How DeepMind worked with former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik to make its AI, AlphaZero, learn new variants, which could make AI chess more creative Techmeme · 4 months ago
Franchised esports leagues have allowed players to become full-time employees but critics say game publishers like Activision have too much power over players Techmeme · 4 months ago
A month after the launch of TikTok's $200M fund, some creators are complaining about the low payouts and lack of transparency in how payouts are calculated Techmeme · 4 months ago
To evade government censorship, Chinese internet users have repurposed GitHub as a COVID-19 archive for news articles, medical journals, and personal accounts Techmeme · 4 months ago
Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma suggests that the way social media surfaces and amplifies the worst of humanity is our greatest existential threat today Techmeme · 4 months ago
Amid the pandemic, tech companies are moving workplace incentives out of the office, focusing more on time-off allowances for parents and mental health support Techmeme · 5 months ago
Alphabet, Microsoft, Salesforce, and others are offering tools to get workers back in offices, despite extending their own remote working policies into 2021 Techmeme · 5 months ago
Google updates Your News Update, its Assistant-powered audio news service, with new features including its own "newscaster voice" Techmeme · 5 months ago
FBI officials describe how the agency changed its handling of hacks and revamped its process for warning victims, learning from the mistakes of 2016's DNC hack Techmeme · 5 months ago
Interview with cryptographer Seny Kamara, who argues that to aid marginalized groups, cryptography research must be motivated by specific, on-the-ground needs Techmeme · 5 months ago
A leading antitrust scholar says Google's ad marketplace should be regulated as it both runs the market and competes as its biggest buyer and seller Techmeme · 5 months ago
Researchers are developing a battery powered by diamonds made from nuclear waste Hacker News · 5 months ago
Researcher finds a macOS adware campaign using malware notarized by Apple; after being notified, Apple shut it down, but then another notarized variant emerged Techmeme · 5 months ago
Google says it plans to launch AI ethics services before end of 2020, offering advice on tasks like spotting racial bias or developing guidance for AI projects Techmeme · 5 months ago
Citizen Lab: between January and May 2020, China censored over 2000 terms related to coronavirus on WeChat to control the narrative about China and the disease Techmeme · 5 months ago
US law enforcement agencies are getting more savvy about using information collected by smart speakers and other devices as part of criminal investigations Techmeme · 5 months ago
Adobe to add tech to Photoshop later this year to cryptographically tag images with metadata to help identify deepfakes and verify authenticity of images/videos Techmeme · 5 months ago
A look at Neural Love, which develops AI-powered video enhancement tools that can upscale, colorize, and sharpen old movies, bumping them up to 4K and 60 fps Techmeme · 5 months ago
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 · 5 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 · 6 months 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 · 6 months ago