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The Unsettling Truth About the ‘Mostly Harmless’ Hiker
After an outcry, HireVue, which offers automated assessments of job applicants, will stop using facial analysis but will still analyze intonation and behavior
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
Post-Riot, the Capitol Hill IT Staff Faces a Security Mess
The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance
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”
DDoSecrets, a WikiLeaks-like repository run by transparency activists, publishes 1TB of data from five companies that was first leaked by ransomware hackers
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
A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?
Despite protests against racial inequality, VC promises to do better, and special funds for minorities, Black founders are still sidelined in Silicon Valley
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
30 Years Since the Human Genome Project Began, What’s Next?
Ransomware attacks have transitioned from a model of many small payments from various individuals to a smaller group of large targets with massive ransoms
The Secret History of the First Microprocessor, the F-14, and Me | WIRED
A look at the worst hacks of 2020: SolarWinds, Twitter, Blueleaks, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Vastaamo, and Garmin
Chat roulette is on the rise again, this time with AI
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
David Silver, a principal research scientist at DeepMind, on AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and MuZero, applying reinforcement learning to real world problems, and more
Facebook claims about big losses to small businesses from iOS privacy changes look shaky when one examines the technical changes Facebook announced in response
UK grocery franchise Southern Co-op is using London-based Facewatch's facial recognition tech in 18+ stores to prevent shoplifting, raising privacy concerns
Cyberpunk 2077's developer hamstrung reviewers by forcing NDAs and sending copies just days before launch to prevent players from seeing the buggy mess
The Next Generation of Batteries Could Be Built by Viruses
A Massive Fraud Operation Stole Millions From Online Bank Accounts
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
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
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.
Poshmark's product design choices around social sharing, like encouraging sellers to reshare their listings daily, wastes sellers' time and reduces their profit
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.
The Christchurch Shooter and YouTube’s Radicalization Trap
When did “the Internet” become “the internet?”
SpaceX Launches and Nearly Lands Starship on Its First Suborbital Flight
How to Escape a Sinking Ship
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
Chinese scientists claim quantum supremacy with a system that calculated in mins what a supercomputer would take 2B years, using tech different than Google
A sophisticated global phishing campaign is targeting the companies involved in the cold chain necessary to the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine
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
A Mission to Make Virtual Parties Actually Fun | WIRED
The OS Big Sur Launch Might Have Slowed Down Macs Everywhere
What Is the Signal Encryption Protocol?
All the Social Media Giants Are Becoming the Same
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