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Facebook and Twitter shut down a network of fake accounts using AI-generated faces to “masquerade” as Americans; Facebook links the network to Epoch Media Group — Researchers said the profiles, linked to the Epoch Media Group, used photos generated by artificial intelligence in a preview of an …
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| Reuters: |
US Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices citing a cybersecurity threat, will block devices with the app from the Navy Marine Corps Intranet — (Reuters) - Earlier this week the United States Navy banned the social media app TikTok from government-issued mobile devices …
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| The Verge: |
The 84 biggest flops, fails, and dead dreams of the 2010s, from the Fire phone and Google Glass to the undoing of net neutrality in the US — A decade of failures — The world never changes quite the way you expect. But at The Verge, we've had a front-row seat while technology …
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| Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Walmart is considering new growth strategies like selling shopper data to advertisers and renting out edge computing capacity in retail “supercenters” — Walmart is betting on a future where its giant stores will quickly get groceries to your door … | New York Times: |
Text messages show how the head of DOJ antitrust division Makan Delrahim steered the T-Mobile-Sprint deal and played a crucial role in getting Dish involved — Text messages indicate that Makan Delrahim, the head of the Justice Department's antitrust division, worked behind the scenes to help the companies pull off a deal.
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| Matt Brown / Jalopnik: |
California DMV to start approving permits for self-driving delivery vehicles, with and without backup drivers, from Jan. 17, both for testing and commercial use — Are you ready to be stuck in traffic behind armies of autonomous delivery robots? No? Well good news: if you live in California …
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San Francisco's municipal surveillance law, which banned city agencies from using facial recognition in May, amended to allow for Face ID on city-issued iPhones — San Francisco quietly amends its municipal surveillance law to allow for Apple's Face ID, though the ban on facial recognition still applies.| Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal: |
China releases new rules for online content, requiring platforms and app operators to use AI-based moderation; the rules are set to come into effect in March — Government control over online content likely to tighten further following release of comprehensive regulations| Rebecca Heilweil / Vox: |
A look at New York City's slow attempts to increase transparency around its use of algorithms, which govern many policy areas, including policing — The Traffic Management Center for New York, located in Queens. Two tools used by the Department of Transportation were reviewed … | Rani Molla / Vox: |
A look at the biggest tech trends of 2019, a year marked by antitrust investigations, consumer protests against big companies, and tough IPOs for startups — A year-end look back at the tech trends that ended the decade. — It's been a year of shattered expectations in tech.| Elias Groll / Wired: |
Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, head of the Joint AI Center for the DOD, talks integrating AI into its weapons systems, building predictive maintenance tools, and more — Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan doesn't want killer robots—but he does want artificial intelligence to occupy a central role in warfighting.
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| Sidney Fussell / The Atlantic: |
How a new class of online lending apps, which promise to “advance” users' wages, are much the same as traditional payday lenders — Apps promising to “advance” a user's wages say they aren't payday lenders. So what are they? — Jonathan Raines needed money. An app promised to help.
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