dltj, 20 days ago to random

🔖 American Airlines keeps mistaking 101-year-old passenger for baby | BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wz7pvvjypo #BookmarkShare

dltj, 1 month ago to random

🔖 How Texas will use AI to grade this year’s STAAR tests: The state will save more than $15 million by using technology similar to ChatGPT to give initial scores, reducing the number of human graders needed. The decision caught some educators by surprise https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/09/staar-artificial-intelligence-computer-grading-texas/ #BookmarkShare

raffomania, 1 month ago to fediverse

Here's my pitch for a federated bookmark manager and why it can make the indie web stronger.

https://www.rafa.ee/articles/introducing-linkblocks-federated-bookmark-manager/

#fediverse #SmallWeb #indieweb #bookmarkshare

dltj, 2 months ago to random

🔖 The British Library hack is a warning for all academic libraries: Following the release of the British Library’s cyber incident report, Simon Bowie argues that the hack was symptomatic of an under-resourced technical team and the outsourcing of key infr https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/03/19/the-british-library-hack-is-a-warning-for-all-academic-libraries/ #BookmarkShare

dltj, 2 months ago to random

🔖 How Evangelicals Use Digital Surveillance to Target the Unconverted: The hot new thing in proselytizing is an app that allows Christian conservatives to collect data on whole neighborhoods of potential converts | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/179397/evangelical-app-targeting-immigrants-surveillance #BookmarkShare

dltj, 2 months ago to random

🔖 NIST staffers revolt against expected appointment of 'effective altruist' AI researcher to US AI Safety Institute | VentureBeat https://venturebeat.com/ai/nist-staffers-revolt-against-potential-appointment-of-effective-altruist-ai-researcher-to-us-ai-safety-institute/ #BookmarkShare

dltj, 2 months ago to random

🔖 How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin: Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, "the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man." | https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ads-to-find-targets-and-vladimir-putin/ #BookmarkShare

dltj, 2 months ago to random

🔖 Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students: Facial-recognition data is typically used to prompt more vending machine sales | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/vending-machine-error-reveals-secret-face-image-database-of-college-students/ #BookmarkShare

dltj, 3 months ago to random

🔖 Woman Got Cremation Ads in the Mail After Getting Chemotherapy | 404 Media https://www.404media.co/woman-got-cremation-ads-in-the-mail-after-getting-chemotherapy/ #BookmarkShare

dltj, 3 months ago to random

🔖 What does the EU Cyber Resilience Act mean for open source? [reflections on the December 2023 version] | Bert Hubert's writings https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-what-does-it-mean-for-open-source/ #BookmarkShare

dltj, 3 months ago to random

🔖 OpenAI and Other Tech Giants Will Have to Warn the US Government When They Start New AI Projects: The Biden administration is using the Defense Production Act to require companies to inform the Commerce Department when they start training high-powered AI https://www.wired.com/story/openai-tech-giants-us-government-ai-projects/ #BookmarkShare

dltj, 4 months ago to random

🔖 Goodbye, Chrome: Google’s Web browser has become spy software— Our latest privacy experiment found Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser — in a single week. Here’s why Firefox is better | Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/21/google-chrome-has-become-surveillance-software-its-time-switch/ #BookmarkShare

dltj, 4 months ago to random

🔖 How to Opt Out of Comcast’s Xfinity Storing Your Sensitive Data: One of America’s largest internet providers may collect data about your political beliefs, race, and sexual orientation to serve personalized ads | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/comcast-xfinity-sensitive-data-opt-out/ #BookmarkShare

dltj, 4 months ago to random

🔖 State Lawmaker Tries To Ratf*ck Community-Owned Broadband Effort In Frankfort, Kentucky | Techdirt https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/19/state-lawmaker-tries-to-ratfck-community-owned-broadband-effort-in-frankfort-kentucky/ #BookmarkShare

dltj, 4 months ago to random

🔖 US verges on vaccination tipping point, faces thousands of needless deaths: Top regulatory officials call for clinicians to speak up and drown out misinformation | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/anti-vaccine-nonsense-will-likely-kill-thousands-this-season-fda-officials-say/ #BookmarkShare

dltj, 4 months ago to random

🔖 The Myth of Inevitable technological progress: They see facial recognition, smart diapers, and surveillance devices as inevitable evolutions. They’re not | Vox https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/10/1/20887003/tech-technology-evolution-natural-inevitable-ethics #BookmarkShare

dltj, 4 months ago to random

🔖 Every Major Pharmacy Chain Is Giving The Government Warrantless Access To Medical Records | Techdirt https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/28/every-major-pharmacy-chain-is-giving-the-government-warrantless-access-to-medical-records/ #BookmarkShare

dltj, 4 months ago to random

🔖 Elon Musk promised an anti-‘woke’ chatbot. It’s not going as planned: Elon Musk’s “Grok” AI is drawing complaints from conservatives, who say it’s still too liberal. Musk says he’s trying to fix it | Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/23/grok-ai-elon-musk-x-woke-bias/ #BookmarkShare

dltj, 5 months ago to random

🔖 Marketer sparks panic with claims it uses smart devices to eavesdrop on people: "Real-time" listening claims were exaggerated, but the creepy factor remains | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/no-a-marketing-firm-isnt-tapping-your-device-to-hear-private-conversations/ #BookmarkShare

dltj, 5 months ago to random

🔖 Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules: Phone-unlocking case law is "total mess," may be ripe for Supreme Court review | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/suspects-can-refuse-to-provide-phone-passcodes-to-police-court-rules/ #BookmarkShare

dltj, 5 months ago to random

🔖 Your Smart TV Knows What You’re Watching: Here’s how to turn off “automated content recognition,” the Shazam-like software on smart TVs that tracks what you’re watching | The Markup https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/12/12/your-smart-tv-knows-what-youre-watching #BookmarkShare

dltj, 5 months ago to random

🔖 Librarians turn to civil rights agency to oppose book bans and their firings | AP News https://apnews.com/article/book-bans-librarian-fired-eeoc-culture-wars-d754f186818a9b3641e8f29cb8ce16a3 #BookmarkShare

dltj, 6 months ago to random

🔖 Open-access reformers launch next bold publishing plan: The group behind Plan S has already accelerated the open-access movement. Now it is proposing a more radical revolution for science publishing | Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03342-6 #BookmarkShare

dltj, 6 months ago to random

🔖 Google Search can now help verify an image’s origins: ‘About this image’ is designed to show where on the web an image appeared in the past and how it was described to help you find the truth about its origins | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/25/23931384/google-about-this-image-context-sources-fact-checking #BookmarkShare

dltj, 7 months ago to random

🔖 Multiple paths to Open library infrastructure: Reflections on OCLC's approach to building and stewarding extensible, interoperable library infrastructure: one among multiple paths to Open | OCLC Hanging Together https://hangingtogether.org/multiple-paths-to-open-library-infrastructure/ #BookmarkShare