Tech giants struggle to stem 'infodemic' of false coronavirus claims | World news | The... - 0 views
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dr tech on 12 Apr 20"It is a stark contrast to how social media platforms have dealt with misinformation in the past."
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Hostile states trying to steal coronavirus research, says UK agency | Espionage | The G... - 0 views
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"Hostile states are attempting to hack British universities and scientific facilities to steal research related to Covid-19, including vaccine development, cybersecurity experts have warned."
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In China, Daydreaming Students Are Caught on Camera - The New York Times - 0 views
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"School officials see the cameras as a way to improve student confidence and crowdsource the task of catching misbehaving pupils. Parents use the feeds to monitor their children's academic progress and spy on their friendships and romances. But many students see live-streaming as an intrusion, prompting a broader debate in China about privacy, educational ethics and the perils of helicopter parenting."
Harvard Study Proves Apple Slows Down old iPhones to Sell Millions of New Models - Anon... - 0 views
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"People have made the anecdotal observation that their Apple products become much slower right before the release of a new model. Now, a Harvard University study has done what any person with Google Trends could do, and pointed out that Google searches for "iPhone slow" spiked multiple times, just before the release of a new iPhone each time."
Twitter targets Covid vaccine misinformation with labels and 'strike' system | Twitter ... - 0 views
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"Twitter is expanding its use of warning labels on tweets that contain misleading details about coronavirus vaccines. The move, announced in a blogpost on Monday, is designed to strengthen the social network's existing Covid-19 guidance, which has led to the removal of more than 8,400 tweets and challenged 11.5m accounts worldwide."
New York Times writer is shocked to see how much a social trust scoring system knows ab... - 0 views
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"As of this summer, though, Sift does have a file on you, which it can produce upon request. I got mine, and I found it shocking: More than 400 pages long, it contained all the messages I'd ever sent to hosts on Airbnb; years of Yelp delivery orders; a log of every time I'd opened the Coinbase app on my iPhone. Many entries included detailed information about the device I used to do these things, including my IP address at the time."
How cities can serve as a model for social media platforms to build better community sp... - 0 views
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"It's a useful and insightful perspective, particularly for a time when Facebook is cowering under the pressure of conservative conspiracy theorists, while Twitter took the approach and ended up empowering oil companies by throttling climate activists."
This 'robot lawyer' can take the mystery out of license agreements - The Verge - 0 views
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"These ranged from the mundane (Facebook may change its terms of service at any time) to a reminder that Facebook may store and process your data anywhere in the world, meaning it might be subject to different data protection laws. When scanning license agreements from Google, Do Not Sign told me the company reserves the right to stop providing its services at any time and that its services are used at the users' sole risk."
Toolkit | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 0 views
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"Fighting the creep of government use of face surveillance and the related risks can seem overwhelming. Police agencies, and the spy tech vendors that profit from the growth of a surveillance state, have much to gain by deploying this invasive spying technology. "
Rescuing Restaurants: How to Protect Restaurants, Workers, and Communities from Predato... - 0 views
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"What the apps have done, instead of competing to serve customers and restaurants, is use Wall Street money to accumulate market power, raise barriers to entry, and then merge with each other and set up regional monopolies.The people who have invested tens of billions of dollars in the four dominant delivery apps tolerate huge short-term losses purely because they see the likelihood of monopoly power"
Stop confusing facial recognition with facial authentication - 0 views
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"Before we go deeper, it's important to note that there are two approaches to facial - or any biometric - authentication: "match on server" and "match on device." The former approach shares some of the risky aspects of facial recognition technology because it stores the details of one's most personal features-your face or your fingerprint-on a server, which is inherently insecure. There are some well-publicized examples of biometric databases being hacked, which is why so many companies are committing to only do on-device biometrics."
We Mapped How the Coronavirus Is Driving New Surveillance Programs Around the World - 0 views
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"an attempt to stem the tide of the coronavirus pandemic, at least 30 governments around the world have instituted temporary or indefinite efforts to single out infected individuals or maintain quarantines. Many of these efforts, in turn, undermine personal privacy."
Pen Test Partners: Boeing 747s receive critical software updates over 3.5" floppy disks... - 0 views
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""This database has to be updated every 28 days, so you can see how much of a chore this has to be for an engineer to visit," Lomas said, pointing out the floppy drive - which in normal operations is tucked away behind a locked panel."
Mission Impossible PRINTER prints documents that combust 60 seconds after being read | ... - 0 views
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"'I don't think the security agencies will be using this technology any time soon. 'They're more interested in encryption for digital files. 'There isn't much need for the destruction of hard-copy documents any more.'"
Physicist creates AI algorithm that may prove reality is a simulation - Big Think - 0 views
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"Physicist creates AI algorithm that may prove reality is a simulation"
The Internet of Things: How It's Changing Cars - 0 views
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"As with most items and products that are re-engineered with the Internet of Things (IoT), they become even more powerful and useful in our daily lives. With the Internet of Things becoming an integral part of many industries, let's explore how this technology is changing the design and function of modern vehicles."
When it comes to creative thinking, it's clear that AI systems mean business | John Nau... - 0 views
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"Ah, but isn't creativity a slippery concept - something that's hard to define but that we nevertheless recognise when we see it? That hasn't stopped psychologists from trying to measure it, though, via tools such as the alternative uses test and the similar Torrance test. And it turns out that one LLM - GPT-4 - beats 91% of humans on the former and 99% of them on the latter. So as the inveterate artificial intelligence user Ethan Mollick puts it: "We are running out of creativity tests that AIs cannot ace.""
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