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Last week, The New York Magazine found that Facebook was archiving videos users thought were deleted. The social media company is now apologizing for failing to delete the videos, blaming it on a "bug." It adds that it's in the process of deleting the content now. Gizmodo reports: Last week, New York's Select All broke the story that social network was keeping the seemingly deleted old videos. The continued existence of the draft videos was discovered when several users downloaded their personal Facebook archives -- and found numerous videos they never published. Today, Select All got a statement from Facebook blaming the whole thing on a "bug." From Facebook via New York: "We investigated a report that some people were seeing their old draft videos when they accessed their information from our Download Your Information tool. We discovered a bug that prevented draft videos from being deleted. We are deleting them and apologize for the inconvenience. We appreciate New York Magazine for bringing the issue to our attention."

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On Monday, Russia's postal service tested a delivery drone in the city of Ulan-Ude, Siberia, -- and it went horribly wrong. According to Futurism, soon after launch it crashed violently into the wall of a nearby building, "turning the UAV into a mess of jumbled parts." From the report: Here was the original plan for Monday's test. The $20,000 drone was supposed to pick up a small package and deliver it to a nearby village, Reuters reports. Instead the device failed spectacularly, only making it a short distance before crashing into a three-story building. The small crowd gathered to watch the test can be heard uttering expletives, according to Reuters. No one was injured in the crash, and it didn't do any damage, except to Russia's pride. The organizers aren't quite sure what went wrong, but they suspect the 100 or so nearby wifi spots could have had something to do with it.

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"Apple has hired Google's chief of search and artificial intelligence (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source), John Giannandrea, a major coup in its bid to catch up to the artificial intelligence technology of its rivals," reports The New York Times. Giannandrea will run Apple's overall "machine learning and AI strategy," reporting directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook. From the report: The hire is a victory for Apple, which many Silicon Valley executives and analysts view as lagging its peers in artificial intelligence, an increasingly crucial technology for companies that enable computers to handle more complex tasks, like understanding voice commands or identifying people in images. "Our technology must be infused with the values we all hold dear," Mr. Cook said Tuesday morning in an email to staff members obtained by The New York Times. "John shares our commitment to privacy and our thoughtful approach as we make computers even smarter and more personal." Mr. Giannandrea, a 53-year-old native of Scotland known to colleagues as J.G., helped lead the push to integrate A.I. throughout Google's products, including internet search, Gmail and its own digital assistant, Google Assistant. He joined Google in 2010 when it purchased Metaweb, a start-up where he served as chief technology officer. Metaweb was building what it described as a "database of the world's knowledge," which Google eventually rolled into its search engine to deliver direct answers to users' queries. (Try googling "How old is Steph Curry?") During Mr. Giannandrea's tenure, A.I. research became increasingly important inside Google, with its primary A.I. lab, Google Brain, moving into a space beside the chief executive, Sundar Pichai.

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Yhdysvaltojen ja Kiinan tullikiistan panokset kasvavat. Trumpin hallinto on julkistanut listan kiinalaisista tuotteista, joihin tuontitullit kohdistuvat. Tulleja asetetaan noin 1 300 tuotteelle yhteensä 50 miljardin dollarin eli noin 40,6 miljardin euron edestä.

Yhdysvaltain tavoitteena on, että tullien vaikutukset Yhdysvaltain talouteen olisivat mahdollisimman vähäiset. Lista on 30 päivän ajan arvioitavana ennen sen voimaantuloa.

Yhdysvaltain viranomaiset julkistivat listan pian sen jälkeen, kun Kiina ilmoitti asettavansa amerikkalaisille tuotteille tuontitulleja kolmen miljardin dollarin edestä. Listalla on tiettävästi teollisuustuotteita sekä elektroniikka- ja teknologiatuotteita. Tuotelistalla on muun muassa moottoripyöriä ja hammashoitolaitteita.

Kiina otti maanantaina käyttöön 15 ja 25 prosentin suuruisia tulleja yhteensä lähes 130 amerikkalaiselle tuotteelle, muun muassa sianlihalle, hedelmille ja viinille. Tällä Kiina vastasi Yhdysvaltojen aiemmin asettamiin tuontitulleihin, jotka ovat teräkselle 25 prosenttia ja alumiinille 10 prosenttia.

Yhdysvaltain presidentti Donald Trump sanoi jo viime kuussa, että Yhdysvallat asettaa tulleja Kiinasta tuotaville tavaroille kymmenien miljardien dollarien edestä. Trumpin tavoitteena on suojata kotimaista tuotantoa ja kasvattaa amerikkalaisten tuotteiden kysyntää.

Odotettavissa on, että Kiina reagoi uuteen listaan omilla toimillaan. Pelkona onkin, että tullikiista nostattaa laajemman kaupallisen sodan kahden maailman suurimman talouden välille.

Kiina reagoi välittömästi

Kiina tuomitsee jyrkästi Yhdysvaltain ilmoittamat uudet tuontitullit. Kiinan mukaan Yhdysvaltain toimet ovat perusteettomia.

Kiina ilmoitti ryhtyvänsä samanlaisiin toimenpiteisiin vastaavassa laajuudessa. Kiinan mukaan on vain kohteliasta toimia vastavuoroisesti.

Lue myös:

EK:n asiantuntija Kiinan vastatulleista Yhdysvalloille: Suomessa lihan hinta saattaa nousta ja viinien laskea

Kiina toteuttaa uhkauksensa tuontitulleista Yhdysvalloille: Listalla esimerkiksi sianliha, alumiiniromu ja viinit

Trumpin Kiinalle määräämät tullit saivat sijoittajat paniikkiin – "kaikki pörssin toimialat ovat punaisella"

Tekeekö Trump Kiina-tulleillaan palveluksen kansainväliselle kaupalle? Kyllä, jos uhkailun strategia tehoaa

Trump vahvistaa Euroopan unionin ja kuuden maan välttävän tuontitullit toistaiseksi

An anonymous reader writes: Today, version 28 of the Fedora finally achieves beta status. After a short delay -- it was scheduled to be available a week earlier -- the distro is back on track, and looking better than ever. As is typical now, there are three versions of the operating system -- Atomic Host, Server, and Workstation. While all three have their places, normal desktop computer users will want to focus on Workstation. While there are plenty of new features (and bugs), the most exciting aspect of Fedora 28 Workstation is the inclusion of the GNOME 3.28 desktop environment.

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An anonymous reader writes: WhatsApp differentiates itself from parent company Facebook by touting its end-to-end encryption. "Some of your most personal moments are shared with WhatsApp," the company writes on its website, so "your messages, photos, videos, voice messages, documents, and calls are secured from falling into the wrong hands." But WhatsApp members may not be aware that when using the app's Group Chat feature, their data can be harvested by anyone in the group. What is worse, their mobile numbers can be used to identify and target them. WhatsApp groups are designed to enable groups of up to 256 people to join a shared chat without having to go through a central administrator. Group originators can add contacts from their phones or create links enabling anyone to opt-in. These groups, which can be found through web searches, discuss topics as diverse as agriculture, politics, pornography, sports, and technology. Not all groups have links, but in those that do, anyone who finds the link can join the group. While all new joining members are announced to the group, they are not required to provide a name or otherwise identify themselves. This design could leave inattentive members open to targeting, as a new report from European researchers shows. WhatsApp is used by more than 1.2 billion users worldwide.

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Police have responded to multiple 911 calls at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California. From a report: Vadim Lavrusik, a product manager at the company, tweeted that there is an active shooter on campus. The San Bruno Police Department instructed people to stay away from 901 Cherry Avenue, where the company is located. Multiple 911 calls have been received from inside the building, according to a report from local news station KRON. In a Twitter thread, YouTube product manager Todd Sherman said that employees first thought there had been an earthquake. People began running out of their meetings, he said, but before reaching the exit, they got word that someone had a gun. Sherman said he saw blood on the floor and the stairs. He also said the shooter may have committed suicide. Vadim Lavrusik, who works at YouTube's products team, tweeted, "Active shooter at YouTube HQ. Heard shots and saw people running while at my desk. Now barricaded inside a room with coworkers." Update 20:30GMT: Google has issued the following statement, "we are coordinating with authorities and will provide official information here from Google and YouTube as it becomes available." San Bruno Police said it was "responding to an active shooter. Please stay away from Cherry Ave & Bay Hill Drive." Update 20:40 GMT: CBS San Francisco reports: KPIX 5 reporter Andria Borba said at least two Homeland Security units were responding. Police radio transmissions describe casualties being taken to local hospitals. San Francisco General Hospital spokesman Brent Andrew said the hospital received patients from the incident but could not confirm a number. Update 21:20 GMT: ABC News is reporting that the suspected shooter is a white adult female, and that this is "leaning towards a workplace violence situation." Update 21:30 GMT: Law enforcement has confirmed that the shooter was a white female dressed in a headscarf. The women reportedly shot her boyfriend then herself. It's unclear exactly how many people have been injured, but early reports estimate at least 9-10 victims. There is no word on their conditions.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: The organization responsible for co-ordinating European air traffic says it has fixed an earlier fault which led to widespread flight delays. Eurocontrol earlier said that delays could affect up to half of all flights in Europe -- about 15,000 trips. It said the faulty system was restarted at 19:00 GMT, and normal operations had resumed. Tuesday's fault was only the second failure in 20 years, Eurocontrol said -- the last happened in 2001. The unspecified problem was with the Enhanced Tactical Flow Management System, which helps to manage air traffic by comparing demand and capacity of different air traffic control sectors. It manages up to 36,000 flights a day. Some 29,500 were scheduled on Tuesday when the fault occurred. When the system failed, Eurocontrol's contingency plan for a failure in the system deliberately reduced the capacity of the entire European network by 10%. It also added what it calls "predetermined departure intervals" at major airports.

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Yhdysvaltain Kaliforniassa sijaitsevan YouTuben pääkonttorin lähettyvillä on ammuttu laukauksia, uutisoivat Britannian yleisradioyhtiö BBC ja uutiskanava CNN. Jotkut Youtuben henkilökunnasta ovat ilmoittaneet, että alueella olisi vapaalla jalalla oleva ampuja, mutta tietoa ei ole vahvistettu.

Paikalla on ambulansseja ja poliisi on kehottanut ihmisiä pysymään poissa alueelta, BBC kertoo. Uutistoimisto Reutersin mukaan ampumahaavoja saaneita uhreja on toimitettu sairaalaan San Franciscoon. YouTuben pääkonttori sijaitsee San Brunon kaupungissa.

Kiinan maanantaina Yhdysvalloille asettamat uudet tuontitullit voivat tuntua myös suomalaisten kukkarossa - sekä hyvässä että pahassa. Kehittyviä talouksia seuraava Petri Vuorio Elinkeinoelämän keskusliitto EK:sta ottaa esimerkiksi kaksi tullien piirissä olevaa tuoteryhmää.

– Ajatellaan vaikka sianlihaa: jos sen vienti Euroopasta kasvaa, tarjonta Euroopassa vähenee ja sitä kautta kuluttajahinnat saattavat nousta. Jos taas amerikkalaisten viinien vienti Kiinaan vähenee ja tuonti Eurooppaan kasvaa, se saattaa laskea hintoja.

Kiina asetti noin 3 miljardin dollarin arvoista tuontia koskevat tullit vastavetona Yhdysvaltain vajaa kuukausi sitten asettamille teräs- ja alumiinitulleille.

Nyt nähdyillä tulleilla on Ylen A-studiossa vierailleen Vuorion mukaan rajallinen vaikutus kuluttajahintoihin. Suurempi vaikutus Suomeen nähtäisiin, jos tilanne laajenisi laajamittaiseen kauppasotaan.

– Suomi vientivetoisena maana kärsisi investointien vähenemisestä ja maailmankaupan kasvun hidastumisesta. Työllisyysvaikutus tulisi sitä kautta.

"Loppupeleissä järki voittaa"

Presidentti Donald Trump on jo uhannut uusilla, jopa 60 miljardin arvoista tuontia koskevilla tulleilla. Julkisuudessa olleiden tietojen mukaan ne iskisivät Kiinaa arkaan paikkaan, korkean teknologian tuotteisiin.

Vuorio on varma, että Kiinan johtaja Xi Jinping vastaa vahvoilla vastatoimilla jos Yhdysvallat asettaa uusia tuontitulleja.

– Trumpin hallinnon ongelma diilien tekemisessä on, että asetetaan yksipuolisia vaatimuksia. Se on kiinalaisille haastavaa siinä mielessä, että Xi profiloituu Kiinassa vahvana johtajana, eikä ole valmis kasvojen menettämiseen.

Kompromissina Yhdysvallat voisi Vuorion mielestä esimerkiksi sitoutua tukemaan Maailman kauppajärjestöä WTO:ta, jota vastaan se on asettunut viime aikoina.

– Uskon että loppupeleissä järki voittaa, koska laajamittaisessa kauppasodassa suurimmat häviäjät on helppo tunnistaa, mutta voittajia ei. Markkinat on hyvä indikaattori. Pörssikurssit niin Yhdysvalloissa, Euroopassa kuin Aasiassakin laskevat aina kun kauppasota uhkaa.

11 bit Studios juhlistaa tulevaa Frostpunk-julkaisua tarjoamalla studion edellistä peliä ilmaiseksi Steamissa.

Sotahan ei koskaan muutu, mutta sitä voi kuvata eri tavoilla.

This War of Mine on mielenkiintoinen sodan kulisseihin sijoittuva selviytymispeli jossa kuvataan sodan seurauksia täysin uudesta näkökulmasta. Se ei keskity sotilaisiin tai itse sotimiseen, vaan siinä yritetään selviytyä siviilinä ja kansalaisena sodan runtelemassa ympäristössä.

This War of Mine on ilmaiseksi tarjolla sunnuntaihin huhtikuun kahdeksanteen päivään saakka. Se löytyy täältä.

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Police have responded to multiple 911 calls at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California. From a report: Vadim Lavrusik, a product manager at the company, tweeted that there is an active shooter on campus. The San Bruno Police Department instructed people to stay away from 901 Cherry Avenue, where the company is located. Multiple 911 calls have been received from inside the building, according to a report from local news station KRON. In a Twitter thread, YouTube product manager Todd Sherman said that employees first thought there had been an earthquake. People began running out of their meetings, he said, but before reaching the exit, they got word that someone had a gun. Sherman said he saw blood on the floor and the stairs. He also said the shooter may have committed suicide. Vadim Lavrusik, who works at YouTube's products team, tweeted, "Active shooter at YouTube HQ. Heard shots and saw people running while at my desk. Now barricaded inside a room with coworkers." Update 20:30GMT: Google has issued the following statement, "we are coordinating with authorities and will provide official information here from Google and YouTube as it becomes available." San Bruno Police said it was "responding to an active shooter. Please stay away from Cherry Ave & Bay Hill Drive."

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The dispute between Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and self-proclaimed "Bitcoin creator" Craig Wright is far from over. At the 2018 Deconomy conference, Buterin asked, "Given that he makes so many non sequiturs and mistakes, why is this fraud allowed to speak at this conference?" From the report: Audience members applauded him. The confrontation (video) happened during a question-and-answer session after a panel called "Bitcoin, Controversy over Principle" featuring Roger Ver and Samson Mow; Wright gave a talk just before the panel. [...] Wright first shot to fame when stories from Gizmodo and Wired both identified him as the likely inventor of bitcoin. In May 2016, Wright published a blog post and spearheaded a media push in news outlets including the BBC, The Economist, and GQ in which he said he was, in fact, Satoshi Nakamoto. But the evidence in Wright's blog post made little sense on a technical, cryptographic level. Cryptography experts said at the time that it was nearly nonsensical.

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Alkuvuodesta monet Twitch-streamaajat yrittivät läpäistä hyvin vaikeaa ja jokseenkin outoa Getting Over Itiä. Pian kiipeilemään pääsee myös Android-laitteilla.

Noodlecaken kehittämä melkoisen outo kiipeilypeli Getting Over It keräsi paljon huomiota alkuvuodesta. Monet Twitch-streamaajat innostuivat lähes ylitsepääsemättömän vaikeasta pelistä ja upottivat sen anteeksiantamattomiin tasoihin jopa useita tunteja.

Nyt Getting Over It on saapumassa myös Android-pelaajien saataville, raportoi Toucharcade. Pelistä nähtiin ensimakua jo jokin aika sitten järjestetyssä Game Developer Conferencessa.

Getting Over Itin tarkasta julkaisuajankohdasta tai siitä, saapuuko peli myös Applen laitteille, ei ole vielä tietoa.

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Kärpät sai kylmää kyytiä HIFK:lta välieräavauksessa, kun helsinkiläiset ryöstivät välierien kotiedun Oulusta tylyin 1–4-lukemin.

For the first time, the U.S. government has publicly acknowledged the existence in Washington of what appear to be rogue devices that foreign spies and criminal. From a report: The use of what are known as cellphone-site simulators by foreign powers has long been a concern, but American intelligence and law enforcement agencies -- which use such eavesdropping equipment themselves -- have been silent on the issue until now. In a March 26 letter to Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, the Department of Homeland Security acknowledged that last year it identified suspected unauthorized cell-site simulators in the nation's capital. The agency said it had not determined the type of devices in use or who might have been operating them. Nor did it say how many it detected or where. The agency's response, obtained by The Associated Press from Wyden's office, suggests little has been done about such equipment, known popularly as Stingrays after a brand common among U.S. police departments. The Federal Communications Commission, which regulates the nation's airwaves, formed a task force on the subject four years ago, but it never produced a report and no longer meets regularly. The devices work by tricking mobile devices into locking onto them instead of legitimate cell towers, revealing the exact location of a particular cellphone. More sophisticated versions can eavesdrop on calls by forcing phones to step down to older, unencrypted 2G wireless technology. Some attempt to plant malware.

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Presidentti Donald Trump vakuutti Washingtoniin vierailulle tulleille Baltian maiden presidenteille Yhdysvaltain pysyvän näiden rinalla.

– Voitte luottaa siihen, että Yhdysvallat säilyy teidän vahvana ja uskollisena ystävänä ja liittolaisena, Trump sanoi Valkoisessa talossa järjestetyssä yhteisessä lehdistötilaisuudessa.

Trump myös korosti, että kukaan ei ole ollut yhtä tiukka Venäjän suhteen kuin hän.

Presidentti Trump mainitsi vielä erikseen Viron, Latvian ja Liettuan puolustusbudjetteihin tekemät satsaukset, joista muiden Nato-maiden tulisi hänen mukaansa ottaa oppia.

USA pois Syyriasta

Tiedotustilaisuudessa Trump toisti aiemman esityksensä siitä, että Yhdysvallat vetää sotajoukkonsa pois Syyriasta.

Trumpin mukaan joukkojen pitäminen Syyriassa on kallista, ja pääosin hyödyn siitä keräävät muut maat.

dryriver writes: The whole Digital Rights Management (DRM) train started with music and films, spread horribly to computer and console games (Steam, Origin), turned a lot of computer software you could once buy-and-use into DRM-locked Software As A Service or Cloud Computing products (Adobe, Autodesk, MS Office 365 for example) that are impossible to use without an active Internet connection and account registration on a cloud service somewhere. Recently the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) appears to have paved the way for DRM to find its way into the world of Internet content in various forms as well. Here's the question: What would happen to the Internet as we know it if just about everything on a website -- text, images, audio, video, scripts, games, PDF documents, downloadable files and data, you name it -- had DRM protection and DRM usage-limitations hooked into it by default? Imagine trying to save a JPEG image you see on a website to your harddisk, and not only does every single one of your web browsers refuse the request, but your OS's screen-capture function won't let you take a snapshot of that JPEG image either. Imagine trying to copy-and-paste some text from a news article somewhere into a Slashdot submission box, and having browser DRM tell you 'Sorry! The author, copyright holder or publisher of this text does not allow it to be quoted or re-published anywhere other than where it was originally published!'. And then there is the (micro-)payments aspect of DRM. What if the DRM-fest that the future Internet may become 5 to 10 years from now requires you to make payments to a copyright holder for quoting, excerpting or re-publishing anything of theirs on your own webpage? Lets say for example that you found some cool behind-the-scenes-video of how Spiderman 8 was filmed, and you want to put that on your Internet blog. Except that this video is DRM'd, and requires you to pay 0.1 Cent each time someone watches the video on your blog. Or you want to use a short excerpt from a new scifi book on your blog, and the same thing happens -- you need to pay to re-publish even 4 paragraphs of the book. What then?

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Dark Souls Remastered on ilmestymässä monille alustoille toukokuussa. Pelistä on julkaistu kasa herkullisia kuvia.

Dark Souls Remastered on tulossa toukokuun 24. päivä PlayStation 4:lle, Xbox Onelle, pc:lle ja Nintendo Switchille. Nyt Bandai Namco Entertainment on julkaissut pelistä nipun makoisia kuvia.

 

 

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Venäjän presidentti Vladimir Putin puolustautui vahvasti syytöksiä vastaan, joiden mukaan Venäjä on syyllinen entisen kaksoisagentin Sergei Skripalin ja tämän tyttären myrkyttämiseen.

Turkissa kahden vuorokauden mittaisella vierailulla oleva Putin huomautti, että maailmassa noin 20 maalla on mahdollisuus valmistaa Britannian-iskussa käytettyä hermomyrkkyä.

Putin kertoi hämmästyneensä käynnissä olevaa keskustelua, jota hän kutsui Venäjän-vastaiseksi.

Putin vastasi toimittajien kysymyksiin Ankarassa yhdessä Turkin presidentin Recep Tayyip Erdoğanin kanssa.

Länsimaiden epäsuosioon joutuneet Turkki ja Venäjä ovat jo pitkään parantaneet keskinäisiä suhteitaan.

Tänään tiistaina presidentit juhlistivat Akkuyun kaupunkiin valmistuvan ydinvoimalan rakennustöiden alkamista.

20 miljardin dollarin voimalanhankkeen rakennustöiden takana on Venäjän valtion omistama ydinenergiayhtiö Rosatom.