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Investigation reveals how social media influencers in Kenya are hired to spread disinformation on Twitter against Kenyan journalists, judges, and activists
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One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia | WIRED
Apple iMessage Zero-Click Hacks
Profile of Alvy Ray Smith, a Pixar co-founder who created the algorithms fundamental to animated movies and left after severe disagreements with Steve Jobs
300+ organizations are urging the EU to redefine key terms in the draft AI Act, asking to label more AI systems as high risk and ban some forms of AI entirely
The story of the guy who rode out Katrina in a data center in New Orleans
Following Open AI's GPT-3, startups in China, South Korea, Israel, and Germany are building general purpose AI language tools for non-English languages
Cerebras Systems claims its hardware can now run a neural network with 120 trillion parameters, targeting a nascent market for massive NLP AI algorithms
Researchers find 1K+ web apps, from Ford, American Airlines, and others, mistakenly exposed 38M records stored on Microsoft's Power Apps service
Report says Roblox exploits young game developers, many of them children, including by making it difficult to withdraw money earned through microtransactions
It's Time to Bring Back Cargo Pants | WIRED
Researchers find a bug in the ThroughTek Kalay SDK, which connects over 83M IoT devices with apps, that lets attackers access audio and video streams
To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (2008)
The Pain Was Unbearable. So Why Did Doctors Turn Her Away?
Researchers say algorithms like NarxCare, which are used to identify a patient's risk of misusing opioids, may be actually worsening the US opioid crisis
New study says encouraging consensus among data labelers from diverse backgrounds can lead to better AI for detecting misogyny and harassment on social media
Mozilla's analysis says Facebook's justifications for cutting off API access to researchers running NYU's Ad Observatory project "simply do not hold water"
Adam Savage on Lists, More Lists, and the Power of Checkboxes | WIRED
Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t | WIRED
Analysis: since August 2020, 100+ warships from 16+ countries have had GPS-based location data faked to make it look like they crossed into disputed territory
Creators of PunkSpider say they're relaunching their search engine for hackable sites at Defcon next week to spur web admins to fix thousands of unpatched bugs
SensorTower: Clubhouse had 484K global installs from July 21 to 25, up 17% from the previous five days, after moving from invite-only to general availability
Researchers: Apple and Google should provide more access to iOS and Android system internals to help catch more attacks by Pegasus-like spyware in real time
China's hacking activities are increasingly resembling those of Russia and North Korea after the Ministry of State Security largely took over operations in 2015
A YouTube Chat About Chess Got Flagged for Hate Speech
The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair
An oral history of Black Twitter, which helped fill a void created by the fizzling out of web forums like BlackVoices, Melanet, and NetNoir in the mid-2000s
Twitch says it is "closely monitoring gambling content", after a review finds some top streamers promote crypto gambling sites, potentially violating local laws
A look at Search Atlas, a tool that lets users compare Google results for the same query from around the world, showing how Google caters to different locales
Underground fiber optics spy on humans moving above
To limit the power and reach of Facebook, US regulators need to take citizens' data rights more seriously than they do content moderation or even antitrust
Study: an algorithm developed by EHR provider Epic to predict sepsis infections in patients missed two-thirds of sepsis cases and frequently issued false alarms
Privacy activists worry about the lack of transparency and detailed info on how Apple plans to implement driver's licenses and other digital IDs on its devices
DuckDuckGo’s Quest to Prove Online Privacy Is Possible
Some Americans Are Breaking Out of Political Echo Chambers
How an Obscure Company Took Down Big Chunks of the Internet
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