PhilipArtificial Intelligence Ethical AI isn’t the same as trustworthy AI, and that matters verified_publisherVentureBeat - Kimberly NevalaArtificial intelligence (AI) solutions are facing increased scrutiny due to their aptitude for amplifying both good and bad decisions. More specifically, for their propensity to expose and heighten existing...
Philip Mars is coming into focus verified_publisherAxios - Miriam Kramer Three new missions that just arrived at Mars — including the latest U.S. rover that landed Thursday — will help paint a brand new picture of the Red …
PhilipChina WHO chief: Virus investigators had difficulties "accessing raw data" from China verified_publisherAxios - Zachary Basu World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomed the joint WHO-China report on the origins of the coronavirus on …
Philip Yuval Noah Harari: Lessons from a year of Covid | Free to read Financial Times - Yuval Noah HarariHow can we summarise the Covid year from a broad historical perspective? Many people believe that the terrible toll coronavirus has taken demonstrates humanity’s helplessness in the face of nature’s might....
Philip Yuval Noah Harari’s Terrifying Pandemic Future aier.org - Joakim Book – March 3, 2021 Reading Time: 5 minutes I’m not a big fan of Israeli pop-historian Yuval Noah Harari, the star-spangled author of Sapiens: A Brief …
PhilipU.S. Politics US imposes sanctions on Russia over cyber-attacks bbc.co.uk - BBC NewsThe US has announced sanctions against Russia in response to what it says are cyber-attacks and other hostile acts. The measures, which target dozens of Russian entities and officials, aim to deter "Russia's...
PhilipRon Wyden Wyden urges ban on sale of Americans’ personal data to ‘unfriendly’ foreign governments verified_publisherThe Washington Post - By Drew HarwellA sweeping proposal by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) would ban the sale of Americans’ personal data to “unfriendly” foreign companies and governments, expanding protections for the vast stores of sensitive that...
PhilipCompetition Law U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crackdown verified_publisherReuters - Diane BartzThe logos of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google in a combination photo/File Photo The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee formally approved a report accusing Big Tech companies of buying...
PhilipPrivacy From Privacy To Antitrust, Regulatory Scrutiny Of Big Tech Is Growing. What Does This Mean For Digital Advertising? Forbes - Gary DrenikDespite the United States seeing an overall decline of over 32% in economic growth in 2020, share prices among tech giants soared and profits saw a boost compared to the year before. And yet, antitrust...
PhilipSecurity Verizon Media’s ID-free targeted ad solution, explained thedrum.com - Kendra Clark Verizon Media is the latest to offer ID-less advertising tools designed to help publishers and advertisers alike target specific audiences. Its …
PhilipApple App Store Apple looking to close the gap between web and app privacy | ZDNet verified_publisherZDNet - Chris Duckett Cupertino believes it has come up with privacy-preserving ad measurement techniques. When users are on the web they can opt out of a lot of tracking …
PhilipGoogle Chrome Nobody is flying to join Google’s FLoC verified_publisherThe Verge - Dieter BohnGoogle is going it alone with its proposed advertising technology to replace third-party cookies. Every major browser that uses the open source Chromium project has declined to use it, and it’s unclear...
PhilipGoogle Fit After Cookies, Ad Tech Wants to Use Your Email to Track You Everywhere eff.org - Bennett Cyphers Cookies are dying, and the tracking industry is scrambling to replace them. Google has proposed Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), TURTLEDOVE, and …
PhilipFacebook Revealed: the Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens verified_publisherThe Guardian - Julia Carrie Wong in San FranciscoFacebook has repeatedly allowed world leaders and politicians to use its platform to deceive the public or harass opponents despite being alerted to evidence of the wrongdoing. The Guardian has seen extensive...
PhilipClearview AI ICE and DHS use Clearview AI, but won’t say how. They’re being sued for an answer. Protocol A quartet of nonprofits have filed suit against the feds after their FOIA request about Clearview was ignored. The ACLU of Northern California and …
PhilipFireEye FireEye: More than 1,900 distinct hacking groups are active today | The Record by Recorded Future therecord.media US cybersecurity firm FireEye says that based on its internal data, there are currently more than 1,900 distinct hacking groups that are active …
PhilipMicrosoft Exchange SolarWinds hacking campaign puts Microsoft in the hot seat SFGate - FRANK BAJAKBOSTON (AP) — The sprawling hacking campaign deemed a grave threat to U.S. national security came to be known as SolarWinds, for the company whose software update was seeded by Russian intelligence agents...
PhilipTom TugendhatSpy agency GCHQ told me Gmail's more secure than Microsoft 365, insists British MP as facepalming security bods tell him... theregister.com - Gareth Corfield Keep using the provided tools, NCSC saysConservative MP Tom Tugendhat has publicly claimed GCHQ sources told him Gmail was more secure than …
PhilipSpeech Recognition Google researchers boost speech recognition accuracy with more datasets verified_publisherVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersWhat if the key to improving speech recognition accuracy is simply mixing all available speech datasets together to train one large AI model? That’s the hypothesis behind a recent study published by a...
PhilipNATO NATO Wargame Examines Cyber Risk to Financial System The Wall Street Journal. - James RundleFinancial industry helped plan scenarios in which widespread disruption would hit banks and other firms NATO’s Locked Shields exercise, pictured above in 2019. One of the world’s largest cyber wargames...
PhilipEuropean Union SolarWinds hack affected six EU agencies therecord.media - Catalin Cimpanu Six European Union institutions were hacked part of the SolarWinds supply chain attack; a top EU administration official said this week. In a …
PhilipGoogle ChromeBrowser makers, now including Mozilla's Firefox, are already ditching Google's proposed cookieless ad targeting method FLoC... Digiday - Kate Kaye Privacy-centric browser Brave and browser extension DuckDuckGo have decided to block Google’s proposed method of tracking and targeting ads to groups …
Philip Court finds Google misled Australian consumers on how it collected location data | ZDNet verified_publisherZDNet - Campbell Kwan Australian Android users were not told by Google about various settings that allow the search giant to collect personal location data. An Australian …
PhilipSecurity You Can’t Hide Whether You Are Online on WhatsApp—And That’s a Problem verified_publisherVICE - Lorenzo Franceschi-BicchieraiWhatsApp doesn't allow you to control who can see whether you are online or not. Privacy experts are worried this opens the door to stalkers. There is absolutely no way to hide whether you are online WhatsApp,...
PhilipJeff Bezos With 5 Short Words, Jeff Bezos Just Shared a Brutal Truth Most People Never Learn Inc Magazine - Bill Murphy Jr.It's a matter of constant conflict. Jeff Bezos released his final shareholder letter as CEO of Amazon Thursday. It runs more than 5,600 words, covering his vision for the future and his defense of Amazon's...
PhilipJeff Bezos Amazon Prime now has over 200 million subscribers verified_publisherCNET - David Priest In a new letter to shareholders, Jeff Bezos talks company growth and employee work conditions.
PhilipAmazon Web Services Amazon Threatens Small Businesses With Retaliation to Access User Data verified_publisherGizmodo - Alyse Stanley Amazon reportedly pressured smart-thermostat maker Ecobee to fork over data from its voice-enabled devices even when customers weren’t actively using …
PhilipSocial Audio Can Clubhouse keep the party going? verified_publisherThe Verge - Ashley CarmanFor the first time since the pandemic started, I had big Friday night plans: a VIPs-only mansion party. The who’s who of 2003, like Elton John, Howard Stern, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and Lindsay would...
