Musk says code for recommending tweets will be public
Twitter owner Elon Musk on Friday put out word that he will make public the long-secret algorithm for recommending tweets.
Mar 18, 2023
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Internet
News tagged with open source code
Machine learning & AI
Europeans scramble in AI race
Generative AI chatbots unveiled by US tech firms have captivated the world with their spectacular successes and failures in engaging in conversations.
Mar 1, 2023
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Software
'Protestware' is on the rise, with programmers self-sabotaging their own code. Should we be worried?
In March 2022, the author of node-ipc, a software library with over a million weekly downloads, deliberately broke their code. If the code discovers it is running within Russia or Belarus, it attempts to replace the contents ...
Sep 28, 2022
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Internet
Study finds toxicity in the open-source community varies from other internet forums
Trolls, haters, flamers and other ugly characters are, unfortunately, a fact of life across much of the internet. Their ugliness ruins social media networks and sites like Reddit and Wikipedia.
Jun 28, 2022
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Internet
This tool protects your private data while you browse
A team of computer scientists at the University of California San Diego and Brave Software have developed a tool that will increase protections for users' private data while they browse the web.
Nov 18, 2021
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Business
World Wide Web source code NFT sells for $5.4 mn
Tim Berners-Lee's source code for the World Wide Web sold Wednesday for $5.4 million in the form of non-fungible token (NFT).
Jul 1, 2021
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Internet
Researchers reveal link between cryptocurrency coding and market behavior
A new study by Reader in City's Department of Mathematics, Dr. Andrea Baronchelli, published in the Science Advances journal, has revealed a connection between the coding of cryptocurrencies and their market behavior.
Dec 18, 2020
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Software
New tool detects unsafe security practices in Android apps
Computer scientists at Columbia Engineering have shown for the first time that it is possible to analyze how thousands of Android apps use cryptography without needing to have the apps' actual codes. The team's new tool, ...
Nov 9, 2020
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Security
Crowdsourcing challenge to de-identify public safety data sets
The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a crowdsourcing challenge to spur new methods to ensure that important public safety data sets can be de-identified to protect ...
Oct 2, 2020
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Computer Sciences
Blockchain to the rescue of small publishers
As Australian book publishers grapple with global disruption, digital technologies, and economic uncertainty, QUT researchers are looking at how blockchain technology can help them survive and thrive.
Jun 2, 2020
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