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23andMe is in trouble. Which might mean your data is, too
3 weeks, 3 days ago

23andMe is in trouble. Which might mean your data is, too

The Independent  

In the middle of 2008, a room full of celebrities and socialites gathered in a room for cocktails, clutching plastic tubes filled with saliva. 23andMe made headlines around the world, kicking off a journey to “personalise genetic healthcare” that would culminate in a business worth $6bn at its peak in 2021, and a global conversation around one important question: who …

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Tim Berners-Lee wants people to get the internet back from Big Tech
1 month ago

Tim Berners-Lee wants people to get the internet back from Big Tech

Live Mint  

Tim Berners-Lee has a radical proposition. The web today isn’t the vibrant motley network that came into being after Berners-Lee first fashioned it in 1989, but a landscape dominated by huge companies like Alphabet’s Google and Meta’s Facebook. Our data is scattered across Big Tech’s servers and those of countless other companies, out of our control. Earlier this year, five …

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J.D. Vance’s Views on Stepparents Are Straight Out of Project 2025
4 months, 3 weeks ago

J.D. Vance’s Views on Stepparents Are Straight Out of Project 2025

Slate  

Vice President Kamala Harris’ rise as the Democratic presidential candidate has brought renewed attention to J.D. As Ella Emhoff, one of Harris’ stepchildren, puts it, “How can you be ‘childless’ when you have cutie pie kids like cole and I.” But for Vance, real parents are biological parents. Under the heading “The Family Agenda,” the presidential transition blueprint declares: “Married …

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A pollster sheds light on Palestinian attitudes toward the U.S., Israel and Hamas
4 months, 3 weeks ago

A pollster sheds light on Palestinian attitudes toward the U.S., Israel and Hamas

NPR  

A pollster sheds light on Palestinian attitudes toward the U.S., Israel and Hamas toggle caption Mahmoud Zaki/Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images TEL AVIV – For the past three decades, Khalil Shikaki has provided vital glimpses and insights into Palestinian public opinion through his surveys conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, located in Ramallah, in the …

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Is the New York Times bestseller list politically biased?
6 months ago

Is the New York Times bestseller list politically biased?

Hindustan Times  

“The New York Times is pure propaganda,” tweeted Elon Musk, a tech mogul, in March. We then built a statistical model to predict whether books would appear in the New York Times weekly “hardcover non-fiction” and “advice, how-to and miscellaneous” rankings in order to determine whether books by conservative publishers were included on these lists more or less often than …

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AI Election Project Methodology and Submission Information
6 months, 3 weeks ago

AI Election Project Methodology and Submission Information

Wired  

Our AI Election Project Methodology and Other Notes: The instances listed must be found “in the wild.” This means we’re only going to include instances where generative AI is being used or found out in the world. However many instances of generative AI journalists, researchers, experts, or anyone else manages to find, it’s likely that there are more. There may …

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Opinion: Americans might finally get a real privacy law to fight Big Tech intrusions
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: Americans might finally get a real privacy law to fight Big Tech intrusions

LA Times  

This month, Sen. Maria Cantwell and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers unveiled a rare government feat: a bipartisan bill that has lawmakers feeling “optimistic” and “ fired up.” It’s the American Privacy Rights Act, and it’s long overdue. A post from the Electronic Frontier Foundation took issue with the bill “preempting existing state laws and preventing states from creating stronger protections …

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How to Stop Your Data From Being Used to Train AI
8 months, 1 week ago

How to Stop Your Data From Being Used to Train AI

Wired  

Anything you’ve ever posted online—a cringey tweet, an ancient blog post, an enthusiastic restaurant review, or a blurry Instagram selfie—has almost assuredly been gobbled up and used as part of the training materials for the current bombardment of generative AI. Tech companies have scraped vast swathes of the web to gather the data they claim is needed to create generative …

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AI, satellite pics reveal ocean activities happening out of sight
11 months, 1 week ago

AI, satellite pics reveal ocean activities happening out of sight

The Hindu  

Humans are racing to harness the ocean’s vast potential to power global economic growth. A newly published study in the journal Nature combines satellite images, vessel GPS data and artificial intelligence to reveal human industrial activities across the ocean over a five-year period. To avoid these problems, some governments require fishing vessels to use proprietary vessel monitoring systems, but the …

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Is privacy a lost cause?
1 year, 2 months ago

Is privacy a lost cause?

The Hindu  

Today, privacy is not just about locking doors and drawing curtains; it’s about safeguarding our digital identities and personal spaces from prying eyes. “I’ve got nothing to hide, I don’t need privacy,” goes an age-old refrain. Edward Snowden, whose disclosures revealed numerous global surveillance programmes, once tweeted, “It is, in a dark way, psychologically reassuring to say, ‘Oh, everything is …

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Column: These apps and websites use your data to train AI. You’re probably using one right now.
1 year, 4 months ago

Column: These apps and websites use your data to train AI. You’re probably using one right now.

LA Times  

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks in 2018. Furthermore, the web trawlers looking for data aren’t supposed to penetrate paywalls or any websites requiring passwords for entry, so putting your site under lock and key will keep it from AI adoption. Customer hereby grants us the right to use, during and after the Subscription Term, aggregated and anonymized Customer Data to …

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‘Doubling data centre capacity’
1 year, 5 months ago

‘Doubling data centre capacity’

Live Mint  

NTT Ltd, which merged its data centre and information technology services divisions last October, is bullish on India, having announced a five-year, $2.5 billion investment in January to build data centres in Maharashtra. In a recent interview, Abhijit Dubey, global chief executive NTT, and NTT India CEO, Avinash Joshi, shared the company’s roadmap while explaining why India is NTT’s largest …

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GOP keeps lead for House control, Democrats' momentum stalls amid economy worries — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll
2 years, 2 months ago

GOP keeps lead for House control, Democrats' momentum stalls amid economy worries — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll

CBS News  

For two months the Democrats chipped away at the Republicans' lead in the battle for House control, helped by motivated abortion-rights voters and what turned out to be fleeting glimmers of optimism about the economy. Only one in 10 voters who've picked a party in the race for the House say they'd even consider the other party — and those …

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India stands fourth in Global Crypto Adoption Index 2022, despite ban China remains active in space
2 years, 3 months ago

India stands fourth in Global Crypto Adoption Index 2022, despite ban China remains active in space

India Today  

A Chainalysis 2022 Global Crypto Adoption report has revealed that for the second consecutive year, Vietnam is ranked first in cryptocurrency adoption with an overall index ranking of 1.000, and India stood at 4th with an index score of 0.663. "Our data shows that global adoption has levelled off in the last year after growing consistently since mid-2019," says Chainalysis …

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Op-Ed: The end of Roe means we’ll be criminalized for more of our data
2 years, 7 months ago

Op-Ed: The end of Roe means we’ll be criminalized for more of our data

LA Times  

The Supreme Court’s apparent intent to overturn Roe vs. Wade raises questions about how online searches, texts and other data stored on digital devices can be used to target people seeking abortion care. The leak of a draft opinion indicating the Supreme Court’s intent to overturn Roe vs. Wade raises huge concerns for how online searches, text messages and emails …

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World Data Privacy Day Gets Something Very Wrong
2 years, 10 months ago

World Data Privacy Day Gets Something Very Wrong

Slate  

Taking part in the digital economy comes with a basic demand: expose yourself. Each year on January 28, civil libertarians honor World Data Privacy Day to call attention to this dire state of affairs. As one international data protection group states, “the objective of this day is to sensitize individuals and disseminate privacy practices and principles. It encourages everyone to …

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Researchers warn of ‘very chunky’ shark in the Atlantic
3 years, 1 month ago

Researchers warn of ‘very chunky’ shark in the Atlantic

The Independent  

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Smartphones are surveillance tools and Bollywood is now discovering it | OPINION
3 years, 1 month ago

Smartphones are surveillance tools and Bollywood is now discovering it | OPINION

India Today  

In the days following his flight to Hong Kong, when NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden met lawyers, the first thing that he asked them to do was to switch off their phones and put them inside the refrigerator in his hotel room. What we are discovering in Mumbai, where chats and personal details of some Bollywood stars are leaking left, right …

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Ever Wondered What Happens To Google Your Data When You Die? We Tell You, In Detail
3 years, 2 months ago

Ever Wondered What Happens To Google Your Data When You Die? We Tell You, In Detail

News 18  

Ever wondered what will happen to all your data that is saved on cloud and with services like Apple and Google after you pass away? However, Google now lets you decide when it should consider your account inactive and what should happen to it and the data after it becomes inactive. After this, Google will give you the option of …

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Simplifying what broke Facebook: BGP, DNS and the unified bucket idea
3 years, 2 months ago

Simplifying what broke Facebook: BGP, DNS and the unified bucket idea

Hindustan Times  

Those 6 hours were probably the longest for Facebook’s engineers and they must felt a lot longer for users including the small and medium businesses that rely heavily on Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram. Facebook’s chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer said in an email to employees after services had been restored, that the issue was “affecting our networking backbone that …

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Op-Ed: We are our data, our data are us
3 years, 4 months ago

Op-Ed: We are our data, our data are us

LA Times  

By one count, more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of digitized information are generated on Earth every day. The energy and resource demands of data storage and computation are enormous, and despite ever-improving efficiencies and innovations, the sheer growth of data seems to continually outpace us: The largest individual data centers in the world, tucked into the semi-arid landscape outside the …

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The online data that's being deleted
3 years, 5 months ago

The online data that's being deleted

BBC  

The online data that's being deleted Getty Images A futuristic data centre For years, we were encouraged to store our data online. “We should have real-time rights, for example to ask for data deletion, data download, or data portability – to take the data from one source to another,” argues Teemu Ropponen at MyData. “We should set aside one day …

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Construction of super collider on Moon could begin by 2070s, says CERN physicist
3 years, 5 months ago

Construction of super collider on Moon could begin by 2070s, says CERN physicist

India Today  

With the US, China, India, and Russia all headed to the Moon, the lunar surface is set to become prime real estate. While countries have proposed setting up bases on the Moon, a physicist from CERN has an even bigger proposal — to set up a Large Hadron Collider encircling the Moon. While the LHC is 27 km in circumference, …

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NHS regulators to pool intelligence to spot maternity scandals faster
3 years, 6 months ago

NHS regulators to pool intelligence to spot maternity scandals faster

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Ted Baker, the CQC’s chief inspector of hospitals, said: …

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