Internal report: Eastern European troll farms reached 140M US Facebook users per month before the 2020 election; 75% of the users didn't follow any of the Pages Techmeme · 3 days ago
Sources: US firm Accuvant, now part of Optiv, sold iPhone hacking tool Karma to the UAE for $1.3M in 2016; the tool has been used against hundreds of targets Techmeme · 4 days ago
Researcher discovers an AI-powered service that makes it incredibly easy for users to generate nonconsensual deepfake porn by uploading a picture of a face Techmeme · 6 days ago
Sources and experts say US-funded Afghan government databases containing sensitive personal data could be used by the Taliban to identify millions of Afghans Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Tel Aviv-based startup Hour One is paying people to use their likenesses to create AI-voiced characters for marketing and educational videos for its clients Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Apple says researchers can vet its CSAM tools, but is suing a startup that can. Hacker News · 1 month ago
Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped. | MIT Technology Review Pinboard · 2 months ago
Meet the people who warn the world about new covid variants • MIT Technology Review Pinboard · 2 months ago
NSO Group confirms that Israeli government officials opened an investigation and visited NSO's Tel Aviv office on Wednesday to assess Pegasus abuse allegations Techmeme · 2 months ago
Facebook says it is ending a project to build a head-mounted brain-typing device and will instead focus on a wrist controller for VR that reads muscle signals Techmeme · 2 months ago
A look at startups like WellSaid Labs and VocaliD, which are building custom AI voice actors for digital assistants, video game characters, and corporate videos Techmeme · 2 months ago
How a years-long cybercrime investigation by FBI, Russia, and Ukraine was undone by corruption, rivalry, and stonewalling, resulting in the hackers going free Techmeme · 2 months ago
How job search sites such as LinkedIn, ZipRecruiter, and CareerBuilder are working to remove gender and racial bias from their AI-powered matching algorithms Techmeme · 3 months ago
An analysis of the usage of COVID-19 contact tracing apps in 25 US states and DC finds that only 13 have enough usage to benefit from exposure notification Techmeme · 3 months ago
Lawmakers focus on protecting individuals from big tech when they should develop laws focusing specifically on collective data rights to prevent harm to society Techmeme · 4 months ago
Vaccine waitlist Dr. B collected data from millions. But how many did it help? | MIT Technology Review Pinboard · 4 months ago
Over 500 AI researchers are working on a project to build an open-source large language model that will be used to conduct research independent of any company Techmeme · 4 months ago
Q&A with Unicode Consortium's Jennifer Daniel, the first woman leading the Emoji Subcommittee, on inclusivity, how emoji are perceived globally, and more Techmeme · 4 months ago
Researchers detail a new type of attack that could increase the energy consumption of neural networks by adding small amounts of noise to a network's inputs Techmeme · 5 months ago
Sources: US quietly informed Apple that a Qihoo 360 researcher's iPhone 0-day, which won China's 2018 top hacking contest, was used by China to spy on Uyghurs Techmeme · 5 months ago
The new lawsuit that shows facial recognition is officially a civil rights issue Reddit · 5 months ago
A look at Positive Technologies, a Russian cybersecurity firm sanctioned by the US, which sources say provides hacking tools and ops support for Russian spies Techmeme · 5 months ago
A glossary to help decode the language used by Google and Facebook to reassure the public about AI responsibility without inviting deeper scrutiny Techmeme · 5 months ago
Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out Hacker News · 5 months ago
An in-depth look at the impact, often negative and not fully understood, of AR beauty filters on social media, especially on girls and young women Techmeme · 6 months ago
Artists are tapping into NFT marketplaces, which could pay them thousands for their work, but are running into scams, environmental concerns, and crypto hype Techmeme · 6 months ago
Google’s unusual move to shut down an active counterterrorism operation being conducted by a Western democracy Reddit · 6 months ago
Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a counterterrorism operation: The decision to block an “expert” level cyberattack has caused controversy inside Google after it emerged that the hackers in question were working for a US ally. Reddit · 6 months ago
Scientists plan to drop the 14-day embryo rule, a key limit on stem cell research: As technology for manipulating embryonic life accelerates, researchers want to get rid of their biggest stop sign. Reddit · 6 months ago
Experts discuss challenges of building government tech, including legacy systems, regulatory complexity, lack of data sharing between departments, and more Techmeme · 6 months ago
ESET: at least ten, mostly state-backed, hacking groups are exploiting Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities on thousands of servers in over 115 countries Techmeme · 6 months ago
Brandon Wales, the acting director of the CISA, says that fully recovering from the SolarWinds hack could take the US government as long as 18 months Techmeme · 7 months ago
India's COVID-19 vaccine management system, Co-WIN, has multiple technical glitches of different kinds, resulting in significant delays to its vaccination goals Techmeme · 7 months ago