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| Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian: |
One of top Google autocomplete suggestions for “are Jews” is “evil”, with 9 of top 10 search results saying “yes”; similar answers for many topics worry experts — Tech-savvy rightwingers have been able to ‘game’ the algorithms of internet giants and create …
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| Rupert Jones / The Guardian: |
Researchers guessed valid Visa card expiry dates and CVV codes in seconds via queries to multiple commercial websites; Visa failed to detect the attack — Academics say working out card number, expiry date and security code of Visa card takes ‘as little as six seconds’
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| Andrew Zaleski / Backchannel: |
Why MakerBot failed to live up to the hype: competition, flawed printers, backlash over its move to closed source, consumer 3D printer market never materialized — was October 2009 when Bre Pettis—his unmistakable sideburns and dark-rimmed rectangular glasses framing his face …
Tweets: @carl_franklin
| Lucian Armasu / Tom's Hardware: |
Canadian government seeks public comment after explaining need for backdoors, mandatory decryption, longer storage of phone and ISP records, and more — The new Canadian government is looking to further expand its surveillance powers by requiring decryption capabilities for all services …
Tweets: @realrakhmetov, @billsourour, and @counternotions
| Max Chafkin / Bloomberg: |
How a journalist became a men's fashion influencer on Instagram: hashtags, like and comment bots, and lots of help from professionals — I used to post cat photos. Then a marketing agency made me a star. — Subscribe Reprints — I've always been well-liked. At least, I think that's the case.
Tweets: @tomgara, @copromote, and @pkafka
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
US Consumer Review Fairness Act passes, voids ToS gag clauses under which companies could sue or impose penalties for users who post negative reviews — Consumer Review Fairness Act bans customer gag clauses, awaits Obama signature. — Congress has passed a law protecting the right … | Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Netflix says its custom video encoding method and use of VP9 and H.264/AVC High codecs are saving 36% bandwidth on Android and 19% on iOS for offline downloads — When Netflix introduced the ability to download content onto mobile devices for offline viewing earlier this week … | Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: |
Experts find wireless communications protocol used by some new implantable cardiac defibrillators to be insecure, susceptible to spoofing, relay, DoS attacks — The communication protocol used by some of the latest generation of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs) …
| Nitasha Tiku / BuzzFeed: |
Snapchat avoids the fake news epidemic by vetting publishers who appear in Discover, hiring human editors for Live Stories, and limiting re-sharing — Evan Spiegel, Snapchat CEO and cofounder — Facebook emerged during the U.S. election as a central political and news source …
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New York Times, Ubergizmo, Marketing Land, Social Media Today, VentureBeat, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @carnage4life, @jeremysliew, @sarahcuda, @dangillmor, and @damienmulley
See also Mediagazer| Amanda Hess / New York Times: |
A look at Gab, the social network launched in August that has become a haven for the far right and now hosts 98K accounts — When the white nationalist leader Richard B. Spencer was suspended from Twitter recently, he hopped over to YouTube to address his supporters.| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Uber acquires AI startup Geometric Intelligence; its cofounders Gary Marcus and Zoubin Ghahraman will be co-directors of Uber's new research arm A.I. Labs — SAN FRANCISCO — Uber envisions a future in which a fleet of vehicles can make the most complex maneuvers while carting passengers around without the help of a driver.
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BBC, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, and Wired
| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
Amazon's Alexa VP on the platform's future, the $2.5M Alexa Prize, concerns about poaching key AI talent from academia, new developer tools, privacy, more — Amazon's VP of Alexa talks about machine learning, chatbots, and whether industry is strip-mining AI talent from academia.
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VentureBeat and Tech Times. Tweets: @brianroemmele, @daveknox, @semil, @backchnnl, and @stevenlevy
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