Sources and docs: troubled IT firm Atos is largely responsible for issues delaying the rollout of the EU's automated biometric Entry/Exit border system to 2025
www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Iain Martin / @iainmartin : “the documents show how Atos effectively slowed work by only partially installing [the EU's new smart border] equipment, misplacing parts....
How Uganda's government under President Yoweri Museveni has increasingly used the country's biometric identity system to target opponents and consolidate power
The East African country's identity card system has become integral to banking, voting — and targeting critics X: @privacymatters , @silvermanjacob , @oliviasolon , @oliviasolon , @rinachandran , and ...
Research in 2021: around 60% of undersea internet cable faults were caused by fishing equipment or anchors; repairs can often cost $250K to $3M per incident
On the evening of Oct. 14, the managing director of Shefa, a Faroese Telecom subsidiary, received a call from one of his technicians … Tweets: @athomson6 , @oliviasolon , and @oliviasolon Tweets: Amy ...
A look at LAION, a free AI training data set with 5B+ images used in Google's Imagen and Stable Diffusion, created by high school teacher Christoph Schuhmann
In front of a suburban house on the outskirts of the northern Germany city of Hamburg, a single word — “LAION” — is scrawled in pencil across a mailbox. Tweets: @marissalnew , @aggichristiane , and @o...
How Uber revamped its app, attracting more drivers and extending its lead on Lyft; YipitData: Uber's US market share grew from 62% in early 2020 to 74% now
What Happened When Uber's CEO Started Driving for Uber https://www.wsj.com/... Troy Stevenson : Super proud of all the hard work across Uber over the past year or two to make such dramatic improvement...
A recap of TikTok CEO Shou Chew's testimony before Congress, in which he struggled to address national security concerns over ByteDance's ownership of TikTok
“[T]he day was dominated by political grandstanding that failed to acknowledge the real solutions already underway through Project Texas or productively address industry-wide issues of youth safety.” ...
Andy Jassy says Amazon plans to lay off an additional 9,000 employees, mostly in AWS, PXT, Advertising, and Twitch, after cutting 18,000+ jobs in January 2023
Today I shared with Twitch employees that we've … Annie Palmer / CNBC : Amazon's post-Bezos experiment hasn't gone exactly as planned Bloomberg : Amazon to Cut 9,000 More Jobs, Deepening Biggest Pullb...
GPT-4 has learned to be more precise and more accurate than its predecessor, gained the ability to respond to images as well as text, but still hallucinates
from processing pictures to acing tests Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust : GPT-4's successes, and GPT-4's failures Tweets: Geoff Brumfiel / @gbrumfiel : I got access to @OpenAI's GPT 4 this m...
Amsterdam-listed e-commerce company Prosus and parent Naspers plan to lay off 30% of their corporate workforce; Prosus employed 30,000 globally in March 2022
Amsterdam-listed Prosus NV and its parent Naspers Ltd. are planning to cut their corporate workforce by 30%, becoming the latest global tech company to announce layoffs. Tweets: @oliviasolon Tweets: O...
[Thread] Elon Musk says a “new Twitter policy” will deboost and demonetize “negative/hate tweets” and reinstates Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson, and Babylon Bee
This week has been a week. Okay, let's just get into it. — Twitter needs to die Derek Saul / Forbes : ‘Freedom Of Speech, But Not Freedom Of Reach’: Musk Reinstates Kathy Griffin And Jordan Peterso...