A Harvard medical student used OpenAI's GPT-2 to submit comments on Idaho's Medicaid draft proposal; volunteers couldn't tell them apart from those by humans Techmeme · 1 day ago
After an outcry, HireVue, which offers automated assessments of job applicants, will stop using facial analysis but will still analyze intonation and behavior Techmeme · 1 week ago
After reports of all of Parler's data being downloaded by third parties, analysis shows Parler lacked basic security measures to prevent such a data breach Techmeme · 1 week ago
Platforms Must Pay for Their Role in the Insurrection: “Facebook’s own research revealed that 64 percent of the time a person joins an extremist Facebook Group, they do so because the platform recommended it” Reddit · 2 weeks ago
DDoSecrets, a WikiLeaks-like repository run by transparency activists, publishes 1TB of data from five companies that was first leaked by ransomware hackers Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
2021 is shaping up to be a challenging year for the Wikimedia Foundation, which is finalizing a code of conduct that aims to diversify its community of editors Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Despite protests against racial inequality, VC promises to do better, and special funds for minorities, Black founders are still sidelined in Silicon Valley Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Gebru's firing reveals tech's ability to co-opt and minimize criticism of its AI systems, highlighting the need for tech unions, research protection, regulation Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Ransomware attacks have transitioned from a model of many small payments from various individuals to a smaller group of large targets with massive ransoms Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
A look at the worst hacks of 2020: SolarWinds, Twitter, Blueleaks, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Vastaamo, and Garmin Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Profile of Ray Holt, who in the 1960s jointly developed the F-14 Tomcat's Central Air Data Computer, considered by some to be the first microprocessor Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
David Silver, a principal research scientist at DeepMind, on AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and MuZero, applying reinforcement learning to real world problems, and more Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Facebook claims about big losses to small businesses from iOS privacy changes look shaky when one examines the technical changes Facebook announced in response Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
UK grocery franchise Southern Co-op is using London-based Facewatch's facial recognition tech in 18+ stores to prevent shoplifting, raising privacy concerns Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Cyberpunk 2077's developer hamstrung reviewers by forcing NDAs and sending copies just days before launch to prevent players from seeing the buggy mess Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Experts say the SolarWinds hack shows that the US still has no good answers to combat "supply chain" attacks, which are "ridiculously difficult" to detect Techmeme · 1 month ago
A look at allegations in Texas AG's antitrust suit, accusing Google of giving Facebook special privileges in exchange for not supporting a competing ad system Techmeme · 1 month ago
No One Knows How Deep Russia’s Hacking Rampage Goes. A supply chain attack against IT company SolarWinds has exposed as many as 18,000 companies to Cozy Bear’s attacks. Reddit · 1 month ago
Poshmark's product design choices around social sharing, like encouraging sellers to reshare their listings daily, wastes sellers' time and reduces their profit Techmeme · 1 month ago
Copyright Law Is Bricking Your Game Console. Time to Fix That – Repairing your own console is either impossible or illegal. An exemption to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act could change that. Reddit · 1 month ago
Deirdre O'Brien, Apple's SVP of Retail + People, talks about the company's response to COVID-19 and how its retail staff and stores evolved amid the pandemic Techmeme · 1 month ago
Chinese scientists claim quantum supremacy with a system that calculated in mins what a supercomputer would take 2B years, using tech different than Google Techmeme · 2 months ago
A sophisticated global phishing campaign is targeting the companies involved in the cold chain necessary to the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine Techmeme · 2 months ago
A look at MANRS, a group of ~600 participants including Google, which aims to add safeguards to the Border Gateway Protocol, improving internet routing security Techmeme · 2 months ago
Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy – The company wants to shut down an academic study of political ad targeting, just as it prepares to reinstate targeted political ads. Reddit · 2 months ago
Research renews concerns about gender bias in image recognition services offered by Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Techmeme · 2 months ago
Facebook's bug bounty program, now in its 10th year, paid out $1.98M in 2020 so far, on over 1,000 submissions Techmeme · 2 months ago
The latest congressional hearing was another parade of bad-faith arguments about Section 230, best illustrated by Senate Republicans mischaracterizing the law Techmeme · 2 months ago
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki should be at today's Senate hearing alongside Dorsey and Zuckerberg, as YouTube is also a major vector for disinformation Techmeme · 2 months ago