Consumer & Gadgets
Have you ever had the experience of browsing for an item online, only to then see ads for it everywhere? Or watching a TV program, and suddenly your phone shows you an ad related to the topic? Marketers clearly know a lot ...
Feb 7, 2023
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Business
When the investment firm BlackRock voted against an independent audit of the working conditions at Amazon's warehouses, it was relying on false and misleading information from the company, one activist group is arguing in ...
Jul 8, 2022
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Business
Taking a new approach to bringing attention to how Amazon uses individuals' data, a shareholder is suing Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy and 17 other Amazon leaders he claims knowingly allowed the company to violate state laws.
May 13, 2022
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Security
A former CIA software engineer accused of stealing a massive trove of the agency's hacking tools and handing it over to WikiLeaks was convicted of only minor charges Monday, after a jury deadlocked on the more serious espionage ...
Mar 9, 2020
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Machine learning & AI
Large Language Models (LLMs) pose a direct threat to science because of so-called "hallucinations" (untruthful responses), and should be restricted to protect scientific truth, says a new paper from leading Artificial Intelligence ...
Nov 20, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Most algorithms have probably never heard the Eagles' song, "Lyin' Eyes." Otherwise, they'd do a better job of recognizing duplicity.
Sep 5, 2019
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Internet
Up is down. Left is right. Cats are dogs. President Trump is a very stable genius. Trump is Lucifer incarnate.
Oct 4, 2019
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Internet
Instagram's "suggested" posts feature recommended anti-vaccination content to users, even as parent company Facebook intensified efforts to combat false and misleading statements about COVID-19, according to new research ...
Mar 9, 2021
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Business
More than 80 fact-checking organisations Wednesday urged online video platform YouTube to better combat disinformation, offering to help debunk false statements.
Jan 12, 2022
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Internet
Facebook has contingency plans to block some content on its platform if civil unrest breaks out after the November US election, a top executive said.
Sep 22, 2020
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