Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out Hacker News · 1 day 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 · 3 days 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 · 2 weeks ago
Google’s unusual move to shut down an active counterterrorism operation being conducted by a Western democracy Reddit · 2 weeks 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 · 2 weeks 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 · 3 weeks ago
Experts discuss challenges of building government tech, including legacy systems, regulatory complexity, lack of data sharing between departments, and more Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
ESET: at least ten, mostly state-backed, hacking groups are exploiting Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities on thousands of servers in over 115 countries Techmeme · 4 weeks 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 · 1 month 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 · 2 months ago
How a Democratic plan to reform Section 230 could backfire – Experts agree new proposals are the most serious and substantial push to regulate social media yet. But many say they’re misguided and could backfire. Reddit · 2 months ago
Study of 130+ facial recognition data sets compiled over 43 years: driven by ML's data needs, researchers gradually abandoned asking for people's consent Techmeme · 2 months ago
(500) https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/30/1017086/cdc-44-million-vaccine-data-vams-problems/ Pinboard · 2 months ago
The scramble to archive Capitol insurrection footage before it disappears. A global effort to save incriminating evidence raises ethical quandaries. Reddit · 3 months ago
How an internet lie about the Capitol invasion turned into an instant conspiracy theory across social media Reddit · 3 months ago
How an internet lie about the Capitol invasion turned into an instant conspiracy theory Reddit · 3 months ago
OpenAI introduces two new GPT-3 models: CLIP, which classifies images into categories from arbitrary text, and DALL·E, which can generate images from text Techmeme · 3 months ago
40 more states have targeted Google with its third antitrust lawsuit in two months Reddit · 4 months ago
How Russian hackers infiltrated the US government for months without being spotted Reddit · 4 months ago
A growing number of civil lawyers in the US are developing litigation strategies to push back against automated systems that deny the poor basic services Techmeme · 4 months ago
We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says – The company’s star ethics researcher highlighted the risks of large language models, which are key to Google’s business. Reddit · 4 months ago
A look at crowdsourced public safety apps growing amid rising violence in Brazil; Fogo Cruzado, which warns of shootings in Río and Recife, has 250K+ downloads Techmeme · 4 months ago
Some prominent exposure apps are slowly rolling back freedoms – Singapore was the first country to launch a digital contact tracing app. The government now says it’s going to be mandatory. Reddit · 4 months ago
The race to get Georgia’s 23,000 17-year-olds registered to vote. Progressives are hoping Twitch streams, mobile gaming spots, and algorithms will tip the scales in their favor. Reddit · 5 months ago
Scientists criticize a lack of transparency in AI research, citing issues of replication in research and unequal access to code, proprietary data, and hardware Techmeme · 5 months ago
EU tightens rules on surveillance tech, forcing companies selling spyware, facial recognition, and tech with military uses to get a license, be more transparent Techmeme · 5 months ago
Researchers want to infuse common sense into AI by merging language models trained via unsupervised learning, like GPT-3, with labeled computer vision datasets Techmeme · 5 months ago