WSJ Opinion
- Why Climate-Change Ideology Is Dying
- Lessons From My Father's Long, Good Life
- Trump's Lumber Tariffs and Disaster Recovery
- Worlds Collide on New York's Houston Street
- Scott Bessent Can Walk the Trade Tightrope
- Why RFK Jr. Is Dangerous to Public Health
- The CIA Wakes Up About Covid's Origin
- Head Start Puts Children at Risk
- Trump's Reprieve for TikTok Is Legitimate
- How DEI Conquered the University of Colorado
- Trump 47 Brings a Long Awaited Spring for Businesses
- The Great Biden Welfare Blowout
The Intercept_
- Rubio Is Trying to Keep Leftists Out of U.S. by Banning Supporters of “Economic Sabotage”
- State Department Wants Palantir’s Advice on Free Speech and “Countering Digital Surveillance”
- Congress Might Give ICE the Power to Go After Shoplifters
- The Pentagon Is Posting Cryptic Biblical Messages on Social Media
- Black Residents Warned of Abusive Cops for Years. Then Police Shot and Killed a Toddler.
- The Most Expensive Democratic Senate Primary Has a Winner
- There’s No Time for Centrists to Be Doomers About El-Sayed’s Victory
- When a President Promises a Massacre
- Abdul El-Sayed Beats the Democratic Establishment and AIPAC in Michigan
- Wesley Bell Again Defeats Cori Bush — With Plenty of Help From AIPAC
- Bari Weiss’s “60 Minutes” Hires Producer Who Downplayed Gaza Starvation, Justified Killing Journalists
- BLM Protester Transferred Thousands of Miles Away After They Organized Against Their Solitary Confinement
MIT Technology Review
- The Download: a censorship conspiracy theory and the first virus created by AI
- How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy
- The Download: Google’s AI shake-up and Meta’s rogue model
- Puzzle Corner
- The Download: NASA’s new telescope and Chinese tech import curbs
- NASA’s new dark energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids
- The Download: US robot restrictions, and ICE’s DNA grab
- Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics
- The Download: reward hacking explained, and suspected Iranian cyberattacks
- Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals
- The Download: Montana’s new experimental drug rules
- Montana’s new “right to try” law can’t come soon enough for some
IEEE Computing Edge
- Episode 9 | The Identity Crisis of Autonomous Agents
- How IaC Turns Infrastructure Into a Competitive Advantage—Q&A With Srilakshmi Bharadwaj
- Performance Reviews: Three Tips for Proving Your Expertise
- The Past and Future of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing: A Retrospective
- AI Doesn’t Break Where You Think: The Hidden System Failures Behind Modern AI
- Code Faster Today … Fail Faster Tomorrow?
- A Legacy of Insight, A Future of Impact in Computer Graphics and Applications
- Computing’s Top 30: Aditya Atluri
- Computing’s Top 30: Lokesh Lagudu
- IEEE Computer Society Journals Recognized Among the Most Influential in Global Computer Science and Engineering Research
- Mission-Critical AI: Engineering Systems That Cannot Fail
- Computing’s Top 30: Praveen Gupta Sanka
ACM TechNews
Le Monde Diplomatique Korea
- [박철웅의 AI디코딩] 거짓말의 배당금, 보이는 자는 언제나 늦게 온다
- [흔들리는 기후의 국제정치 ②] 노동자는 왜 기후정책에서 등을 돌리는가
- [흔들리는 기후의 국제정치 ①] 트럼프보다 더 무서운 유럽의 후퇴
- 한글은 회화가 될 수 있는가
- [세대유감] X라는 기호 ― 정치도 아닌, 서사도 없는
- 한화오션 사내 급식업체 웰리브는 도대체 어떤 기업이길래?
- [뜻밖의 금요일] 손전등 아래의 형이상학
- 넷마블문화재단, 여름방학 맞아 임직원 가족 견학프로그램 개최
- 삼성E&A 캐릭터 ‘애디·에니·세이디’ 첫돌…소아암 환아에 기부
- 삼성증권, 뷰티·엔터 유망기업 투자설명회 개최
- 구글 사표 내자 주식이 5% 안팎 급락한 '특급 인재 제프딘'은 누구?
- 몸을 맡기고, 말을 잃다 — '환자'가 사라진 의료개혁
The Guardian
- Middle East crisis live: Netanyahu rejects Trump’s Gaza plan and vows no withdrawal until Hamas disarms
- The Kettlewell scarecrow festival – in pictures
- William Orbit obituary
- The Guardian view on the two cultures: bridge the divide, starting with A-levels | Editorial
- The Guardian view on India’s green growth gamble: it will need more than private finance | Editorial
- Paddy Young: Will Sir Be Laughing Alone? review – morose misadventures of a luckless bachelor
- Pakistani grooming gang suspect ‘refuses to give date for return to UK’
- Christine Borland obituary
- Inside a meme factory: meet one of thousands of Indonesians trading political outrage clicks for Facebook cash
- My Brilliant Career: inside Netflix’s horny, ‘bonkers’ take on an Australian classic the world is about to love
- Kindness of strangers: Leo drove us home in a blizzard, and his parting words have stayed with me
- Tom Gauld on the military history dad’s holiday reading – cartoon
Microsoft AI Blog
- A conversation with Kevin Scott: What’s next in AI
- From Hot Wheels to handling content: How brands are using Microsoft AI to be more productive and imaginative
- Microsoft open sources its ‘farm of the future’ toolkit
- How data and AI will transform contact centres for financial services
- AI-equipped drones study dolphins on the edge of extinction
- Online math tutoring service uses AI to help boost students’ skills and confidence
- AI-Mimi is building inclusive TV experiences for Deaf and Hard of Hearing user in Japan
- Microsoft’s framework for building AI systems responsibly
- Singapore develops Asia’s first AI-based mobile app for shark and ray fin identification to combat illegal wildlife trade
- The opportunity at home – can AI drive innovation in personal assistant devices and sign language?
- Two NHS surgeons are using Azure AI to spot patients facing increased risks during surgery
- How AI makes developers’ lives easier, and helps everybody learn to develop software
Data & Society Blog
- Statement for the Record Regarding Modernizing Government and Streamlining Government Technology
- Data & Society Launches AI Civics, a Public Education Program to Build Democratic Power Over Technology
- Our Statement on the White House’s New Approach to AI Oversight
- Donor-Advised Fund Donations
- Comment to the FDA on Generative AI-Enabled Digital Mental Health Medical Devices
- The Craft of Science with AI: Evidence, Judgment, and Practice
- Ten New Affiliates Join Data & Society
- Data & Society Welcomes Felicia Wong to its Board of Directors
- Response to the American Science Acceleration Project Request for Information
- Statement for the Record
- David Melendez Joins Data & Society as Chief Development Officer
- Hello world!
Intl. Consortium of Investigative Journalists
- The $200 billion company you can’t look inside
- Donate to ICIJ
- After cancer drug counterfeiting scandal, India imposes new tracing requirements
- Companies once tied to Assad kept winning UN contracts under Syria’s new rulers
- Europe sanctioned crypto exchange HTX. Experts say the firm is deploying tactics that could blunt the impact.
- Inside the Matrix: How models, influencers and engagement quotas power the Social Discovery Group’s dating machine and global profits
- Canadian intelligence flags crypto-to-cash services as ‘knowingly facilitating money laundering,’ document shows
- Swedbank fined $50 million by New York authorities over Panama Papers revelations
- How offshore firms helped a mafia-linked Italian druglord hide a $230m fortune
- International Finance Corporation watchdog in turmoil following scathing report on microfinance in Cambodia
- Merck takes Austria’s Keytruda price transparency battle to top court as journalists fight for information
- Crypto giant Circle rebuffed efforts to help scam victims, police say
Electronic Frontier Foundatoin
- Tomorrow’s U.S. Senate Vote: Four Internet Bills, One Wrong Direction
- Appeals Court Agrees with EFF that Building a Web Browser Doesn’t Violate the CFAA
- Mobile Ad Software Encourages Location Data Sharing, EFF Report Finds
- Developers: Beware of Ad Libraries that Betray Your Users’ Location Privacy
- Technology's Power in the Hands of the People
- The Senate Should Reject KOSA's Privacy Risks
- EFF Joins 18 Civil Rights Organizations Calling on Governor Hochul to Reject the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act
- EFF Joins Call for FTC to Drop Its Disastrous AI Policy Proposal
- The Youth AI Privacy Act’s Privacy Paradox
- EFF at BSidesLV, Black Hat, and DEF CON 👨💻
- Amending AB 1709 Doesn’t Fix It: California’s Social Media Ban Still Threatens Free Speech and Privacy
- The SCREEN Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites
Slashdot: Your Rights Online
- Flock Camera Vandalism Continues Around America, While 100 Communities Reject ALPRs
- Google Should Still Be Forced To Shed Chrome, Advocacy Group Argues
- More Police Officers Fired, Investigated, or Arrested for Misusing Flock Camera Systems
- Woman Pulled From Car at Gunpoint By Police After Mistaken Flock Alert - Twice
- Trump Administration To Pay German Firm $1.2 Billion To Halt US Wind Projects
- Framework Notifies 'All Customers' of a Data Breach Via Compromised Metabase BI Service
- Trump Orders New 15% Tariff On Key Material For Solar Panels, Microchips
- Court Orders Meta To Establish $567 Million Fund To Abate Harms To Youth
- 'Tower Dump' Warrants Ruled Unconstitutional
- OpenAI's Models Shared Hacking Tips On a Secret Messaging Board Before Hugging Face Breach
- The US Government's Mario, Pokemon and Naruto Meme Posting Could Damage These Franchises, Japanese Officials Warn
- FCC Kills TV Ownership Cap, Claiming Authority Over Limit Set By Congress
CipherTrace Blog
- Weekly Update #38
- Regulatory and Legislative Analysis – January 2024
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- Crypto && Coffee 148
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- Crypto && Coffee 147
- Regulatory and Legislative Analysis – December 2023
- Weekly Update #33
- Regulatory and Legislative Update – November 2023
- Weekly Update #32
Google AI
- Generative AI to quantify uncertainty in weather forecasting
- AutoBNN: Probabilistic time series forecasting with compositional bayesian neural networks
- Computer-aided diagnosis for lung cancer screening
- Using AI to expand global access to reliable flood forecasts
- ScreenAI: A visual language model for UI and visually-situated language understanding
- SCIN: A new resource for representative dermatology images
- MELON: Reconstructing 3D objects from images with unknown poses
- HEAL: A framework for health equity assessment of machine learning performance
- Cappy: Outperforming and boosting large multi-task language models with a small scorer
- Talk like a graph: Encoding graphs for large language models
- Chain-of-table: Evolving tables in the reasoning chain for table understanding
- Health-specific embedding tools for dermatology and pathology
SFG – Business and Tech News
- Stanford AI virus study raises specter of bioweapon risk
- Court orders Instagram and Facebook's Meta to pay $567M to address kids' mental health online
- DuckDuckGo mercilessly dunks on big tech's AI-powered 'pervert' glasses
- 'Combined care': How AI therapy could help fix therapists' biggest problem
- Calif. man sues Amazon after tabletop firepit explodes in his face
- Visa lays off 6 VPs and dozens of senior staff from Foster City campus
- Altman goes viral for saying ChatGPT can help parents understand their own kids
- OpenAI CEO goes viral for more strange ChatGPT parenting advice
- 'If this is ragebait, it shows terrible taste': SF startup offered tattoos for interviews
- San Francisco company Planet finds itself on the front lines of Trump admin's war on Iran
- Controversial SF robot startup faces class action lawsuit for allegedly not paying workers
- OpenAI launches health bot a day after lawsuit says ChatGPT advice hospitalized a man
SFG – Bay Area News
- UCLA student dies in fall while interning at Amazon for summer
- Tanker carrying 8,600 gallons of fuel ignites on Highway 99
- Nike high-tops found near Sacramento River help crack 38-year-mystery
- Woman dies after morning crash at Powell and Market streets in downtown SF
- Calif. cyclospora cases are double the yearly average, still no sign of outbreak
- San Diego woman admits to murdering wife decades after killing former husband
- Fake vendor email cost East Bay city of Pittsburg nearly $1M
- SF firefighters rescue 18 people trapped in burning apartment building
- Taylor Farms says ex-president committed $32M fraud, including UC Berkeley gift
- Stanford scientists discover cells that could hopefully break apart tumors
- Rare homicide in Novato sparks search for masked suspect
- Mountain lions improve California road safety, new study finds
SFG – Opinion
- Tenderloin nonprofit leader on the traffic safety silver lining of shelter-in-place
- An Oakland public school teacher on the failure of Proposition 15
- I left the Bay Area to pursue a PhD. Now, it's all gone online.
- Note from the editorial page editor
- No masking it: The best way to avoid the scary coronavirus? Wash your hands
- GOP's frontal assault on Roe v. Wade shows they understand power
- Editorial: Attorney General Barr’s misplaced loyalties
- Hating government won’t improve it
- GOP tax cut failed the middle class, increased federal deficit
- Is the high school letterman's jacket a sign of the patriarchy?
- Trump deflects, Feinstein debates ... we analyze
- Refugees should not be political fodder
The Conversation (global)
- Ships stuck in the Strait of Hormuz region may be biosecurity risks when they leave. What can we do?
- 5 Bret Easton Ellis adaptations, ranked from worst to best
- These 3 charts show female-dominated jobs are actually the most exposed to AI
- How Netflix’s ‘Little House on the Prairie’ expands the book and TV series for today
- First mRNA flu shot approved by FDA bodes well for improving drugs of the future – though a few hurdles remain before mRNA can move beyond vaccines
- Zed Beats: how home studios reinvented Zambian pop music and gave young people a voice
- Gaza’s ‘road map’ is driven by Trump, but reluctant passengers and serious potholes could derail pathway to peace
- Behind the betel nut smile: the quiet epidemic of oral cancer in Papua New Guinea
- After Ceuta, Europe is once again mired in migration chaos of its own making
- The idea of the ‘company man’ was forged decades ago. Its problems still haunt leaders today
- Who were the Luddites? Their legacy ripples through politics, cultural commentary and literature
- Burundi refugees talk about life in South Africa after their long journey: hope and heartbreak side by side