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'Shocking' hack of psychotherapy records in Finland affects thousands | Finland | The G... - 0 views

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    ""The Vastaamo data breach is a shocking act which hits all of us deep down," the country's interior minister, Maria Ohisalo, wrote on her website on Monday. Finland must be a country where "help for mental health issues is available and it can be accessed without fear", she added. Ministers met for crisis talks this weekend, with further emergency discussions tabled for the coming week over the data breach."
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The internet is the answer to all the questions of our time | Technology | The Guardian - 1 views

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    "The questions of the day are "How do we save the planet from the climate crisis?" and "What do we do about misogyny, racial profiling and police violence, and homophobic laws?" and "How do we check mass surveillance and the widening power of the state?" and "How do we bring down autocratic, human-rights-abusing regimes without leaving behind chaos and tragedy?" Those are the questions. But the internet is the answer. If you propose to fix any of these things without using the internet, you're not being serious. And if you want to free the internet to use in all those fights, there's a quarter century's worth of Internet Utopians who've got your back."
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Why you and I will pay the price for the next big cybersecurity crisis | John Naughton ... - 0 views

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    "Virtually every company and organisation now has - indeed has to have - an online presence. But many still take only rudimentary cybersecurity precautions and are sitting ducks for hackers. For most of companies, that's a matter for them and their boards of directors - it's their lookout if a ransomware attack makes them insolvent."
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'The first Twitter-fuelled bank run': how social media compounded SVB's collapse | Sili... - 0 views

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    "The collapse of SVB was the second-largest bank failure in the history of the United States. The largest, Washington Mutual in 2008, took place over the course of eight months. SVB's collapse played out in barely two days. Anxious Twitter posts and WhatsApp exchanges, coupled with the ease of access that online banking provides, are seen by analysts as a serious catalyst for the current crisis. Experts suggest that in the social media age, the psychological behaviour behind a bank run - mass fear from depositors of losing their savings - may be amplified and go viral quicker than bank officers and regulators can successfully respond."
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AI likely to increase energy use and accelerate climate misinformation - report | Artif... - 0 views

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    "Claims that artificial intelligence will help solve the climate crisis are misguided, with the technology instead likely cause rising energy use and turbocharge the spread of climate disinformation, a coalition of environmental groups has warned. Advances in AI have been touted by big tech companies and the United Nations as a way to help ameliorate global heating, via tools that help track deforestation, identify pollution leaks and track extreme weather events. AI is already being used to predict droughts in Africa and to measure changes to melting icebergs."
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Japan Turns to Innovation to Tackle Labor Crisis | News | Communications of the ACM - 0 views

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    "Japan, the world's fastest-aging economy, is turning to technologies like AI, avatars, and robots to address labor shortages. Industrial robots have been deployed to automate the assembly of reinforcement bars (rebar), one of the most labor-intensive processes in the construction industry. The trucking industry is turning to self-driving trucks for deliveries, and robots for moving cargo."
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'An AI Fukushima is inevitable': scientists discuss technology's immense potential and ... - 0 views

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    "The climate crisis could prove AI's greatest challenge. While Google publicises AI-driven advances in flooding, wildfire and heatwave forecasts, like many big tech companies, it uses more energy than many countries. Today's large models are a major culprit. It can take 10 gigawatt-hours of power to train a single large language model like OpenAI's ChatGPT, enough to supply 1,000 US homes for a year."
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Excess memes and 'reply all' emails are bad for climate, researcher warns | Greenhouse ... - 0 views

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    "When "I can has cheezburger?" became one of the first internet memes to blow our minds, it's unlikely that anyone worried about how much energy it would use up. But research has now found that the vast majority of data stored in the cloud is "dark data", meaning it is used once then never visited again. That means that all the memes and jokes and films that we love to share with friends and family - from "All your base are belong to us", through Ryan Gosling saying "Hey Girl", to Tim Walz with a piglet - are out there somewhere, sitting in a datacentre, using up energy. By 2030, the National Grid anticipates that datacentres will account for just under 6% of the UK's total electricity consumption, so tackling junk data is an important part of tackling the climate crisis. Ian Hodgkinson, a professor of strategy at Loughborough University has been studying the climate impact of dark data and how it can be reduced."
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AI chatbots' greenwash and bothsidesism about Big Oil | Global Witness - 0 views

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    "Generative AI chatbots fail to adequately reflect fossil fuel companies' complicity in the climate crisis, a Global Witness investigation has found"
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The fake pictures of the Rohingya crisis - BBC News - 0 views

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    The plight of Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar was thrust into the spotlight last month after thousands of migrants were left stranded at sea - but not all the images being shared online are what they seem to be.
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TikTok's media literacy crisis: What can be done to stop the spread of misinformation o... - 0 views

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    "The combination of the infinite scroll and lack of live links has led to a very specific kind of information economy on the app. Creators whose brand involves discussing news or popular culture (and there are a lot of them) opt to screenshot headlines, summarize articles, and offer their takes. But it's impossible to know whether the creator even read the article or if they're just offering a summary of the online discourse. Even worse are the accounts that spread false headlines, whether they know it or not. Without live links, all these possible situations are presented to you in the exact same way: with a familiar face on your FYP speaking authoritatively."
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'We risk another crisis': TikTok in danger of being major vector of election misinforma... - 0 views

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    "In the final sprint to the US midterm elections the social media giant TikTok risks being a major vector for election misinformation, experts warn, with the platform's huge user base and its design making it particularly susceptible to such threats."
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Digital technology new source of discrimination against women: Guterres | UN News - 3 views

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  • “Many of the challenges we face today – from conflicts to climate chaos and the cost-of-living crisis – are the result of what is a male-dominated world with a male-dominated culture, taking the key decisions that guide our world,”
  • gender digital divide
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  • “Policymakers must create - and in some circumstances must reinforce to create - transformative change by promoting women and girls’ equal rights and opportunities to learn; by dismantling barriers and smashing glass ceilings,” he said.
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      The digital divide and the "glass ceiling" both exacerbate gender inequality and prevent women from achieving their full potential. A diversified strategy may be needed to address these problems, including policy changes to advance gender equality, financial support for education and training, and initiatives (transformative change) to overcome prejudice and stereotypes that support gender inequality.
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Wikipedia is facing an existential crisis. Can gen Z save it? | Stephen Harrison | The ... - 0 views

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    "The world's most important knowledge platform needs young editors to rescue it from chatbots - and its own tired practices"
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