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Developing Industry Standards Won’t Give Artificial Intelligence a Conscience…

From the algorithms used by social media platforms to the machine-learning that powers home automation, artificial intelligence has quietly embedded itself into our lives. But as the technology involved grows more advanced and its reach widens, the question of how to regulate has become increasingly urgent. The pitfalls of AI are well-documented. Race and gender […]

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DOJ Fines Virginia Firm for Hiring Foreigners over Qualified Americans…

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is fining a Charlottesville, Virginia, firm hundreds of thousands of dollars for hiring foreign workers on H-1B visas instead of qualified Americans in its latest settlement, thanks to former Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative. The Justice Department announced this week it will fine CFA Institute (CFAI) more than […]

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Internal Facebook Document Leak Shows How Company Planned to Sell User Data…

Leaked Facebook documents including court filings and internal discussions by Facebook employees reveal how the company planned to sell user data for profit. In 2018, the U.K. Parliament used its legal powers to obtain a number of internal Facebook documents as it attempted to hold the social media giant accountable for the Cambridge Analytica data scandal which saw […]

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Facebook Says it Fired Leaker for Participating in Conservative Bias ‘Stunt’…

Facebook says it fired a contractor who worked with right-wing sting group Project Veritas on a “stunt,” as the group today published screenshots of internal Facebook conversations. The Veritas report includes 60 pages of documents and a related video, which features on-the-street confrontations with named Facebook employees. The documents, provided by a former Facebook contractor […]

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Horrifying: Suicide Tips for Children Found on YouTube’s Kids Section…

A Florida mother has discovered shocking YouTube videos which give children instructions on how to kill themselves. Free Hess said she found a cartoon on YouTube Kids – described by the Google-owned site as a ‘family friendly’ version – in which a man showed youngsters how to slit their wrists effectively. In the clip a man signals […]

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The Trauma Floor: The Secret Lives of Facebook Moderators in America…

The panic attacks started after Chloe watched a man die. She spent the past three and a half weeks in training, trying to harden herself against the daily onslaught of disturbing posts: the hate speech, the violent attacks, the graphic pornography. In a few more days, she will become a full-time Facebook content moderator, or […]

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‘Abhorrent’: Advertisers Bail On YouTube After Pedophiles Flood Platform’s Comment Section…

Several major companies stopped buying advertisements on YouTube after their ads appeared on videos where pedophiles littered the comment sections, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The videos pedophiles targeted apparently did not violate the company’s rules, but the content became overrun with lewd remarks directed at the children, many of them young girls doing gymnastics […]

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FAT Anomalies in Leaked DNC Emails Suggest Use of Thumbdrive…

The table outlines the last modification dates on the emails (batched by date) and shows the earliest and latest timestamps, minimum ID, maximum ID, count and a column titled “FAT.” What the table illustrates is that the first batches of DNC emails published by WikiLeaks have times that indicate the files were transferred to a […]

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I Cut the ‘Big Five’ Tech Giants from My Life. It Was Hell…

A couple of months ago, I set out to answer the question of whether it’s possible to avoid the tech giants. Over the course of five weeks, I blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple one at a time, to find out how to live in the modern age without each one. To end my […]

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Amazon Doesn’t Just Want to Dominate the Market—It Wants to Become the Market…

Chris Lampen-Crowell started to feel the undertow four years ago. Gazelle Sports, the running-shoe and apparel business he founded in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1985, had grown steadily for decades, adding locations in Grand Rapids and Detroit and swelling to some 170 employees. But then, in 2014, sales took a downward turn. From the outside, […]

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Why the DNC Was Not Hacked by the Russians…

The FBI, CIA and NSA claim that the DNC emails published by WIKILEAKS on July 26, 2016 were obtained via a Russian hack, but more than three years after the alleged “hack” no forensic evidence has been produced to support that claim. In fact, the available forensic evidence contradicts the official account that blames the […]

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EU Moves to Force Tech Giants to Pay for Third-Party Content…

Europe’s copyright rules are about to be rewritten in a bid to ensure technology giants pay for the third-party creative content they use. The European Union made the landmark decision on Wednesday to update rules that are two-decades old, in order to bring them into the digital age. The revamp, at this stage a set of draft rules, is likely […]

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Gab Is Creating a Comment Section on Every Website That Could Change the Internet Forever…

Gab.com, known as the free speech alternative to Twitter, is creating a browser plugin to add a comment section to every website on the Internet. Andrew Torba, who founded and runs Gab has shared a number of screenshots showing the plugin in action, commenting on websites with unavailable comment sections, and on websites with harsh […]

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NYC Councilman Says Union Dispute Killed Amazon Deal, Not Subsidies…

When New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s blamed opponents of the Amazon tax incentive package for the company’s decision to scrap its plans to move to New York City, he might have been leaving out a crucial piece of the story – and minimizing his own culpability in the process. To wit, the Daily News reported […]

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Cuomo Slams Ocasio-Cortez, Others, as Amazon Ditches New York…

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo lambasted politicians such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others over Amazon’s decision to leave New York City. Opponents of the deal with the tech giant had “put their own narrow political interests above their community,” he said. “[A] small group [of] politicians put their own narrow political interests above their community […]

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Understanding China’s Confucian Edge in the Global AI Race…

The American fugitive Edward Snowden triggered the West’s current (and ongoing) wave of concern over data privacy six years ago, when he revealed details about secret U.S. government programs that collect information on U.S. citizens. Since then, there has been a steady drumbeat of disclosures about how personal information is collected and shared, alarming the […]

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