Facebook is about to ask every user a few big privacy questions
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...
View ArticleScientists are building a detector for conversations likely to go bad
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...
View ArticleThis encyclopedia is a “fake news” buster for the ages
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...
View ArticleCloud security: The reason hackers have it so easy will infuriate you
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...
View ArticleThe Team Behind The Panama Papers Turns Its Focus On West Africa
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...
View ArticleThe cloud is so 2017. Here comes “the fog”
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...
View ArticleAs Google quits controversial Project Maven, mystery deepens over role of...
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,...
View ArticleThe open-source, private cloud alternatives to Dropbox and Slack
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...
View ArticleManafort’s iCloud shows he tried to tamper with witnesses, says Mueller
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,...
View ArticleYet again, Facebook is being sued over inflated video metrics
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...
View ArticleWatch this drone use AI to spot violence in crowds from the sky
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...
View ArticleCan’t embrace self-driving cars–how about skipper-free boats?
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...
View ArticleIn wake of Project Maven backlash, Google unveils new AI policies
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...
View ArticleFacebook apologizes for mistakenly exposing up to 14M users’ posts
“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’...
View ArticleCan AI help your baby–and you–sleep better?
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...
View ArticleAI could bring “nightmare scenarios,” warns Amnesty International
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...
View ArticleAI startup working on top-secret Project Maven was allegedly hacked by...
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...
View ArticleTrump Foundation lawsuit: 5 allegations in New York’s legal complaint
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...
View ArticleManafort allegedly used “foldering” to hide emails. Here’s...
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...
View ArticleTerminators? Why the U.S. Marines have started shooting at robots
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...
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