How Avery Johnson and Warren Brodey, early members of the American Society for Cybernetics, created a lab in 1967 with a utopian vision to personalize computing
https://www.ft.com/... Simonetta Vezzoso / @wavesblog : Tech solutionism"has..driven the development of wearable devices that track our health metrics and social media platforms that claim to enhance ...
Q&A with AI Now Institute's Shazeda Ahmed on how the US-China “tech Cold War” narrative allows Big Tech to avoid regulation and how it informs US policy
There is a narrative in Washington, D.C., that we are in the midst of a tech cold war with China. Tweets: @juliaangwin , @nantarsya , @shiraovide , and @themarkup Tweets: Julia Angwin / @juliaangwin :...
The story of CyberBunker, a hosting provider that once hosted The Pirate Bay and a number of dark web sites, whose German facility was raided by police in 2019
An eccentric Dutchman began living in a giant underground facility built by the German military—and ran a server farm beloved by cybercriminals. Tweets: @feikehacquebord , @balumcarnes , @alfonslopezt...
When Cold War analogies are misapplied to emerging technologies like AI, the debate about how such technologies should be regulated gets distorted
Opinion: Politicians and pundits' fixation with flawed Cold War metaphors have produced overly combative policies on emerging tech. Tweets: @wired , @lil_aphasia , @wmdgirl , @nonstrategic , and @moji...
When Cold War analogies are misapplied to emerging technologies like AI, the debate about how such technologies should be regulated gets distorted
Opinion: Politicians and pundits' fixation with flawed Cold War metaphors have produced overly combative policies on emerging tech. Tweets: @wired , @nonstrategic , @mojiferous , @lil_aphasia , and @w...
WaPo's Russian propaganda story has dubious sources, little evidence, and too general claims that describe how any news is usually shared on social media
On Thanksgiving, the Washington Post dropped … Carrie Mihalcik / CNET : Russian propaganda may have fueled fake election news fiasco AOL : Report claims Russian propaganda campaign bolstered ‘fake’ U....
WaPo's Russian propaganda story has dubious sources, little evidence, and too general claims that describe how any news is usually shared on social media
On Thanksgiving, the Washington Post dropped … Carrie Mihalcik / CNET : Russian propaganda may have fueled fake election news fiasco Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge : Russian propaganda campaign reportedly...