The Palantir-sponsored AI Expo for National Competitiveness featured VR headsets for soldiers, a map tool that can “nominate targets of interest”, and more
America's military industrial complex took center stage at AI Expo for National Competitiveness, where a fire-breathing panel set the tone Mastodon: @j2bryson@mastodon.social , @MrBerard@pilote.me , @...
Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel
https://medium.com/... X: Dr. Ks / @katejsim : Terminated worker here. Listen when employers tell you exactly who they are McCarthyism is alive and well. Look how terrified they are of worker power 🔥 ...
Some users on Instagram and Threads complain that a new setting to limit political content, which Meta announced in February, is enabled by default
I've come to realize that a lot of the most vocal social media users are outrage farmers who enjoy trainwrecks they can complain about. — Threads isn't giving them that so they're mad [embedded post...
Wyze says ~13,000 customers could briefly see others' camera feeds, after a similar issue in 2023; Wyze blames glitches in rebooting systems after an AWS outage
https://www.theverge.com/... The security issue is being blamed on “a third-party caching library,” but the company acknowledges that it let customers down @cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family : Wyze show...
Pornhub claims it has systems in place to flag harmful videos like Girls Do Porn but an investigation finds even light editing allows such videos to be uploaded
VICE : Tweets: @lisavaas , @thottonmather , and @carolineha_ Tweets: Lisa Vaas / @lisavaas : We Tried to Get Nonconsensual Porn Off Pornhub https://www.vice.com/... more great work from @vice Thotton...
Sources show how Amazon repeatedly delayed or scrapped investments in common industry practices like onroad safety training, as it built out its driver network
and the human costs of that system. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Lara Korte / @lara_korte : Merry Christmas Eve — here's a new investigation by ProPublic/Buzzfeed to really pack on the guilt from...
A recent spate of Ring camera hacks were part of a podcast livestreamed to Discord called “Nulledcast” in which Ring owners were hacked and harassed live on air
@josephfcox @jason_koebler http://bit.ly/2LJeFyn Fred Blankenship / @fblankenshipwsb : No sireeee! “I can see you in the bed! C'mon! Wake the [expletive] up!” This terrified Brookhaven woman says some...
Documents shed light on the US Army's Automated Biometric Information System, a database with 7.4M identities that underpins US military intelligence operations
ver the last 15 years, the United States military has developed a new addition to its arsenal. Tweets: @carolineha_ , @mvzelenks , @davegershgorn , @willoremus , @davegershgorn , @davegershgorn , @dav...
How student surveillance service Gaggle monitors online activities of about 5M US students for “suspicious or harmful content” using AI and human moderators
Caroline Haskins / BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @carolineha_ , @trekonomics , @mediasee , and @loisbeckett Tweets: Caroline Haskins / @carolineha_ : SCOOP: I got hundred of pages of documents + content mo...
A look at the weird and wacky patents filed by tech companies, some seemingly unrelated to the industry, and the reasons behind filing for them
and far more effective ways to encourage and protect innovation. https://slate.com/... @stanfordlaw : Tech companies are competing to amass as many patents as possible, but could this arms race be mis...