Internet
When the iconic US diaper company Huggies was swamped with false pedophilia allegations last month, the conspiracy was traced to a once-banned influencer reinstated to Twitter by Elon Musk.
Apr 17, 2023
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The video-sharing platform Rumble, flush with cash after a $400 million investment, is pushing toward its goal of becoming the YouTube for American conservatives, even as it faces criticism for allowing misinformation and ...
Apr 2, 2023
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Engineering
MechSE Associate Professor Kyle Smith and doctoral student Md Abdul Hamid recently published an article in the Journal of Power Sources.
Mar 21, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
In the days after Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, the social media platform saw a "surge in hateful conduct," which its then safety chief put down to a "focused, short-term trolling campaign." New research suggests ...
Mar 21, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Siri and Google Assistant may be able to schedule meetings on request, but they don't have the social understanding to independently prioritize the appointments—yet. According to researchers based in China, artificial intelligence ...
Mar 10, 2023
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Computer Sciences
A group of researchers has achieved a breakthrough in secure communications by developing an algorithm that conceals sensitive information so effectively that it is impossible to detect that anything has been hidden.
Mar 7, 2023
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Business
From Facebook's psychological experiments on unwitting users in 2014 to the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018 or the Facebook files in 2021, controversies involving the company have been numerous. Despite an increased demand ...
Mar 2, 2023
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Internet
The United Nations' educational, scientific and cultural agency chief on Wednesday called for a global dialogue to find ways to regulate social media companies and limit their role in the spreading of misinformation around ...
Feb 23, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Michal Kosinski, computational psychologist at Stanford University, has been testing several iterations of the ChatGPT AI chatbot developed by Open AI on its ability to pass the famous Theory of Mind Test. In his paper posted ...
Business
Fear of what could go wrong is the greatest motivator when it comes to getting remote workers to protect their employer's information technology security, according to a recent study in Computers & Security. But it tends ...
Jan 11, 2023
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