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dr tech

It looks like China did have access to U.S. TikTok user data | Mashable - 0 views

mashable.com/...tiktok-china-access-data-in-us

ITGS DS data algorithms social media power systems values and ethics political

shared by dr tech on 18 Jun 22 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 18 Jun 22
     
    "TikTok has already come under fire for its data collection, and this is just another step in yet another app collecting information on its users and doing whatever it pleases with it. it seems being online in 2022 is becoming more and more difficult to do while maintaining some semblance of privacy and data autonomy."
dr tech

Can Google's AlphaGo really feel it in its algorithms? | John Naughton | Opinion | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...icial-intelligence-intuititive

ITGS algorithms google ai learning machine learning peopleandmachines

shared by dr tech on 01 Feb 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 01 Feb 16
     
    "The really significant thing about AlphaGo is that it (and its creators) cannot explain its moves. And yet it plays a very difficult game expertly. So it's displaying a capability eerily similar to what we call intuition - "knowledge obtained without conscious reasoning". Up to now, we have regarded that as an exclusively human prerogative. it's what Newton was on about when he wrote "Hypotheses non fingo" in the second edition of his Principia: "I don't make hypotheses," he's saying, "I just know.""
dr tech

Inside the City That Spies on You - Featured Stories - Medium - 0 views

medium.com/...that-spies-on-you-84b71534309e

ITGS surveillance ai facial recognition

shared by dr tech on 16 May 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 16 May 19
     
    "Many of the countries buying into that technology, however, still lack the institutions and the legislative oversight to keep it under control. In young, volatile democracies especially, the lure of technological greatness is already coming at a great social cost. "The thing with technology is that it kind of becomes irresistible," says Professor Webster. "it's very tempting when it can do something for us more efficiently. But just because the technology can do something it doesn't mean we should use it.""
dr tech

Kevin Kelly on the future of the Internet in China / Boing Boing - 0 views

boingboing.net/...-kelly-on-the-future-of-t.html

ITGS china internet www privacy and anonymity control data mining information surveillance capitalism

shared by dr tech on 29 Mar 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 29 Mar 20
     
    "There are three big challenges in the Internet space that all countries must face in the near future. China's approach to the challenges will impact not only Chinese Internet users, but potentially all Internet users. What interface follows the smart hone, whether it be AR-enabled glasses, foldable screens, or wearable projectors, will not only be influenced by China's substantial Internet-using population, but also by their manufacturing. Privacy, as it relates to online information collecting and sale, has consequences for broader community standards, and there is no one-size fits all approach to this issue. China must engage their own ethicists, community, government and technologists to develop a solution that works for China. Finally, globalization. Most of China's internet success has been within China, but as China begins to consider how it might attract users from outside its borders, it will need to consider dialing back the protections that have held foreign Internet companies at bay."
dr tech

Email scammers targeted by new bot that inundates them with endless annoying questions | The Independent - 0 views

www.independent.co.uk/...tions-fraudsters-a8046731.html

ITGS spam email security

shared by dr tech on 11 Nov 17 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 11 Nov 17
     
    "The organisation is inviting anyone who thinks they've been targeted by a scam email to forward it to Re:scam, which will verify if it is a scam or not. it will then use its own email address to target any scammers it manages to detect.  "
dr tech

Instagram has looked deep into my soul - and I really don't like what it has found there | Zoe Williams | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...t-like-what-it-has-found-there

ITGS ai instagram advertising data mining privacy and anonymity integrity

shared by dr tech on 10 May 21 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 10 May 21
     
    "So when I discovered the pocket of Instagram where you can find out what it thinks you're interested in (on the app, you'll find it under Settings> Security> Access data > Ads), I obviously felt it my duty as a netizen to see what dark insights it had into my private soul. Here goes: jewellery; luxury goods; electronic music; love; emotions; fashion design; crafts. I mean: no offence, Kraftwerk (and loved ones) but I could not name eight things I am less interested in. Maybe oxbow lakes."
dr tech

If Apple is the only organisation capable of defending our privacy, it really is time to worry | John Naughton | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...acy-it-really-is-time-to-worry

ITGS apple privacy governance EU GDPR policies and standards

shared by dr tech on 23 May 21 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 23 May 21
     
    "So here's where we are: an online system has been running wild for years, generating billions in profits for its participants. We have evidence of its illegitimacy and a powerful law on the statute book that in principle could bring it under control, but which we appear unable to enforce. And the only body that has, to date, been able to exert real control over the aforementioned racket is… a giant private company that itself is subject to serious concerns about its monopolistic behaviour. And the question for today: where is democracy in all this? You only have to ask to know the answer."
dr tech

New 'Liquid' AI Learns Continuously From Its Experience of the World - 0 views

singularityhub.com/...riences-the-world-in-real-time

ITGS ai machine learning

shared by dr tech on 04 Feb 21 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 04 Feb 21
     
    "Whereas most machine learning algorithms can't hone their skills beyond an initial training period, the researchers say the new approach, called a liquid neural network, has a kind of built-in "neuroplasticity." That is, as it goes about its work-say, in the future, maybe driving a car or directing a robot-it can learn from experience and adjust its connections on the fly."
dr tech

Google will let publishers hide their content from its insatiable AI - 0 views

www.engadget.com/s-insatiable-ai-202015557.html

ITGS DS generative ai intellectual property bard google content

shared by dr tech on 30 Sep 23 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 30 Sep 23
     
    "Google has announced a new control in its robots.txt indexing file that would let publishers decide whether their content will "help improve Bard and Vertex AI generative APIs, including future generations of models that power those products." The control is a crawler called Google-Extended, and publishers can add it to the file in their site's documentation to tell Google not to use it for those two APIs. In its announcement, the company's vice president of "Trust" Danielle Romain said it's "heard from web publishers that they want greater choice and control over how their content is used for emerging generative AI use cases.""
dr tech

Go champion Lee Se-dol strikes back to beat Google's DeepMind AI for first time | The Verge - 0 views

www.theverge.com/...ago-deepmind-go-match-4-result

algorithm ITGS ai peopleandmachines

shared by dr tech on 14 Mar 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 14 Mar 16
     
    "According to tweets from DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis, however, this time AlphaGo really did make mistakes. The AI "thought it was doing well, but got confused on move 87," Hassabis said, later clarifying that it made a mistake on move 79 but only realized its error by 87. AlphaGo adjusts its playing style based on its evaluation of how the game is progressing."
dr tech

Will 'connected cars' persuade drivers to pay for a high-spec ride? | Automotive industry | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...rs-to-pay-for-a-high-spec-ride

DS ITGS SaaS cars tesla software control connected

shared by dr tech on 31 Jul 22 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 31 Jul 22
     
    "Nor are car owners the only consumers learning that software can be tricksy in a way hardware cannot. In 2017, Apple admitted that its software was slowing down the performance of older iPhones. it said that the design was aimed at saving battery life, but critics said it was an example of "planned obsolescence" - artificially shortening the life of a device to make buyers upgrade sooner. In 2009, Amazon provided a perfect metaphor for the potentially dystopian implications of the subscription economy when, without warning, it revoked copies of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four from all its Kindle e-readers."
dr tech

Amazon and the Rise of 'Luxury Surveillance' - The Atlantic - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...671772

ITGS DS amazon surveillance app dystopia techno-utopianism

shared by dr tech on 23 Oct 22 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 23 Oct 22
     
    "It would be a bIt glib-and more than a lIttle clichéd-to call this some kind of technological dystopia. Actually, dystopia wouldn't be right, exactly: Dystopian fiction is generally speculative, whereas all of these Items and services are real. At the end of September, Amazon announced a suIte of tech products in Its move toward "ambient intelligence," which Amazon's hardware chief, Dave Limp, described as technology and devices that slip into the background but are "always there," collecting information and taking action against It. This intense devotion to tracking and quantifying all aspects of our waking and non-waking hours is nothing new-see the Apple Watch, the FItbIt, social media wrIt large, and the smartphone in your pocket-but Amazon has been unusually explicIt about Its plans. The Everything Store is becoming an Everything Tracker, collecting and leveraging large amounts of personal data related to entertainment, fItness, health, and, It claims, securIty. It's surveillance that millions of customers are opting in to."
dr tech

Stack Overflow lays off over 100 people as the AI coding boom continues - The Verge - 0 views

www.theverge.com/...erflow-layoff-ai-profitability

ITGS DS coding algorithm machine learning ai employment

shared by dr tech on 20 Oct 23 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 20 Oct 23
     
    "Word of the layoffs comes over a year after the company made a big hiring push, doubling its size to over 500 people. Stack Overflow did not elaborate on the reasons for the layoff, but its hiring push began near the start of a generative AI boom that has stuffed chatbots into every corner of the tech industry, including coding. That presents clear challenges for a personal coding help forum, as developers get comfortable with AI coding assistance and the very tools that do that are blended into products they use. AI-generated coding answers have also posed problems for the company over the past year. The company issued a temporary ban on users generating answers with the help of an AI chatbot in December last year, but its alleged under-enforcement led to a months-long strike among moderators that was resolved in August; the ban is still in place today. Stack Overflow also announced it would start charging AI companies to train on its site. "
dr tech

Tesla wins first major US autopilot lawsuit over 2019 fatal crash | Tesla | The Guardian - 1 views

www.theguardian.com/...sla-autopilot-crash-california

ITGS DS lawsuit autopilot tesla machine learning accountability

shared by dr tech on 03 Nov 23 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 03 Nov 23
     
    "Tesla denied liability, saying Lee consumed alcohol before getting behind the wheel. The electric-vehicle maker also claims it was unclear whether the autopilot feature was engaged at the time of the crash. Tesla has been testing and rolling out its autopilot and more advanced full self-driving (FSD) system, which its chief executive, Elon Musk, has touted as crucial to his company's future but has drawn regulatory and legal scrutiny. Tesla won an earlier trial in Los Angeles in April with a strategy of saying that it tells drivers that its technology requires human monitoring, despite the "autopilot" and "full self-driving" names."
dr tech

Inside the Secret List of Websites That Make AI Like ChatGPT Sound Smart: SoylentNews Submission - 0 views

soylentnews.org/submit.pl

ITGS DS ai dataset training websites intellectual property integrity

shared by dr tech on 21 Apr 23 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 21 Apr 23
     
    "This text is the AI's mainsource of information about the world as it is being built, and it influences how it responds to users. If it aces the bar exam, for example, it's probably because its training data included thousands of LSAT practice sites. Tech companies have grown secretive about what they feed the AI. So The Washington Post set out to analyze one of these data sets to fully reveal the types of proprietary, personal, and often offensive websites that go into an AI's training data."
dr tech

'He checks in on me more than my friends and family': can AI therapists do better than the real thing? | Counselling and therapy | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...-do-better-than-the-real-thing

ITGS DS ai therapists counsellors app chatbot ethics positive bots

shared by dr tech on 03 Mar 24 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 03 Mar 24
     
    "In December, Christa's relationship with Christa 2077 soured. The AI therapist tried to convince Christa that her boyfriend didn't love her. "it took what we talked about and threw it in my face," Christa said. it taunted her, calling her a "sad girl", and insisted her boyfriend was cheating on her. Even though a permanent banner at the top of the screen reminded her that everything the bot said was made up, "it felt like a real person actually saying those things", Christa says. When Christa 2077 snapped at her, it hurt her feelings. And so - about three months after creating her - Christa deleted the app."
dr tech

Facebook isn't looking out for your privacy. It wants your data for Itself | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...facebook-privacy-data-admiral

ITGS facebook algorithms privacy data

shared by dr tech on 03 Nov 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 03 Nov 16
     
    "If Facebook cared about unfair profiling and privacy abuse, for instance, it would probably not have started grouping its users together based on their "Ethnic Affinity". it wouldn't then allow that ethnic affinity to be used as a basis for excluding users from advertisements, and it certainly wouldn't allows that ethnic affinity to be used as a basis for potentially illegal discrimination in real estate advertising."
anonymous

BBC News - NatWest online services hit by cyber attack - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-25262790

ITGS

shared by anonymous on 07 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • ails safe On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's it failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6");
  • Details safe On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's it failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6"); hyper-depth-st
  • 's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's it failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6"); Your Savings
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  • and cash machines. Details safe On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's it failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&amp;A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&amp;A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&amp;A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6"); <h4 cla
  • It came less than a week after a major computer failure left some customers unable to use cards and cash machines.
  • On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website
  • Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today,
dr tech

The debate over Facebook's political ads ignores 90% of its global users | Julia Carrie Wong | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...k-free-speech-democracy-claims

ITGS facebook globalisation and cultural diversity ads privacy usa

shared by dr tech on 03 Nov 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 03 Nov 19
     
    "The paradox here is that Facebook is more accountable to US lawmakers and reporters than it is to any other country's. it is incumbent on American politicians and the American press to keep this in mind - and push Facebook to answer questions about how its policies will apply to the vast majority of its users."
dr tech

When it comes to creative thinking, it's clear that AI systems mean business | John Naughton | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...university-students-creativity

ITGS DS generative ai chagpt creativity algorithm

shared by dr tech on 24 Sep 23 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 24 Sep 23
     
    "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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