Superhuman faces a proposed class action lawsuit from Julia Angwin, founder of The Markup, alleging Grammarly's Expert Review tool involved “misappropriation”
President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”
Transformer Weekly: Trump signs EO, Hochul guts the RAISE Act, and GPT-5.2 launches Michael Kan / PCMag : Trump Signs Executive Order to Go After ‘Burdensome’ State AI Laws Poligirlsayswhat / Baller A...
New York City's AI tool, launched in 2018 to score families at risk for child abuse using factors like their neighborhood, is raising racial bias concerns
“They target you from the minute you step out of foster care,” Hamblin said. “They have this microscope on you, and for them to build a case based off your prior records of you being in care—it's not...
NYC's Microsoft-powered MyCity chatbot, launched as a pilot program last October, often gives inaccurate info, including telling businesses to break the law
Steal your employees' tips! Discriminate against renters on basis of race! — Just two of the wonderful suggestions that Microsoft's LLM is telling people to do. (Clearly simply reflecting what hum...
Q&A with University of Michigan researchers about their research into the effectiveness of using prompts to assign interpersonal and professional roles to LLMs
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How a California college uses data collection tools to track students' daily movements, like homework trackers, e-proctoring software, and license plate readers
A Markup examination of a typical college shows how students are subject to a vast and growing array of watchful tech … Threads: @craignewmark . Mastodon: @irisRichardson@mastodon.art , @trent@eigenma...
Following reports from Patreon users, analysis shows X slowing down traffic on links to Patreon, WhatsApp, and, at times Meta's Messenger, by ~2.5 seconds
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A Democratic report finds popular tax filing tools inappropriately and “recklessly” transmitted data to Meta and Google for years; tax data is tightly regulated
The investigation was opened in response to work published last year by The Markup
Researchers detail “aCropalypse”, a bug in Google Pixel's Markup fixed in March 2023, where some edited screenshots can be retroactively unredacted or uncropped
Screenshot recovery utility Alan Friedman / PhoneArena : Pixel vulnerability that hits the Markup screenshot editing tool is potentially dangerous Emma Roth / The Verge : Google Pixel exploit reverses...
Uber's slow response to law enforcement requests and a complex request process are leaving drivers vulnerable to repeated attacks by riders using fake accounts
An investigation by The Markup found that Uber is slow to respond to law enforcement requests, leaving drivers vulnerable to repeated attacks Tweets: @andyjayhawk , @sisiwei , @jonkeegan , @themarkup ...