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An in-depth look at the baseless conspiracies attempting to turn Bill Gates into the pandemic's villain, widely shared on Facebook and YouTube — After months of conspiracy-mongering, people around the world are demanding Gates be arrested for crimes against humanity. Here's how things got so bad.
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| Mark Scott / Politico: |
With GDPR's two-year anniversary today, the Irish Data Protection Commission is under pressure to act, amid doubts about the agency's enforcement ability — Ireland's Data Protection Commission is under pressure to act, and act soon. — Facebook's European headquarters in Dublin.
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noyb.eu, CNET, Reuters, CdrInfo.com, TechSpot, and EURACTIV.com
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| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
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| Ben Smith / New York Times: |
How services like Cameo and Substack have opened up new ways for prominent media figures and journalists to make a living from smaller audiences — With short videos and paid newsletters, everyone from superstars to half-forgotten former athletes and even journalists can, as one tech figure put it, “monetize individuality.”| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google says ~70% of all serious security bugs in Chrome, largely written in C/C++, are memory safety flaws, after analyzing 912 security bugs fixed since 2015 — Google software engineers are looking into ways of eliminating memory management-related bugs from Chrome.
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Tweets: @ryanaraine, @0xcharlie, @epakskape, @robdaemon, @a_cowley, and @campuscodi
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Wikimedia's board votes to adopt a formal moderation process, with policies drafted by the end of 2020, to deal with harassment and other “toxic” behavior — Trustees say it hasn't done enough to stop abuse — Wikipedia plans to crack down on harassment and other “toxic” behavior with a new code of conduct.| Barton Gellman / Wired: |
Book excerpt looks at NSA's Big Awesome Graph initiative, an attempt to map people's social networks out of an enormous trove of intercepted communications — Edward Snowden revealed the agency's phone-record tracking program. But thanks to “precomputed contact chaining,” that database was much more powerful than anyone knew.
Tweets: @blackvaultcom and @manhack
| John Markoff / New York Times: |
Computer scientist Ben Shneiderman argues against the move towards full robotic automation, saying such moves absolve humans of ethical responsibilities — A computer scientist argues that the quest for fully automated robots is misguided, perhaps even dangerous. His decades of warnings are gaining more attention.
Tweets: @dtunkelang, @edyson, @nytimesbusiness, @jhagel, @cigitalgem, and @ctricot
| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
Australia's COVIDSafe tracking app has faded into near-irrelevance, falling far short of a target to reach 40% of Australians — The PM told Australians in April the contact tracing app was key to getting back to normal but just one person has been identified using its data
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ZDNet. Tweets: @true_mxp, @mukeshkapila, @julian_plummer, @jilltxt, @eevblog, @fabiochiusi, and @deemadigan
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Thailand's largest cell network, AIS, has pulled a database offline that was leaking billions of real-time internet records on millions of Thai internet users — Thailand's largest cell network AIS has pulled a database offline that was spilling billions of real-time internet records on millions of Thai internet users.| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Sensor Tower data: TikTok and Chinese twin app Douyin topped the charts globally for in-app purchases in April, generating $78M, up 10x from April 2019 — - ByteDance's popular video-sharing platform keeps rising — Douyin, TikTok's China version, contributed 87% of revenue| Hayden Field / MIT Technology Review: |
Self-driving car companies, whose test fleets are grounded due to the pandemic, are finding new uses for old data through detailed data labeling and 3D mapping — With fleets out of commission, covid-19 left self-driving car and truck companies frozen in time. Now they're finding new life in old data.
Tweets: @haydenfield and @alexandr_wang
| Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal: |
FCC may move ahead with a $16B plan to boost rural broadband access, even without a clear picture of service gaps, as ISPs' coverage data lacks granularity — Under FCC's latest plan to fund to internet providers' service expansions, many rural customers who lack broadband could be counted as already having it
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