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Profile of Chris Gilliard, aka @hypervisible, who has helped coin concepts like "digital redlining" to highlight the impact of tech on marginalized groups
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Wikimedia Foundation names Maryana Iskander as CEO, starting January 2022; Iskander previously led a South African non-profit focused on youth unemployment
Biden to nominate Georgetown law professor Alvaro Bedoya, who focuses on privacy issues, to be a commissioner at the FTC
FBI releases 9/11 investigation document that scrutinized Saudis
The DoD has retaken all 175M IPv4 addresses it handed over to a Florida company on Trump's last day; DoD says its schedule was "agnostic" of the admin change
Texas governor signs bill banning social media companies with 50M+ MAUs from blocking or restricting people or their content based on their viewpoint
A Twitter user insulted a German politician, then raided his house
Security researchers say Apple's bug bounty program is undermined by Apple's insular culture, confusion about payments, and long delays in fixing bugs
The covid endgame: Is the pandemic over already? Or are there years to go?
Nearly eight months into his term, Biden has yet to pick new leaders at the FCC and NTIA, delaying action on key agenda items, like reinstating net neutrality
(500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/03/apple-delay-csam-scanning/
NYU study: from August 2020 to January 2021, publishers known for putting out misinfo got six times more engagement than trustworthy news sources like WHO
Elementary school outbreak shows delta’s risks for unvaccinated children – The Washington Post
Analysis: targeted ad campaigns on Facebook, long criticized as invasive, have become powerful tools for health officials to persuade people to get vaccinated
Apple will let developers accept payment outside App Store
Hospitalizations hit 100k in United States for first time since January
Federal government to expand use of facial recognition despite growing concerns
Researchers say YouTube, which attracts less scrutiny than Facebook or Twitter, is a hard platform to study because video is so difficult to analyze in bulk
Two Congress members make unauthorized trip to Kabul amid evacuation efforts – The Washington Post
Biden meets with CEOs from Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and others to discuss cybersecurity, says private sector must do more to protect infrastructure
Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
A look at Vaccine Talk, a tightly moderated Facebook group for vaccine skeptics with ~70K members that aims to change their minds with evidence-based info
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was ahead of her time
(500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/s/opinions/2021/08/21/how-unvaccinated-pandemic-threaten-everyones-health/
Facebook releases a previously shelved Q1 content transparency report, acknowledging the widespread reach of content casting doubt on COVID vaccines
Rain falls at the summit of Greenland Ice Sheet for first time on record
Researchers who built an Apple-like system to identify CSAM in e2e encrypted online services, say they abandoned it due to numerous abuse and misuse concerns
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Mass Afghan government surrenders as Taliban fighters overrun three key cities in sweeping territorial gains
Profile of Philip Agre, a computer scientist turned humanities professor, whose work is considered foundational in studying the effects of technology on society
Senate's $1T infrastructure bill includes $2B for cybersecurity programs, including $1B to provide federal cybersecurity assistance to state, local governments
Thousands of marginalized streamers implore Twitch to counter "hate raids", where groups of malicious users fill a streamer's chat with targeted abuse
(500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/09/why-we-cant-trust-states-prevent-wrongful-convictions/
Court docs: Apple settles its 2019 lawsuit against Corellium over Corellium's "virtualized" iPhone business; Corellium says it still sells virtual iOS devices
Siberia’s wildfires are bigger than all the world’s other blazes combined
‘Lynchings in Mississippi never stopped’ – The Washington Post
How the cryptocurrency industry gained influence in Washington and became one of the biggest stumbling blocks holding up the passage of the infrastructure bill
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Scientists have detected warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream
In a letter to Zuckerberg, the FTC called Facebook's initial claim it cut off NYU researchers' access to comply with an FTC privacy agreement as "inaccurate"
Officials put the wrong man in a mental facility for two years
Overview of the severe shortage of cybersecurity workers across the US government and private sector, despite an unprecedented slate of hacking threats
A former Facebook elections integrity head criticizes it for using preemptive non-disparagement clauses to silence employees, shutting avenues for transparency
[The Washington Post] You’re going to be asked to prove your vaccination status. Here’s how to do it.
‘The war has changed’: Internal CDC document urges new messaging, warns delta infections likely more severe – The Washington Post
Many viewers are experiencing the Olympics primarily through TikTok, with some of the most-watched videos coming not from NBC but from athletes themselves
China's top court issues new guidelines that hotels, airports, and other commercial venues must get consent from customers to use facial recognition from Aug. 1
Our democracy is under attack. Washington journalists must stop covering it like politics as usual. – The Washington Post
Pinboard · 2 months ago