UK researchers unveil Bluebird, a “digital twin” of English airspace for examining AI's potential role in air traffic control, part of a £15M government project
Clive Cookson / Financial Times : X: @mattgarrahan and @katebevan X: Matthew Garrahan / @mattgarrahan : Yes let's definitely let AI run our air traffic control systems https://www.ft.com/... Kate Bev...
An investigation details an operation by Chinese hacking group APT40 to lure graduates who studied English into translating stolen documents via a front company
Thursday, June 30, 2022 // (IG): BB //Weekly Sponsor: Dataminr Tweets: Max Seddon / @maxseddon : “Chinese students have been lured to work at a secretive technology company that masked the true nature...
An investigation into who owns MindGeek, the secretive company behind Pornhub, which had $460M in revenue in 2018 and has 115M+ daily visitors to its sites
Mario Salieri was shooting a pornographic movie in a lavish Prague villa two decades ago when he first caught sight of the computer geeks who were about to upend his industry. Tweets: @lailamickelwait...
Sources: unusually large purchases of call options by SoftBank over the past month partly fueled the latest tech stock rally
Hello and welcome to Pipeline. I hope this kicks off a great three-day weekend for you. Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch : Stocks are selling off again, and SaaS shares are taking the biggest lumps Tara Lac...
Sources: Facebook's head of trust and safety policy admits to a “trust deficit” on a call with 200+ advertisers, as the company tries to stem an ad boycott
not the people checking the product every day. https://twitter.com/... Matthew Garrahan / @mattgarrahan : A leading Facebook exec has admitted the company is suffering from a “trust deficit” as brands...
Cambridge Analytica claims to not use Facebook data in voter profiles, perhaps because the models it built from 2014 data do not require more data from Facebook
Last week Reuters reported on the Harris Brand Survey: Casey Johnston / The Outline : Cambridge Analytica's leak shouldn't surprise you, but it should scare you Todd Haselton / CNBC : How to control w...
Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact
By Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles, Richard Waters in San Francisco and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York — Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media ...
Apple joins forces with record labels
By Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles, Kenneth Li in New York and Joseph Menn in San Francisco — Apple is working with the four largest record labels to stimulate digital sales of albums by bundling a ...
Rival forecast to catch YouTube
By Tim Bradshaw in London and Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles — YouTube is in danger of being upstaged commercially by a smaller upstart backed by News Corporation and NBC Universal as the video-sha...
Apple in online film-rental deal with Fox studio
By Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles and Kevin Allison in San Francisco — Apple has signed News Corp's 20th Century Fox studio to a new online video-on-demand service in a deal that could change the w...