscore and the NSA's deep packet inspection rules. Main Image The copy In a shocking story on the German site Tagesschau ( Google translate ), Lena Kampf, Jacob Appelbaum and John Goetz report on the rules used by the NSA to decide who is a "target" for surveillance. Since the start of the Snowden story in 2013, the NSA has stressed that while it may intercept nearly every Internet use...