Internal emails: ICE is using Mobile Fortify, an app that uses facial recognition and fingerprint scanning via phone cameras to identify people in the field
www.404media.co/ice-is-using... [image] Ryan Teague Beckwith / @ryanbeckwith : The men wearing masks as they shove people in unmarked vans with swapped license plates are using a facial recognition a...
Microsoft delays Recall to test it with the Windows Insider Program and won't ship it with Copilot+ PCs next week, after saying it would make the feature opt-in
will arrive via Windows Update later this year Richi Jennings / Security Boulevard : Recall ‘Delayed Indefinitely’ — Microsoft Privacy Disaster is Cut from Copilot+ PCs Katie Bartlett / CNBC : Microso...
iPhone 15 Pro Max teardown: a redesigned frame helps with replacing the back glass, a tetraprism periscope lens, software lockdown makes repairs hard, and more
as long as Apple is the one fixing it Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider : iPhone 15 Pro Max teardown reveals few internal changes, digs at repairability Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage : iFixit posts t...
Researchers call for transparency on AI tools' carbon footprint; training GPT-3 took an estimated 1.287 GWh of electricity, or what ~120 US homes use in a year
Bloomberg : Tweets: @zachweinberg , @dinabass , @izzyz , @sjmmcd , @brianjjackson , @doctorow , @mattmday , @environment , @katekayereports , @nic__carter , @tante , @bigblackjacobin , and @bloomberg...
Cory Doctorow and law professor Rebecca Giblin on their new book, Chokepoint Capitalism, and how tech platforms monetize creators via distribution bottlenecks
It's a book about artists and technology and platforms and how different kinds of distribution and creation tools create chokepoints …
An interview with Cory Doctorow on lessons from science fiction, Big Tech's comeuppance, AI dangers, surveillance capitalism, smart contracts, dApps, and more
From cyberpunk to interoperability and monopolies to how to be productive. Highly recommended. https://www.newyorker.com/... Liam Proven / @lproven : “There is, among blockchain enthusiasts, a kind of...
To limit the power of Big Tech, regulators should look to mandate interoperability, which will empower users and could spark more competition
summed up brilliantly by Tom Eastman, a New Zealand software developer, as the transformation of the Internet into “a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four...
Facebook says WSJ's series contained deliberate mischaracterizations and conferred egregiously false motives to Facebook's leadership and employees
and burying the findings Charlie Osborne / ZDNet : Facebook rebukes WSJ over investigation on the platform's ability to harm, ‘toxic’ impact Parmy Olson / Bloomberg : Facebook's Beloved Growth Team Ha...
Sources: Byju's, an Indian edtech giant with millions of paying subs, has a “toxic” sales culture with tactics pushing low-income parents into taking out loans
and if you, as a parent, can't [secure] your kid's happiness and future...you might as well have not had kids.” Inside the alarming growth tactics of the Indian edtech giant Byju https://restofworld.o...
Interview with Senator Amy Klobuchar on her new book about antitrust, why she doesn't think reining in the App Store will harm the Apple ecosystem, and more
My guest today is Senator Amy Klobuchar, the Democrat from Minnesota who has taken up the role of antitrust enforcer in the Senate under the Biden administration. Tweets: @reckless , @primacysg , @rec...