When Facebook rolled out a similar screen to users in the European market, its simplicity wasn’t seen as purely positive.
Facebook plans to send all its non-European users a full-screen privacy alert when they use the social network in the coming weeks, enabling them to review the information they’ve provided to Facebook and how the company uses it.
Researchers say their tool can often spot when Wikipedia discussions will degenerate into personal attacks by watching for a few familiar linguistic cues.
It’s a familiar pattern to anyone who’s spent any time on internet forums: a conversation quickly degenerates from a mild disagreement to nasty personal attacks.
From P.T. Barnum to the Pizza Rat, The Encyclopedia of Misinformation details the timeless assault on truth. Fast Company talks with author Rex Sorgatz.
In an era of “alternative facts,” Rex Sorgatz’s The Encyclopedia of Misinformation helps put things in perspective. The author of the book, released earlier this year, recently spoke with Fast Company about why he wrote the guide to hundreds of scams, flim-flams, and downright lies that millions, at some point in history, believed to be true. Turns out, “fake news” is nothing new.
Your passwords and security keys have too often been left out in the open, but a new class of tech tools are helping to finally lock down the cloud.
You would think that the safeguarding of customer passwords and other credentials would be a top priority for IT professionals, but as we all know from repeated reports of data breaches, hackers time and again have outwitted the cyberguardians.
The investigative reporting group is working in the region to expose potential corruption based on documents from its trove of leaked offshore finance data.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)has grown famous in recent years after diving deep into a series of high-profile leaks of documents linked to offshore finance, including projects dubbed the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers, and Swiss Leaks.
The U.S. government recently defined the term for the stuff between you and distant servers.
If you’ve just finally wrapped your head around what the tech world means by “the cloud” (no one is quite sure), we may have some bad news: People are now talking about something called “the fog.”
It remains unclear exactly what role the tech industry continues to play in the Pentagon initiative that seeks to use machine learning technology to quickly analyze images captured on the battlefield, such as from aerial drones.
In the wake of revelations about Google’s role in a military image recognition project that led to the resignation of about a dozen employees and a petition signed by thousands more, the company has decided to end ties with the program when the current contract expires next year, Gizmodo reports.
Mattermost, Nextcloud, Seafile, and other companies offer security-minded organizations storage and productivity options to run on private cloud servers.
In a flash, much of our cyberlife—both private and professional—has moved to the cloud. Mega-tech companies hold the data crucial to millions: Our virtual offices chat via Slack, our kids’ pics clog Google Photos, and hundreds of millions share files large and small in Dropbox.
Manafort and an associate allegedly used WhatsApp and Telegram to suggest to witnesses that they should deny allegations of illegal lobbying work in the U.S.
While on pretrial release awaiting trial, onetime Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort attempted to tamper with two witnesses, prosecutors said in a court filing Monday.
A federal judge declined to toss a bid to force the network to appoint independent auditors, citing claims it’s made multiple advertising metric errors in recent years.
Marketing companies suing Facebook over inflated video-viewing stats can seek a court-ordered outside audit of the social networking service’s numbers, a California federal judge ruled last week.
Researchers say the technology can spot stabbings, shootings, and brawls but civil libertarians have warned that software like it is error-prone and could lead to mass surveillance.
The right machine learning algorithms can let aerial surveillance systems spot when people are being violent on the ground, according to research from researchers in the U.K. and India.
MIT’s Senseable City Lab is working on captainless robotic “Roboats” to ferry around passengers and cargo—and ease traffic on local roads.
Confidence in the future of self-driving cars took a hit earlier this year when a robotic Uber mowed down a woman as she crossed a street in Tempe, Arizona. The ride-sharing service shut down its test program in the state after the March fatality as debate erupted over the technology and how to regulate it.
Today Google unveiled a new set of principles guiding its approach to artificial intelligence, including a pledge not to build AI weapons.
Today Google unveiled a new set of principles guiding its approach to artificial intelligence, including a pledge not to build AI weapons, “technologies that gather or use information for surveillance violating internationally accepted norms” or ones “whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights.”
“We’d like to apologize for this mistake,” said the company’s chief privacy officer amid another firestorm over user data.
For a few days last month, a software bug caused 14 million Facebook users’ default setting for sharing content to be “public,” meaning that some of their posts intended to be kept private were accessible to anyone on the internet, the company said Thursday.
Nanit’s baby monitor live-streams your kid’s crib to your smartphone and to the cloud, where its Insights vision tech analyzes your child’s sleep habits.
From smart phones to smart cars, AI has invaded every aspect of our lives. Now, it’s even in your baby’s crib.
The group is promoting a set of principles to guide the development of AI systems that won’t trample on human rights.
If companies working on artificial intelligence don’t take steps to safeguard human rights, “nightmare scenarios” could unfold, warns Rasha Abdul Rahim, an arms control and artificial intelligence researcher at Amnesty International in a blog post. Those scenarios could involve armed, autonomous systems choosing military targets with little human oversight, or discrimination caused by biased algorithms, she warns.
The company disputed a report that an executive was forced out after calling for greater transparency about the security issue.
New York artificial intelligence startup Clarifai saw a server compromised while it was conducting secretive work on the Defense Department’s Project Maven, involving automated processing of images by drones.
The suit calls for the foundation to be dissolved and for Trump to be banned from serving as a director of any New York nonprofit for 10 years.
In lieu of a gift for President Trump’s 72nd birthday Thursday, New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood sued him—and three of his children—alleging “a pattern of persistent illegal conduct” involving the Donald J. Trump Foundation.
And also: how it doesn’t work.
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sent to jail by a federal judge Friday after facing new allegations of witness tampering while he was out on bail and under house arrest.
Marathon Targets’s rolling autonomous robots can weave and dodge on a practice battlefield, helping troops to hone their marksmanship.
In the dystopian future portrayed by The Terminator series, the robots are alive and shooting, nuking, and otherwise hunting down what’s left of the human race. It’s hard not to think of those iconic movie images of the red-eyed cyborgs with the news that the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) has started to use autonomous robots for target practice.