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The Kids Online Safety Act Is a Heavy-Handed Plan to Force Platforms to Spy on Young People
The Kids Online Safety Act Is a Heavy-Handed Plan to Force Platforms to Spy on Young People
Putting children under surveillance and limiting their access to information doesn’t make them safer—in fact, research suggests just the opposite. Unfortunately those tactics are the ones endorsed by the Kids Online Safety Act of 2022 (KOSA), introduced by Sens. Blumenthal and Blackburn. The bill...
·eff.org·
The Kids Online Safety Act Is a Heavy-Handed Plan to Force Platforms to Spy on Young People
AI, we have a sexism problem
AI, we have a sexism problem
I’m preparing for a talk about inclusion in AI and the need for more diversity in the field. While I was aware that the field of AI was hugely skewed towards men, I had no idea of the extent of it's misogynistic conference culture. In particular, one story about the battle to change the offensive name of a well established conference stood out as a symbol of bigger problems. For decades, one of the leading global AI conferences went by the acronym “NIPS” which stood for Neural Information Proce
·ethicallyalignedai.com·
AI, we have a sexism problem
tante (@tante@mastodon.social)
tante (@tante@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Reading David F. Noble's "Progress without People" and this one page basically explains why one has to oppose the whole crypto space.
·mastodon.social·
tante (@tante@mastodon.social)
Feed Creator
Feed Creator
Create a feed from a web page. Generate RSS and JSON feeds from a set of links or other web page elements. Filter and merge RSS feeds.
·createfeed.fivefilters.org·
Feed Creator
Google blocks site of largest computing society for being ‘harmful’
Google blocks site of largest computing society for being ‘harmful’
Google Search and Drive are erroneously flagging links to Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) research papers and websites as malware. BleepingComputer has successfully reproduced the issue, first reported by researcher Maximilian Golla.
·bleepingcomputer.com·
Google blocks site of largest computing society for being ‘harmful’
It’s time to ditch Chrome
It’s time to ditch Chrome
As well as collecting your data, Chrome also gives Google a huge amount of control over how the web works
·wired.co.uk·
It’s time to ditch Chrome
Instruction Manual: How to Grow a Zebra (and not a Unicorn)
Instruction Manual: How to Grow a Zebra (and not a Unicorn)
This article shares a breakdown of the zebra business model - one that is both profitable and improves society and discusses how we’re thinking about growth.
·learnbiomimicry.com·
Instruction Manual: How to Grow a Zebra (and not a Unicorn)
The Daily Wrong
The Daily Wrong
AI-Generated Lies Every Day
·dailywrong.com·
The Daily Wrong
Max Woolf on Twitter
Max Woolf on Twitter
“So OpenAI *did* make a change to DALL-E 2 that does show more diverse images. Unfortunately, in my testing this further reduces the signal-to-noise of the generated images with respect to prompts. https://t.co/70DCetMFkg”
·mobile.twitter.com·
Max Woolf on Twitter
Googles datorer förbjuds i danska skolor
Googles datorer förbjuds i danska skolor
Danska skolelever får inte längre använda Googles Chromebook-datorer efter att landets tillsynsmyndighet varnat för att deras personuppgifter kan komma på avvägar och skickas till USA, rapporterar TT.
·omni.se·
Googles datorer förbjuds i danska skolor
40 years on, games icon Becky Heineman found herself
40 years on, games icon Becky Heineman found herself
Heineman became the first national gaming champion in 1980 but didn’t truly begin the process of finding self-worth until recognizing she was transgender in the 2000s.
·outsports.com·
40 years on, games icon Becky Heineman found herself
Amazon’s Ring privacy problem is back
Amazon’s Ring privacy problem is back
Like it or not, Amazon can give Ring footage to cops without your permission — or even a warrant.
·vox.com·
Amazon’s Ring privacy problem is back
The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning on Twitter
The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning on Twitter
The architecture of MLOps systems require a broad range of non-trivial considerations at every stage of the model lifecycle. This is an excellent overview of the end-to-end components present in MLOps architectures https://t.co/QLvgQCUEZj pic.twitter.com/L21w2twQk1— The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning (@EthicalML) July 12, 2022
·twitter.com·
The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning on Twitter
The Threat of Deepfakes
The Threat of Deepfakes
Various AI technologies are ripe for use in disinformation campaigns. Deepfake videos represent an obvious threat, but voice cloning, deepfake images, and generative text also merit concern. And websites now offer access to deepfake services.
·rand.org·
The Threat of Deepfakes
How normal am I?
How normal am I?
In this test face detection algorithms will determine how normal you are. 100% privacy friendly.
·hownormalami.eu·
How normal am I?
China bank protest stopped by health codes turning red, depositors say
China bank protest stopped by health codes turning red, depositors say
A protest planned by hundreds of bank depositors in central China seeking access to their frozen funds has been thwarted because the authorities have turned their health code apps red, several depositors told Reuters.
·reuters.com·
China bank protest stopped by health codes turning red, depositors say
The Good Web (SSIR)
The Good Web (SSIR)
It’s not enough to fix existing social media, we must imagine, experiment with, and build social media that can be good for society.
·ssir.org·
The Good Web (SSIR)
Cruise robotaxis stop operating, block traffic on San Francisco street – TechCrunch
Cruise robotaxis stop operating, block traffic on San Francisco street – TechCrunch
More than a half dozen Cruise robotaxis stopped operating and sat in a street in San Francisco late Tuesday night, blocking traffic for a couple of hours until employees arrived and manually moved the autonomous vehicles. Photos and a description of the Cruise robotaxi blockade were shared to a Red…
·techcrunch.com·
Cruise robotaxis stop operating, block traffic on San Francisco street – TechCrunch