Grokipedia hands-on: many articles clone Wikipedia, but deviate significantly on topics conflicting with Elon Musk's worldview; at times, it is overtly racist
xAI's Wikipedia-like website offers a generous take on Musk's worldview. … On Monday, a new online “encyclopedia” sputtered to life.
Docs: ODNI is developing a centralized portal to streamline the purchase of commercially available information, like location data, by US intelligence agencies
US intel is buying up vast volumes of sensitive information that would have previously required a court order, essentially bypassing #FourthAmendment. But #surveillance state has ...
A hack of data company Gravy reveals Candy Crush, Tinder, and thousands of other apps are used to collect user location data; app developers may not even know
A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes.
The CFPB proposes limiting data brokers' ability to sell Americans' personal and financial info, after the National Public Data breach discovered in April 2024
In the wake of high-profile hacks affecting hundreds of millions of Americans, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) …
23andMe changed its TOS to prevent lawsuits days after its October data breach; to opt out, customers must email the company that they disagree within 30 days
Source: Parler has ~50,000 DAUs and its parent company Parlement had been trying to sell the social network for the past few weeks at a “wildly inflated” price
conservative opportunists have seen the partisan split emerging across Big Tech and decided they want a piece of the action. But instead of innovating — which is hard — they pump o...
How Russia's IRA troll factories tweeted a torrent of fabricated narratives against the US Women's March and its leaders for 18 months, fracturing the movement
As American feminists came together in 2017 to protest Donald Trump, Russia's disinformation machine set about deepening the divides among them.
Lina Khan's attempt to block Meta's Within acquisition upends decades of antitrust standards and could shift how DC regulates competition in nascent industries
Lina Khan may set off a shift in how Washington regulates competition by filing cases in tech areas before they mature.
Nonprofit suicide chat service Crisis Text Line ends its data sharing relationship with for-profit spinoff Loris.ai and asks the company to delete existing data
and it's striking to be offered so much inside info about the CTL/Loris debacle — but it also doesn't fully connect the dots. A few thoughts/questions: https://www.zephoria.org/......
Facebook details Ego4D, a research project in partnership with 13 universities that uses first-person video to improve perception by AI assistants
cataloguing not just what you say but the physical world around you. Such systems could be incredibly useful, of course, but have huge privacy implications. https://www.theverge.co...
US prisons are exploring the use of AI to analyze inmates' phone calls, a practice privacy advocates say could amplify racial bias in the justice system
Reuters : Tweets: @aaschapiro , @lanceulanoff , @onekade , and @foxcahn Tweets: Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro : Prisons & jails are quietly deploying tech to transcribe, & anal...
Facebook staff detail the fight over CrowdTangle, which notes top-engaging posts, often showing right-wing sources dominating; in April, its team was reassigned
literally 9 or 10 of 10—by conservative media posts. Facebook is unhappy that this makes them look like a right wing echo chamber and are contemplating if and how to reduce transpa...
A look at the debate over autonomous weapons: 30 countries support a total ban, the US says concerns are overblown, and Russia says such weapons don't yet exist
Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post : Tweets: @zaknafeindc , @ghostpanther , @thekarami , @chey_cobb , @nils_gilman , @gerritd , @rachaelmyrow , @ylitvinenko , @onekade , @daankayse...
Officials say the DHS has started building a warning system to gather and analyze intelligence about domestic terrorism threats from public social media posts
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security has begun implementing a strategy to gather and analyze intelligence … Tweets: @purplerain713 , @hanxfingers , @kylegriffin1 , @jgr...
The Pentagon says Microsoft will build 120K custom HoloLens headsets for the US Army; Microsoft says the contract could be worth up to $21.88B over 10 years
AR makes a spectacle Nathan Ord / HotHardware.com News : Microsoft Inks $22 Billion Deal To Supply Modified HoloLens AR Headsets To US Army Troops Kris Graft / Gamasutra : Controve...
The Pentagon says Microsoft will build 120K custom HoloLens headsets for the US Army; Microsoft says the contract could be worth up to $21.88B over 10 years
- Microsoft will deliver to the U.S. Army more than 120,000 devices based on its HoloLens augmented reality headset.
Hacker paid a company called Sakari $16 to reroute a reporter's texts and used SMS 2FA to break into his accounts, showing the need for regulation of SMS tools
incredibly — allowed a reporter's texts to be intercepted and sent to another device. All you had to do is swear you're authorized to receive texts at the targeted number. This is ...
How ACLU and activist Kade Crockford convinced Massachusetts lawmakers to pass a police reform bill banning the use of facial recognition tech in criminal cases
Massachusetts is one of the first states to put legislative guardrails around the use of facial recognition technology in criminal investigations.
How ACLU and activist Kade Crockford convinced Massachusetts lawmakers to pass a police reform bill banning the use of facial recognition tech in criminal cases
Massachusetts is one of the first states to put legislative guardrails around the use of facial recognition technology in criminal investigations.