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Cannes Is Rolling Out the Red Carpet for One of This Century's Most Controversial Figures
Although the Cannes Film Festival is the world's most prestigious movie showcase, its spotlight rarely falls on nonfiction film. Years go by without a single documentary competing for its biggest honor, the Palme d'Or, and there is no separate documentary prize. Juliette Binoche, the president of this year's jury, devoted part of her opening-night remarks to Fatma Hassona, the Palestinian photojournalist who was killed in an Israeli airstrike the day after it was announced that her documentary Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk would be premiering at Cannes. But the film itself was slotted into a low-profile sidebar devoted to independent productions. The festival did, however, roll out the red carpet for The Six Billion Dollar Man, Eugene Jarecki's portrait of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, which premiered out of competition on Wednesday evening.
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The Morning After: Apple may face another huge EU fine
The European Union isn't entirely happy with Apple's approach to its Digital Markets Act and there could be financial consequences. In preliminary findings of its investigation, the European Commission says the company breached Digital Markets Act (DMA) rules by failing to let App Store developers freely tell users about alternate payment options outside of Apple's ecosystem, what it calls anti-steering rules. It has been investigating Apple's behavior since March. Regulators added that although Apple is entitled to receive a payment for helping developers find new customers through the App Store, "the fees charged by Apple go beyond what is strictly necessary for such remuneration." Apple told Engadget in a statement, "We are confident our plan complies with the law and estimate more than 99 percent of developers would pay the same or less in fees to Apple under the new business terms we created."
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PROM: A Phrase-level Copying Mechanism with Pre-training for Abstractive Summarization
Ma, Xinbei, Gong, Yeyun, He, Pengcheng, Zhao, Hai, Duan, Nan
Based on the remarkable achievements of pre-trained language models in abstractive summarization, the copying mechanism has proved helpful by improving the factuality, stability, and overall performance. This work proposes PROM, a new PhRase-level cOpying Mechanism that enhances attention on n-grams, which can be applied to zero-shot summarization with pre-training. PROM adds an indicator layer to explicitly pick up tokens in n-gram that can be copied from the source, and calculates an auxiliary loss for the copying prediction. Empirical studies show that PROM makes significant improvements in fine-tuning on benchmarks. In zero-shot setting, PROM is utilized in the self-supervised pre-training on raw corpora and provides new general baselines on a wide range of summarization datasets. Further analysis shows that PROM performs more reasonable copying and contributes to faithfulness.
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Julian Assange's family grills government's 'over-classification' of documents: 'A problem for democracy'
Fox Nation host Piers Morgan talks to Julian Assange's brother and father about this role in leaking classified military documents. People can never seem to agree on which label to give infamous info leaker Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks founder accused of publishing classified U.S. military information looks at up to 175 years in prison if extradited to the U.S. from his current location in a high-security U.K. prison. His father and brother are among those heralding him as a hero, reiterating their belief in a recent appearance on Fox Nation's "Piers Morgan: Uncensored." "Everything that Julian published was in the public interest and he partnered with these media organizations… so you're talking about all the largest media organizations around the world that published this exact same information," Gabriel Shipton, Assange's brother, said. JULIAN ASSANGE'S BROTHER AND FATHER SPEAK OUT OVER HIS DETAINMENT, CALL FOR CHARGES TO BE DROPPED WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pauses as he makes a statement to media gathered outside the High Court in London, on Monday, Dec. 5, 2011.
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From Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos, these 30 personalities defined the 2010s
The first decade of the 21st century introduced us to sweeping mobile and social revolutions largely driven by names like Jobs, Zuckerberg and Bezos. In the second decade that's now closing, things got a little more… complicated. During those years, a new collection of faces have joined the earlier tech titans to continue moving us into the future. A person wears a Guy Fawkes mask, which today is a trademark and symbol for the online hacktivist group Anonymous. More a decentralized collective than a personality, Anonymous was the name claimed by the loose affiliation of hackers who brought "hacktivism" into the mainstream. During the first half of the decade, Anonymous launched attacks against targets like ISIS, the governments of the US and Tunisia, and corporations such as Sony and PayPal.
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Assange Keeps Warning Of AI Censorship, And It's Time We Started Listening
Throughout the near entirety of human history, a population's understanding of what's going on in the world has been controlled by those in power. The men in charge controlled what the people were told about rival populations, the history of their tribe and its leadership, etc. When the written word was invented, men in charge dictated what books were permitted to be written and circulated, what ideas were allowed, what narratives the public would be granted access to. This continued straight on into modern times. Where power is not overtly totalitarian, wealthy elites have bought up all media, first in print, then radio, then television, and used it to advance narratives that are favorable to their interests.
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CGI and AI Will Empower Fake News • LiketheFuture
Late last year, some WikiLeaks supporters were growing concerned: What had happened to Julian Assange? The then-45-year-old founder of the anti-secrecy publisher was no stranger to controversy. Since 2012, he has sheltered in the Ecuadorian Embassy in Knightsbridge, London, following allegations of sexual assault. But the publication of leaked emails from Democratic Party officials in the run-up to the US presidential election saw Assange wield unprecedented influence while at the center of a global media firestorm. After the election, though, suspicions were growing that something had happened to him.
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WikiLeaks to make CIA cyber weapons publicly available online, Julian Assange says
WikiLeaks is to publish all of the CIA's cyber weapons online, Julian Assange had suggested. The organisation has posted what appears to be the biggest ever leak of CIA spying secrets ever, but had previously refrained from publishing the details of the US spying agency's weapons. Mr Assange had argued that it would be dangerous to do so, since anyone could use them once they are made public. But he has now announced that it will put those previously redacted weapons online. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.
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Julian Assange will be evicted from Ecuadorian embassy, presidential hopeful says
Julian Assange may soon be asked to leave the Ecuadorian embassy. The WikiLeaks boss has been hiding inside the country's London building since summer 2012. But he may be given a month's notice to leave soon, according to Ecuadorian politicians. One presidential candidate, who will fight in the election next week, has promised that he will "cordially ask" Mr Assange to leave if he wins the contest. And the existing government has suggested that it is becoming unhappy with Mr Assange's continuing stay, which is intended as a way of him avoiding extradition to Sweden for questioning about a sexual assault allegation.
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Julian Assange will stand by offer to go the US after Barack Obama releases Chelsea Manning
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stands by his offer to go to the USA now that Chelsea Manning is being released, he told a press conference. Mr Assange had previously committed to hand himself in and face any possible extradition to the US, should Barack Obama offer clemency to Ms Manning. But when that happened, his lawyers suggested that he wouldn't actually fulfil that commitment – arguing that Ms Manning wasn't being released quickly enough. Now Mr Assange has said that he will stand by the offer. He said that there will be "many discussions" on his future before Ms Manning leaves prison in May.
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