Q&A with media scholar Ethan Zuckerman about why Twitter became the de facto digital public square, its politics of attention, power of federated networks, more
We talk to media scholar Ethan Zuckerman about why Twitter became the de facto digital public square and what other platforms like Bluesky or Mastodon might offer. Tweets: @ethanz , @glichfield , and ...
As governments adopt third-party automated fraud detection algorithms, researchers say the companies running the systems are often overpaid and under-supervised
Morgan Meaker / Wired : Tweets: @glichfield Tweets: Gideon Lichfield / @glichfield : The final story in the series takes a broader look at the algorithmic fraud-detection industry and shows the flaw ...
A look at Moscow's Safe City, an AI surveillance system with 217K connected cameras designed to catch criminals that is now seen as a tool of digital repression
Moscow promised residents lower crime rates through an expansive smart city project. Then Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. Tweets: @glichfield , @iethics , and @mashaborak Tweets: Gideon Lichfield / @...
Profile of CryptoPunks, an NFT project founded by two Canadian developers in 2017, which has reached $1.5B in lifetime sales as NFTs explode in popularity
unique digital assets—on the blockchain long before NFT became a household term...Two months later, a Canadian venture firm...used elements of the CryptoPunks smart contract to launch its own line of ...
Research: Rumble, a video-sharing site popular with conservatives, is more likely than not to recommend videos with misinfo for “vaccine”, “election” searches
Research shows the emergent video platform can recommend conspiracy theories and other harmful content more often than not. Tweets: @alkapdc , @glichfield , and @alkapdc See also Mediagazer Tweets: Al...
A look at IBM and Google's efforts to build a practical quantum computer, as Google chases quantum supremacy as a milestone while IBM chases “quantum advantage”
Gideon Lichfield / MIT Technology Review : Tweets: @inakib Tweets: Inaki Berenguer / @inakib : IBM vs Google race to build the best quantum computer. IBM will benefit from its “full stack” expertise ...
To duck accountability, “on background” has become the default method by which Silicon Valley disseminates information, often abetted by tech journalists
it's become a scourge, and it's time to unite to destroy it. Me in @CJR: https://www.cjr.org/... Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : I'm with @bcmerchant on this one. Tech companies spinning on background...