Why Wikipedia Decided to Stop Calling Fox a ‘Reliable’ Source | The move offered a new model for moderation. Maybe other platforms will take note. Reddit · 1 day ago
Interview with Bill Gates on COVID-19, Trump, last week's antitrust meeting, Mark Zuckerberg, misinformation, and the "poison chalice" of the TikTok deal Techmeme · 5 days ago
Interview with Color of Change leader Rashad Robinson on the Facebook ad boycott, meeting with Zuckerberg, working with the company, and more Techmeme · 5 days ago
An inside look at Hawkfish, a Mike Bloomberg-funded tech company that helped his 2020 campaign, which is still working behind the scenes to help elect Joe Biden Techmeme · 5 days ago
Researchers: China's state-sponsored hackers stole source code, SDKs, and chip designs from at least seven Taiwanese chip companies over the past two years Techmeme · 5 days ago
Election tech giant ES&S and security firm Synack partner to allow security professionals, vetted by Synack, to do penetration testing on some ES&S products Techmeme · 1 week ago
Researchers find 18 "evasion exploits" within widely used email protocols, potentially letting attackers disguise spear-phishing attacks Techmeme · 1 week ago
Interviews with 29 Black TikTok creators highlight issues of muted posts, in-app harassment, and incidents of racism, even as users lionize Black culture Techmeme · 1 week ago
AI-generated "textfakes", masked as regular chatter on Twitter and Facebook, can be potentially far more subtle and sinister than deepfake videos or audiofakes Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Data from the US Census Bureau on 583,000 businesses in 2018 shows AI adoption is slow: 8.9% use AI in any form, 2.8% use ML, and 2.5% use voice recognition Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Inside Facebook's "AI red team", which hacks its own AI systems to stay ahead of outside attackers and better understand vulnerabilities and blind spots Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
From December 2018 to May of this year, Russia's GRU hacker group known as APT 28 or Fancy Bear has carried out a broad campaign against a range of US targets Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Inside Citizen, a police scanner app whose usage has surged amid BLM protests, as it ponders monetization and continues to tweak its service to address flaws Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Some experts agree that TikTok may pose a threat to the US national security because of China, but blocking the app would be too drastic a measure Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project would force social media companies to compensate users, but the plan underestimates difficulty of valuing data Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
IBM's X-Force security team says it has obtained five hours of screen recordings from Iran-linked hacking group ITG18 that were uploaded to an exposed server Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Microsoft partners with Land O'Lakes, America's third-largest agricultural cooperative, to develop an AI-powered AgTech platform to help farmers Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Pupils and teachers question the new grading algorithm used by the IB Diploma Programme to predict student scores after it canceled in-person tests this spring Techmeme · 1 month ago
A look at how AI companies like Synthesia are creating corporate-friendly uses for deepfakes, like creating multilingual, personalized training videos Techmeme · 1 month ago
Researchers observe hackers remotely exploiting a critical bug in BIG-IP products from F5 that act as load balancers within enterprise networks; patch available Techmeme · 1 month ago
COVID-19 is amplifying the cybersecurity risks for schools as they move to distance learning; they were already at risk due to a lack of dedicated funding Techmeme · 1 month ago
A look at "Prison TikTok", a subgenre where inmates use contraband cellphones to share dance videos, funny skits, and broadcast their living conditions Techmeme · 1 month ago
The 👁👄👁 stunt, a hyped beta of a fake app, exploited Silicon Valley's fixation on shiny new things, but raised $200K for charities Techmeme · 1 month ago
Virtual labs at WWDC and Microsoft Build lowered barriers to entry and for some felt more personal than live labs, but the conferences lacked communal elements Techmeme · 2 months ago