1: Spotify and Joe Rogan (21 items)
- 2022-01-12 - Techmeme: Over 260 health professionals tell Spotify to implement a misinformation policy, after a Joe Rogan Experience episode featured a discredited scientist (Justin Hendrix/Tech Policy Press)
- 2022-01-27 - Spotify Takes Down Neil Young’s Music After His Joe Rogan Ultimatum - WSJ
- 2022-01-27 - Techmeme: Spotify is removing Neil Young's music after he gave the company an ultimatum between his music and Joe Rogan's podcast with COVID-19 vaccine misinformation (Anne Steele/Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-01-28 - Techmeme: Internal messages detail Spotify's lax health content policy, as staff are told multiple Joe Rogan podcast episodes “didn't meet the threshold for removal” (Ashley Carman/The Verge)
- 2022-01-30 - Techmeme: Spotify publishes its long-standing Platform Rules and says it is working to add a content advisory to podcast episodes that include a discussion about COVID-19 (Daniel Ek/Spotify)
- 2022-01-31 - Spotify shares rebound after Joe Rogan apology, Citigroup upgrade | Reuters
- 2022-01-31 - Spotify responds to Joe Rogan issue - Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech
- 2022-01-31 - Spotify finally breaks silence about why it chose Joe Rogan over Singer Neil Young and explains its decision to let Joe Rogan remain on its platform | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-02-01 - Spotify’s Joe Rogan Problem Isn’t Going Away - The New York Times
- 2022-02-01 - Joe Rogan, Spotify CEO respond to boycotts - Axios
- 2022-02-01 - Doctors Sign Open Letter Targeting Spotify, Joe Rogan’s Show – Deadline
- 2022-02-01 - White House urges Spotify to do MORE to 'combat misinformation' amid Joe Rogan backlash | Daily Mail Online
- 2022-02-03 - Techmeme: Sources: in a Spotify staff meeting, CEO Daniel Ek said the company sees itself as a platform for, not a publisher of, Joe Rogan's podcast (Los Angeles Times)
- 2022-02-03 - Techmeme: Audio: Daniel Ek says Spotify needs exclusives for leverage to land deals with Amazon, Google, and others, and he finds many things Rogan says “very offensive” (Ashley Carman/The Verge)
- 2022-02-05 - Techmeme: Source: Spotify took down episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience at Rogan's request; all the removed episodes were recorded before he signed a deal with Spotify (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
- 2022-02-07 - Spotify CEO apologizes but backs Joe Rogan
- 2022-02-07 - Spotify Removes 70 Episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast
- 2022-02-07 - Techmeme: Spotify CEO addresses Rogan controversy in email to staff, commits $100M to licensing, development, marketing of content from historically marginalized groups (J. Clara Chan/The Hollywood Reporter)
- 2022-02-11 - Dr. Robert Malone breaks silence on Joe Rogan-Spotify saga: "It's about power and money. The top owners of Spotify is also the top owner of Moderna" | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-03-28 - Techmeme: Spotify rolls out an advisory for content that mentions COVID-19, two months after promising the feature amid controversy over Joe Rogan's podcast (Jessica Bursztynsky/CNBC)
- 2022-06-14 - Techmeme: Spotify announces a Safety Advisory Council to provide non-binding third-party input on issues such as hate speech, disinformation, and extremism (Dawn Chmielewski/Reuters)
2: AI generated art (19 items)
- 2022-08-31 - An AI-Generated Artwork Won First Place at a State Fair Fine Arts Competition, and Artists Are Pissed
- 2022-09-01 - Artwork generated using AI software Midjourney won a state competition - The Verge
- 2022-09-01 - AI artwork wins art competition and artists are upset
- 2022-09-01 - Techmeme: An artist using Midjourney to create AI-generated art won first place at Colorado State Fair's fine art competition, leading to criticism by other artists (Matthew Gault/VICE)
- 2022-09-02 - AI wins state fair art contest, annoys humans | Ars Technica
- 2022-09-02 - AI generated painting wins at art competition, Twitter calls it ‘death of artistry’
- 2022-09-02 - AI-generated artwork takes first place at Colorado State Fair | 9news.com
- 2022-09-02 - AI-Generated Art Won a Prize. Artists Aren’t Happy. - The New York Times
- 2022-09-03 - Colorado State Fair Competition Names An Unlikely Winner: AI-Made Artwork | HuffPost Weird News
- 2022-09-03 - Artificial intelligence used to create 1st place winner at Colorado State Fair - CBS Colorado
- 2022-09-04 - AI won an art contest, and artists are furious
- 2022-09-04 - Artificial intelligence artwork wins 1st place at Colorado State Fair, causing controversy - CBS Colorado
- 2022-09-05 - AI-generated artwork wins US competition, angers art community
- 2022-09-06 - Art Made With Artificial Intelligence Wins at State Fair | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
- 2022-09-08 - AI wins art prize – and artists aren’t happy | Information Age | ACS
- 2022-09-11 - AI artist who won competition says art world is 'in denial' about the tech | PC Gamer
- 2022-09-13 - An AI-Generated Artwork Won First Place at a State Fair Fine Arts Competition, and Artists Are Pissed - VICE
- 2022-09-28 - This AI art exhibition is bound to create controversy | Creative Bloq
- 2022-12-20 - No to AI generated images: ArtStation protest explained - Dataconomy
3: Russia and YouTube (13 items)
- 2022-02-25 - Techmeme: Google is under pressure to remove or cut commercial ties with some prolific pro-Russian YouTube channels; pro-Kremlin broadcasters are popular on the platform (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
- 2022-02-26 - Techmeme: YouTube says it is pausing ad monetization for RT and some other Russian channels, and blocks their access in Ukraine in response to “a government request” (Paresh Dave/Reuters)
- 2022-02-27 - Techmeme: Russia's regulator tells Alphabet to remove all restrictions on Russian-language YouTube channels of media outlets RBC, TV Zvezda, and Sputnik in Ukraine (Alexander Marrow/Reuters)
- 2022-03-01 - Google joins YouTube, Meta, Twitter in restricting Russian state media ads
- 2022-03-01 - Techmeme: YouTube will block Kremlin-backed RT and Sputnik in Europe, following similar bans by Meta and TikTok, citing the Ukraine invasion (Mark Scott/Politico)
- 2022-03-04 - Google suspends all ad sales in Russia as censorship demands grow | Reuters
- 2022-03-04 - Russia Demands Google Block ‘False’ Ads About Ukraine War
- 2022-03-11 - Techmeme: YouTube says it is blocking access to YouTube channels associated with Russian state-funded media globally, expanding from across Europe (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)
- 2022-03-11 - Techmeme: [Thread]: YouTube says it is blocking access to YouTube channels associated with Russian state-funded media globally, expanding from across Europe (@youtubeinsider)
- 2022-03-23 - Techmeme: Google says it will bar ads from appearing next to websites, apps and YouTube channels that exploit, dismiss or condone the Russia-Ukraine war (Paresh Dave/Reuters)
- 2022-04-09 - Techmeme: Russian officials warn that YouTube could face restrictions after it blocked Duma TV, which broadcasts from Russia's lower house of parliament (Reuters)
- 2022-07-18 - Techmeme: Russia fines Google $358M for not censoring topics including the war with Ukraine, after Google's Russian subsidiary filed for bankruptcy earlier this year (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
- 2022-08-08 - Techmeme: Despite YouTube suspending hundreds of Kremlin-linked channels, Russia has yet to ban the service, some argue because the Kremlin views it as too big to block (Wall Street Journal)
4: DeepMind and nuclear fusion (23 items)
- 2022-02-16 - DeepMind Has Trained an AI to Control Nuclear Fusion | WIRED
- 2022-02-16 - Fusion power: DeepMind uses AI to control plasma inside tokamak reactor | New Scientist
- 2022-02-16 - DeepMind applies AI to controlling nuclear fusion reactors | VentureBeat
- 2022-02-17 - DeepMind's AI used in nuclear fusion
- 2022-02-18 - DeepMind's AI helps confine plasma for nuclear fusion research
- 2022-02-18 - Google's DeepMind AI is now able to control a nuclear fusion reactor | TweakTown
- 2022-02-19 - DeepMind scientists trained an A.I. to control nuclear fusion
- 2022-02-19 - Google's AI sibling DeepMind controls plasma shapes for nuclear fusion | ZDNet
- 2022-02-19 - Explained: What is Google's DeepMind and how is it being used in nuclear fusion- Technology News, Firstpost
- 2022-02-21 - Physics Breakthrough as AI Successfully Controls Plasma in Nuclear Fusion Experiment
- 2022-02-21 - DeepMind keeps plasma fusion reactor under control
- 2022-02-21 - 'Breakthrough in Physics': Artificial Intelligence successfully controls plasma in nuclear fusion experiment, Science News | wionews.com
- 2022-02-21 - Artificial Intelligence-controlled plasma in nuclear fusion experiment is hailed as ‘breakthrough in Physics’
- 2022-02-22 - DeepMind Working on Nuclear Fusion Plasma
- 2022-02-28 - DeepMind AI: Accelerating Fusion Science Through Learned Plasma Control
- 2022-03-01 - Swiss Plasma Center and DeepMind Use AI To Control Plasmas for Nuclear Fusion
- 2022-03-02 - First AI controls plasma inside fusion reactor
- 2022-03-04 - Nuclear fusion is one step closer with new AI breakthrough | Live Science
- 2022-03-08 - Nuclear fusion is one step closer with new AI breakthrough | Space
- 2022-05-11 - DeepMind Trains AI Controller for Nuclear Fusion Research Device
- 2022-05-19 - DeepMind Has Trained an AI to Control Nuclear Fusion | WIRED
- 2022-11-02 - AI to Be Used to Develop Nuclear Fusion Energy
- 2022-12-26 - Google backed firm DeepMind trained AI to control nuclear fusion reaction - TechStory
5: Soft Robotics (38 items)
- 2022-02-24 - Team develops fingertip sensitivity for robots
- 2022-02-24 - Fingertip sensitivity for robots -- ScienceDaily
- 2022-02-26 - Sensitive robot ‘thumb’ uses computer vision to ‘feel’ touch
- 2022-02-28 - Fingertip sensitivity for robots: A soft thumb-sized vision-based sensor with accurate all-round force perception
- 2022-03-07 - Scientists Bring Extreme Fingertip Sensitivity to Robots - Unite.AI
- 2022-04-05 - Touchy subject: 3D printed fingertip 'feels' like human skin
- 2022-04-07 - Touchy subject: 3D printed fingertip ‘feels’ like human skin - Robohub
- 2022-04-11 - Artificial fingertip with ‘human-like’ sense of touch could improve robots and prosthetics | Euronews
- 2022-05-04 - Soft assistive robotic wearables get a boost from rapid design tool
- 2022-05-09 - Scientists are developing a robot with electronic HAIRS that mimic the natural touch of human skin | Daily Mail Online
- 2022-06-01 - Artificial skin capable of feeling pain could lead to new generation of touch-sensitive robots
- 2022-06-09 - Scientists craft living human skin for robots
- 2022-06-09 - Scientists craft living human skin for robots -- ScienceDaily
- 2022-06-11 - Biomimetic elastomeric robot skin has tactile sensing abilities
- 2022-06-12 - Scientists wrap robotic finger with 'living human skin' that can heal itself - ABC News
- 2022-06-13 - Robot skin heals | The University of Tokyo
- 2022-06-21 - Scientists Used Human Cells to Make Self-Healing 'Living Skin' for Robots
- 2022-07-15 - A deformable pump gives soft robots a 'heart' to mimic the biology of animals
- 2022-07-23 - Engineers Give Soft Robots a Heart - Unite.AI
- 2022-08-05 - Smart microrobots learn how to swim and navigate with artificial intelligence
- 2022-08-05 - Stretchy computing device feels like skin—but | EurekAlert!
- 2022-08-05 - Smart microrobots learn how to swim and navigate with artificial intelligence: The AI-powered swimmer is able to switch between different locomotory gaits adaptively to navigate toward any target location on its own -- ScienceDaily
- 2022-08-16 - Scientists grew living human skin around a robotic finger | Science News
- 2022-08-17 - Artificial intelligence teaches microrobots how to swim | Technology
- 2022-09-21 - Smart microrobots walk autonomously with electronic 'brains'
- 2022-09-26 - Brains on board: Smart microrobots walk autonomously | Cornell Chronicle
- 2022-09-26 - UC San Diego's electronics-free soft robot only needs pressurized air to move | Engadget
- 2022-10-02 - Researchers Create New Control Systems for Soft Robots - Unite.AI
- 2022-10-17 - Smart shirt could detect, and one day treat, fatal wounds
- 2022-11-26 - Experimental "smart" bandage speeds healing by zapping chronic wounds
- 2022-11-26 - This manta ray-inspired soft robot flies through the water • TechCrunch
- 2022-11-26 - ‘Butterfly Bot’ is Fastest Swimming Soft Robot Yet | NC State News
- 2022-12-05 - Chronic Wounds Heal Quicker with Smart Bandages
- 2022-12-08 - Soft robot detects damage, heals itself -- ScienceDaily
- 2022-12-09 - A New Soft Robot Is Able to Spot Injuries and Self-Heal | Psychology Today
- 2022-12-10 - Soft robot detects damage and heals itself - Technology Org
- 2022-12-16 - Soft robots gain new strength and make virtual reality gloves feel more real - Robohub
- 2022-12-16 - Soft Robot Detects Damage and Heals Itself - Unite.AI
6: Chess Robot Breaks 7-Year-Old Opponent's Finger (10 items)
- 2022-07-24 - Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of seven-year-old opponent | Chess | The Guardian
- 2022-07-24 - Watch: chess-playing robot grabs child opponent's finger and breaks it | TechSpot
- 2022-07-24 - Chess Robot Breaks Child Opponent's Finger (Video) - TechnoPixel
- 2022-07-24 - AI gone wrong? Chess robot breaks child's finger at Russia tournament | Mint
- 2022-07-24 - Chess robot breaks seven-year-old opponent’s finger after malfunction - Sportstar
- 2022-07-25 - Chess-playing robot grabs and breaks finger of 7-year-old opponent | Washington Examiner
- 2022-07-25 - Robot grabs and breaks finger of 7-year-old opponent during chess tournament
- 2022-07-25 - Chess-Playing Robot Breaks 7-Year-Old Opponent’s Finger at Moscow Tournament – NBC New York
- 2022-07-26 - Chess-playing robot broke the finger of its seven-year-old opponent | Mashable
- 2022-07-26 - Chess robot breaks young boy's finger during match in Moscow
7: New U.S. curbs on exports to China of chip-making technology (61 items)
- 2022-04-26 - America has a plan to throttle Chinese chipmakers | The Economist
- 2022-08-02 - Techmeme: The Chips and Science Act bars companies that get US federal funding from adding production of advanced chips in China, impacting Intel, TSMC, and others (Bloomberg)
- 2022-08-16 - US blocks China's access to advanced chip design software - Protocol
- 2022-08-31 - U.S. officials order Nvidia to halt sales of top AI chips to China | Reuters
- 2022-08-31 - Nvidia, AMD warned of new US export restrictions on AI chips - Protocol
- 2022-08-31 - Nvidia Says US Order Restricts Sales of AI Chips to China - CNET
- 2022-08-31 - Techmeme: Nvidia and AMD say the US imposed export restrictions on chips used for AI applications to Russia and China, affecting chips like Nvidia's A100 and AMD's MI200 (Max A. Cherney/Protocol)
- 2022-09-01 - AI chips: Nvidia and AMD to stop selling some technology to China - CNN
- 2022-09-01 - US chip makers hit by new China export rule - BBC News
- 2022-09-01 - US restricts exports of advanced AI chips to China and Russia - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-09-01 - US bans Nvidia and AMD from exporting high-end chips to China - Techzine Europe
- 2022-09-01 - U.S. export ban on some advanced AI chips to hit almost all China tech majors - analysts | Reuters
- 2022-09-01 - China opposes U.S. move barring Nvidia from selling it high-end chips | Reuters
- 2022-09-01 - US orders tech firm to halt sales of artificial intelligence chips to China
- 2022-09-01 - Nvidia says U.S. government allows A.I. chip development in China
- 2022-09-01 - U.S. Restricts Sales of Sophisticated Chips to China and Russia - The New York Times
- 2022-09-01 - Nvidia Stock Tumbles As US Bans AI Chip Exports To China Clients - TheStreet
- 2022-09-02 - U.S. Blocks AI Chip Exports to China | Flipboard
- 2022-09-02 - US restricts sales of AI Chips to China
- 2022-09-02 - US asks tech giant to stop export of AI chip to China, Beijing opposes move - Hindustan Times
- 2022-09-02 - Explainer: Biden's curbs on chips to China part of broader effort | Reuters
- 2022-09-02 - Fresh US chip export restrictions to curb China homegrown IC development
- 2022-09-02 - US bans export of artificial intelligence-related chips to China fearing misuse - Arabian Business
- 2022-09-02 - With new China AI chip restrictions, U.S. takes aim at a critical niche
- 2022-09-03 - New U.S. curbs on sales of Nvidia AI chips to China spark selloff | Reuters
- 2022-09-03 - New US curbs on sales of Nvidia AI chips to China spark selloff | Business Standard News
- 2022-09-04 - AI chips: Nvidia and AMD to stop selling some technology to China - CNN
- 2022-09-06 - Techmeme: Chinese government tenders show important institutions, such as Tsinghua University, rely on AI chips from Nvidia and AMD, which are now under US export limits (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
- 2022-09-06 - Analysis: Banned U.S. AI chips in high demand at Chinese state institutes | Reuters
- 2022-09-06 - Analysis-Banned US AI chips in high demand at Chinese state institutes - CNA
- 2022-09-08 - Nvidia AI chip export ban expected to impact U.S.-China AI race | VentureBeat
- 2022-09-12 - Tech & Science Daily: Biden to hit China with chip curbs over AI fears | Evening Standard
- 2022-09-12 - Techmeme: Sources: Biden admin plans more curbs on US shipments to China of chipmaking tools and chips for AI, affecting Lam Research, Applied Materials, KLA Corp, others (Reuters)
- 2022-09-12 - Report: US to place new restrictions on chip technology exports to China - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-09-12 - Exclusive: Biden to hit China with broader curbs on U.S. chip and tool exports | Reuters
- 2022-09-12 - Biden to hit China with broader curbs on U.S. chip and tool exports: Reuters
- 2022-09-12 - US to ramp up restrictions on semiconductor exports to China: report | The Hill
- 2022-09-12 - Biden to hit China with broader curbs on US chip and tool exports - BusinessToday
- 2022-09-16 - AI chips thrive in Silicon Valley despite China restrictions - Protocol
- 2022-10-03 - Techmeme: Sources: the US will likely announce new measures as soon as this week restricting several Chinese companies and research labs from using advanced US chip tech (New York Times)
- 2022-10-07 - Biden Administration Clamps Down on China’s Access to Chip Technology - The New York Times
- 2022-10-07 - Techmeme: The Biden administration issues sweeping new rules significantly expanding the limits on exports of chips and chipmaking tools to China (Max A. Cherney/Protocol)
- 2022-10-07 - US places new restrictions on chip technology sales to China - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-10-07 - US issues sweeping restrictions on chip sales to China - The Verge
- 2022-10-08 - China responds angrily after US announces chip export restrictions - World News
- 2022-10-08 - U.S. Restricts Semiconductor Exports in Bid to Slow China’s Military Advance - WSJ
- 2022-10-08 - China says U.S. semiconductor export restrictions will backfire - UPI.com
- 2022-10-09 - US tightens chip export controls to China | Nation
- 2022-10-09 - China Says Biden’s New Chip Technology Curbs Will Harm Recovery
- 2022-10-10 - U.S. aims to hobble China's chip industry with sweeping new export rules | Reuters
- 2022-10-13 - US Chip Sanctions ‘Kneecap’ China’s Tech Industry | WIRED
- 2022-10-13 - Biden Seeks to 'Kneecap' China's Tech Industry With Chip Export Ban | Flipboard
- 2022-10-14 - US sanctions on Chinese semiconductors ‘decapitate’ industry, experts say
- 2022-10-17 - Techmeme: Analysis: why the Biden administration's sweeping export controls on China's chip sector happened now and how they could usher in a new global economic paradigm (Noah Smith/Noahpinion)
- 2022-10-19 - Techmeme: ASML, the Dutch company that makes chip making equipment, expects US restrictions on exporting high-end chips to China to have “limited” impact on its business (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
- 2022-10-23 - Why U.S tech controls on China, could end up hurting American semiconductors
- 2022-10-24 - Joe Biden Quietly Crushes China's Tech Ambitions
- 2022-11-07 - Biden’s ban on semiconductor exports to China, explained - Vox
- 2022-11-08 - Nvidia's new chip to address U.S. export rules to China should help blunt lost sales risk
- 2022-11-26 - Techmeme: An in-depth look at the US sanctions on China's chipmakers and worries over their impact on inflation and rising costs for Western manufacturers and customers (June Yoon/Financial Times)
- 2022-12-08 - Techmeme: Sources: Dutch officials plan new controls on exporting chipmaking equipment to China as soon as January, potentially impacting ASML, following US curbs (Bloomberg)
8: Brain-controlled prosthetics (22 items)
- 2022-02-07 - Scientists engineer human spinal cord implants to make paralyzed mice walk again
- 2022-02-07 - Paraplegic man walks again thanks to electronic implant in spine
- 2022-02-07 - These spinal cord implants allow paralyzed patients to stand, walk, and even swim and cycle
- 2022-02-07 - Paralysed men stand, walk and swim again thanks to new implant | Evening Standard
- 2022-02-08 - Implant allows patients with paralysis to walk and swim | The Engineer The Engineer
- 2022-02-14 - Nerve-stimulation device helps paralyzed patients walk, cycle and swim | Reuters
- 2022-02-16 - Blackrock’s Brain Implant BCI Lets Paralysis Patients Move and Feel | Observer
- 2022-02-18 - A Spinal Cord Implant Allowed Paralyzed People to Walk in Just One Day
- 2022-03-03 - New implant offers promise for the paralyzed - Robohub
- 2022-03-25 - Paralysed man uses brain implant to communicate first words in three months: ‘I want a beer’ | The Independent
- 2022-03-25 - ‘I want a beer’: Paralysed man communicates first words in months using brain implant
- 2022-03-25 - Paralysed man uses brain implant to communicate first words in three months: ‘I want a beer’ | The Independent
- 2022-05-17 - Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Arm Uses Artificial Intelligence (VIDEO)
- 2022-05-20 - Scientists develop real-life mind controllable robotic hand using AI
- 2022-06-03 - This technology allows amputees to move robotic arms using their mind
- 2022-07-09 - A high school student built a prosthetic arm he controls with his mind. Using AI?
- 2022-11-04 - Paralyzed patients can now connect their iPhones to their brains to type messages using thoughts alone
- 2022-11-09 - Electrical stimulation helps paralysed people walk again — and now we know why
- 2022-11-11 - Implant helps paralyzed patients spell with brain signals | Popular Science
- 2022-11-19 - With Training, People in Mind-Controlled Wheelchairs Can Navigate Normal, Cluttered Spaces - Neuroscience News
- 2022-11-21 - Training can help tetraplegic users to operate mind-controlled wheelchairs in natural, cluttered spaces
- 2022-11-22 - Paralyzed Patients Can Operate Mind-Controlled Wheelchair | Technology Networks
9: Clearview AI (29 items)
- 2022-02-17 - Clearview AI predicts 100 billion photos will give it worldwide facial recognition ability - The Washington Post
- 2022-02-22 - Clearview, the controversial facial-recognition AI startup that uses social media photos to build a biometric database, seeks its first big deals with federal agencies | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-02-26 - Facial recognition company Clearview AI seeks first big deals, discloses research chief
- 2022-03-08 - Clearview AI commercialization of facial recognition raises concerns, risks | CSO Online
- 2022-03-10 - Facial recognition: Italian SA fines Clearview AI EUR 20 million | European Data Protection Board
- 2022-03-13 - Techmeme: Clearview AI's CEO says that Ukraine has started using the company's service for free to identify Russian troops, combat misinformation, and identify the dead (Reuters)
- 2022-03-14 - Ukraine has started using Clearview AI’s facial recognition during war
- 2022-03-14 - Ukraine begins using controversial Clearview AI's facial recognition to ID Russians and the dead | Euronews
- 2022-03-14 - Ukraine is using Clearview's controversial AI facial recognition during war; the company already has 2 billion images from Russian social media in its database | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-03-15 - Exclusive: Ukraine has started using Clearview AI’s facial recognition during war | Reuters
- 2022-03-24 - Ukraine Starts Using Facial Recognition To Identify Dead Russians And Tell Their Relatives
- 2022-03-24 - Ukraine uses facial recognition to identify dead Russian soldiers, minister says | Reuters
- 2022-03-28 - Ukraine is using Clearview facial ID on dead Russian soldiers
- 2022-04-15 - Ukraine Reportedly Using Facial Recognition to Send Photos of Dead Russian Soldiers to Their Mothers
- 2022-05-09 - Techmeme: Clearview AI reaches a settlement with the ACLU by agreeing to stop selling or offering free access to its facial recognition database to most US businesses (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)
- 2022-05-09 - Face-scanner Clearview agrees to limits in court settlement | AP News
- 2022-05-10 - Clearview AI Settles Suit and Agrees to Limits on Facial Recognition Database - The New York Times
- 2022-05-10 - Clearview AI to stop selling its controversial facial recognition technology to US firms - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-05-10 - Facial-recognition startup Clearview AI agrees to restrictions in court settlement - MarketWatch
- 2022-05-10 - Facial recognition company Clearview AI agrees to restrict sale of database in settlement - CBS News
- 2022-05-12 - Clearview AI banned from selling facial recognition data in the US | Malwarebytes Labs
- 2022-05-13 - Clearview AI Banned From Selling Facial Recognition to Private Businesses
- 2022-05-24 - Clearview AI ordered to delete facial recognition data belonging to UK residents - The Verge
- 2022-05-24 - Facial recognition company Clearview AI fined £7.5m for illegally using images of Brits scraped from online | Science & Tech News | Sky News
- 2022-05-24 - Techmeme: Clearview AI expands sales by offering private companies and organizations a facial recognition tool allegedly using data collected with subjects' permission (Paresh Dave/Reuters)
- 2022-05-24 - UK orders facial recognition firm Clearview AI to delete images belonging to UK residents | Euronews
- 2022-10-06 - AI Act: EU Parliament’s discussions heat up over facial recognition, scope – EURACTIV.com
- 2022-11-16 - Worrying loophole in Italy’s facial recognition alludes to EU’s future
- 2022-11-21 - Italy outlaws facial recognition tech, except to fight crime | Reuters
10: Advanced AI may already be conscious (12 items)
- 2022-02-10 - OpenAI Chief Scientist Says Advanced AI May Already Be Conscious
- 2022-02-11 - Researchers Furious Over Claim That AI Is Already Conscious
- 2022-02-12 - OpenAI top scientist says AI might already be conscious. Researchers respond furiously
- 2022-02-12 - Artificial Intelligence expert warns that there may already be a 'slightly conscious' AI | Daily Mail Online
- 2022-02-14 - AI networks may already be 'slightly conscious', claims expert - Mirror Online
- 2022-02-14 - OPENAI chief scientist says advanced AI may already be conscious
- 2022-02-14 - Artificial Intelligence 'Slightly Conscious', OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever Claims; Other Experts Disagreed | Science Times
- 2022-02-16 - Scientist says today's neural networks may be "slightly conscious", sparks debate among experts in the field
- 2022-02-18 - Artificial intelligence may already be ‘slightly conscious’, AI scientists warn | The Independent
- 2022-02-19 - Scientist Claims AI May Already Be Conscious
- 2022-02-19 - Artificial intelligence may already be ‘slightly conscious’, AI scientists warn
- 2022-06-12 - OpenAI Chief Scientist Says Advanced AI May Already Be Conscious
11: 5G (29 items)
- 2022-01-01 - Techmeme: US Transportation Secretary and head of FAA ask AT&T and Verizon to delay new 5G deployments, planned for January 5, over aviation safety concerns (David Shepardson/Reuters)
- 2022-01-02 - AT&T and Verizon CEOs reject further 5G wireless rollout delay - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-01-02 - Techmeme: AT&T and Verizon reject the US Transportation Secretary's and FAA's request to delay rolling out new 5G services near airports, but may pause some deployments (Bloomberg)
- 2022-01-04 - AT&T and Verizon Agree to New Delay of 5G Rollout - WSJ
- 2022-01-04 - Techmeme: AT&T and Verizon agree to delay the launch of their upgraded 5G networks for two weeks over aviation safety concerns from the FAA and the airline industry (David Lumb/CNET)
- 2022-01-15 - 5G won't interfere with airliners, say UK and EU regulators • The Register
- 2022-01-18 - U.S. airline CEOs warn of 'catastrophic' disruption from 5G rollout
- 2022-01-18 - Techmeme: AT&T and Verizon temporarily restrict 5G expansion plans near US airports, but a few airlines will still suspend some flights Wednesday amid Boeing guidance (Drew FitzGerald/Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-01-19 - 5G technology: Airlines suspend some US flights over deployment issue - CNN
- 2022-01-19 - Techmeme: AT&T begins its 5G rollout in Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Chicago, Detroit, Jacksonville, Orlando, and South Florida, after delaying it near airports (Emma Roth/The Verge)
- 2022-01-23 - Techmeme: How longstanding disagreements between the FCC and FAA over potential risks to aircraft remained unresolved in the lead up to the 5G C-band rollout in the US (Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-01-26 - America's embarrassing 5G rollout highlights tech policy shortcomings | TheHill
- 2022-01-28 - Techmeme: The FAA says it has reached a deal with Verizon and AT&T to let them expand their networks near airports while allowing aircraft to land safely (Niraj Chokshi/New York Times)
- 2022-01-30 - Techmeme: Filings and interviews with decision makers and legal experts reveal bureaucracy with competing mandates at the FAA and FCC caused the 5G launch blowup (Brian Fung/CNN)
- 2022-02-03 - Leaders React to 5G Spectrum Auction Announcement in Union Budget 2022-23
- 2022-03-04 - Techmeme: Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile have spent $118.4B on 5G airwaves and network upgrades, compared to $61.8B spent on 4G, but have little to no revenue to show for it (Bloomberg)
- 2022-05-30 - 5G spectrum auction: India commences groundwork for 5G spectrum auction, to introduce services by 2022-23, Telecom News, ET Telecom
- 2022-06-18 - Techmeme: The US FAA says Verizon and AT&T have voluntarily agreed to delay some C-Band 5G usage until July 2023 as airlines retrofit some airplane radio altimeters (David Shepardson/Reuters)
- 2022-06-19 - 5G Deployment In 20-25 Cities By Year-End: Ashwini Vaishnaw
- 2022-07-07 - Next gen 5G rollout to rise sharply | Mobile | News | Rapid TV News
- 2022-07-07 - 5G-Advanced to be launched in 2025: ABI Research
- 2022-07-12 - Techmeme: A look at the dispute between satellite internet operators like SpaceX and 5G operators like Dish, with each party lobbying the FCC over the 12 GHz band rules (Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-07-14 - 75% of 5G Base Stations to be Upgraded to 5G-Advanced by 2030, says ABI Research
- 2022-08-29 - Techmeme: Reliance Jio, which has 421M subscribers, says it will spend $25B to launch a 5G service in October and plans to expand to “every town” in India by end of 2023 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
- 2022-10-03 - Firms boost 5G budgets on likely demand, better investment returns | Mint
- 2022-11-22 - 5G bid sets stage for telecoms’ future - Businessday NG
- 2022-11-23 - Techmeme: A look at the 5G network challenges faced by telecom operators, including intense competition, tapering consumer demand, and sufficiency of 4G speeds (Anna Gross/Financial Times)
- 2022-12-01 - As global 5G connections reach 1 billion, telecom operators switch from 2G | Naija News
- 2022-12-23 - Airtel rolls out 5G services in Pune; check out locations where it is available | Technology
12: Truth Social (24 items)
- 2022-01-10 - Trump’s Truth Social not likely to launch for months - The Washington Post
- 2022-02-17 - Techmeme: Sources: Trump's Truth Social app has opened to around 500 beta testers, one year after Trump was banned from major social networks (Helen Coster/Reuters)
- 2022-02-20 - Techmeme: A look at challenges facing Trump's upcoming Truth Social app, including finding users willing to leave mainstream apps, competition from Gettr and Parler, more (New York Times)
- 2022-02-21 - Techmeme: Trump Media & Technology Group launches Truth Social in the US App Store; some users received error messages or were placed on a waitlist when signing up (Queenie Wong/CNET)
- 2022-02-21 - Trump's TRUTH Social app launches on Apple App Store as he returns back to social media | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-02-21 - Truth Social: Trump social media app debuts, but early glitches prevent some new users - Washington Times
- 2022-02-22 - Truth Social launches in App Store but still puts users on waitlist - Axios
- 2022-02-22 - Donald Trump’s social media app Truth Social debuts today in rocky start - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-02-23 - Techmeme: Trump's Truth Social has been almost entirely inaccessible in its first days due to technical glitches, a 13-hour outage, and 300,000-person waitlist (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)
- 2022-03-02 - Techmeme: Nine days after the launch of Truth Social, valued at $3.5B+, Trump has not posted, the app has fallen to #57 in US App Store, and many remain on the waitlist (Dan Primack/Axios)
- 2022-04-04 - Techmeme: Sources: Truth Social's CTO Josh Adams and product chief Billy Boozer have quit, following a troubled launch for the Trump-backed social network (Reuters)
- 2022-04-05 - Exclusive: Two key tech execs quit Truth Social after troubled app launch | Reuters
- 2022-04-05 - Trump's Truth Social app branded a disaster - BBC News
- 2022-04-05 - Two top executives resign from Trump’s Truth Social app after disastrous start - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-04-26 - Trump is blowing Truth Social's launch
- 2022-04-29 - Techmeme: Donald Trump posted a message on Truth Social for the first time since it launched two months ago, saying “I'M BACK!”; messages are called “truths” on the app (Reuters)
- 2022-05-16 - Techmeme: DWAC SEC filing details Donald Trump's commitments to Truth Social, including posting there first and waiting six hours before posting to Twitter or elsewhere (Jessica Bursztynsky/CNBC)
- 2022-06-28 - Techmeme: A deep dive on Truth Social's struggles, as the social network flails in its efforts to build a competitive platform while alienating tech talent and partners (Reuters)
- 2022-08-23 - Trump's Truth Social app gains more users after FBI's Mar-a-Lago search
- 2022-08-30 - Scoop: Truth Social's Google Play Store holdup
- 2022-08-30 - Techmeme: Google says it has yet to approve Truth Social's app for the Play Store due to insufficient content moderation; CEO Nunes said the decision was “up to Google” (Sara Fischer/Axios)
- 2022-10-12 - Techmeme: Sources: Google approved Truth Social in the Google Play Store after the app updated its content moderation policies in response to being denied in August 2022 (Sara Fischer/Axios)
- 2022-11-07 - Techmeme: Sources: Donald Trump tells allies that he can't leave Truth Social for Twitter because he's propping it up and doesn't want the brand to collapse (Washington Post)
- 2022-11-20 - Techmeme: Donald Trump says he sees “a lot of problems at Twitter”, doesn't see any reason to return, and plans to stick to Truth Social (Mark Niquette/Bloomberg)
13: Elon Musk confirms he will resign as CEO of Twitter (15 items)
- 2022-05-05 - Techmeme: Sources: Elon Musk is expected to serve as the temporary CEO of Twitter after his acquisition (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
- 2022-05-05 - Elon Musk expected to be temporary Twitter CEO after deal closes, report | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-10-28 - Techmeme: Source: Elon Musk plans to become Twitter CEO after completing his $44B acquisition and reverse lifetime bans, but may eventually cede the role (Bloomberg)
- 2022-10-28 - Techmeme: Sources: Elon Musk is now in charge of Twitter; CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal have left the company's San Francisco headquarters and will not be returning (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
- 2022-10-28 - Techmeme: Sources: Elon Musk takes over Twitter, and has fired several top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and policy head Vijaya Gadde (Washington Post)
- 2022-10-30 - Techmeme: Source: Elon Musk fired top Twitter executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal, “for cause”, in an apparent attempt to avoid severance and unvested stock payouts (Martin Peers/The Information)
- 2022-11-01 - Nearly every top Twitter executive is gone after Musk takeover
- 2022-11-01 - Techmeme: Elon Musk absolutely did not fire top Twitter executives, including Parag Agrawal, for “cause”, as you can easily tell by reading their employment agreements (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
- 2022-11-07 - Techmeme: Sources: Elon Musk fired over 90% of Twitter's 200+ staff in India over the weekend, including ~70% of the product and engineering teams (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
- 2022-11-11 - Top Twitter executives quit amid Elon Musk takeover - The Washington Post
- 2022-12-19 - Techmeme: Sources: some Twitter investors were told Elon Musk would step down after three to six months and are divided on his decisions; a new CEO would report to Musk (Dan Primack/Axios)
- 2022-12-19 - Elon Musk says he will step down as Twitter CEO if voted out by a poll he tweeted | CNN Business
- 2022-12-21 - Elon Musk says he will resign as Twitter CEO if he finds replacement - The Washington Post
- 2022-12-21 - Elon Musk says he will resign as Twitter CEO when he finds a ‘foolish enough’ replacement | Elon Musk | The Guardian
- 2022-12-21 - Elon Musk confirms he will resign as CEO of Twitter
14: Optimus robot (41 items)
- 2022-01-27 - Elon Musk: Optimus Robot Project Could Eclipse Car Business
- 2022-01-27 - Elon Musk says his humanoid ‘Optimus’ robots could outsell Tesla cars
- 2022-01-31 - Elon Musk: Tesla is prioritizing product development of Optimus humanoid robot in 2022 - Electrek
- 2022-03-28 - Tesla Optimus robot: Musk wants to start selling A.I.-powered humanoid robot next year, but his A.I. chief went on sabbatical | Fortune
- 2022-04-09 - Tesla is aiming to start production of its Optimus...
- 2022-04-09 - Tesla is aiming to start production of its Optimus humanoid robot in 2023 - Electrek
- 2022-06-03 - Elon Musk delays Tesla AI Day to finish Optimus humanoid robot | Fortune
- 2022-06-03 - Tesla’s humanoid robot prototype may be ready by September
- 2022-06-03 - Musk Promises a Working Humanoid Robot in September - TheStreet
- 2022-06-04 - Tesla Could Have A Working Humanoid Robot By September 2022
- 2022-06-21 - Tesla is tracking to have a working prototype humanoid robot by the end of September - Electrek
- 2022-06-23 - Elon Musk’s humanoid Tesla robot predicted to be ready in months
- 2022-06-26 - Tesla to introduce humanoid robot | Washington Examiner
- 2022-07-22 - Tesla Optimus: Elon Musk Replies to an Old Tweet, AI Robot Release Coming Soon? | Tech Times
- 2022-08-05 - Elon Musk said people will be 'blown away' by Optimus robot that will be revealed at AI Day | Daily Mail Online
- 2022-08-06 - Elon Musk said people will be 'blown away' by Optimus robot that will be revealed at AI Day
- 2022-09-26 - Tesla AI Day Spotlights Optimus Robot, Self-Driving Cars: Here's How to Watch - CNET
- 2022-09-28 - Tesla AI Day 2022: Optimus robot, Full Self-Driving, supercomputers, and more from Elon Musk’s big event - The Verge
- 2022-09-28 - Elon Musk to unveil 'humanoid robot' for Tesla factories on Friday
- 2022-09-30 - Elon Musk to unveil first prototype of Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus - The Washington Post
- 2022-10-01 - Tesla AI robot: Musk′s new humanoid disappoints experts | News | DW | 01.10.2022
- 2022-10-01 - Elon Musk debuts humanoid Tesla robot Optimus, AI experts unimpressed | Fortune
- 2022-10-01 - Techmeme: At Tesla AI Day, Musk reveals a protoype of Optimus, a humanoid robot that uses Tesla' AI and advanced driver assist features, expects to cost less than $20K (The Verge)
- 2022-10-01 - Tesla bot Optimus first model reveal | Tesla AI day II : singularity
- 2022-10-01 - Tesla Unveils Optimus Robot at Tesla AI Day 2022
- 2022-10-01 - Elon Musk Debuts Autonomous Version of Optimus Robot - TheStreet
- 2022-10-01 - Tesla unveils humanoid 'Optimus' robot at AI event | Washington Examiner
- 2022-10-01 - On The News - Watch: Musk Reveals Tesla Robot Optimus as It Walks Slowly on Stage
- 2022-10-01 - Tesla Reveals Optimus, a Walking Humanoid Robot You Could Buy in 2027 - CNET
- 2022-10-01 - Elon Musk shows off humanoid robot prototype at Tesla AI Day
- 2022-10-01 - Elon Musk Unveils Humanoid Robot Optimus at Tesla’s AI Day - WSJ
- 2022-10-02 - Tesla AI day updates including a working prototype of Optimus Bot - TechStory
- 2022-10-02 - Tesla AI Day LIVE — Elon Musk reveals Optimus robot at tech event that's slammed as 'lightyears behind Boston Dynamics' | The Sun
- 2022-10-02 - Elon Musk Presents Humanoid Robot Called Optimus At Tesla AI Day Event In Silicon Valley
- 2022-10-02 - Tesla Bot Optimus: Everything We Know So Far
- 2022-10-02 - Tesla shows early prototype of 'Optimus' robot | ktvb.com
- 2022-10-02 - Tesla shows early prototype of 'Optimus' robot | khou.com
- 2022-10-03 - The shuffling Optimus robot revealed at Tesla's AI Day | Popular Science
- 2022-10-24 - Elon Musk Humanoid Robot unveiled
- 2022-11-05 - Tesla Is Working On The Biggest Disruption Ever - Humanoid Robots (NASDAQ:TSLA) | Seeking Alpha
- 2022-11-07 - Tesla Bot-like humanoid robots could be a $150 billion business, says Goldman Sachs | Electrek
15: Russian invasion of Ukraine (25 items)
- 2022-02-26 - Tech leaders react to the Ukraine-Russia conflict
- 2022-02-27 - Techmeme: How tech companies based in Kyiv, including Grammarly, Readdle, and MacPaw, are dealing with Russia's invasion of Ukraine (Mark Sullivan/Fast Company)
- 2022-03-01 - Ukraine War Tests the Power of Tech Giants - The New York Times
- 2022-03-02 - Techmeme: Ukrainian tech workers, many employed by US and European companies, are logging off and taking shelter as Russian troops advance, making communication difficult (Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-03-02 - Techmeme: A profile of Mykhailo Fedorov, one of Ukraine's deputy prime ministers, who is using his Twitter account to pressure tech giants into standing up to Russia (Washington Post)
- 2022-03-07 - Silicon Valley boycotts Russia as Big Tech companies pull most widely-used tech product and services from the country | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-03-10 - Techmeme: Some tech companies are helping evacuate their staff from Russia, including by chartering planes and procuring visas, after previously doing the same in Ukraine (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)
- 2022-03-11 - Tech companies racing to get their employees out of Russia - The Washington Post
- 2022-03-11 - Ukraine’s thriving tech sector tries to hang on even as Russia’s attacks intensify - Rest of World
- 2022-03-12 - Techmeme: Sources: Chinese brands have cut their smartphone shipments to Russia in half since Russia's invasion of Ukraine because of the ruble's collapse and sanctions (Financial Times)
- 2022-03-14 - “I bought a one-way ticket”: Inside Russia’s sudden tech exodus - Rest of World
- 2022-03-21 - Techmeme: Ukrainian tech startups are now mapping escape routes for refugees, finding them rides, shelter, and food, and paying workers to fight with the army (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-04-01 - As Russia sees tech brain drain, other nations hope to gain | AP News
- 2022-04-01 - Techmeme: Since Ukraine invasion, an estimated 70,000 tech workers have left Russia, despite income taxes eliminated till 2024, relocating to Poland, Latvia, and more (Liudas Dapkus/Associated Press)
- 2022-04-03 - 'A Nail In The Coffin': Tech Workers Are Fleeing Russia And The Impact Will Last For Years
- 2022-04-04 - Tech workers describe detentions and interrogations as they flee Russia
- 2022-04-05 - Techmeme: Tech workers describe interrogations as they flee Russia; recruitment service HeadHunter says the government demand for IT workers in Russia has increased 100% (Vadim Smyslov/TechCrunch)
- 2022-04-13 - Russian Tech Industry Faces ‘Brain Drain’ as Workers Flee - The New York Times
- 2022-04-14 - Techmeme: Since the Ukraine invasion, thousands of Russian tech workers have left the country, an exodus that will fundamentally change the Russian tech industry (New York Times)
- 2022-04-27 - Startups Respond to the Ukraine Crisis: Solving the Global Challenges
- 2022-05-06 - Techmeme: Sources: Chinese tech companies like Lenovo and Xiaomi are quietly pulling back from Russia; China's tech exports to Russia fell sharply from February to March (Dan Strumpf/Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-05-12 - The war in Ukraine is spurring transatlantic co-operation in tech | The Economist
- 2022-07-14 - Ukraine struggles for Big Tech's attention as Russian propaganda evolves - The Washington Post
- 2022-11-28 - Russia's Biggest Tech Company Wants To Cut Ties With The Country: Here's Why
- 2022-11-28 - Russia's Biggest Tech Company Wants To Cut Ties With The Country: Here's Why - Benzinga
16: Elon Musk (29 items)
- 2022-04-14 - Techmeme: Filing: Elon Musk delivers a non-binding proposal to acquire all of Twitter's outstanding stock for $54.20/share in cash, in a deal worth $43B; TWTR jumps 12%+ (Bloomberg)
- 2022-04-14 - Techmeme: Sources: Twitter's board is considering adopting a poison pill following Musk's bid; source says another plan under consideration is saying the offer is too low (Bloomberg)
- 2022-04-14 - Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $43B after turning down seat on board - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-04-14 - Techmeme: Source says Twitter's board of directors views Elon Musk's takeover offer as unwelcome, suggesting it will fight the bid (Amir Efrati/The Information)
- 2022-04-14 - Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for USD 43 Bn
- 2022-04-14 - Elon Musk offers to buy 100% of Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-04-19 - Twitter Counters Elon Musk’s Takeover Bid With a Poison Pill - The New York Times
- 2022-04-21 - Techmeme: Filing: Elon Musk says he has secured $46.5B in financing to acquire Twitter, including a $12.5B loan from Morgan Stanley, and will explore a tender offer (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
- 2022-04-21 - Elon Musk secures $46.5B in financing commitments to acquire Twitter - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-04-22 - Elon Musk Says He Has $46.5 Billion in Funding for Twitter Bid - WSJ
- 2022-04-25 - Techmeme: Analysis: Elon Musk's Twitter bid includes a risky $12.5B margin loan, secured against TSLA and potentially costing ~$1B/year, alongside $21B from Musk himself (Reuters)
- 2022-04-25 - Twitter set to accept Musk's $43 billion 'best and final' offer: Reports | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-04-25 - Twitter could reportedly accept Elon Musk’s acquisition offer as soon as today - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-04-26 - Twitter accepts Elon Musk's buy-offer at USD 44 Bn
- 2022-05-05 - Techmeme: Filing: Elon Musk secures $7.14B for his Twitter bid from Larry Ellison, Binance, Sequoia, Saudi Prince Alwaleed, Fidelity, and others; Ellison will give $1B (Financial Times)
- 2022-05-05 - Musk secures over $7 billion in additional funding from investors including Larry Ellison to fund his $44B takeover of Twitter | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-05-05 - Techmeme: Filing: Elon Musk's new $7.14B in equity financing for Twitter, which includes investment from Qatar, reduces the margin loan from $12.5B to $6.25B (Edwin Chan/Bloomberg)
- 2022-05-05 - Elon Musk secures $7.14B in new equity commitments for Twitter acquisition - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-05-12 - Techmeme: Sources: Elon Musk is in talks to raise enough equity and preferred financing for his Twitter bid to avoid using a $6.25B margin loan tied to his Tesla shares (Gillian Tan/Bloomberg)
- 2022-05-17 - Twitter agrees to be bought by Elon Musk
- 2022-05-25 - Techmeme: Filing: Elon Musk plans to provide an additional $6.25B in equity financing for his Twitter buyout, boosting his commitment to $33.5B; Twitter stock jumps 7%+ (CNBC)
- 2022-07-08 - Elon Musk terminates $44 billion deal to buy Twitter over spam accounts; faces legal trouble and $1 billion breakup fee | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-10-04 - Techmeme: Source: in a letter to Twitter, Elon Musk proposes proceeding with the acquisition at the original $54.20 per share; Twitter stock jumps 12%+ (Ed Hammond/Bloomberg)
- 2022-10-04 - Elon Musk reportedly offers to proceed with $44B Twitter acquisition - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-10-05 - Elon Musk to buy Twitter for original offer of $44bn after dramatic u-turn
- 2022-10-07 - Elon Musk must complete Twitter $44 billion takeover deal by October 28 to avoid trial, judge rules | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-10-10 - Twitter refuses Elon Musk's new $44 billion takeover deal, Musk's lawyers say | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-10-26 - Elon Musk will complete the $44 billion takeover of Twitter this Friday | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-10-28 - Elon Musk Completes $44 Billion Deal to Own Twitter, Fires CEO and CFO - The New York Times
17: Elon Musk and Twitter (17 items)
- 2022-05-13 - Elon Musk says Twitter deal temporarily on hold - The Washington Post
- 2022-05-13 - Techmeme: Musk says his Twitter deal is temporarily on hold “pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users” (Nivedita Balu/Reuters)
- 2022-05-14 - Do spam bots really comprise under 5% of Twitter users? Elon Musk wants to know | Reuters
- 2022-05-14 - FOCUS-Do spam bots really comprise under 5% of Twitter users? Elon Musk wants to know
- 2022-05-17 - Techmeme: Elon Musk says the Twitter deal “cannot move forward” until Twitter proves bots are <5% of users, claiming his offer is based on “SEC filings being accurate” (Edwin Chan/Bloomberg)
- 2022-06-06 - Techmeme: In a SEC filing, Elon Musk accuses Twitter of “resisting and thwarting” his right to information about bots, calling it a “clear material breach” of the deal (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)
- 2022-06-28 - Techmeme: After Twitter gives Elon Musk access to its firehose and historical tweet data, experts doubt the data will provide conclusive answers on spam and bots (Sarah E. Needleman/Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-07-07 - Report: Elon Musk's Twitter deal in jeopardy over spam account issue - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-07-07 - Techmeme: Sources: Elon Musk's deal to buy Twitter is in serious jeopardy as his team concluded that spam account figures aren't verifiable using Twitter's data firehose (Washington Post)
- 2022-07-16 - Elon Musk Accuses Twitter of Delaying Bot Data and Rushing Lawsuit
- 2022-07-19 - Elon Musk accuses Twitter of "delays, bottlenecks" as he seeks trial delay
- 2022-08-23 - Techmeme: Source: Elon Musk scheduled a deposition with Peiter Zatko before the complaint became public; Zatko's complaint accuses Twitter of “lying” to Musk about bots (Washington Post)
- 2022-08-24 - Whistleblower says Twitter lied to Elon Musk about spam bots, a boost to Musk’s legal battle | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-08-25 - Techmeme: At a hearing seeking more data on bots from Twitter, Elon Musk's lawyers cite whistleblower Peiter Zatko's claims; Twitter says spam counts are merely estimates (Washington Post)
- 2022-09-06 - Techmeme: Twitter tells judge that Peiter Zatko never raised concerns about spam until he filed his whistleblower complaint and “started parroting” Musk's allegations (Bloomberg)
- 2022-09-28 - Techmeme: In a hearing, Twitter says Elon Musk's consultants estimated spam at 5%-11% of users and Musk failed to provide Signal messages, including with Marc Andreessen (Financial Times)
- 2022-10-06 - Techmeme: Sources: Musk-Twitter talks are stuck over debt-financing issue; Musk seeks to reserve rights to file a fraud suit over claims Twitter misled about bot accounts (Bloomberg)
18: Twitter bans personal Greene account for COVID-19 misinfo (10 items)
- 2022-01-02 - Twitter bans personal Greene account for COVID-19 misinfo | The Independent
- 2022-01-02 - Twitter bans personal Greene account for COVID-19 misinfo
- 2022-01-02 - Twitter bans personal Greene account for COVID-19 misinfo
- 2022-01-02 - Twitter bans personal Greene account for COVID-19 misinfo | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
- 2022-01-02 - Twitter bans personal Greene account for COVID-19 misinfo
- 2022-01-02 - Twitter bans personal Greene account for Covid misinformation - POLITICO
- 2022-01-02 - Twitter bans personal Greene account for COVID-19 misinfo - ABC News
- 2022-01-02 - Twitter bans personal Greene account for COVID-19 misinformation
- 2022-01-02 - Twitter bans personal Greene account for COVID-19 misinformation
- 2022-01-02 - Twitter bans personal Greene account for COVID-19 misinfo | AP News
19: Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach $3 trillion market cap (10 items)
- 2022-01-03 - Techmeme: Apple becomes the first US company to reach a $3T market cap, tripling its valuation in under four years (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
- 2022-01-03 - Apple becomes first company to hit $3 trillion market value | One America News Network
- 2022-01-03 - Apple becomes first publicly traded US company to surpass $3T valuation - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-01-04 - Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach $3 trillion market cap
- 2022-01-04 - Apple becomes world's first $3 trillion company | Science & Tech News | Sky News
- 2022-01-04 - Apple becomes first company to hit $US3 trillion market value | RNZ News
- 2022-01-04 - Apple Becomes First Company To Hit $3 Trillion Market Value, Then Slips
- 2022-01-04 - Apple becomes the first company to reaches $3 trillion market cap
- 2022-01-04 - Apple becomes first US company to reach $3 trillion in market cap | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-01-04 - Business: Apple becomes the first American company to reach $3 trillion
20: Darknet marketplace (12 items)
- 2022-04-05 - Techmeme: German police shut down darknet market Hydra Market, which had €1.23B in 2020 revenue, and seize 543 bitcoins (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)
- 2022-04-06 - Germany shuts down darknet platform specializing in drugs - The Washington Post
- 2022-04-06 - World's largest darknet market Hydra taken down by German police - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-04-07 - U.S.-German operation shuts down world’s largest darknet marketplace
- 2022-04-07 - Hydra Darknet Market shut down by law enforcement | Security Magazine
- 2022-04-08 - Germany Shuts Down Russia's Darknet Marketplace "Hydra"
- 2022-04-08 - Hydra Cybercrime Forum Shut Down | Avast
- 2022-04-09 - Global Law Enforcement Win: Germany Shuts Down Hydra and U.S. Department of Treasury Follows With Sanctions | Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider - JDSupra
- 2022-04-10 - Hydra - World’s Largest Darknet Market Site Seized and Shut Down
- 2022-04-16 - Russia Arrests Alleged Co-Founder of World’s Largest Darknet Marketplace - The Moscow Times
- 2022-04-16 - Russia arrests alleged co-founder of world's largest darknet marketplace
- 2022-08-03 - U.S., Germany Shut Down, Sanction Russia-Based Dark Net Marketplace
21: Neuralink (21 items)
- 2022-01-10 - Musk hopes to implant Neuralink chips in human brain this year
- 2022-01-20 - Elon Musk’s brain chip firm Neuralink lines up clinical trials in humans | Elon Musk | The Guardian
- 2022-01-20 - Elon Musk spotted planning human trials for Neuralink brain chip that could cure paralysis
- 2022-01-21 - Elon Musk preparing for human trials of brain chips that can help paralysed to walk
- 2022-01-21 - Elon Musk’s Neuralink prepares to test microchips in human brains | World | The Times
- 2022-01-21 - Elon Musk's brain-machine interface company Neuralink nears human trials
- 2022-01-22 - Elon Musk: Neural Link Brain Chips Near Test in Human Brain - OTG Newz
- 2022-01-22 - Elon Musk's Brain Implant Company 'Neuralink' Nears Human Trials
- 2022-01-23 - Human Trials Of Elon Musk’s Brain Chip Company Neuralink To Start Soon
- 2022-01-23 - Elon Musk’s Brain Chip Firm Neuralink Set to Start Human Trials
- 2022-01-24 - Elon Musk’s Brain Chip Company Neuralink Hiring Clinical Trial Director to Manage Clinical Trials
- 2022-01-25 - Elon Musk's Neuralink Inches Closer to Human Trials and Experts Are Ringing Alarms
- 2022-01-27 - Scientists Express Horror at Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Chip
- 2022-01-27 - Elon Musk's Neuralink Brain Chip is Alarming the Scientists | What's So Unconvincing About This? | Tech Times
- 2022-01-29 - Elon Musk's 'Black Mirror' style Neuralink brain chip sparks warnings from scientists - Daily Star
- 2022-07-20 - Startup Beats Musk's Neuralink to Human Trials in the US
- 2022-12-01 - Techmeme: Musk says Neuralink expects human trials to begin in about six months pending FDA approval, and unveils work on implants to treat paralysis and improve vision (Ashlee Vance/Bloomberg)
- 2022-12-01 - Elon Musk says Neuralink's brain chip to begin human trials in 6 months | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-12-02 - Musk says brain chip to begin human trials soon – and plans to get one himself | Elon Musk | The Guardian
- 2022-12-02 - Elon Musk says Neuralink brain implants will be tested on humans in 2023 - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-12-03 - Elon Musk’s Neuralink Unveils Brain-Computer Interface Plans | Psychology Today
22: DeepMind (28 items)
- 2022-02-02 - DeepMind says its new AI coding engine is as good as an average human programmer - The Verge
- 2022-02-02 - DeepMind AI rivals average human competitive coder - BBC News
- 2022-02-02 - DeepMind’s AlphaCode AI writes code at a competitive level – TechCrunch
- 2022-02-02 - DeepMind claims its new code-generating system is competitive with human programmers | VentureBeat
- 2022-02-02 - DeepMind's AlphaCode AI writes code at a competitive level
- 2022-02-02 - Techmeme: DeepMind details AlphaCode, a new AI coding engine that it says “writes computer programs at a competitive level” (James Vincent/The Verge)
- 2022-02-03 - DeepMind AI rivals average human competitive coder - BBC News
- 2022-02-03 - DeepMind's AI programming tool AlphaCode tests in top 54% of human coders
- 2022-02-03 - Google DeepMind’s AlphaCode system beats thousands of human experts in coding contest | News | The Times
- 2022-02-03 - Google’s DeepMind AI can now code better than humans | The Independent
- 2022-02-03 - DeepMind AI Coding System As Efficient as an Average Human Programmer? Is This True? | Science Times
- 2022-02-03 - DeepMind’s new AI can write code that’s better than yours | TechRadar
- 2022-02-03 - DeepMind Says Its AlphaCode AI Can Write Codes, But Is It Great?
- 2022-02-03 - DeepMind has made software-writing AI that rivals average human coder | New Scientist
- 2022-02-04 - Deepmind Introduces 'AlphaCode': A Code Generation System With Advanced Machine Learning Applied To Solving Competitive Programming Problems - MarkTechPost
- 2022-02-05 - Google’s DeepMind AI can now code better than humans
- 2022-02-08 - DeepMind's AlphaCode shows machines are getting better at programming
- 2022-05-11 - Google ups the AI ante with new features for Voice, Assistant, Maps and more | VentureBeat
- 2022-05-12 - Video: Google unveils new AI-enabled products - The Globe and Mail
- 2022-05-18 - ‘The Game is Over’: AI breakthrough puts DeepMind on verge of achieving human-level artificial intelligence | The Independent
- 2022-05-18 - Google's DeepMind says it is close to achieving 'human-level' artificial intelligence | Daily Mail Online
- 2022-05-20 - Google Says It’s Closing in on Human-Level Artificial Intelligence
- 2022-05-21 - Google DeepMind claims they're close to achieving human-level AI | TweakTown
- 2022-05-24 - Google's DeepMind says it is close to achieving 'human-level' artificial intelligence - TechStory
- 2022-06-14 - Google’s artificial intelligence is coming to life!
- 2022-12-09 - DeepMind's AlphaCode attains 'average' rating in programming competition
- 2022-12-09 - DeepMind's AlphaCode matches average programmer's prowess
- 2022-12-13 - DeepMind Builds AI That Codes as Well as the Average Human Programmer - ExtremeTech
23: Lab-grown brain cells (13 items)
- 2022-01-22 - Human Brain Cells From Petri Dishes Learn to Play Pong Faster Than AI - Science News
- 2022-10-12 - Lab-grown brain cells play video game Pong - BBC News
- 2022-10-12 - WATCH: A Dish of Brain Cells Figured Out How to Play Pong in 5 Minutes : ScienceAlert
- 2022-10-13 - Melbourne scientists teach brain cells in a dish to play Pong, opening potential path to powerful AI
- 2022-10-13 - Brain cells in a dish played video game Pong, scientists say - KRDO
- 2022-10-14 - Australian scientists have taught brain cells in a tray how to play the computer game Pong | SBS News
- 2022-10-14 - Brain cells in a dish played video game Pong, scientists say – WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale
- 2022-10-14 - Brain cells in a dish played video game Pong, scientists say - Local News 8
- 2022-10-15 - Scientists get human, mouse brain cells to play, learn from Pong
- 2022-10-16 - 'Sentient' brain cells in dish learn to play video game: study
- 2022-10-16 - Brain Cells Grown in Lab Have Learned to Play a Video Game in 5 Minutes
- 2022-10-17 - Live Brain Cells Learn To Play Pong in Real Time
- 2022-10-17 - Scientists Teach Lab-Grown Brain Cells To Play Pong - GameSpot
24: Amazon layoffs (22 items)
- 2022-06-20 - Leaked Amazon memo says the company may run out of available labor by 2024 | Engadget
- 2022-06-22 - Techmeme: An internal Amazon memo from mid-2021 discusses running out of potential US warehouse workers to hire by 2024 and suggests some remedies, such as raising wages (Jason Del Rey/Vox)
- 2022-07-29 - Techmeme: Amazon's direct workforce declined by 99K in Q2 to 1.52M, a record QoQ drop, mainly due to attrition in its warehouses following pandemic-driven expansion (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
- 2022-09-01 - Amazon slows down hiring - Protocol
- 2022-10-04 - Techmeme: In an email to recruiters, Amazon said it is freezing corporate hiring in its retail business for the rest of the year; AWS is not affected by the freeze (Karen Weise/New York Times)
- 2022-10-05 - Amazon puts the brakes on corporate hiring in its retail business until next year - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-10-17 - Techmeme: Internal doc: Amazon has a high attrition rate across all levels, costing $8B annually, and workers choose to leave twice as often as layoffs and firings occur (Avery Menegus/Engadget)
- 2022-10-18 - Leaked documents show just how fast employees are leaving Amazon - The Verge
- 2022-10-30 - Techmeme: Report: Amazon laid off ~150 people, or 50% of its workforce, at Amp, an app that lets DJs host live “radio shows”, take calls, and play Amazon Music tracks (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)
- 2022-11-03 - Techmeme: Amazon pauses hiring for roles in its corporate workforce, after announcing in October plans to freeze hiring for corporate roles in its retail business (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
- 2022-11-10 - Techmeme: Sources: Amazon launches a cost-cutting review focused on unprofitable businesses, including devices unit, which had a $5B annual operating loss in recent years (Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-11-14 - Techmeme: Sources: Amazon plans to lay off ~10,000 people in corporate and tech jobs, or ~3% of its corporate staff, as soon as this week, the largest cuts in its history (Karen Weise/New York Times)
- 2022-11-14 - Amazon reportedly plans to lay off about 10,000 corporate and tech employees - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-11-14 - Amazon to lay off 10,000 employees, NYT | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-11-16 - Amazon Begins Mass Job Cuts - TheStreet
- 2022-11-17 - Techmeme: Internal documents: Amazon is offering voluntary buyouts to some employees as it looks for ways to cut its headcount beyond the massive layoffs already underway (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
- 2022-11-17 - Techmeme: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the layoffs will continue into 2023, after the company cut roles across its Devices and Books businesses on Wednesday (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
- 2022-11-18 - Amazon's wave of layoffs impacts Boston-area employees, report says
- 2022-11-19 - Amazon Layoffs: Inside a Week of Turmoil When Thousands Lost Jobs
- 2022-11-20 - Amazon’s workforce turnover is so high that it could run out of people to hire by 2024 - Vox
- 2022-12-01 - Techmeme: Sources: Amazon begins layoffs with its Alexa, Kindle, and Halo hardware teams as part of the planned ~10K cuts, while investors anticipate broader downsizing (Dave Lee/Financial Times)
- 2022-12-11 - Techmeme: Layoffs and rescinded job offers are threatening Amazon's reputation in the tech job market, where it was already facing challenges, per a leaked June 2022 memo (Jason Del Rey/Vox)
25: Bored Apes and CryptoPunks (22 items)
- 2022-01-03 - Techmeme: Chainalysis: Users spent nearly $41B on NFTs in 2021, with small transactions of under $10K accounting for more than 75% of the market (Financial Times)
- 2022-02-02 - Techmeme: How OpenSea became synonymous with the NFT boom, obscuring the complexity of ERC-721 transactions for a mass audience, generating $386M in fees for January 2022 (Russell Brandom/The Verge)
- 2022-02-10 - Techmeme: Messari: NFTs account for only 1% of the overall cryptocurrency market, or $16B in combined value, a sliver of the ~$2T cryptocurrency ecosystem (Akayla Gardner/Bloomberg)
- 2022-02-12 - Techmeme: NFT marketplace Cent, which sold Jack Dorsey's first tweet for $2.9M in March 2021, halts transactions, citing “rampant” fakes and plagiarized works (Elizabeth Howcroft/Reuters)
- 2022-03-04 - Techmeme: NonFungible: the average NFT selling price has declined to ~$2K, after an all-time high of ~$6.9K on January 2, with a ~40% drop since Russia attacked Ukraine (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
- 2022-03-11 - Techmeme: After a peak of $248M in February, daily trading volumes of NFTs on OpenSea fell 80% to ~$50M in March; average price of a Bored Ape NFT fell 44% since Feb. 24 (Financial Times)
- 2022-03-27 - Techmeme: An analysis of 19.3M NFTs across ~8,400 collections: one in three have little or no trading activity, and another third trade below their original minting cost (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
- 2022-04-13 - Techmeme: An NFT of Jack Dorsey's first-ever tweet, which sold for $2.9M last year, has been up for sale since last week and has failed to garner a bid over $1K (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)
- 2022-04-13 - An NFT of Jack Dorsey's first-ever tweet, which sold for $2.9M last year, was put on sale again at $48 million but ended with a top bid of just $279.56 | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-04-14 - ‘Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet’ NFT Went on Sale for $48M. It Ended With a Top Bid of Just $280
- 2022-04-20 - Techmeme: Coinbase launches its NFT marketplace in beta, after announcing the service in October 2021, with support for Ethereum-based NFTs and ETH payments (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
- 2022-04-20 - Crypto exchange Coinbase launches NFT marketplace for some U.S. users | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-04-26 - Coinbase's NFT marketplace challenges OpenSea's dominance — Quartz
- 2022-05-03 - Techmeme: NonFungible: the sale of NFTs fell to a daily average of about 19K this week, a 92% decline from a peak of about 225K in September 2021 (Paul Vigna/Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-05-05 - Techmeme: Coinbase opens its new NFT marketplace in beta to everyone; Dune Analytics: the site recorded fewer than 110 transactions and less than $60K sales in five hours (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
- 2022-06-08 - Techmeme: The Block data: weekly NFT sales declined by just over 70% from a high of nearly 1M units in the third week of 2022 to 250K+ at the end of May (Alex Wilhelm/TechCrunch)
- 2022-07-04 - Techmeme: Chainalysis: NFT sales totaled just over $1B in June 2022, a 12-month low since June 2021 when sales were $648M; sales reached a peak of $12.6B in January 2022 (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
- 2022-08-29 - Techmeme: DappRadar: OpenSea processed nearly $5M of NFT transactions on August 28, down ~99% from a $405.75M high on May 1; Bored Ape Yacht Club's floor price fell 53% (Yashu Gola/Cointelegraph)
- 2022-09-28 - Techmeme: Dune Analytics: NFT trading volumes in September dropped to ~$467M, down 97% from the record $17.2B in January 2022 (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)
- 2022-12-24 - Techmeme: A look at some NFT utility cases like gaming, as NFT trading volume fell from $17B in January 2022 to $400M in November 2022, amid the crypto market slump (Joel Khalili/Wired)
- 2022-12-29 - Techmeme: CryptoSlam: NFT trading volume fell from $24M+ on December 20 to $12.9M on December 25, down for a second consecutive year; Yuga's BAYC rallied before Christmas (MK Manoylov/The Block)
- 2022-12-29 - Techmeme: OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer acknowledges “some setbacks” since FTX fell, argues NFTs could be “denominated in US dollars”, and says OpenSea has a “healthy runway” (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
26: Ukrainian websites knocked offline (47 items)
- 2022-01-14 - Ukraine hit by ‘massive’ cyber-attack on government websites | Ukraine | The Guardian
- 2022-01-17 - Destructive Hacks Against Ukraine Echo Its Last Cyberwar | WIRED
- 2022-01-26 - ‘Cyberpartisans’ hack Belarusian railway to disrupt Russian buildup | Belarus | The Guardian
- 2022-02-16 - Ukraine hit by cyber attack as U.S. questions Russian troop pullback | Reuters
- 2022-02-16 - Ukrainian websites knocked offline ahead of possible Russian invasion - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-02-24 - Cyberattacks accompany Russian military assault on Ukraine | AP News
- 2022-02-24 - Techmeme: Several Ukrainian government sites have been disrupted by DDoS attacks; researchers discover new data wiper malware installed on hundreds of Ukrainian machines (Jonathan Greig/ZDNet)
- 2022-02-24 - Ukrainian websites knocked offline in massive DDoS attack - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-02-25 - Ukraine calls for volunteer hackers to protect its critical infrastructure and spy on Russian forces
- 2022-02-25 - Techmeme: Sources: Ukraine is asking for volunteers from its hacker community to protect critical infrastructure and conduct cyber spying missions against Russian troops (Reuters)
- 2022-02-25 - Ukraine asks its hacker community to assist with cyber defense - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-02-27 - Techmeme: Analysts: Ukraine conflict could accelerate the fracturing of internet, amid pressure on US tech giants from both Russia and the West to respond to the conflict (Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-02-28 - Techmeme: Ukraine, which this weekend formed an “IT Army” made up of global volunteer hackers, claims to have taken down several Russian government and bank websites (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
- 2022-03-01 - Ukraine’s Volunteer ‘IT Army’ Is Hacking in Uncharted Territory | WIRED
- 2022-03-01 - Techmeme: After dire predictions, Russia has not yet unleashed a crippling cyberattack on Ukraine, leaving the country with functioning internet and infrastructure (Washington Post)
- 2022-03-02 - Ukraine conflict splinters the global internet
- 2022-03-05 - Techmeme: A look at volunteer hackers in the Russia-Ukraine war, many scattered globally with unverifiable identities, as both sides recruit them to launch cyberattacks (New York Times)
- 2022-03-08 - The Russian internet is a casualty of the war with Ukraine — Quartz
- 2022-03-09 - Ukraine facing major regional internet outages as Russian invasion continues
- 2022-03-10 - Techmeme: Sources describe how the US has bolstered Ukraine's cyber defenses with soldiers and cybersecurity experts, working with Ukraine years before Russia's attack (Financial Times)
- 2022-03-12 - Techmeme: Sources: NSA and other agencies are investigating an attack that disabled Viasat's satellite internet service in Europe on February 24 as Russia invaded Ukraine (Reuters)
- 2022-03-16 - IT Army of Ukraine: How a team of amateur hackers is striking at Russia | New Scientist
- 2022-03-16 - Techmeme: A look at Ukraine's “invisible heroes”, its internet technicians who are risking their lives battling Russian hackers and avoiding bombs to keep Ukraine online (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
- 2022-03-23 - The Threat of Russian Cyberattacks Looms Large | The New Yorker
- 2022-03-24 - Techmeme: An attack on Viasat's satellite internet service as Russia's war began impacted 27K users in Europe beyond Ukraine; thousands of users remain offline a month on (Matt Burgess/Wired)
- 2022-03-24 - Techmeme: An inside look at Ukrainian efforts to repel Russian cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, as some worry that early success might be unwound over time (Mehul Srivastava/Financial Times)
- 2022-04-08 - Security experts surprised by Russia’s ineffective cyberattacks in Ukraine but warn against complacency - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-04-09 - Techmeme: Disrupting cyberattacks targeting Ukraine (Tom Burt/Microsoft On the Issues)
- 2022-04-13 - Russian hackers tried to bring down Ukraine's power grid to help the invasion | MIT Technology Review
- 2022-04-13 - In Ukraine, a ‘Full-Scale Cyberwar’ Emerges - WSJ
- 2022-04-20 - Techmeme: Cybersecurity authorities of Five Eyes countries warn that Russia-backed hacking groups could target critical infrastructure networks within and outside Ukraine (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
- 2022-04-28 - Russia Uses Cyberattacks in Ukraine to Support Military Strikes, Report Finds - The New York Times
- 2022-04-28 - Russia Is Being Hacked at an Unprecedented Scale | WIRED UK
- 2022-04-29 - Ukraine government and pro-Ukrainian sites hit by DDoS attacks | Malwarebytes Labs
- 2022-05-02 - Techmeme: Hacking Russian targets was once considered off-limits by some, but after invading Ukraine the country has been hit by an unprecedented wave of cyberattacks (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)
- 2022-05-02 - Techmeme: After knocking out internet service in Kherson, an occupied Ukrainian territory, Russian forces reinstated service but rerouted it through Russia's Rostelecom (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
- 2022-05-05 - Techmeme: Ukrainian officials say Russia has taken over internet infrastructure in the Donbas region, rerouting traffic to Russia-controlled operators (Anna Gross/Financial Times)
- 2022-05-10 - Techmeme: The UK and EU say Russia launched a cyberattack on satellite internet network Viasat at the onset of the Ukraine war in late February, affecting many in Ukraine (James Pearson/Reuters)
- 2022-06-16 - Russia Is Taking Over Ukraine’s Internet | WIRED
- 2022-06-16 - Techmeme: In occupied Ukraine, Russia is forcing multiple ISPs to reroute connections through Russian infrastructure, subjecting traffic to censorship and surveillance (Matt Burgess/Wired)
- 2022-06-16 - Techmeme: A look at hacking group Cyber Partisans, which seeks to overthrow Belarus' government and has disrupted Russia's supply lines in Belarus for the war in Ukraine (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)
- 2022-06-22 - Techmeme: Microsoft report details Russian cyber attacks across 40+ countries since the war in Ukraine began, with a 29% success rate and NATO governments prioritized (Zach Schonfeld/The Hill)
- 2022-06-22 - Techmeme: How a quiet partnership between US tech companies, US and NATO intel agencies, and Ukrainian hackers helped blunt Russia's offensive cyber capabilities (David Ignatius/Washington Post)
- 2022-06-22 - Report: Russian hackers having success 3 in 10 cyberattacks – on targets in 42 countries | WRAL TechWire
- 2022-08-09 - How Russia Took Over Ukraine’s Internet in Occupied Territories - The New York Times
- 2022-08-09 - Techmeme: Russia has been rerouting internet traffic in occupied Ukrainian territories through domestic networks since June, blocking uncensored information and services (New York Times)
- 2022-09-26 - Ukraine warns Russia planning 'massive cyberattacks' on critical infrastructure - SiliconANGLE
27: Bitcoin (25 items)
- 2022-01-13 - Techmeme: Analysis: El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has likely lost $10M on his bitcoin purchases, after spending $71M on 1,391 BTC at ~$51K (Michael D McDonald/Bloomberg)
- 2022-01-26 - The International Monetary Fund tells El Salvador it shouldn’t use Bitcoin as legal tender - The Verge
- 2022-01-26 - Techmeme: The IMF's board urges El Salvador to strip Bitcoin of its status as legal currency due to its large risks, a major obstacle to the country's $1.3B loan request (Eric Martin/Bloomberg)
- 2022-03-16 - Six months in, El Salvador’s bitcoin gamble is crumbling - Rest of World
- 2022-03-16 - Techmeme: Six months after El Salvador adopted Bitcoin as legal tender, citizens, economists, and tech developers reflect on the country's glitch-plagued initiative (Rest of World)
- 2022-03-16 - El Salvador's Bitcoin Moves are Falling Apart! BTC Era Ends Here?
- 2022-04-21 - Techmeme: How crypto investors are pushing for semi-autonomous crypto zones in Central America, as they risk repeating the region's long history of corporate colonialism (Laurie Clarke/MIT Technology Review)
- 2022-04-27 - Techmeme: Central African Republic lawmakers vote unanimously to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, the second country to use bitcoin as official currency after El Salvador (BBC)
- 2022-04-28 - Bitcoin becomes official currency in Central African Republic - BBC News
- 2022-05-10 - Techmeme: Analysis: El Salvador's bitcoin investment, driven by President Nayib Bukele, is worth $74M, well below the $103M paid for its 2,301 BTC since September (Michael D McDonald/Bloomberg)
- 2022-05-23 - African governments’ failure to provide jobs fueling youths’ interest in Bitcoin business | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News — Interview — The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News
- 2022-06-01 - As Bitcoin drops, fear for the Salvadoran economy rises.
- 2022-06-14 - El Salvador loses half its investment in Bitcoin as crypto plunges | Mashable
- 2022-06-15 - Techmeme: As crypto markets tank, El Salvador has so far lost ~$56M after President Nayib Bukele bought 2,301 bitcoin, raising concerns about debt repayments (Sydney Maki/Bloomberg)
- 2022-06-18 - Techmeme: Despite a cratering crypto market, many traders in Latin America still see crypto as a way to circumvent unstable or stagnant economies where they live (Rest of World)
- 2022-06-28 - El Salvador’s $425M bitcoin experiment turns out to be a complete failure as the country lost more than half of its crypto investment | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-07-02 - Techmeme: How El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele weaponized bitcoin to whitewash his government's growing authoritarianism and spread propaganda (Nelson Rauda Zablah/New York Times)
- 2022-07-13 - Blockchain Developments Lead to New El-Salvador Bitcoin Initiatives
- 2022-08-27 - Techmeme: El Salvador appears to be heading deeper into an economic crisis with funding sources drying up, one year after it adopted bitcoin as legal tender (Daniel Alvarenga/Rolling Stone)
- 2022-09-08 - A year on, El Salvador's bitcoin experiment is stumbling | Reuters
- 2022-09-15 - Techmeme: Chainalysis: emerging markets, led by Vietnam and the Philippines, drove global cryptocurrency adoption over the past year; China remained active despite a ban (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)
- 2022-09-30 - Techmeme: Chainalysis: sub-Saharan Africa crypto usage is driven by everyday necessity; 80% of crypto payments in the region are under $1K, the world's highest proportion (Frederick Munawa/CoinDesk)
- 2022-10-14 - El Salvador lost $60 million on its $425M bitcoin experiment as the country faces high deficit and glooming economic growth | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-11-05 - Techmeme: El Salvador's Bitcoin “revolution” is failing miserably and behind the debacle are crypto evangelists from wealthier countries who cheered on President Bukele (Zeke Faux/Bloomberg)
- 2022-12-26 - Techmeme: A look at the Central African Republic's decision to adopt bitcoin in September 2021 and launch its own “Sangocoin” currency, which has stalled after weak sales (Ben Hunte/VICE)
28: China Boasts of 'Mind-reading' Artificial Intelligence that Supports 'AI-tocracy' (11 items)
- 2022-07-04 - China's AI system 'can check loyalty of party members' | Daily Mail Online
- 2022-07-04 - Chinese researchers claim they have built and tested artificial intelligence capable of reading minds - NZ Herald
- 2022-07-04 - Chinese researchers claim they have built and tested artificial intelligence capable of reading minds | neurons.AI
- 2022-07-04 - China has developed a technology that can read the mind of the human
- 2022-07-04 - Chinese researchers claim they have AI capable of reading minds
- 2022-07-06 - Scientists in China claim to have developed 'mind-reading' artificial intelligence | Just The News
- 2022-07-07 - Chinese researchers develop AI that can read minds and determine party loyalty, report reveals
- 2022-07-11 - Researchers in China claim they have developed 'mind-reading' artificial intelligence that can measure loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party, reports say
- 2022-07-11 - China Has Developed "Mind-Reading" Artificial Intelligence That Can Measure Loyalty To The Chinese Communist Party - Newsblare
- 2022-07-11 - China Touts 'Mind-Reading' AI That Can Gauge Political Loyalty: Reports
- 2022-07-12 - China Boasts of 'Mind-reading' Artificial Intelligence that Supports 'AI-tocracy'
29: New hardware architecture provides an edge in AI computation (24 items)
- 2022-02-03 - The brain's secret to life-long learning can now come as hardware for artificial intelligence
- 2022-02-03 - The brain’s secret to life-long learning can now come as hardware for artificial intelligence -- ScienceDaily
- 2022-02-04 - Reconfigurable AI Device Shows Brain-Like Promise - IEEE Spectrum
- 2022-02-04 - Purdue researchers build human brain-inspired hardware for AI to enable continuous learning
- 2022-02-04 - The brain’s secret to lifelong learning can now come as hardware for artificial intelligence - Purdue University News
- 2022-02-07 - New Reprogrammable Chip Lets AI Learn Continuously—Just Like the Brain
- 2022-02-08 - Brain-like chips may make PCs 1 million times more efficient | Digital Trends
- 2022-02-09 - New AI chip rewires itself to learn continuously - just like a human brain | The Independent
- 2022-02-17 - AI Overcomes Stumbling Block on Brain-Inspired Hardware
- 2022-04-26 - Reconfigurable Brain-Like Chips Top Deep Neural Net | News | Communications of the ACM
- 2022-06-13 - Engineers build LEGO-like artificial intelligence chip | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2022-06-13 - Engineers build LEGO-like artificial intelligence chip
- 2022-06-13 - New hardware architecture provides an edge in AI computation
- 2022-06-14 - Engineers Build LEGO-Like Artificial Intelligence Chip | Printed Electronics World
- 2022-06-14 - Engineers build artificial intelligence chip: The new design is stackable and reconfigurable, for swapping out and building on existing sensors and neural network processors -- ScienceDaily
- 2022-06-15 - MIT Engineers Have Created A Reconfigurable Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chip That Comprises Alternating Layers Of Sensing And Processing Elements That Can Communicate With Each Other - MarkTechPost
- 2022-06-17 - MIT researchers have built a new LEGO-like AI chip - Dataconomy
- 2022-06-23 - The maker of the world’s largest chip has made a major AI breakthrough | TechRadar
- 2022-07-28 - New hardware offers faster computation for artificial intelligence, with much less energy | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2022-07-28 - New hardware offers faster computation for artificial intelligence, with much less energy
- 2022-08-17 - ‘Unprecedented’ AI chip could revolutionise artificial intelligence | The Independent
- 2022-11-10 - New Chip Expands the Possibilities for AI
- 2022-11-15 - Hungry for AI? New supercomputer contains 16 dinner-plate-size chips | Ars Technica
- 2022-12-21 - New hardware offers faster computation for artificial intelligence, with much less energy – MIT EECS
30: Optus data breach (21 items)
- 2022-09-23 - Optus data breach: who is affected, what has been taken and what should you do? | Australia news | The Guardian
- 2022-09-23 - Customers’ personal data stolen as Optus suffers massive cyber-attack | Optus | The Guardian
- 2022-09-23 - Techmeme: Australian telecom Optus suffers a cyberattack, potentially giving the hacker access to data on up to 9.8M customers, per the CEO; the police are investigating (Alice Uribe/Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-09-24 - Optus data breach: What to do if you think you're at risk of identity theft - ABC News
- 2022-09-24 - Optus data breach: 9.8m customers may have had data compromised in ‘worst-case scenario’, says CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin
- 2022-09-25 - Australian Federal Police monitoring dark web amid allegations stolen Optus data may be sold online - ABC News
- 2022-09-27 - Optus cyber attack: Hackers behind the massive data breach release thousands of personal details amid $1.5 million ransom | 7NEWS
- 2022-09-27 - Optus data security breach: what should I do to protect myself? | Optus | The Guardian
- 2022-09-27 - Techmeme: As the Optus hacker appears to release data of 10,000 customers, Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin says the Australian police are investigating a ransom demand (Angus Whitley/Bloomberg)
- 2022-09-27 - Optus Customer Data Posted on Dark Web as Hacker Demands $1 million - Australian Cyber Security Magazine
- 2022-09-27 - Optus data breach: Australians will be able to change their driver’s licence with telco to pay | Australia news | The Guardian
- 2022-09-28 - Alleged Optus hacker apologises for data breach and drops ransom threat | Optus | The Guardian
- 2022-09-29 - Optus cyber hack update: Optus confirms 14,900 active Medicare details exposed in data breach
- 2022-09-29 - Optus data breach: everything we know so far about what happened | Optus | The Guardian
- 2022-09-30 - Optus: How a massive data breach has exposed Australia - BBC News
- 2022-09-30 - ‘There’s one email’: worried Optus customers outraged by lack of help since data breach | Optus | The Guardian
- 2022-10-03 - Optus data breach: Optus sends confusing text to customers after cyber attack
- 2022-10-04 - Optus data breach update: More than two million customer identity numbers exposed
- 2022-10-04 - Optus data breach: how to protect yourself from credit fraud | Optus | The Guardian
- 2022-10-06 - Optus tells Victorians whose licences were exposed in data breach to register with roads body | Optus | The Guardian
- 2022-10-12 - Weeks on, more Optus customers find out personal information compromised in data leak - ABC News
31: Microsoft Activision Blizzard deal (11 items)
- 2022-01-18 - Microsoft to Buy Activision Blizzard for Nearly $70 Billion - The New York Times
- 2022-01-18 - Microsoft to Buy Activision Blizzard in All-Cash Deal Valued at $68.7 Billion - WSJ
- 2022-01-18 - Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard - Axios
- 2022-01-18 - Microsoft To Acquire Activision Blizzard For $69 Billion
- 2022-01-18 - Microsoft buys video game giant Activision Blizzard in $68.7 billion all-cash deal | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-01-18 - Microsoft agrees to buy Activision Blizzard, the video game maker behind Call of Duty and Candy Crush - The Boston Globe
- 2022-01-18 - Techmeme: Microsoft announces plans to acquire Activision Blizzard (Microsoft)
- 2022-01-18 - In record $68.7B acquisition, Microsoft to buy videogame maker Activision Blizzard - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-01-18 - Daily Crunch: In an all-cash deal, Microsoft will buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7B
- 2022-01-19 - Microsoft Activision Blizzard deal: Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for 68.7 billion dollars
- 2022-01-19 - Live: Microsoft agrees to buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion | TechRadar
32: Artificial womb (15 items)
- 2022-01-30 - Chinese scientists create AI nanny to look after babies in artificial womb | South China Morning Post
- 2022-01-31 - This Artificial Womb And AI Nanny Is The Future Of Child Development, Claim Chinese Scientists | IFLScience
- 2022-01-31 - Robotic AI Nanny Can Take Care of a Fetus Inside an Artificial Womb | Science Times
- 2022-01-31 - Chinese scientists build robot nanny to care for babies in artificial womb | The Independent
- 2022-01-31 - Chinese scientists build robot nanny to care for babies in artificial womb
- 2022-02-01 - Chinese AI 'nanny' cares for mouse babies in artificial womb
- 2022-02-05 - Chinese Scientists Create System to Care For Embryos in Artificial Womb
- 2022-02-08 - A new AI robot nanny will look after human embryos in artificial wombs
- 2022-07-11 - Scientists create an AI that can think like a baby | Daily Mail Online
- 2022-07-12 - Scientists Have Created an AI That Can Think Like a Human Baby
- 2022-07-12 - DeepMind AI reacts to impossible situations much like a baby • The Register
- 2022-07-12 - Scientists create ‘artificial intelligence baby’ that can learn common sense
- 2022-07-12 - Scientists create ‘artificial intelligence baby’ that can learn common sense | The Independent
- 2022-07-13 - Scientists Create An Artificial Intelligence Program That Can Learn By Intuition Like A Baby | neurons.AI
- 2022-07-19 - DeepMind Gave an AI 'Intuition' by Training It Like a Baby
33: Apple's Director of Machine Learning Quits Over Return-to-Office Policy (13 items)
- 2022-05-07 - Apple's Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office Work - MacRumors
- 2022-05-07 - Apple's Director of Machine Learning exits over return-to-office policy | AppleInsider
- 2022-05-08 - Apple’s Director of Machine Learning Quits Over Company’s Return to Work Policy | iPhone in Canada Blog
- 2022-05-08 - Apple's Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return-to-Office Work policy - TechStory
- 2022-05-08 - Apple's Director Of Machine Learning Resigns, Due To Return To Office Policy
- 2022-05-09 - Apple director of machine learning quits because of the company's return-to-work policy, report says | Business Insider India
- 2022-05-09 - Apple's Director of Machine Learning Resignation Connected to Return to Office Work Order
- 2022-05-09 - Apple reportedly loses head of machine learning over return-to-office policy
- 2022-05-09 - Apple Director of Machine Learning Quits Over Return-to-Office: Report
- 2022-05-10 - Apple’s director of machine learning has quit over company’s return to work policy | Tom's Guide
- 2022-05-10 - Apple director of machine learning quits because of the company's return-to-work policy, report says
- 2022-05-11 - Apple’s chief of machine learning quits over return-to-office policy
- 2022-05-12 - Apple’s chief of machine learning quits over return-to-office policy
34: Quantum computing (44 items)
- 2022-01-06 - More companies are already deploying quantum computing than you think | TechRadar
- 2022-01-09 - Report: 69% of enterprises embrace quantum computing | VentureBeat
- 2022-01-10 - LG Electronics joining IBM Quantum Network for research into AI, IoT and more | ZDNet
- 2022-01-10 - LG Electronics joins the IBM Quantum Network | IT PRO
- 2022-01-11 - IBM, LG Join Hands to Advance Industry Applications of Quantum Computing
- 2022-01-17 - Europe’s First Quantum Computer with More Than 5,000 Qubits Launched at Jülich | Mirage News
- 2022-01-20 - European Milestone: Quantum Computer With More Than 5,000 Qubits Launched
- 2022-01-24 - Quantum computers could finally be made at large scale after huge scientific breakthrough | The Independent
- 2022-01-30 - Europe’s First Quantum Computer with More Than 5,000 Qubits Has Been Launched
- 2022-02-01 - As investments pour in, World Economic Forum brings out first quantum computing guidelines
- 2022-02-03 - IBM partners with Canadian province of Quebec in quantum computing push | Reuters
- 2022-02-03 - IBM working with Quebec gov't to deploy quantum system in Canada | ZDNet
- 2022-02-10 - IBM Announces Quantum Computing Partnership With Quebec
- 2022-02-17 - China releases new quantum computing software-Xinhua
- 2022-02-18 - Techmeme: Tel Aviv-based Classiq, whose platform helps developers build algorithms and apps for quantum computers, raises a $33M Series B from HPE, Samsung, and others (Jane Lanhee Lee/Reuters)
- 2022-02-21 - Classiq fast tracks towards becoming a Leading Quantum Software Platform Quantum Zeitgeist
- 2022-03-14 - Microsoft makes physics breakthrough that could enable new type of quantum chip - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-03-15 - Topical Qubits are now a reality with Quantum Breakthrough from Microsoft - Quantum Zeitgeist
- 2022-03-26 - New Quantum Computing Research Shows Promising Path to Commercialization - insideBIGDATA
- 2022-03-28 - Microsoft looks poised to dominate the quantum computing industry
- 2022-04-12 - Quantum computing ecosystem expands in all directions | TechRepublic
- 2022-05-10 - IBM lays out plans for 4,000-qubit chips in updated quantum computing roadmap - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-05-11 - IBM wants its quantum supercomputers running at 4,000-plus qubits by 2025 | Engadget
- 2022-05-17 - Behind IBM’s plans to build a 4000+ qubit quantum computer by 2025
- 2022-06-10 - Quantum computers proved to have ‘quantum advantage’ over standard computers on some tasks | New Scientist
- 2022-06-13 - Government-initiated task force launched to develop 50-qubit quantum computer by 2026
- 2022-07-05 - Classiq Brings Abstraction Layer to Quantum Software Stack – The New Stack
- 2022-07-22 - IQM raises $128M to build quantum computers that can fix the world's climate crisis - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-08-25 - Techmeme: Baidu reveals its first quantum computer, Qianshi, which has a 10-qubit processor, and says it is developing a 36-qubit system (Reuters)
- 2022-08-25 - Baidu unveils world’s first superconducting quantum computer integrating hardware and software
- 2022-08-27 - Baidu unveils its 10-qubit quantum computer, and why it matters - PingWest
- 2022-08-29 - China's Baidu reveals its first quantum computer called Qianshi | Reuters
- 2022-09-20 - Classiq, whose software help developers write quantum algorithms, announces new funding - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-10-28 - China and the US vie for quantum computing supremacy - Marketplace
- 2022-11-09 - IBM unveils its 433 qubit Osprey quantum computer • TechCrunch
- 2022-11-09 - IBM pushes qubit count over 400 with new processor | Ars Technica
- 2022-11-09 - Techmeme: IBM announces its Osprey quantum processor with 433 qubits, up from 127 qubits in the 2021 Eagle processor, and plans to hit 4,000 qubits by 2025 (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
- 2022-11-09 - IBM debuts new quantum processor with 433 qubits - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-11-11 - IBM Reveals 433-Qubit Processor, Aims 1000 Qubit-Plus Processor Next Year
- 2022-11-14 - IBM launches its most powerful quantum computer with 433 qubits | Reuters
- 2022-11-18 - Ibm Unveils 433 Qubit Processor &Mdash; Quantum Zeitgeist
- 2022-12-16 - Classiq Research Shows Huge Quantum Computing Momentum, Market Potential - insideBIGDATA
- 2022-12-19 - Techmeme: A deep dive into the race to develop a quantum computer, which could help address climate change and food scarcity, break current encryption protocols, and more (Stephen Witt/New Yorker)
- 2022-12-21 - A Study Finds That 65% Of Executives In The UK Have A High Interest In Quantum Computing — Quantum Zeitgeist
35: Elon Musk (11 items)
- 2022-07-07 - Elon Musk had twins last year with one of his top executives - Business Insider
- 2022-07-07 - Elon Musk Reportedly Fathered Twins With One of His Top Executives Last Year | Vanity Fair
- 2022-07-07 - Elon Musk secretly fathered twins with company exec last year, report says
- 2022-07-07 - Elon Musk reportedly fathered twins with an executive at his AI startup
- 2022-07-07 - Elon Musk had twins last year with one of his top executives, Insider says | Reuters
- 2022-07-07 - Elon Musk Seemingly Responds to Report He Had Twins With an Executive at One of His Startups
- 2022-07-07 - Elon Musk reportedly fathered twins last year with a Neuralink executive
- 2022-07-08 - Things get messy for Elon Musk with report about new twins he shares with Neuralink exec – TechCrunch
- 2022-07-08 - Elon Musk reportedly had twins with a top Neuralink executive - The Verge
- 2022-07-08 - Elon Musk had twins last year with one of his top executives, report says - CBS Miami
- 2022-07-08 - Elon Musk Responds to Reports He Secretly Welcomed Twins Last Year
36: AI and chemical weapons (12 items)
- 2022-03-17 - AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours - The Verge
- 2022-03-18 - Drug-discovery AI can be inverted to create chemical weapons, scientists find
- 2022-03-18 - AI model creates 40,000 deadly bioweapons in just six hours
- 2022-03-21 - AI came up with thousands of chemical weapons just hours after being give the task by scientists | Daily Mail Online
- 2022-03-21 - Chemical Weapons: An artificial intelligence invents 40,000 chemical weapons in just 6 hours
- 2022-03-22 - AI came up with thousands of chemical weapons just hours after being give the task by scientists | neurons.AI
- 2022-03-23 - Double-edged: Pharmaceutical company tweaks its AI model and finds 40k biochemical weapons in 6 hours
- 2022-03-24 - Repurposed drug-seeking AI system generates 40,000 possible chemical weapons in just six hours
- 2022-03-28 - Researchers Flip Pharmaceutical AI to Create 40,000 Biowarfare Agents
- 2022-03-31 - Drug discovery AI that developed new nerve agents raises difficult questions | News | Chemistry World
- 2022-04-19 - Wake-up Call for Science - AI System Develops 40,000 Chemical Weapons in 6 Hours - Science News
- 2022-04-21 - AI Drug Discovery Systems Might Be Repurposed to Make Chemical Weapons, Researchers Warn - Scientific American
37: Musk gets chance to defeat Twitter's many fake accounts (10 items)
- 2022-05-17 - Elon Musk puts Twitter bid into further doubt on question over fake accounts - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-06-08 - Twitter to comply with Elon Musk's demand for data on fake accounts, source | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-08-05 - Elon Musk accuses Twitter of fraud for hiding real number of fake accounts | Engadget
- 2022-08-08 - Elon Musk Countersues Twitter for Fraud Over Fake Accounts | HYPEBEAST
- 2022-08-09 - Elon Musk is doubling down with potentially strong fraud claims against Twitter [Video]
- 2022-10-28 - Musk now gets chance to defeat Twitter's many fake accounts | AP News
- 2022-10-29 - Musk now gets chance to defeat Twitter's many fake accounts | AP News
- 2022-10-31 - As Twitter's new owner, Musk gets his chance to defeat bots - CBS News
- 2022-10-31 - Musk now gets chance to defeat Twitter's many fake accounts - ABC News
- 2022-10-31 - Musk Now Gets Chance to Defeat Twitter's Many Fake Accounts | SecurityWeek.Com
38: Amazon Alexa (12 items)
- 2022-06-23 - Amazon's Alexa will soon be able to speak to you in the voice of your grandmother - CBS News
- 2022-06-23 - Amazon's Alexa could soon mimic voice of dead relatives | AP News
- 2022-06-23 - Amazon says Alexa will soon be able to mimic the voice of dead loved ones | Mashable
- 2022-06-23 - Amazon demonstrates Alexa mimicking the voice of a deceased relative
- 2022-06-23 - Amazon Alexa Could One Day Speak in Your Dead Loved One's Voice - CNET
- 2022-06-24 - Amazon Alexa may soon mimic the voice of your deceased loved ones | WRAL TechWire
- 2022-06-24 - Amazon Alexa will be able to mimic deceased loved ones' voices
- 2022-06-26 - Amazon Alexa will be able to mimic deceased loved ones' voices - Egypt Independent
- 2022-06-27 - Alexa to speak in the voice of dead relatives 'to make memories last', Amazon says | Panorama | Ammon News
- 2022-07-01 - Amazon's Alexa Will Imitate Deceased Loved Ones - Simplemost
- 2022-07-31 - Amazon Alexa Will Mimic Deceased Loved Ones' Voices | WATCH | EURweb
- 2022-08-05 - Amazon's new pitch: let Alexa speak as your relatives from beyond the grave | Engadget
39: Meta is building the world's fastest AI supercomputer (20 items)
- 2022-01-24 - Meta says its new AI supercomputer will be the world's fastest by mid-2022 | Engadget
- 2022-01-24 - Meta Unveils New AI Supercomputer - WSJ
- 2022-01-24 - Meta has built an AI supercomputer it says will be world’s fastest by end of 2022 - The Verge
- 2022-01-24 - Meta has a giant new AI supercomputer to shape the metaverse - CNET
- 2022-01-24 - Meta says it will soon have the world's fastest AI supercomputer | ZDNet
- 2022-01-24 - Meta is building the 'world's fastest AI SUPERCOMPUTER' | Daily Mail Online
- 2022-01-24 - Meta's Massive New AI Supercomputer Will Be 'World's Fastest'
- 2022-01-24 - Meta is developing a record-breaking supercomputer to power the metaverse | VentureBeat
- 2022-01-24 - Meta built a new AI supercomputer to help make the metaverse - Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech
- 2022-01-24 - Meta says it's building the world's fastest AI supercomputer to power metaverse ambitions - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-01-24 - Meta says its new AI supercomputer will be the world's fastest by mid-2022
- 2022-01-24 - Meta introduces the world's fastest AI supercomputer - Neowin
- 2022-01-24 - Hello, metaverse? Meta is building supercomputer for artificial intelligence research | WRAL TechWire
- 2022-01-25 - Meta is building a massive AI supercomputer for the metaverse | TechSpot
- 2022-01-25 - Meta unveils new AI supercomputer destined to be world's fastest
- 2022-01-25 - Meta’s new AI supercomputer will create the backbone for the metaverse | TechRadar
- 2022-01-25 - Meta Says its New AI Supercomputer Will be Fastest in the World
- 2022-01-25 - Meta’s new AI supercomputer will create the backbone for the metaverse | TechRadar
- 2022-01-26 - Meta to Launch Fastest AI Supercomputer by Mid-2022
- 2022-01-28 - Behind Meta’s claim of building world’s fastest AI Supercomputer
40: Hate speech on Facebook in Kenya (10 items)
- 2022-01-21 - Techmeme: How Facebook became indispensable in Africa with its ease of access, importance to small businesses, its facilitating of community organizing, and more (Nesrine Malik/The Guardian)
- 2022-02-21 - Techmeme: An investigation shows how vigilantes use Facebook to incite ethnic killings in Ethiopia, accusing Meta of inaction on hate speech and misinformation (The Guardian)
- 2022-04-19 - Facebook ‘lacks willpower’ to tackle misinformation in Africa | Social media | The Guardian
- 2022-07-26 - Facebook Is Fueling a Humanitarian Crisis in Ethiopia
- 2022-07-30 - Techmeme: Human rights groups say Facebook approved English and Swahili ads instigating ethnic violence in Kenya, after claiming to foster “safe and secure” elections (Dell Cameron/Gizmodo)
- 2022-08-01 - Techmeme: Researchers say Meta is failing to moderate dangerous content in Kenya on Facebook, citing failures in AI, as well as linguistic and cultural expertise gaps (Neha Wadekar/Washington Post)
- 2022-08-30 - A Genocide Incited on Facebook, With Posts From Myanmar’s Military - The New York Times
- 2022-09-29 - Techmeme: Amnesty International: Meta's algorithms “proactively amplified and promoted content” on Facebook that incited violent hatred against the Rohingya in Myanmar (Barbara Ortutay/Associated Press)
- 2022-09-30 - Myanmar: Facebook’s systems promoted violence against Rohingya; Meta owes reparations – new report - Amnesty International
- 2022-12-14 - Techmeme: The son of a murdered Ethiopian professor files a lawsuit against Meta in Kenya, alleging Meta's algorithms promote hateful and violent content for engagement (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)
41: Deepfake Bruce Willis (11 items)
- 2022-09-29 - Bruce Willis Becomes First Celebrity to Sell Rights to Deepfake Firm
- 2022-09-29 - Bruce Willis Can Appear in Future Projects Through Deepfake Twin
- 2022-09-30 - Bruce Willis Sells His Likeness to an AI Deepfake Company
- 2022-09-30 - Deepfake Bruce Willis may be the next Hollywood star, and he’s OK with that | Ars Technica
- 2022-09-30 - Techmeme: Report: Bruce Willis sold his “digital twin” likeness rights to Deepcake, for use in ads and possibly even movies; a Russian ad already used a Willis deepfake (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)
- 2022-10-01 - Bruce Willis deepfakes replace him in future films and advertisements | Mashable
- 2022-10-01 - Techmeme: Bruce Willis refutes a report that he sold his digital likeness rights to Deepcake, which confirms and says the company created his “digital twin” for 2021 ads (Ryan Gajewski/The Hollywood Reporter)
- 2022-10-02 - Bruce Willis Denies Selling Face To AI Company For ‘Digital Twin’ – Deadline
- 2022-10-03 - Bruce Willis' Reps Deny Sale of Face to Deepfake Co. Deepcake
- 2022-10-03 - Bruce Willis denies selling rights to his face to Russian deepfake company | Fox News
- 2022-10-03 - Bruce Willis Denies Reports of a Deal to Create Digital Twin
42: DeepMind predicts structure of nearly every protein known to science (22 items)
- 2022-07-28 - DeepMind uncovers structure of 200m proteins in scientific leap forward | DeepMind | The Guardian
- 2022-07-28 - DeepMind has predicted the structure of almost every protein known to science | MIT Technology Review
- 2022-07-28 - Techmeme: DeepMind says AlphaFold has predicted the structure of almost every protein cataloged by science, over 200M in total, a problem in biology for decades (Matthew Sparkes/New Scientist)
- 2022-07-28 - DeepMind research predicts structure of almost every known protein
- 2022-07-28 - ‘The entire protein universe’: AI predicts shape of nearly every known protein
- 2022-07-29 - DeepMind just predicted nearly all protein structures known to science
- 2022-07-29 - DeepMind research cracks structure of almost every known protein | Ars Technica
- 2022-07-29 - Google's DeepMind AI Predicts 3D Structure of Nearly Every Protein Known to Science - CNET
- 2022-07-29 - Researchers use AI to predict nearly all known proteins - UPI.com
- 2022-07-29 - Protein predictions: AI group says it has solved one of biology's 'grand challenges'
- 2022-07-29 - Artificial intelligence has mapped out every protein known to science | Metro News
- 2022-07-29 - Artificial intelligence has worked out the structures of 200 million proteins (that’s practically all of them) | Live Science
- 2022-07-29 - An Artificial Intelligence Predicted the Shape of Nearly Every Known Protein | The Motley Fool
- 2022-07-30 - DeepMind's AI has now catalogued every protein known to science | Engadget
- 2022-08-01 - A.I. Predicts the Shape of Nearly Every Protein Known to Science - The New York Times
- 2022-08-02 - Artificial Intelligence Predicts The Structure of Almost Every Protein Ever Found
- 2022-08-07 - DeepMind found the structure of nearly every protein known to science - The Verge
- 2022-08-10 - DeepMind has predicted the shape of every protein known to science. How excited should we be? - Prospect Magazine
- 2022-08-12 - Meet Meta AI's 'ESMFold,' An Artificial Intelligence-Based Model That Predicts Protein Structure 6x Faster Than AlphaFold2 - MarkTechPost
- 2022-09-15 - Scientists are using AI to dream up revolutionary new proteins
- 2022-11-01 - AlphaFold’s new rival? Meta AI predicts shape of 600 million proteins
- 2022-11-01 - Meta's new AI tool can predict protein shapes | Popular Science
43: Artificial intelligence (17 items)
- 2022-02-15 - Scientists Just Gave An Ominous Warning About Artificial Intelligence
- 2022-02-15 - Scientists Just Gave An Ominous Warning About Artificial Intelligence | Flipboard
- 2022-05-18 - Widely Available AI Could Have Deadly Consequences | WIRED
- 2022-07-27 - Google’s former head says AI is as dangerous as nuclear weapons
- 2022-09-12 - AI creator warns of 'apocalyptic' artificial intelligence that will replace need for humans | The US Sun
- 2022-09-13 - Google Deepmind Researcher Co-Authors Paper Saying AI Will Eliminate Humanity
- 2022-09-14 - AI may destroy humanity, DeepMind scientists claim in co-authored paper
- 2022-09-14 - Google and Oxford Scientists Publish Paper Claiming AI Will "Likely" Annihilate Humankind
- 2022-09-14 - ‘Existential catastrophe’ caused by AI is likely unavoidable, DeepMind researcher warns | The Independent
- 2022-09-15 - ‘Existential catastrophe’ caused by AI is likely unavoidable, DeepMind researcher warns | The Independent
- 2022-09-15 - Computers programmed with artificial intelligence ‘may go rogue and wipe out life on earth’, say scientists - Independent.ie
- 2022-09-20 - Artificial intelligence: A third of scientists working on AI say it could cause global disaster | New Scientist
- 2022-09-21 - DeepMind Says It Had Nothing to Do With Research Paper Saying AI Could End Humanity
- 2022-09-23 - A Third Of AI Researchers Think AI Could Cause "Catastrophic" Outcomes On Par With Nuclear War This Century | IFLScience
- 2022-09-26 - Artificial Intelligence Scientists Believe AI Could Cause Global Catastrophe
- 2022-09-26 - Artificial intelligence has potential to 'cause catastrophe as bad as nuclear war', scientists warn | The US Sun
- 2022-10-17 - Artificial intelligence is being asked to predict the future of AI | New Scientist
44: Police robots (11 items)
- 2022-11-24 - Techmeme: A San Francisco Police Department draft policy allowing police to apply lethal force using robots faces criticism from advocates opposing police militarization (Will Jarrett/Mission Local)
- 2022-11-25 - San Francisco police consider letting robots use ‘deadly force’ - The Verge
- 2022-11-29 - San Francisco considers allowing police robots to use lethal force : NPR
- 2022-11-30 - San Francisco will allow police to deploy robots that kill | AP News
- 2022-11-30 - San Francisco will allow police to use robots with deadly force - The Robot Report
- 2022-12-01 - San Francisco police can now use robots to kill • TechCrunch
- 2022-12-01 - San Francisco's Killer Police Robots Threaten the City's Most Vulnerable | WIRED
- 2022-12-01 - Police can use robots that kill, San Francisco board decides
- 2022-12-05 - SF police killer robots could be approved. Here's what that means
- 2022-12-07 - San Francisco bars police from using killer robots after outcry - The Washington Post
- 2022-12-07 - In reversal, San Francisco bans police from using robots with lethal force - The Robot Report
45: Social media censorship law (15 items)
- 2022-05-11 - Techmeme: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals votes 2-1 to let Texas enforce a social media law prohibiting Twitter, Facebook, and others from suppressing user content (Ben Brody/Protocol)
- 2022-05-12 - Techmeme: A US appeals court rules 2-1 to let Texas enforce a social media law stopping Twitter, Facebook, and other services with 50M+ users from moderating content (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
- 2022-05-13 - Texas social media law can take effect, appeals court rules
- 2022-05-14 - Techmeme: Texas' content moderation law is clearly unconstitutional and forces social media services to allow a torrent of spam or face a deluge of frivolous litigation (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
- 2022-05-14 - Techmeme: Two groups representing Meta, Google, and others ask SCOTUS to block Texas' social media law prohibiting content moderation, arguing the law is unconstitutional (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)
- 2022-05-18 - Techmeme: Texas asks SCOTUS to keep the state's social media law in effect; AG Ken Paxton argues that social media platforms should be regulated as “common carriers” (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)
- 2022-05-19 - Texas social media law will cause “chaos” online, Supreme Court is told | Ars Technica
- 2022-05-23 - Techmeme: The 11th Circuit federal court upholds the block on Florida's social media “censorship” law over First Amendment concerns, as SCOTUS weighs Texas' similar law (Issie Lapowsky/Protocol)
- 2022-05-31 - Techmeme: SCOTUS blocks Texas' social media content moderation law in a 5-4 vote, putting the measure on hold while a constitutional challenge proceeds in a lower court (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg Law)
- 2022-06-01 - Supreme Court blocks Texas’s attempt to seize control of Twitter, Facebook, & YouTube - Vox
- 2022-06-01 - Supreme Court blocks Texas law that aims to prevent social media censorship - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-09-16 - Techmeme: A US federal appeals court upholds the Texas social media content moderation law, lifting an injunction that blocked it and remanding it back to the lower court (Joe Schneider/Bloomberg)
- 2022-09-17 - Techmeme: The 5th Circuit federal court's ruling to uphold the Texas social media content moderation law is based on a misrepresentation of how Section 230 actually works (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
- 2022-10-12 - Techmeme: The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals blocks the Texas social media law from going into effect, as industry groups seek to bring the case to the Supreme Court (Rebecca Klar/The Hill)
- 2022-12-15 - Techmeme: Tech industry groups that include Meta and Google ask SCOTUS to overturn the Texas social media content moderation law, arguing it violates the First Amendment (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)
46: Artificial intelligence (AI) (29 items)
- 2022-01-11 - Artificially altered material could accelerate neuromorphic device development
- 2022-02-24 - New neuromorphic computing method could rapidly accelerate AI advancement - The Cavalier Daily - University of Virginia's Student Newspaper
- 2022-03-10 - Neuromorphic simulations can yield computational advantages relevant to many applications
- 2022-03-31 - IBM Researchers Showcase Their Non-Von Neumann AI Hardware Breakthrough in Neuromorphic Computing That Can Help Create Machines To Recognize Objects Just Like Humans - MarkTechPost
- 2022-04-06 - Quantum memristor points to new neural networks
- 2022-05-19 - New memristors for neuromorphic computing
- 2022-05-20 - Neuromorphic memory device simulates neurons and synapses
- 2022-05-21 - Neuromorphic memory device simulates neurons and synapses: Simultaneous emulation of neuronal and synaptic properties promotes the development of brain-like artificial intelligence -- ScienceDaily
- 2022-05-24 - Demonstrating significant energy savings using neuromorphic hardware
- 2022-05-24 - Significant energy savings using neuromorphic hardware -- ScienceDaily
- 2022-05-24 - Neuromorphic chips more energy efficient for deep learning • The Register
- 2022-05-25 - Human Brain Project, Intel Work Together to Advance Neuromorphic Technology - Unite.AI
- 2022-06-01 - According To The Latest AI Research From Graz University, Intel's Neuromorphic Chips Are UpTo 16 Times More Energy Efficient For Deep Learning - MarkTechPost
- 2022-06-14 - A neuromorphic computing architecture that can run some deep neural networks more efficiently
- 2022-07-29 - MIT researchers have pushed the speed limits of analog deep learning
- 2022-07-31 - New hardware used in ultra-fast analogue deep learning
- 2022-08-01 - MIT Researchers Created Artificial Synapses 10,000x Faster Than Biological Ones
- 2022-08-01 - MIT’s New Analog Synapse Is 1 Million Times Faster Than the Synapses in the Human Brain
- 2022-08-01 - MIT's New Hardware Focusing on Analog Synapse is 1M Faster than the Human Brain—For Deep Learning | Tech Times
- 2022-08-03 - MIT Claims New Artificial Neuron 1 Million Times Faster Than the Real Thing
- 2022-08-05 - MIT has created new AI 'neurons' 1 million times faster than the brain | TweakTown
- 2022-08-17 - New neuromorphic chip for AI on the edge, at a small fraction of the energy and size of today's computing platforms
- 2022-08-21 - Highly-Efficient New Neuromorphic Chip for AI on the Edge
- 2022-08-26 - Artificial Synapses Used in new AI Tech - Analog Deep Learning - Significantly Outperform Synapses in the Human Brain - Science News
- 2022-08-31 - New neuromorphic approach could make future robots smarter
- 2022-09-11 - Aiming to build molecular neuromorphic computing technology - The Hindu
- 2022-10-19 - An efficient and highly performing memristor-based reservoir computing system
- 2022-11-09 - A novel integrated system of neuromorphic devices
- 2022-12-20 - Artificial neural networks made from memristors for brain-inspired computing - Advanced Science News
47: US Sanctions on Russia (24 items)
- 2022-01-09 - U.S. sets out possible sanctions Russia could face over Ukraine invasion - The Globe and Mail
- 2022-01-23 - US threatens use of novel export control to damage Russia’s strategic industries if Moscow invades Ukraine | Stars and Stripes
- 2022-01-24 - The Next Huawei? US Threatens to Inflict 'Export Control' on Russia if It Invades Ukraine - Slashdot
- 2022-01-24 - Explainer-The U.S. export rule that hammered Huawei teed up to hit Russia | KELO-AM
- 2022-01-24 - Explainer-The U.S. export rule that hammered Huawei teed up to hit Russia
- 2022-01-24 - US threatens sweeping export controls against Russian industries
- 2022-01-24 - Explainer-The U.S. export rule that hammered Huawei teed up to hit Russia | One America News Network
- 2022-01-25 - U.S. considering controlling exports to Russia if there is an invasion of Ukraine - CBS News
- 2022-01-25 - Explainer: The U.S. export rule that hammered Huawei teed up to hit Russia | Reuters
- 2022-01-25 - U.S. Ups Sanctions Pressure on Moscow Over Ukraine - The Moscow Times
- 2022-01-25 - Biden threatens Putin with personal sanctions over Ukraine
- 2022-01-26 - Will consider personal sanctions on Putin if Russia invades Ukraine: Biden - The Week
- 2022-01-27 - Russia Rejects Biden Warning of 'Severe' Actions if it Invades Ukraine
- 2022-01-28 - U.S. Readies Export Controls Against Russia | Dechert LLP - JDSupra
- 2022-01-29 - Russian industry targeted, not consumers, if Biden export curbs imposed | Reuters
- 2022-01-29 - Russian industry targeted, not consumers, if Biden export curbs imposed
- 2022-01-29 - Russian industry targeted, not consumers, if Biden export curbs imposed
- 2022-01-29 - Russian industry targeted, not consumers, if Biden export curbs imposed | One America News Network
- 2022-01-31 - US readies sanctions on Russian elites in event of Ukraine invasion | TheHill
- 2022-01-31 - US readies sanctions on Russian elites in event of Ukraine invasion
- 2022-02-14 - Biden threatens devastating sanctions if Russia invades Ukraine. Here's what that might look like.
- 2022-02-24 - Watch Live: Biden discusses sanctions after promising ‘swift and severe costs’ if Russia invaded
- 2022-03-02 - Export Controls Against Russia Add to Uncertainty for Business - WSJ
- 2022-04-01 - Huawei faces dilemma over Russia links that risk further US sanctions | Ars Technica
48: AI supercomputer (11 items)
- 2022-01-24 - Meta: Facebook owner wants to build ‘the most powerful AI supercomputer in the world’ | The Independent
- 2022-01-24 - Facebook owner Meta builds world’s most powerful AI supercomputer
- 2022-01-24 - Facebook parent Meta creates powerful AI supercomputer
- 2022-01-24 - Facebook parent Meta creates powerful AI supercomputer | AP News
- 2022-01-24 - Facebook parent Meta creates powerful AI supercomputer
- 2022-01-24 - Facebook parent Meta says its new AI supercomputer will be world’s fastest | One America News Network
- 2022-01-24 - Facebook parent Meta creates powerful AI supercomputer - ABC News
- 2022-01-24 - Facebook parent Meta creates powerful AI supercomputer - ABC News
- 2022-01-25 - Facebook parent Meta announces the world's fastest AI supercomputer | Android Central
- 2022-01-25 - Facebook AI Supercomputer: World's Largest Supercomputer Is Now Mark Zuckerberg's New Boast
- 2022-01-29 - Facebook parent Meta says its new AI supercomputer will be world's fastest | Reuters
49: Parler (10 items)
- 2022-09-16 - Techmeme: Parler restructures as Parlement Technologies after a raising $16M Series B, buys the private cloud company Dynascale to provide “uncancelable” cloud services (Makena Kelly/The Verge)
- 2022-10-17 - Techmeme: Parler announces it has agreed to be acquired by Kanye West, and says that the deal, expected to close later in 2022, will create an “uncancelable ecosystem” (Jon Porter/The Verge)
- 2022-10-17 - Kanye West to buy free-speech social media platform Parler | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-10-18 - Kanye West agrees to buy Parler, company says
- 2022-10-18 - Kanye West and Parler: How the right-wing social network fits into his business empire.
- 2022-10-18 - Techmeme: Source: Parler has around 50,000 DAUs and its parent company had been trying over the last few weeks to sell the social network at a “wildly inflated” price (Makena Kelly/The Verge)
- 2022-10-18 - Kanye West buys social media app Parler, claiming big tech censors free speech - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-10-22 - Fast facts about Parler as Kanye West reportedly plans acquisition of site | Pew Research Center
- 2022-12-01 - Techmeme: Parler's owner says it “has mutually agreed with Ye to terminate the intent of sale of Parler”, after announcing the deal in October (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)
- 2022-12-02 - Kanye West is no longer acquiring Parler, company says | CNN Business
50: Facial recognition (12 items)
- 2022-01-20 - IRS Will Require Facial Recognition Scans to Access Your Taxes
- 2022-01-20 - Techmeme: This summer the IRS will require users to log in via ID.me, which uses facial recognition in its authentication process, to file taxes, make payments, and more (Mack DeGeurin/Gizmodo)
- 2022-02-01 - Civil rights groups launch effort to stop IRS use of 'flawed' ID.me facial recognition | ZDNet
- 2022-02-07 - Techmeme: The IRS says it will transition away from using facial recognition for identity verification, after a bipartisan backlash regarding its use of ID.me services (Alan Rappeport/New York Times)
- 2022-02-08 - IRS abandons ID.me facial recognition plans - The Washington Post
- 2022-02-09 - IRS abandons facial recognition plans for online services | Malwarebytes Labs
- 2022-02-09 - Congress pressures more agencies to end use of facial recognition after ID.me debacle | ZDNet
- 2022-02-09 - Techmeme: ID.me says it will make automated facial recognition verification optional for its government partners and let users delete their face scans starting on March 1 (Mack DeGeurin/Gizmodo)
- 2022-02-21 - Techmeme: IRS says taxpayers wanting to access their accounts online will not be subjected to facial recognition if they choose to ID themselves in “a virtual interview” (Alan Rappeport/New York Times)
- 2022-02-25 - IRS Offers Non-Biometric Option | Avast
- 2022-05-18 - Techmeme: Four Democratic senators ask the FTC to examine whether ID.me illegally misled consumers and government agencies about its use of facial recognition software (Bloomberg)
- 2022-11-22 - ID.me Lied About Its Facial Recognition Tech, Congress Says
51: FN Meka (23 items)
- 2022-08-17 - Capitol Records signs AI-powered virtual rapper, FN Meka
- 2022-08-22 - Hip-Hop Fans React To AI Rapper FN Meka's Label Signing
- 2022-08-23 - Meet FN Meka, The Controversial Artificial Intelligence Rapper Signed To Capitol Records Who Already Has A Track With Gunna
- 2022-08-24 - Major Record Labels Signs Virtual Rapper Who Is An AI
- 2022-08-24 - Capitol Records preemptively cancels AI rapper over racist lyrics
- 2022-08-24 - Major record label drops ‘offensive’ AI rapper after outcry over racial stereotyping | Music | The Guardian
- 2022-08-24 - A.I. rapper FN Meka dropped by Capitol Records after 'gross stereotypes' backlash | Fortune
- 2022-08-24 - Techmeme: Capitol Music Group severs ties with FN Meka, a virtual “robot rapper” powered partly by AI with 10M+ TikTok followers, after backlash over racial stereotypes (Joe Coscarelli/New York Times)
- 2022-08-24 - Meet FN Meka, The Controversial Artificial Intelligence Rapper Signed To Capitol Records Who Already Has A Track With Gunna - AfroTech
- 2022-08-24 - AI Rapper FN Meka Dropped By Capitol Records After Backlash
- 2022-08-24 - Capitol Records Drops AI Rapper FN Meka, Apologizes to Black Community for Insensitivity
- 2022-08-24 - Capitol Drops 'Virtual Rapper' FN Meka After Black Activists Cry Foul - Variety
- 2022-08-24 - Capitol Records Pulls Plug On Racist ‘AI Rapper’ After Barely A Week
- 2022-08-24 - Record label drops AI rapper over its insensitive content | Popular Science
- 2022-08-24 - Capitol Records walks away from AI rapper project, offers ‘deepest apologies to the Black community’ | The Hill
- 2022-08-25 - AI rapper FN Meka dropped by Capitol over racial stereotyping - BBC News
- 2022-08-25 - A.I rapper FN Meka dropped by Capitol Music Group - KBC
- 2022-08-25 - Capitol Records forced to drop its artificial-intelligence-created rapper after just one week following ‘gross stereotypes’ backlash
- 2022-08-25 - Capitol Records drops artificial intelligence rapper after just one week
- 2022-08-25 - Backlash Causes Capitol Records to Nix Virtual Artificial Intelligence Rapper, FN Meka - American Songwriter
- 2022-08-25 - Capitol Records drops artificial intelligence rapper after just one week
- 2022-08-28 - Record label drops AI rapper after backlash over stereotypes – The Register | neurons.AI
- 2022-08-28 - Record label drops virtual AI rapper after backlash • The Register
52: Brain research (21 items)
- 2022-02-23 - Researchers artificially reproduce the learning and forgetting functions of the human brain
- 2022-03-03 - New Brain Map Charts Every Component in the Biological Universe
- 2022-03-04 - Scientists Watch a Memory Form in a Living Brain
- 2022-03-08 - Researchers figured out how the human brain makes memories
- 2022-03-10 - Study proposes how changes in the neural code unlock the brain's 'inner learning'
- 2022-03-23 - Neuroscientists identify mechanism for long-term memory storage
- 2022-04-13 - Largest-Ever Collection of Brain Maps Charts How the Brain Changes Over a Lifetime
- 2022-04-29 - New Brain Learning Mechanism Calls for Revision of Long-Held Neuroscience Hypothesis - Neuroscience News
- 2022-04-30 - New brain learning mechanism calls for revisi | EurekAlert!
- 2022-05-19 - New Learning Model for Brain Overturns 70 Years of Theory | Mind Matters
- 2022-05-25 - New Imaging Technique Generates Incredible Subcellular Maps of Entire Brain Networks
- 2022-06-19 - Researchers Create Maps of the Brain After Traumatic Brain Injury - Neuroscience News
- 2022-07-17 - Stanford researchers observe memory formation in real time | Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
- 2022-08-22 - Researchers discover a material that can learn like the brain
- 2022-10-03 - A $500 Million International Project Will Create the Most Detailed Map of the Brain Ever
- 2022-10-07 - neuromaps: A One-Stop-Shop for Brain Maps
- 2022-10-18 - New brain imaging technique suggests memories are stored in the connections between your neurons
- 2022-11-09 - Researchers develop a material that mimics how the brain stores information
- 2022-11-09 - A material has been created that imitates how the brain stores information
- 2022-11-09 - Most detailed map of brain's memory hub finds connectivity puzzle
- 2022-12-16 - New project aims to map cellular variation in the healthy human brain
53: France starts using artificial intelligence to discover taxable swimming pools (16 items)
- 2022-08-29 - Undeclared pools in France uncovered by AI technology - BBC News
- 2022-08-29 - French tax officials use AI to spot 20,000 undeclared pools | France | The Guardian
- 2022-08-29 - Techmeme: French tax authorities, using aerial photos and AI software developed by Google and Capgemini, identify 20K+ unregistered pools, leading to ~€10M more in taxes (Kim Willsher/The Guardian)
- 2022-08-29 - France taxman deploys AI spy to spot hidden swimming pools
- 2022-08-29 - France Taxman Deploys AI Spy To Spot Hidden Swimming Pools | Barron's
- 2022-08-29 - France Deploys Artificial Intelligence Spy To Spot Hidden Swimming Pools
- 2022-08-30 - French Officials Use Satellite Photos and AI to Spot Unregistered Pools | PetaPixel
- 2022-08-30 - Artificial Intelligence powered by Google helps French officials tax over 20,000 undeclared pools | Fox News
- 2022-08-30 - Thousands of undeclared private swimming pools in France are uncovered using AI technology | Daily Mail Online
- 2022-08-30 - French government uses AI to spot undeclared swimming pools — and tax them - The Verge
- 2022-08-30 - French tax officials use AI to spot undeclared swimming pools - The Washington Post
- 2022-08-30 - France Used Google AI to Snuff Out Undeclared Swimming Pools
- 2022-09-01 - Google A.I. Helps France Find Thousands of Untaxed Swimming Pools
- 2022-09-02 - French tax office uses AI to find swimming pools
- 2022-09-04 - AI detects 20,000 hidden taxable swimming pools in France • The Register
- 2022-09-14 - France starts using artificial intelligence to discover taxable swimming pools - Dataconomy
54: Covid-19 in China (30 items)
- 2022-01-02 - Coronavirus started circulating in China in October 2019, study claims | Daily Mail Online
- 2022-01-11 - China’s Covid Outbreak Complicates Safety Plan for Beijing Olympics - The New York Times
- 2022-01-27 - China’s zero-COVID strategy: what happens next?
- 2022-01-28 - Forget about Covid-19, Chinese scientists from Wuhan University just discover a "potentially deadly" new strain of coronavirus called the 'NeoCoV strain' with "high fatality and transmission rate" | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-01-28 - Chinese scientists discover a 'potentially deadly' new strain of coronavirus called the NeoCoV strain with 'high fatality and transmission rate' | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-01-31 - China's Covid-Era Controls May Outlast the Coronavirus - The New York Times
- 2022-02-01 - Wuhan scientists discover new ‘NeoCov’ virus strain that is deadlier than covid-19; one in three infected people die from the virus | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-02-21 - The End Game of China’s Zero-Covid Policy Nightmare | WIRED UK
- 2022-03-21 - China reports first coronavirus deaths in over a year amid omicron surge | China | The Guardian
- 2022-03-28 - Shanghai to lock down millions for mass testing as China’s Covid cases surge | Coronavirus | The Guardian
- 2022-04-05 - Shanghai extends lockdown to entire city as tests show COVID spread | Reuters
- 2022-04-14 - Covid-19 Live Updates: China, Omicron and Vaccine News - The New York Times
- 2022-04-26 - Covid Outbreak in Beijing Prompts Order for Nearly Citywide Testing - The New York Times
- 2022-04-28 - China’s Covid Lockdown Outrage Tests Limits of Propaganda - The New York Times
- 2022-04-29 - Techmeme: China's lockdown outrage tests state propaganda limits in Shanghai, where internet-savvy residents overwhelmed censors' ability to keep up with critical posts (New York Times)
- 2022-05-09 - 'Like a prison': Shanghai, Beijing ratchet up COVID curbs | Reuters
- 2022-05-11 - Shanghai’s Covid Lockdown Leaves Thousands Sleeping in Its Streets - WSJ
- 2022-05-11 - ‘No end in sight’: Shanghai residents chafe at harsh Covid measures | China | The Guardian
- 2022-05-11 - WHO says China's zero-Covid strategy unsustainable
- 2022-05-16 - Shanghai to end Covid lockdown and return to normal life in June amid economic slowdown | China | The Guardian
- 2022-05-19 - China's Zero-COVID Policy Suffocates Beijing Residents
- 2022-06-01 - Shanghai lockdown: Relief and caution as city returns to life - BBC News
- 2022-06-01 - Shanghai Covid lockdown: City aims for business as usual but hurdles remain - CNN
- 2022-11-04 - COVID is challenging the public’s acceptance of China’s surveillance state.
- 2022-11-29 - The fight against China's COVID-era censorship
- 2022-12-01 - China’s Zero Tolerance for Xi’s COVID Restrictions - The Atlantic
- 2022-12-01 - China protests highlight injustice of Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy - Vox
- 2022-12-02 - China’s protests against zero-Covid show the cracks in the country’s narrative - Vox
- 2022-12-09 - ‘Zero Covid,’ Once Ubiquitous, Vanishes in China’s Messy Pivot - The New York Times
- 2022-12-09 - China is relaxing its zero-COVID policy — here’s what scientists think
55: Artificial intelligence (21 items)
- 2022-03-22 - Artificial intelligence: the EU needs to act as a global standard-setter | Atualidade | Parlamento Europeu
- 2022-03-24 - EU lawmakers adopt recommendations on Artificial Intelligence – EURACTIV.com
- 2022-04-01 - Europe’s AI Act contains powers to order AI models destroyed or retrained, says legal expert – TechCrunch
- 2022-04-02 - Europe's AI Act contains powers to order AI models destroyed or retrained, says legal expert
- 2022-05-03 - Artificial intelligence: MEPs want the EU to be a global standard-setter | Atualidade | Parlamento Europeu
- 2022-06-13 - Europe’s New AI Act Puts Ethics In the Spotlight
- 2022-06-15 - Inside Europe's fight for ethical AI
- 2022-06-30 - Hungry for rules: Spain to test Europe’s artificial intelligence law ahead of time – POLITICO
- 2022-08-04 - Artificial Intelligence Regulation Updates: China, EU, and U.S
- 2022-08-07 - ‘Risks posed by AI are real’: EU moves to beat the algorithms that ruin lives | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
- 2022-08-08 - EU's Artificial Intelligence Act is Moving Towards Countering the Risks and Dangers of AI | Tech Times
- 2022-09-07 - Techmeme: Some experts warn that the EU's proposed AI Act would create a legal liability for general-purpose AI systems while simultaneously undermining their development (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- 2022-09-28 - Techmeme: The European Commission proposes the AI Liability Directive, seeking to make it easier to sue the makers of drones, robots, and other AI-based products (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
- 2022-09-30 - EU mulls liability laws for AI systems, paving the way for compensation claims in the event of harm - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-10-03 - The EU wants to put companies on the hook for harmful AI | MIT Technology Review
- 2022-10-24 - The US unofficial position on upcoming EU Artificial Intelligence rules – EURACTIV.com
- 2022-10-24 - US Unofficial Position On Upcoming EU Artificial Intelligence Rules – Eurasia Review
- 2022-11-05 - Regulating the future: A look at the EU's plan to reboot product liability rules for AI • TechCrunch
- 2022-11-22 - EU hopes to build aligned guidelines on artificial intelligence with US | Science|Business
- 2022-12-06 - EU countries adopt a common position on Artificial Intelligence rulebook – EURACTIV.com
- 2022-12-31 - EU's Artificial Intelligence Act will lead the world on regulating AI | New Scientist
56: Bioengineered cornea (15 items)
- 2022-01-21 - Moorfields Eye Hospital gives woman, 88, UK's first 'bionic eye implant' - BBC News
- 2022-01-21 - Woman, 88, becomes first in UK to receive ‘bionic eye implant’ | Evening Standard
- 2022-01-21 - Blindness cure: 'Bionic' gran, 88, first in UK to use revolutionary tech: 'I am thrilled' | Science | News | Express.co.uk
- 2022-01-21 - Blind patient detects visual signals after being fitted with bionic eye implantat Moorfield hospital in London | The Independent
- 2022-01-21 - Bionic chip inserted into retina restores partial sight to 88-year-old woman | E&T Magazine
- 2022-01-21 - Blind London grandmother, 88, the first in UK to see using a bionic eye - MyLondon
- 2022-01-21 - Grandmother who lost sight receives 'revolutionary' bionic eye | Metro News
- 2022-01-22 - Bionic eye implant helps blind 88-year-old to see - BBC Science Focus Magazine
- 2022-02-15 - Bionic eye tech aims to help blind people see - BBC News
- 2022-02-16 - Techmeme: Blind patients with Second Sight's electronic retinal implants are in danger of losing their artificial vision as the tech becomes obsolete and unsupported (IEEE Spectrum)
- 2022-05-07 - Scientists reveal retinal cell mapping could promote accurate therapies for blindness - News | Khaleej Times
- 2022-08-11 - Scientists claim to have developed 'cure for blindness' - Wales Online
- 2022-08-12 - Cornea made from pig collagen gives people who were blind 20/20 vision | New Scientist
- 2022-08-12 - A Bioengineered Cornea Shows It Can Improve People’s Sight | WIRED
- 2022-08-12 - A bioengineered cornea can restore sight to blind people | MIT Technology Review
57: Reddit (17 items)
- 2022-02-08 - Techmeme: Sources: ahead of its IPO, Reddit has approached WPP and other big ad agencies to secure marketing deals, a delicate tightrope given its outspoken user base (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
- 2022-02-24 - Techmeme: Reddit revamps its app for the first time in two years, introducing a Discover Tab, updated navigation, and more; Reddit says there are 100K+ active communities (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- 2022-06-16 - Techmeme: Reddit will acquire Spell, a platform for running machine learning experiments founded in 2016 by a former Facebook engineer, for an undisclosed amount (Taylor Hatmaker/TechCrunch)
- 2022-06-16 - Reddit Acquires Spell to Add Muscle to Its Machine Learning Technology
- 2022-06-17 - Reddit is buying machine learning platform Spell – TechCrunch
- 2022-06-17 - Reddit snaps up Spell to boost user experience with machine learning
- 2022-06-17 - spell: Reddit acquires machine learning platform Spell - The Economic Times
- 2022-06-19 - Reddit is buying machine learning platform Spell - BusinessGhana
- 2022-06-21 - Reddit acquires Machine-Learning platform, Spell - Social Samosa
- 2022-07-01 - Reddit acquires natural language processing company MeaningCloud – TechCrunch
- 2022-07-03 - Reddit buys natural language processing company MeaningCloud
- 2022-07-20 - Techmeme: Research details Reddit's cautious approach to monetization, giving no_ads, some_ads, and all_ads labels to subreddits based on human review (Ryan Barwick/Marketing Brew)
- 2022-08-17 - Techmeme: Reddit announces a developer portal, offering tools and other resources to build third-party extensions and bots, currently in beta (Taylor Hatmaker/TechCrunch)
- 2022-09-01 - Reddit to contextualize conversations for advertisers with Spiketrap acquisition | VentureBeat
- 2022-09-01 - Reddit acquires contextualization company Spiketrap to boost its ads business – TechCrunch
- 2022-09-01 - Reddit acquires AI-powered analysis company Spiketrap to improve its ads - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-09-01 - Techmeme: Reddit acquires contextual advertising company Spiketrap to improve its ad quality scoring and boost prediction models for auto-bidding (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
58: Artificial intelligence and robots (13 items)
- 2022-06-21 - Robots found to turn racist and sexist with flawed AI
- 2022-06-21 - Robots Turn Racist And Sexist With Flawed AI – Eurasia Review
- 2022-06-22 - Robots turn racist and sexist with flawed AI, study finds: Neural networks built from biased Internet data teach robots to enact toxic stereotypes -- ScienceDaily
- 2022-06-23 - Flawed future? Robots adopt racist, sexist behaviors learned from popular AI program - Study Finds
- 2022-06-25 - Flawed AI Makes Robots Racist, Sexist – Eurasia Review
- 2022-06-25 - Internet data produces a racist, sexist robot - GCN
- 2022-06-27 - Offensive Robot? Experiment Finds Flawed AI Making Racial and Gender Stereotypes | Tech Times
- 2022-06-27 - AI bias: Robot run by artificial intelligence perpetuates racist prejudices | New Scientist
- 2022-07-08 - AI can make robots racist and sexist - Dataconomy
- 2022-07-16 - Robots trained on AI exhibited racist and sexist behavior - The Washington Post
- 2022-07-17 - Flawed AI makes robots racist, sexist | Hub
- 2022-07-19 - Robots became racist after AI training, always chose Black faces as ‘criminals’
- 2022-11-04 - Flawed AI Makes Robots Racist, Sexist | Research
59: Darth Vader (13 items)
- 2022-09-25 - James Earl Jones gives rights to Darth Vader voice to Ukrainian AI company
- 2022-09-25 - James Earl Jones retires from Darth Vader role with Lucasfilm using AI for future Star Wars projects
- 2022-09-26 - James Earl Jones lets AI take over the voice of Darth Vader - The Verge
- 2022-09-26 - Darth Vader’s James Earl Jones approves AI technology to recreate his voice
- 2022-09-26 - James Earl Jones retiring as Darth Vader’s voice
- 2022-09-26 - James Earl Jones has signed over Darth Vader's voice to artificial intelligence | Boing Boing
- 2022-09-26 - Artificial Intelligence takes over as the voice of Darth Vader - TVBEurope
- 2022-09-26 - James Earl Jones Once Signed On To Voice Darth Vader For $7K — Now, He's Retiring The Voice And Handing It To Artificial Intelligence
- 2022-09-27 - James Earl Jones Hands Over The Voice Of Darth Vader To Artificial Intelligence Technology
- 2022-09-27 - James Earl Jones gives his blessing to AI recreation of Darth Vader voice | TechSpot
- 2022-09-27 - James Earl Jones Now Letting Darth Vader Be Voiced by AI
- 2022-09-27 - James Earl Jones signals retirement from voicing Darth Vader after 45 years – FOX13 News Memphis
- 2022-10-03 - James Earl Jones Retires as Darth Vader’s Voice, Passing the Torch to AI | BLAC Detroit Magazine
60: Sam Bankman-Fried (31 items)
- 2022-11-02 - Techmeme: A financial document details some ties between Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX and Alameda Research; Alameda's biggest asset is $3.66B of unlocked FTT, an FTX token (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
- 2022-11-09 - FTX CEO and Crypto Tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried Sees $16B Wealth Gutted
- 2022-11-09 - Techmeme: Sources: the SEC and CFTC are investigating FTX.com over handling customer funds and its relationship with other parts of Sam Bankman-Fried's empire (Bloomberg)
- 2022-11-09 - Techmeme: Sources: the SEC and CFTC are investigating FTX.com over its handling of customer funds and its relationship with other parts of Sam Bankman-Fried's empire (Yueqi Yang/Bloomberg)
- 2022-11-09 - Techmeme: Sam Bankman-Fried's estimated $15.6B fortune has been eviscerated in days by the demise of FTX and Alameda, dropping to ~$1B, the largest one-day collapse ever (Tom Maloney/Bloomberg)
- 2022-11-09 - FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried warns FTX investors of bankruptcy: "Without more capital, bankruptcy is likely" | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-11-09 - FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankan-Fried is now under SEC and the CFTC investigations relating to the liquidity crisis and its handling customer funds | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-11-10 - Techmeme: Source: Sam Bankman-Fried told investors that FTX needs a cash injection or the company would need to file for bankruptcy due to a shortfall of up to $8B (Gillian Tan/Bloomberg)
- 2022-11-10 - FTX founder and former crypto billionaire Bankman-Fried may be going to jail. Here are 2 deleted tweets that may land him in prison | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-11-11 - Techmeme: FTX files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US; Sam Bankman-Fried resigns as CEO (@ftx_official)
- 2022-11-11 - FTX files for bankruptcy, founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried resigns | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-11-11 - FTX assets frozen by Bahamas regulators; whereabouts of FTX founder & CEO Sam Bankman-Fried unknown | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-11-11 - Techmeme: FTX files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US; Sam Bankman-Fried resigns as CEO (CNBC)
- 2022-11-12 - FTX founder Bankman-Fried secretly moved $10 billion to Alameda Research using a “backdoor” he built into FTX software without alerting external auditors | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-11-14 - Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried lists his $40 million penthouse for sale in the Bahamas | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-11-15 - Techmeme: Sources: Sam Bankman-Fried has unsuccessfully continued to attempt to raise $8B to plug FTX's shortfall, despite filing for bankruptcy and resigning as CEO (Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-11-16 - FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Attempts to Raise Fresh Cash Despite Bankruptcy - WSJ
- 2022-11-23 - Sam Bankman-Fried Ran FTX Like a Personal Fiefdom, Lawyers Say - WSJ
- 2022-11-23 - FTX was run as ‘personal fiefdom’ of Sam Bankman-Fried, court hears | Cryptocurrencies | The Guardian
- 2022-11-23 - Market Wrap: FTX Was Sam Bankman-Fried’s 'Personal Fiefdom,' Lawyers Said
- 2022-12-01 - ‘Look, I Screwed Up’: Sam Bankman-Fried Is Challenged on the Collapse of FTX - The New York Times
- 2022-12-08 - FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Faces Market Manipulation Inquiry - The New York Times
- 2022-12-13 - FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried is facing criminal fraud charges - The Verge
- 2022-12-13 - Techmeme: Source: US prosecutors charge Sam Bankman-Fried with wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, securities fraud, securities fraud conspiracy, and money laundering (New York Times)
- 2022-12-13 - Techmeme: The SEC charges Sam Bankman-Fried with defrauding investors and concealing diverting FTX customer funds to Alameda while raising over $1.8B (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission)
- 2022-12-13 - Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in Bahamas, faces charges from SDNY, SEC, CFTC - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-12-13 - FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrested by Bahamian Authorities after U.S. files criminal charges; could face life in prison | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-12-13 - SEC charged Sam Bankman-Fried with “orchestrating a scheme to defraud equity investors in FTX” | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-12-14 - FTX founder Bankman-Fried in custody after fraud charges, bail denied | Reuters
- 2022-12-22 - Techmeme: The SEC charges ex-Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison and ex-FTX CTO Gary Wang for their role in defrauding FTX's investors at SBF's direction between 2019 and 2022 (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission)
- 2022-12-29 - Techmeme: The SEC says FTX made two $100M investments using customer funds in fintech company Dave in March 2022 and blockchain startup Mysten Labs in September 2022 (CNBC)
61: Samsung data breach (18 items)
- 2022-03-06 - Hackers leak 190GB of alleged Samsung data, source code
- 2022-03-06 - Samsung's secret data leaks after devastating cyberattack - SamMobile
- 2022-03-07 - Techmeme: Samsung confirms a breach of its internal company data, including source code related to Galaxy phones, but says users' personal data was not affected (Bloomberg)
- 2022-03-08 - Samsung: Hackers breached company data, source code for Galaxy devices
- 2022-03-08 - Samsung confirms data breach after hackers leak internal source code – TechCrunch
- 2022-03-08 - Samsung data breach: Hackers steal data from microchip giant
- 2022-03-10 - Samsung Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Leak Galaxy Source Code
- 2022-09-02 - Techmeme: Samsung says some customer data, including names, contact info, and product registration info, was compromised in a breach of its US systems in late July (TechCrunch)
- 2022-09-02 - Samsung discloses data breach affecting some US customers’ information - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-09-03 - Samsung Just Had a Data Breach
- 2022-09-03 - Samsung says customer data stolen in July data breach – TechCrunch
- 2022-09-03 - Samsung Data Breach Exposed Customers’ Personal Information – Review Geek
- 2022-09-04 - Samsung announces data breach affecting undisclosed number of customers | Mashable
- 2022-09-04 - Samsung Suffers Another Massive Data Breach: Should You Be Worried?
- 2022-09-05 - Samsung users’ personal data leaked in a massive data breach, company says THIS | Technology News | Zee News
- 2022-09-05 - Shocking Samsung data breach revealed; did you get the email? Check now | Tech News
- 2022-09-06 - Samsung confirms data breach, personal customer data stolen | TechRadar
- 2022-09-06 - Samsung Discloses Data Breach a Month After Discovering It | Spiceworks 1
62: Drone detection and countermeasures (24 items)
- 2022-01-01 - Techmeme: A look at the burgeoning drone software and AI industry, a focus for an estimated 65 US startups, often for military uses (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)
- 2022-01-03 - Militaries evaluating best Counter-UAV solution to counter the threat of Drones carrying IEDs, biological or chemical agents | International Defense Security & Technology Inc.
- 2022-01-31 - Sagetech Avionics teamed up with NUAIR to test its Detect and Avoid situational awareness technology within New York’s 50-mile Drone Corridor | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-02-03 - Researchers Develop Drone-based System to Detect Marine Debris, Expedite Clean Up (Video) - NCCOS Coastal Science Website
- 2022-02-07 - Researchers develop a drone-based system to detect marine debris to expedite clean up - sUAS News - The Business of Drones
- 2022-02-07 - Researcher pair drones, machine-learning against marine litter - DroneDJ
- 2022-02-08 - AI-enabled drones will tell human teams where to find marine debris
- 2022-02-09 - Israeli Technology Can Help Defend Against Drones in the Gulf | The National Interest
- 2022-02-21 - U.S. eyes 100-strong Mideast sea drone fleet with security partners | Reuters
- 2022-02-22 - UAE Shows Off A Compact Box Launcher Concept Full Of 21 AI-Enabled Swarming Suicide Drones
- 2022-02-22 - U.S. plans for Mideast drone fleet
- 2022-03-02 - US Army to demo offensive drone swarms in next Project Convergence
- 2022-03-05 - BAE combat test teams fighter aircraft with AI-enabled drones
- 2022-03-08 - Air Force Future War Plans Connect Fighter Jets, Stealth Bombers and Drones for Joint Attack - Warrior Maven: Center for Military Modernization
- 2022-03-31 - New Air Force B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber Will Operate Drones - Warrior Maven: Center for Military Modernization
- 2022-05-12 - Drones and Machine Learning Help Reveal the Scale of Plastic Pollution - University of Tsukuba
- 2022-05-26 - 28-Drone Swarm Just Led The Way For A Simulated Air Assault Mission
- 2022-07-15 - Marine I-CsUAS Works to Defend Against Drones - Seapower
- 2022-09-10 - Pentagon combines sea drones, AI to police Gulf region
- 2022-09-20 - New Air Force group to test AI and anti-drone tech in Middle East | Stars and Stripes
- 2022-09-24 - Anti-Drone Tech to Counter Cross-Border Drone Infiltration
- 2022-09-26 - Industrial UAV startup AiSeed offers AI+Drone to tackle toughest challenges
- 2022-09-30 - A federally funded lab comes up with a potential solution to safe use of drones in the national air space | Federal News Network
- 2022-12-09 - U.S. To Turn Middle East Into Huge Testing Ground For Counter-Drone Tech
63: Shopify (17 items)
- 2022-01-18 - Shopify teams up with Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com to make it easier for US merchants to sell to consumers in China | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-01-22 - Techmeme: Shopify confirms it canceled contracts with warehouse and fulfillment partners, but says its capacity to handle orders won't be affected; stock closed down 14% (Stefanie Marotta/Bloomberg)
- 2022-02-04 - Down 50% Off Highs, Shopify Stock Looks Cheap
- 2022-02-16 - Techmeme: Shopify beats with Q4 revenue up 41% YoY to $1.38B, as GMV rose 32% YoY to $54.1B, but says FY 2022 revenue growth will be below FY 2021; shares drop 14%+ (Ilena Peng/Bloomberg)
- 2022-04-11 - Techmeme: Shopify is asking investors to approve changes to its share structure that give 40% voting power to CEO Tobi Lütke, up from 34%, and proposes a 10:1 stock split (Vipal Monga/Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-04-26 - Techmeme: Amazon's Buy with Prime will make it difficult for Shopify to get its own shipping solution to scale by deepening Amazon's nearly impregnable moat in logistics (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
- 2022-05-05 - Shopify acquires logistics tech startup Deliverr for $2.1 billion in cash and stock | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-05-05 - Techmeme: Shopify reports Q1 revenue rose 22% YoY to $1.2B, below expectations, as GMV grew 16% YoY to $43.2B; Shopify will acquire Deliverr for $2.1B; stock drops 14%+ (Stefanie Marotta/Bloomberg)
- 2022-05-06 - Shopify acquires shipping logistics startup Deliverr for $2.1B - BusinessGhana
- 2022-06-07 - Techmeme: Shopify investors grant CEO Tobi Lütke a “founder share”, ensuring him 40%+ voting power under certain conditions, and approve a 10:1 stock split (Stefanie Marotta/Bloomberg)
- 2022-06-22 - Techmeme: Shopify plans to expand its business-to-business commerce tools, as the company seeks to overturn its stock decline and compete with Amazon (Dave Lee/Financial Times)
- 2022-07-26 - Techmeme: Memo: Shopify plans to cut around 1,000 workers, or 10% of its global workforce, citing consumers pulling back from online shopping (Vipal Monga/Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-07-26 - Shopify lays off 10% of workforce amid slowing e-commerce growth - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-07-27 - Techmeme: Shopify misses as Q2 revenue grew 16% YoY to $1.3B and GMV reached $46.9B, up 11% YoY; SHOP drops 6%+, after crashing 14% on Tuesday due to layoffs (Stefanie Marotta/Bloomberg)
- 2022-09-01 - Techmeme: Research firm says Shopify is warning its merchants not to use Amazon's checkout service Buy with Prime, saying it is a security risk and violates Shopify ToS (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
- 2022-09-17 - Techmeme: Shopify changes its compensation practices to let staff choose a mix of cash, restricted stock units, and stock options; Shopify stock is down 75% in 2022 (Stefanie Marotta/Bloomberg)
- 2022-10-27 - Techmeme: Shopify reports Q3 revenue rose 22% YoY to $1.4B, above $1.34B estimates, and GMV grew 11% YoY to $46.2B; shares jump 7%+ (Nivedita Balu/Reuters)
64: AI Predicts Crime (12 items)
- 2022-06-30 - Algorithm predicts crime a week in advance, but reveals bias in police response
- 2022-06-30 - AI predicts crime a week in advance with 90 per cent accuracy | New Scientist
- 2022-07-01 - New algorithm can predict future crime a week in advance, with 90% accuracy
- 2022-07-01 - Algorithm predicts crime a week in advance, b | EurekAlert!
- 2022-07-01 - Artificial Intelligence: Researchers develop algorithm to predict crime a week in advance
- 2022-07-02 - AI ( Artificial intelligence) predicts crime with 90% accuracy a week in advance.
- 2022-07-04 - Researchers use AI to predict crime, biased policing in cities - Los Angeles Times
- 2022-07-04 - AI Algorithm Predicts Future Crimes One Week in Advance With 90% Accuracy
- 2022-07-04 - Researchers use AI to predict crime, biased policing in major U.S. cities like L.A.
- 2022-07-06 - Algorithm Predicts Crime a Week in Advance, but Reveals Bias in Police Response - insideBIGDATA
- 2022-07-06 - Crime Forecasting Tool Is Also Exposes Policing Bias
- 2022-07-08 - This AI Predicts Crime a Week in Advance—and Highlights Policing Bias
65: Elon Musk, Twitter (20 items)
- 2022-06-14 - Techmeme: Sources: Elon Musk will address Twitter employees and take questions at a company-wide virtual meeting on Thursday morning (Bloomberg)
- 2022-06-16 - Techmeme: Sources: Elon Musk addressed Twitter employees for the first time since agreeing to buy the company, discussing potential layoffs, content moderation, and more (Bloomberg)
- 2022-10-07 - Twitter v Elon Musk: what happens next in the takeover saga? | Twitter | The Guardian
- 2022-10-20 - Techmeme: Docs: Elon Musk plans to cut ~75% of staff if he buys Twitter; the company plans to pare down its payroll by $800M by the end of 2023, affecting ~25% of staff (Washington Post)
- 2022-10-21 - Techmeme: Memo: Twitter told staff that there haven't been plans for companywide layoffs since it signed a deal with Elon Musk, and that it can't confirm Musk's plans (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
- 2022-10-25 - Report: Elon Musk plans to cut 75% of Twitter workforce - The Washington Post
- 2022-10-27 - Elon Musk, Twitter Saga: a 10-Month Timeline of Events
- 2022-10-29 - Techmeme: Sources: Elon Musk plans to begin layoffs at Twitter as soon as Saturday, to take place before November 1, when staff were scheduled to receive stock grants (New York Times)
- 2022-10-31 - Elon Musk plans Twitter layoffs with new team - The Washington Post
- 2022-10-31 - Techmeme: Source: Elon Musk plans to lay off 25% of Twitter's workforce in the coming days, focusing on sales, product, engineering, legal, and trust and safety (Washington Post)
- 2022-11-03 - Techmeme: Sources: Elon Musk plans to cut ~3,700 jobs at Twitter, half of the company's workforce, starting November 4, and reverse its existing work-from-anywhere policy (Bloomberg)
- 2022-11-05 - Elon Musk’s Twitter layoffs leave whole teams gutted - The Verge
- 2022-11-05 - Twitter’s Workforce Cut in Half: All the Teams That Elon Musk Has Cut
- 2022-11-05 - Elon Musk enacts mass layoffs at Twitter and advertisers flee - Deseret News
- 2022-11-11 - Techmeme: Interviews with 36 current and former Twitter employees detail the excruciating chaos during Elon Musk's first two weeks in charge (New York Times)
- 2022-11-14 - Inside Elon Musk’s Takeover of Twitter - The New York Times
- 2022-11-19 - A timeline of Elon Musk’s tumultuous Twitter takeover - The Boston Globe
- 2022-11-20 - More layoffs at Twitter? New boss Elon Musk plans to sack more employees on Monday
- 2022-11-22 - Elon Musk says Twitter is done with layoffs and ready to hire again - The Verge
- 2022-11-22 - Elon Musk culls Twitter contractors after mass employee layoffs
66: CRISPR (11 items)
- 2022-01-21 - New Virus-Like Particles Can Deliver CRISPR to Any Cell in the Body
- 2022-05-12 - Scientists Suggest Editing Human Genetic Code to Prevent Heart Attacks
- 2022-06-30 - HKUMed researchers discover more efficient CRISPR-Cas9 variants for gene therapy applications
- 2022-07-01 - The first CRISPR gene-editing drug is coming soon
- 2022-07-12 - Verve starts first human test of gene editing treatment for heart disease | BioPharma Dive
- 2022-07-18 - CRISPR ‘cousin’ put to the test in landmark heart-disease trial
- 2022-08-02 - £30m for scientists to rewrite DNA to cure killer heart diseases
- 2022-08-02 - In a world first, scientists rewrite DNA to cure 'genetic heart conditions'
- 2022-09-26 - First individual treated with CRISPR-based HIV therapy
- 2022-10-11 - Researchers Develop a CRISPR-Based Therapy That Penetrates Solid Tumors | The Scientist Magazine®
- 2022-11-20 - New CRISPR cancer treatment tested in humans for first time
67: Sentient AI (10 items)
- 2022-07-23 - Google fires software engineer who claims AI chatbot is sentient | Google | The Guardian
- 2022-07-23 - Google has fired a software engineer who claimed an AI chatbot was sentient
- 2022-07-23 - Google fires software engineer who claimed its AI chatbot is sentient | Reuters
- 2022-07-23 - Google fires software engineer who claimed its AI chatbot is sentient
- 2022-07-24 - Google fires software engineer who claimed its AI chatbot is sentient
- 2022-07-24 - Google Fires Software Engineer Who Claimed AI Chatbot Was ‘Sentient’
- 2022-07-24 - Google fires software engineer who claimed its AI chatbot is sentient | Mint
- 2022-07-24 - Google fires software engineer who claimed its AI chatbot is sentient - BusinessWorld Online
- 2022-07-25 - Google fires the engineer who claims their AI chatbot has sentience
- 2022-07-29 - Google fires software engineer who claimed its AI chatbot is sentient
68: Roe v Wade and US data privacy - the time for action is now (18 items)
- 2022-05-09 - Techmeme: If Roe v. Wade gets overturned, any location and search data about users collected by tech companies might be used in abortion-related criminal prosecutions (Ina Fried/Axios)
- 2022-05-18 - Data Privacy And Clinic Safety After Roe v. Wade : 1A : NPR
- 2022-05-24 - Techmeme: In a letter, 42 Democratic lawmakers urge Google to stop collecting and keeping unnecessary user data that could be used to identify people seeking abortions (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)
- 2022-05-25 - Google data collection could endanger abortion seekers, say Dems
- 2022-06-09 - Looming abortion law changes prompt digital privacy worries for clinics
- 2022-06-17 - Techmeme: In a letter, 21 US lawmakers ask Google to clamp down on “misleading” search results that steer people searching for abortions services to anti-abortion clinics (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)
- 2022-06-24 - Techmeme: As state laws limiting abortion kick in, tech companies could be forced by law enforcement to hand over users' search histories and other pregnancy-related data (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)
- 2022-06-26 - Techmeme: In the wake of SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade, tech companies give “no comment” in response to questions about users' data that can be used in prosecutions (Brian Kahn/Protocol)
- 2022-06-27 - Period-Tracker Apps Aim for Anonymity Following Roe v. Wade Decision - WSJ
- 2022-06-27 - Techmeme: With Roe overturned, privacy experts fear period tracking apps might come under intense pressure to share data that could become evidence of a crime (Washington Post)
- 2022-06-28 - Abortion ruling could scramble data privacy talks - The Washington Post
- 2022-06-29 - Roe v. Wade reversal sends ripples through privacy world
- 2022-06-29 - Explainer: Data privacy concerns emerge after Roe decision | Modern Healthcare
- 2022-06-30 - Techmeme: Experts say using period tracker apps does not necessarily put women at additional risk of prosecutions in the wake of SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade (Medium)
- 2022-07-12 - Google's data trove can be used to prosecute abortion seekers : NPR
- 2022-07-14 - In a Post-Roe World, the Future of Digital Privacy Looks Even Grimmer - The New York Times
- 2022-07-16 - Roe v Wade and US data privacy - the time for action is now
- 2022-09-14 - Techmeme: In response to SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade in June, period tracking app Flo releases an Anonymous Mode for iOS, improving privacy but disabling some features (The Verge)
69: The Largest Suite of Cosmic Simulations for AI Training Is Now Free to Download (19 items)
- 2022-01-06 - The Largest Suite of Cosmic Simulations for AI Training Is Now Free to Download; Already Spurring Discoveries - UConn Today
- 2022-01-07 - The largest suite of cosmic simulations for AI training, free to download, already spurring discoveries
- 2022-02-10 - Indian astronomers use AI to search for Earth-like planets
- 2022-05-24 - AI reveals unsuspected math underlying search for exoplanets
- 2022-05-25 - AI reveals unsuspected math underlying search for exoplanets: Machine learning algorithm points to problems in mathematical theory for interpreting microlenses -- ScienceDaily
- 2022-05-31 - AI Reveals Unsuspected Connections Hidden in the Complex Math Underlying Search for Exoplanets
- 2022-06-03 - AI model’s insight helps astronomers propose new theory for observing far-off worlds – TechCrunch
- 2022-06-08 - Stunning Insights from James Webb Space Telescope Are Coming, Thanks to GPU-Powered Deep Learning | NVIDIA Blog
- 2022-06-13 - AI helps study first images from James Webb Space Telescope • The Register
- 2022-07-11 - AI on the Sky: Stunning New Images from the James Webb Space Telescope to be Analyzed by, Train, AI | NVIDIA Blog
- 2022-07-13 - The James Webb Space Telescope just delivered some incredible new images of the universe | MIT Technology Review
- 2022-08-23 - Jupiter: James Webb Space Telescope images are even better than scientists expected - CNN
- 2022-11-24 - Machine learning tools autonomously classify 1,000 supernovae
- 2022-11-25 - Machine learning tools autonomously classify 1000 supernovae
- 2022-11-28 - Astronomers at Caltech Have Used a Machine Learning Algorithm to Classify 1,000 Supernovae Completely Autonomously - MarkTechPost
- 2022-12-06 - Caltech Astronomers use a machine learning algorithm to classify 1,000 supernovae – India Education | Latest Education News | Global Educational News | Recent Educational News
- 2022-12-12 - Supernova algorithm classifies 1,000 dying stars without error | Space
- 2022-12-13 - Caltech uses machine learning to classify dying stars: Here's how
- 2022-12-25 - James Webb Space Telescope images reveal the wonders of the universe | Ariana News
70: Robotic Mayflower ship (19 items)
- 2022-01-19 - The World’s First Autonomous Ship Has Finished Its First Run
- 2022-01-20 - The World’s First Autonomous Ship Has Finished Its First Run in Japan
- 2022-04-29 - Robotic Mayflower ship sets sail for the US again after first attempt failed | Daily Mail Online
- 2022-05-16 - Artificial intelligence powered an autonomous cargo ship for an entire 500 miles
- 2022-06-05 - Robotic Mayflower reaches North American shores - CBS Boston
- 2022-06-05 - Autonomous Mayflower reaches American shores -- in Canada | AP News
- 2022-06-06 - AI-driven robot boat Mayflower crosses Atlantic Ocean - BBC News
- 2022-06-06 - Autonomous Mayflower Reaches American Shores — in Canada
- 2022-06-08 - AI-Powered Tanker Becomes First Ship to Cross the Atlantic Ocean Semi-Autonomously
- 2022-06-30 - A new Mayflower that uses artificial intelligence has crossed the Atlantic and is set to dock in Plymouth - The Boston Globe
- 2022-06-30 - Crewless robotic Mayflower ship reaches Plymouth Rock | AP News
- 2022-07-01 - Robot Ship Retraces Mayflower’s Transatlantic Voyage 400 Years Later
- 2022-07-01 - Crewless robotic Mayflower ship arrives at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts after retracing 1620 journey | Fox News
- 2022-07-01 - Crewless robotic Mayflower ship reaches Plymouth Rock | AP News
- 2022-07-01 - AI-powered Mayflower docks in Plymouth
- 2022-07-02 - Crewless Mayflower ship retracing 1620 journey arrives at Plymouth Rock
- 2022-07-02 - Mayflower Autonomous Ship at home in Plymouth after Atlantic crossing
- 2022-07-04 - Autonomous Mayflower backed by IBM completes recreation of original’s historic voyage | WRAL TechWire
- 2022-07-06 - A robot boat just recreated the Pilgrims' journey across the Atlantic Ocean | Boing Boing
71: Retail workers in US unionize at Starbucks, Amazon and now Apple (15 items)
- 2022-02-18 - Techmeme: Sources: some US Apple Store employees are working to unionize, with groups at at least two stores preparing to file paperwork with the NLRB in the near future (Reed Albergotti/Washington Post)
- 2022-02-22 - Apple Stores employees make effort to unionize - The Washington Post
- 2022-04-20 - Techmeme: 70% of employees at an Atlanta Apple Store agree to hold a union election, making the Apple Store the first to file for a union election with the CWA (New York Times)
- 2022-04-20 - Techmeme: Source: 70% of workers at an Atlanta Apple Store have agreed to hold a union election, becoming the first Apple Store to file for a union election with the CWA (Lauren Kaori Gurley/VICE)
- 2022-04-25 - Apple Store Workers Seek to Unionize, Following Efforts at Amazon, Starbucks - WSJ
- 2022-05-12 - Techmeme: Leaked memo shows the anti-union talking points that Apple is sending retail store leaders, including that workers could lose “flexibility” and merit promotions (Lauren Kaori Gurley/VICE)
- 2022-05-15 - Techmeme: A look at the Apple Together solidarity movement, which is providing tools and support for the company's retail, AppleCare, and other employees to organize (Caitlin Harrington/Wired)
- 2022-06-19 - Techmeme: Apple employees at a store in Towson, Maryland, vote 65-33 to unionize, making it the company's first unionized store in the US (New York Times)
- 2022-07-29 - Techmeme: A look at Apple's union-busting campaign, as some retail workers ask management to stop inflicting “traumatic” pressure on other workers trying to unionize (Caitlin Harrington/Wired)
- 2022-10-12 - Techmeme: Sources: Apple told unionized store staff in Maryland that they won't get its new benefits and would need to negotiate via a collective bargaining arrangement (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- 2022-10-15 - Techmeme: NLRB: Apple's Penn Square store employees in Oklahoma City have voted to unionize with the CWA, with 56 votes in favor and 32 against (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)
- 2022-11-03 - Techmeme: Apple's unionized Maryland store filed a complaint with the NLRB after Apple withheld medical, educational, and other new benefits given to non-union workers (Bloomberg)
- 2022-11-14 - Techmeme: Interviews with dozens of Apple Store employees in nine US cities show rising dissatisfaction thanks to increasing pressure to upsell, leading some to unionize (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)
- 2022-12-06 - Techmeme: The NLRB finds that Apple illegally interfered with union organizing in Atlanta by interrogating workers and making them attend daily anti-union meetings (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)
- 2022-12-16 - Techmeme: In a complaint to the US NLRB, the CWA alleges Apple tried to prevent union organizing in Ohio by creating a company-controlled pseudo-union (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)
72: NFT (17 items)
- 2022-01-20 - Techmeme: Sources: Meta is working on plans to let users create and sell NFTs on Facebook and Instagram, show NFTs on user profiles, and is considering an NFT marketplace (Financial Times)
- 2022-01-20 - Meta reportedly plans to bring NFTs into Facebook and Instagram - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-02-10 - Salesforce to launch its own NFT Cloud
- 2022-02-10 - Salesforce reportedly working on plans for an NFT cloud service - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-03-15 - Techmeme: Mark Zuckerberg says NFTs will be coming to Instagram sometime over the next several months, suggests users would be able to mint “within that environment” (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
- 2022-03-16 - Mark Zuckerberg confirms NFTs are coming to Instagram | Engadget
- 2022-03-16 - Meta to introduce NFTs on Instagram soon: Zuckerberg
- 2022-03-17 - Instagram must create anti-theft tools before introducing NFTs
- 2022-05-08 - Techmeme: Sources: Instagram to launch a pilot for NFT integrations for Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, and Flow as soon as Monday, will not charge users for showcasing NFTs (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
- 2022-05-09 - Techmeme: Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will begin testing digital collectibles and NFTs on Instagram, starting with select US creators, and won't charge for sharing NFTs (Anushree Dave/The Block)
- 2022-05-09 - Instagram will begin testing NFTs this week for a handful of users - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-05-16 - Niftables Unveils the World’s First All-in-One NFT Platform for Brands and Creators | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-06-08 - Techmeme: Salesforce announces NFT Cloud, a service for buying and selling NFTs, available in a closed preview (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
- 2022-06-30 - Techmeme: Meta says it is rolling out NFT support on Facebook, allowing select US creators to display NFTs on their profiles, after adding the feature to Instagram in May (TechCrunch)
- 2022-08-04 - Techmeme: Meta begins rolling out NFT support on Instagram in 100 countries after integrating with Coinbase Wallet, Dapper, and the Flow Blockchain (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk)
- 2022-09-29 - Techmeme: Meta opens NFT sharing to Facebook users in the US and to all Instagram users in 100 countries where digital collectibles are available (Eli Tan/CoinDesk)
- 2022-11-02 - Techmeme: Meta is letting select Instagram US creators test a toolkit for minting NFTs and selling them on and off the platform, and says it won't charge fees until 2024 (Kate Irwin/Decrypt)
73: Z-code Mixture of Experts models in Microsoft Translator (39 items)
- 2022-02-23 - Meta announces plans to build an AI-powered ‘universal speech translator’ - The Verge
- 2022-02-24 - Meta AI: company builds translation engine for the metaverse - Protocol
- 2022-02-25 - Meta unveils plan to build “universal,” real-time translation for metaverse
- 2022-02-27 - Meta plans to develop A.I. translator capable of translating 100s of languages
- 2022-03-01 - Meta AI Introduces 'No Language Left Behind' Project: An AI Model To Support Machine Translation For Low-Resource Languages - MarkTechPost
- 2022-03-22 - Microsoft Translator enhanced with Z-code Mixture of Experts models - Microsoft Research
- 2022-03-22 - Microsoft improves its AI translations with Z-Code – TechCrunch
- 2022-03-22 - Microsoft improves Translator and Azure AI services with new AI 'Z-code' models | ZDNet
- 2022-03-22 - New Z-code Mixture of Experts models improve quality, efficiency in Translator and Azure AI - The AI Blog
- 2022-03-24 - Microsoft boosts its AI translation capabilities | TechRadar
- 2022-03-25 - Microsoft updates language translator with more efficient AI • The Register
- 2022-03-26 - Microsoft Enhances its Translator, a Microsoft Azure Cognitive Service, with Z-code Mixture of Experts (MoE) models, to Boost Efficiency and Quality - MarkTechPost
- 2022-05-04 - Meta Gives AI Community Language Model Access | PYMNTS.com
- 2022-05-05 - Meta opens access to its massive AI language model | E&T Magazine
- 2022-05-11 - Techmeme: Google Translate adds support for 24 additional languages, including regional dialects from India, South America, and Africa, used by 300M people (Damien Wilde/9to5Google)
- 2022-05-11 - Google Translate is adding 24 new languages, and it’s all thanks to machine learning
- 2022-05-12 - Topping a raft of search improvements, Google Translate adds support for 24 more languages - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-05-12 - Meta AI Giving Away Its New Large Language Model | CDOTrends
- 2022-05-12 - Google Translate adds 24 languages using an incredible new technology - PhoneArena
- 2022-05-12 - Google Translate gains 24 new languages from the Americas, India, and Africa | ZDNet
- 2022-05-13 - Google Translate gets 24 new languages using ‘Zero-Shot Machine Translation' - Neowin
- 2022-05-14 - Google diversifies its translation service, adds 24 languages - CSMonitor.com
- 2022-07-06 - Meta's 'No Language Left Behind' AI Can Now Translate 200 Languages - CNET
- 2022-07-06 - Meta open-sources an AI model that can translate across 200 languages
- 2022-07-06 - Meta's AI research may boost translations on Facebook | Digital Trends
- 2022-07-06 - Techmeme: Meta makes its AI translation model, which supports 200 languages, open source, as part of its work on a “universal speech translator” (James Vincent/The Verge)
- 2022-07-07 - Meta's Going After a Universal Translator. Its AI Now Works for 200 Languages
- 2022-07-07 - Meta's latest AI model will make content available in hundreds of languages | ZDNet
- 2022-07-08 - Meta’s AI Machine Translation Research Helps Break Language Barriers
- 2022-07-11 - Meta’s machine breaks language barriers
- 2022-07-11 - Meta's new AI takes us a step closer to a universal language translator
- 2022-10-19 - Meta AI announces first AI-powered speech translation system for an unwritten language | VentureBeat
- 2022-10-19 - Meta touts AI that translates spoken-only language
- 2022-10-19 - Techmeme: Meta AI unveils an open-source translator for languages that are primarily spoken rather than written, which can currently translate between Hokkien and English (Andrew Tarantola/Engadget)
- 2022-10-19 - Meta builds AI-powered speech translation for Hokkien to understand unwritten languages - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-10-20 - Meta Has Developed AI for Real-Time Translation of Hokkien
- 2022-10-22 - Meta develops AI translation system for a primarily spoken language | Technology News,The Indian Express
- 2022-10-23 - AI translates Hokkien, an unwritten language, for the first time
- 2022-10-24 - AI translates Hokkien, an unwritten language, for the first time
74: Aging (19 items)
- 2022-01-19 - Rejuvenation by controlled reprogramming is the latest gambit in anti-aging
- 2022-01-21 - Billionaires Bankroll Cell Rejuvenation Tech as the Latest Gambit to Slow Aging - Scientific American
- 2022-04-08 - “Time Jump” by 30 Years: Old Skins Cells Reprogrammed To Regain Youthful Function
- 2022-05-13 - "Look 25 Even At 40" Scientists Now Make Old Skin Cells Younger
- 2022-06-29 - Cellular secrets of aging unlocked by researchers -- ScienceDaily
- 2022-07-08 - Dior and Professor Team to Research Cellular Aging Reversal – WWD
- 2022-07-19 - Researchers Uncover Protein Involved in Senescence and Tissue Aging
- 2022-07-25 - Gene Regulation Might Be the Key to a Longer Lifespan
- 2022-07-27 - Scientists Unlock the Secrets of Cellular Aging: What Happens After You Turn 70?
- 2022-08-24 - New target identified for treatment of premature aging disease - Salk Institute for Biological Studies
- 2022-08-30 - Remarkable Anti-Aging Drug Delivers Positive Effects on Health and Lifespan With Brief Exposure
- 2022-09-05 - Scientists Discover That a Certain Nutrient Promotes Anti-Aging
- 2022-09-08 - Scientists Discover How Cells Repair Longevity-Promoting “Recycling System”
- 2022-09-16 - DNA clocks suggest ageing is pre-programmed in our cells | New Scientist
- 2022-09-21 - Scientists show how to reverse the aging process
- 2022-11-04 - “Unexpected” – Scientists Discover an Anti-Aging Mechanism
- 2022-12-09 - Aging is Driven by Unbalanced Genes | News | Northwestern Engineering
- 2022-12-10 - Research finds aging is driven by unbalanced genes | Science-Environment
- 2022-12-12 - Aging is driven by unbalanced genes, finds AI analysis of multiple species
75: X-ray test to diagnose Covid (11 items)
- 2022-01-19 - Scientists develop new Covid diagnosis test using X rays | Daily Mail Online
- 2022-01-20 - COVID-19: New 'game-changing' X-ray technology developed which can detect coronavirus in minutes | UK News | Sky News
- 2022-01-20 - X-rays could replace PCR tests to detect Covid
- 2022-01-20 - X-rays could replace PCR tests for Covid detection, research shows | Metro News
- 2022-01-20 - Covid PCR tests could be replaced with X RAYS that are almost 100% accurate
- 2022-01-20 - Covid breakthrough: UK develops 'game-changing' tech to diagnose virus quicker than PCR | Science | News | Express.co.uk
- 2022-01-20 - PCR tests for Covid could be replaced by an X-ray that gives results in minutes - Surrey Live
- 2022-01-20 - PCR tests for Covid could be replaced by an X-ray that gives results in minutes - Wales Online
- 2022-01-20 - Covid X-ray could replace PCR tests as Scots scientists develop tech with results 'in minutes' - Daily Record
- 2022-01-20 - Covid PCR tests could be replaced by an X-ray with results given 'in minutes' - Mirror Online
- 2022-01-21 - UK researchers create X-Ray test to diagnose Covid within minutes: Here's why it is NO Game-changer, at least right away | Health Tips and News
76: Unmanned and autonomous naval vehicles (15 items)
- 2022-01-25 - Unmanned Patrol Boats Take Another Step Forward
- 2022-01-28 - US Navy adopts new strategy prioritizing ‘the building blocks’ of unmanned tech
- 2022-01-28 - US Navy adopts new strategy prioritizing ‘the building blocks’ of unmanned tech
- 2022-02-01 - The World's Largest Unmanned Naval Exercise was Launched Today in the Middle East - Defense Update:
- 2022-02-02 - Allies and robots: Navy joins 60 nations in International Maritime Exercise - Breaking Defense Breaking Defense - Defense industry news, analysis and commentary
- 2022-02-02 - US Navy kicks off 60-nation maritime exercise in Middle East that includes unmanned, AI tech
- 2022-02-03 - US Navy Leads Largest Ever AI-Assisted Unmanned Maritime Exercise in Middle East
- 2022-02-09 - U.S. Navy Begins Largest Annual Exercise in Middle East | The National Interest
- 2022-04-09 - Report says Navy needs to improve unmanned vessels | 13newsnow.com
- 2022-05-16 - Navy grappling with what its future unmanned fleet will look like - FedScoop
- 2022-07-06 - Navy Establishing Unmanned Surface Vessel Fleet For
- 2022-09-23 - U.S. and Israel Complete Unmanned Exercise in Gulf of Aqaba > United States Navy > News-Stories
- 2022-10-08 - U.S., U.K. Navies Conduct Unmanned Exercise in Arabian Gulf - Seapower
- 2022-11-27 - U.S. Launches New Unmanned & AI Systems Integration Event > United States Navy > News-Stories
- 2022-12-01 - US Navy launches Digital Horizon event on unmanned systems & AI in Bahrain
77: Tesla (21 items)
- 2022-01-12 - Techmeme: California's DMV tells Tesla it is “revisiting” the company's “Full Self-Driving” beta, which previously didn't require oversight under its autonomous car rules (Russ Mitchell/Los Angeles Times)
- 2022-03-12 - Tesla insists Autopilot and Full Self-Driving are safe, but US senators aren’t buying it - The Verge
- 2022-03-27 - Techmeme: Sources detail NHTSA's difficulties regulating Tesla as it rolls out self-driving features, resorting to threats and flattery in exchanges with Elon Musk (Faiz Siddiqui/Washington Post)
- 2022-05-19 - Techmeme: NHTSA records show it is investigating over 30 incidents of a Tesla suspected of being on Autopilot mode going on to be involved in a serious crash (Ryan Felton/Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-06-09 - Techmeme: The NHTSA upgrades its Tesla Autopilot investigation to an “Engineering Analysis”, which precedes a recall and expands it from 765,000 to 830,000 vehicles (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
- 2022-06-12 - Tesla inches closer to recall as NHTSA probes autopilot software | Mashable
- 2022-06-15 - Techmeme: NHTSA data covering July 1, 2021 to May 15, 2022 shows 392 incidents involving driver-assistance tech, including six deaths; Tesla accounted for 273 crashes (New York Times)
- 2022-06-16 - Teslas running Autopilot involved in 273 crashes reported since last year - The Washington Post
- 2022-06-19 - Feds investigating Tesla Autopilot crashes have big implications for self-driving cars
- 2022-07-08 - Tesla is being investigated for two new fatal crashes - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-07-24 - NHTSA investigates another Tesla crash involving death of motorcyclist – TechCrunch
- 2022-07-31 - Tesla driver using Autopilot kills motorcyclist, prompting another NHTSA investigation - The Verge
- 2022-07-31 - Motorcyclist dies in crash with Tesla on auto-pilot
- 2022-07-31 - Two new fatal Tesla crashes are being examined by US investigators - The Verge
- 2022-08-06 - Techmeme: The California DMV accuses Tesla of falsely advertising Autopilot and FSD features, in a pair of July 28 filings with the CA's Office of Administrative Hearings (Russ Mitchell/Los Angeles Times)
- 2022-09-15 - Tesla is sued by drivers over alleged false Autopilot, Full Self-Driving claims | Reuters
- 2022-10-26 - Techmeme: Sources: the US DOJ launched a criminal probe into Tesla in 2021 that is still underway, following over a dozen crashes, some fatal, with Autopilot activated (Reuters)
- 2022-10-27 - Tesla is facing a criminal probe over its self-driving technology claims - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-10-27 - Tesla is under federal investigation over autopilot claims | Popular Science
- 2022-12-23 - Man says his Tesla caused 8 car crash in autopilot mode| Popular Science
- 2022-12-25 - Techmeme: A new California law effectively bans Tesla and other carmakers from deceptively naming or marketing their semi-autonomous vehicles as full self-driving (Ricardo Cano/San Francisco Chronicle)
78: LastPass source code stolen by hackers in security breach (20 items)
- 2022-08-25 - LastPass Says Source Code Stolen in Data Breach | SecurityWeek.Com
- 2022-08-26 - LastPass source code stolen, no evidence of user password compromise
- 2022-08-26 - Techmeme: LastPass says a hacker stole portions of its source code and “proprietary LastPass technical information” two weeks ago, but users' master passwords are safe (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
- 2022-08-26 - LastPass source code stolen by hackers in security breach - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-08-27 - LastPass discloses data breach
- 2022-08-27 - LastPass’s source code stolen in data breach | Cyber Security Hub
- 2022-09-16 - Techmeme: LastPass says hackers had access to its systems for four days in August but there is no evidence customer data or encrypted password vaults were breached (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
- 2022-11-30 - Lastpass says hackers accessed customer data in new breach
- 2022-12-01 - LastPass' latest data breach exposed some customer information - The Verge
- 2022-12-01 - Techmeme: LastPass says attackers accessed customers' data after breaching its cloud storage using information stolen during a security incident in August 2022 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
- 2022-12-02 - Password app LastPass hit by cybersecurity breach but says data remains safe | Cybercrime | The Guardian
- 2022-12-02 - Latest LastPass data breach involves hacker gaining access to third-party cloud storage - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-12-03 - LastPass Suffers Second Major Data Breach in Four Months | Spiceworks 1
- 2022-12-04 - LastPass Confirms Customer Data Breached in Hacking Incident
- 2022-12-22 - Techmeme: LastPass says a threat actor stole a backup copy of its customers' encrypted vault data using cloud storage keys stolen from a LastPass employee in August 2022 (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
- 2022-12-22 - Lastpass: Hackers stole customer vault data in cloud storage breach
- 2022-12-23 - LastPass reveals hacker copied encrypted customer password vaults - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-12-23 - Hackers stole encrypted LastPass password vaults, and we’re just now hearing about it - The Verge
- 2022-12-24 - LastPass says hackers stole customers' password vaults • TechCrunch
- 2022-12-24 - Customer details compromised in LastPass breaches
79: 3D printing (10 items)
- 2022-01-06 - Nano Dimension Buys Global Inkjet Systems to Boost Electronics 3D Printing - 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing
- 2022-01-20 - Breakthrough in metal 3D printing could revolutionize manufacturing - Axios
- 2022-01-27 - Ocado showcases 3D printing innovation
- 2022-02-24 - New system could simplify the inspection of 3D-printed metal objects
- 2022-02-25 - Scientists invent imaging method to assess quality of 3D-printed metal parts
- 2022-04-20 - 3D Printing: NASA makes 1000-times-stronger new alloy with 3D printing
- 2022-09-29 - Stanford's new 3D printing tech is up to 10 times faster than the quickest printer
- 2022-11-18 - Engineers designed a new nanoscale 3D printing material that can be printed at a speed of 100 mm/s
- 2022-12-14 - Research team creates automated robotic platform to study 3D-printed metal in detail
- 2022-12-18 - Printing atom by atom: Lab explores nanoscale 3D printing
80: Self-driving cars (24 items)
- 2022-01-06 - Tesla's cameras-only autonomous system stirs controversy
- 2022-01-07 - Tesla's cameras-only autonomous system stirs controversy - Digital Journal
- 2022-01-27 - The self-driving car industry is abandoning the term ‘self-driving’ and leaving it to Tesla - The Verge
- 2022-02-08 - 'Apple Car' needs Machine Learning to make driving decisions fast enough | AppleInsider
- 2022-04-12 - Tesla's 'full self-driving' struggles to win over its fans' loved ones - CNN
- 2022-04-22 - Techmeme: The UK's Department for Transport outlines rules for self-driving vehicles, including letting drivers watch TV on the go, ahead of a full framework in 2025 (BBC)
- 2022-07-11 - Techmeme: Report details Apple's eight-year struggle to build a self-driving car, as 20 people who worked on the project cite constantly shifting goals and more (Malcolm Owen/AppleInsider)
- 2022-07-11 - Apple's self-driving cars 'smacked into curbs, veered out of lanes': report
- 2022-07-28 - Techmeme: Sources: Apple has hired Luigi Taraborrelli, who was most recently Lamborghini's head of chassis and vehicle dynamics, to work on its self-driving electric car (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- 2022-07-28 - Apple Hires Former Lamborghini Executive to Help Lead Design of Electric Vehicle - MacRumors
- 2022-07-28 - Apple hires Lamborghini exec to work on its electric car, report says | Automotive News Europe
- 2022-07-28 - Apple Nabs Lamborghini Executive to Work on EV | Transport Topics
- 2022-08-21 - Tesla's 'full self-driving' controversy now features homemade mannequins and tests on real kids - CNN
- 2022-08-21 - Tesla's 'full self-driving' controversy now features homemade mannequins and tests on real kids - CNN
- 2022-08-22 - CNN: People are now testing Tesla's 'full self-driving' on real kids - ABC11 Raleigh-Durham
- 2022-10-05 - Techmeme: Tesla plans to remove ultrasonic sensors from some new Model 3 and Y cars this month and Model S and X cars in 2023 in favor of camera and software assistance (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
- 2022-10-06 - Techmeme: After investors bet an estimated ~$100B on self-driving vehicle startups, little progress has been made as companies take shortcuts and losses continue to mount (Max Chafkin/Bloomberg)
- 2022-10-06 - Tesla to REMOVE sensors from new cars in a bet on cameras and AI - amid scrutiny of crashes | Daily Mail Online
- 2022-10-08 - 'It's a scam': Even after $100 billion, self-driving cars are going nowhere | Autoblog
- 2022-10-16 - Techmeme: Analysis: 14 self-driving vehicle tech companies that went public in the past two years have seen an 80%+ average decline in their post-IPO stock price (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)
- 2022-12-06 - Techmeme: Sources: Apple scales back ambitious self-driving plans for its electric vehicle, now delayed to 2026 with a design that includes a steering wheel and pedals (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- 2022-12-07 - Apple Hits Technical Roadblocks, Delays the Lunch of its Self-Driving Vehicles by 2026
- 2022-12-07 - Apple reportedly scales back car plans, postpones launch date to 2026 - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-12-10 - Apple Scales Back Self-Driving Car and Delays Debut Till ’26 - BNN Bloomberg
81: John Deere's autonomous tractor (17 items)
- 2022-01-04 - John Deere's Self-Driving Tractor Stirs Debate on AI in Farming | WIRED
- 2022-01-04 - Techmeme: In the fall, John Deere will start selling its fully autonomous 8R tractor, which can gather data about the soil to improve its algorithms as it operates (Will Knight/Wired)
- 2022-01-05 - John Deere unveils automated tractor at CES show - BBC News
- 2022-01-05 - John Deere's driverless tractor unveiled at CES, will be built in Iowa
- 2022-01-05 - John Deere unveils its first commercially available, fully autonomous tractor
- 2022-01-05 - John Deere unveils automated tractor at CES show
- 2022-01-06 - CES: Robot tractors may be heading to a farm near you - Digital Journal
- 2022-01-06 - Robot tractors may be heading to a farm near you
- 2022-01-06 - Deere Reveals Autonomous Tractor at CES – DTN – AgFax
- 2022-01-06 - John Deere Has Unveiled A New Autonomous Farm Tractor At CES 2022
- 2022-01-07 - Robot tractors may be heading to a farm near you
- 2022-01-07 - John Deere Announces Farmer-Free Autonomous Tractor - Modern Farmer
- 2022-01-09 - John Deere gets close to self-farming farms with autonomous tractors coming later this year
- 2022-01-10 - John Deere thinks its self-driving tractor can help feed the world
- 2022-01-10 - Robot tractors may be heading to a farm near you | Phnom Penh Post
- 2022-01-10 - John Deere Gets Close to Self-Farming Farms With Autonomous Tractors
- 2022-05-18 - John Deere's autonomous tractor will usher in a new era of farming — Quartz
82: Cash App data breach (11 items)
- 2022-04-06 - Cash App Suffers Breach, With Ex-Employee Accessing US Customer Data - CNET
- 2022-04-06 - Block confirms Cash App breach after former employee accessed US customer data – TechCrunch
- 2022-04-07 - Cash App data breach: Over 8 million users possibly affected
- 2022-04-07 - Cash App breached by a former employee could affect millions | Malwarebytes Labs
- 2022-04-08 - Cash App data breach: Over 8 million users affected by data breach - al.com
- 2022-04-08 - More than 8 million Cash App Investing customers potentially impacted by data breach - CNN
- 2022-04-08 - Data breach could affect more than 8 million users of Cash App Investing – KIRO 7 News Seattle
- 2022-04-09 - Cash App data breach could have impacted more than 8 million users
- 2022-04-09 - Cash App data breach could have impacted more than 8 million users | Fox Business
- 2022-04-09 - Over 8 million Cash App users possibly affected by data breach from a former employee
- 2022-04-10 - More than 8 million Cash App Investing customers potentially impacted by data breach linked to former employee
83: Amazon Go stores (17 items)
- 2022-01-25 - Amazon's cashierless Go stores are coming to the suburbs | Engadget
- 2022-01-25 - Amazon's cashierless Go stores are coming to the suburbs
- 2022-02-28 - Techmeme: A look at a newly revamped Whole Foods store in Washington, which is using palm-scanning Amazon One and computer vision-enabled Just Walk Out tech (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
- 2022-04-14 - Walmart Makes a Big Move to Take on Amazon, Digital Rivals - TheStreet
- 2022-05-19 - Seattle smart shopping cart startup Veeve, led by ex-Amazon engineers, rolling into Albertsons – GeekWire
- 2022-05-23 - Albertsons deploys smart grocery carts from Veeve, ex-Amazon engineers
- 2022-07-12 - Amazon gives Dash Cart a makeover and brings the shopping tech to Whole Foods – TechCrunch
- 2022-07-18 - GoLocalProv | Amazon’s “Just Walk Out” Technology Coming to Whole Foods in New England
- 2022-08-09 - Techmeme: Sources: Walmart has held talks with Paramount, Disney, and Comcast, as the retailer explores bundling a streaming service into its Walmart+ membership program (New York Times)
- 2022-08-10 - Amazon One palm print payment service is coming to more Whole Foods locations - The Verge
- 2022-08-10 - Techmeme: Amazon plans to expand its Amazon One palm-recognition payment system to 65+ Whole Foods across California in the coming weeks, marking its first broad rollout (Russell Redman/Supermarket News)
- 2022-08-10 - Amazon expands palm scanning payment tech to 65 more Whole Foods locations – TechCrunch
- 2022-08-11 - Amazon begins large-scale rollout of palm print-based payments | Ars Technica
- 2022-08-11 - TechCrunch: Amazon One Expands Palm Scanners to 65 Additional Whole Foods Stores - Retail TouchPoints
- 2022-08-15 - Techmeme: Sources: Walmart agrees to a deal with Paramount Global to offer the Paramount+ streaming service to Walmart+ subscribers, to better compete with Amazon Prime (Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-08-15 - Techmeme: Walmart partners with Paramount to include the $4.99/month ad-supported tier of the Paramount+ streaming service as part of its Walmart+ subscription (Reuters)
- 2022-12-18 - Amazon, Walmart Roll Out New Ways to Shop - TheStreet
84: Autonomous vehicles (41 items)
- 2022-01-16 - Waymo has its first commercial autonomous trucking customer | Engadget
- 2022-02-02 - Cruise launches public waitlist for its robotaxis in San Francisco - The Verge
- 2022-02-07 - Cruise opens driverless robotaxi service to SF public
- 2022-02-08 - Gatik CEO sees future of autonomous trucking in short hauls - ABC News
- 2022-02-14 - Army-led hackathon awards cash to autonomous off road vehicle developers
- 2022-02-14 - Army-led hackathon awards cash to autonomous off road vehicle developers
- 2022-02-26 - Cruise, Waymo get OK to launch robotaxi service in San Francisco – TechCrunch
- 2022-03-01 - Techmeme: Waymo secures a permit to charge for ride-hailing trips in its autonomous vehicles in San Francisco with safety drivers present (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
- 2022-03-22 - Waymo set to launch fully driverless vehicle service in San Francisco - MarketWatch
- 2022-03-24 - Waymo self-driving cars will go fully driverless in San Francisco — Quartz
- 2022-03-30 - Techmeme: Waymo plans to offer fully autonomous rides in San Francisco, without a human safety driver, as part of a growing test, and expands in Arizona (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
- 2022-03-30 - Waymo to test fully autonomous ride-hailing service in San Francisco and Phoenix - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-03-31 - Waymo starts testing driverless cars in San Francisco
- 2022-05-16 - Kodiak sees milestone in self-driving trucks achieving fail-safe act | Automotive News
- 2022-05-23 - Gatik to expand autonomous truck operations to Kansas - Modern Shipper
- 2022-05-24 - Autonomous trucking company Plus drives faster transition to semi-autonomous trucks | VentureBeat
- 2022-06-03 - Cruise gets green light for commercial robotaxis in San Francisco
- 2022-06-03 - Techmeme: GM's Cruise secures a permit to charge fares for its driverless robotaxi service in San Francisco, which will operate from 10PM to 6AM on select streets (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
- 2022-06-07 - Techmeme: Uber and Waymo unveil a “long-term strategic partnership” to bring Waymo's autonomous trucks to Uber's Freight brokerage, setting aside years of legal disputes (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
- 2022-06-08 - Uber and Waymo to bring autonomous trucking solutions to market - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-06-11 - Waymo is teaming up with Uber on autonomous trucking because time really heals all wounds - The Verge
- 2022-06-19 - Techmeme: A look at the safety and economics of autonomous trucks as Aurora and TuSimple say they plan to have commercial-trucking services in the US by the end of 2023 (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-06-25 - Cruise’s driverless autonomous cars start giving rides to paying passengers – TechCrunch
- 2022-07-04 - Waymo’s self-driving trucks will deliver home goods for Wayfair - The Verge
- 2022-07-20 - Aurora perfects the tech it takes to stop a self-driving truck | Automotive News
- 2022-07-26 - Kodiak Robotics pilots autonomous trucking between California, Texas and Florida – TechCrunch
- 2022-08-16 - Lyft launches an electric self-driving taxi service in Las Vegas - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-08-22 - Lyft and Motional’s all-electric robotaxi service is now live in Las Vegas - The Verge
- 2022-09-05 - Waymo’s driverless vehicles are picking up passengers in downtown Phoenix - The Verge
- 2022-09-13 - Techmeme: CEO Kyle Vogt says that Cruise will launch commercial robotaxi services in Austin and Phoenix “in the next 90 days and before the end of 2022” (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
- 2022-10-01 - Kodiak Robotics shows the future of autonomous trucking after tests | TweakTown
- 2022-10-23 - IKEA tests driverless delivery trucks in Texas with Kodiak Robotics
- 2022-11-07 - Waymo’s robotaxis are now making passenger trips to the Phoenix airport - The Verge
- 2022-11-12 - Waymo is one step closer to charging for self-driving taxis in California | Engadget
- 2022-11-12 - Waymo and Cruise can now charge for robotaxi rides in California | Engadget
- 2022-11-12 - Waymo trials fully driverless rides in San Francisco | Engadget
- 2022-11-12 - Waymo offers public rides in driverless cars in Phoenix | Engadget
- 2022-12-06 - Techmeme: The US Army awards $49.9M to autonomous truck startup Kodiak Robotics for self-driving vehicles for reconnaissance, surveillance, and other “high-risk” missions (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
- 2022-12-07 - Uber and Motional launch robotaxi service in Las Vegas • TechCrunch
- 2022-12-12 - Uber riders can now hail an autonomous ride in Las Vegas
- 2022-12-20 - Google self-driving spinoff Waymo begins testing with public in San Francisco | Reuters
85: Andrej Karpathy (23 items)
- 2022-03-29 - Tesla AI Director Andrej Karpathy explains his ~4-month sabbatical
- 2022-06-28 - Tesla lays off hundreds of autopilot employees; closes its San Mateo, California office | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-06-29 - Tesla lays off nearly 200 Autopilot employees who help train the company’s AI - The Verge
- 2022-06-29 - Tesla's layoffs hit Autopilot team as AI develops - CNN
- 2022-06-29 - Techmeme: Sources: Tesla lays off around 200 Autopilot workers, most of them hourly and focused on labeling data, as part of a broader reduction in staff (Bloomberg)
- 2022-06-29 - Tesla lets go of hundreds of Autopilot data labelers as it closes San Mateo office - Electrek
- 2022-07-02 - Tesla lays off nearly 200 Autopilot workers, shutters San Mateo office – TechCrunch
- 2022-07-13 - Tesla AI executive leaving company after 4-month sabbatical | Reuters
- 2022-07-13 - Techmeme: Andrej Karpathy, director of AI at Tesla, announces he's leaving the company after five years; Karpathy led Tesla's Autopilot Vision team (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
- 2022-07-14 - Tesla's head of AI and Autopilot is leaving the company | Mashable
- 2022-07-14 - Andrej Karpathy quits Tesla
- 2022-07-14 - Tesla Autopilot Chief Karpathy to Depart | Transport Topics
- 2022-07-14 - Tesla AI leader Andrej Karpathy announces he's leaving the company
- 2022-07-14 - Tesla's high-profile Autopilot executive departs
- 2022-07-14 - Tesla's Autopilot chief quits a week after news of expanded probe
- 2022-07-14 - Longtime Tesla Autopilot Executive Andrej Karpathy Departs - WSJ
- 2022-07-14 - Tesla's AI chief is leaving, adding to Autopilot upheaval | Autoblog
- 2022-07-14 - Tesla's artificial intelligence director announces he's leaving - CNN
- 2022-07-15 - Tesla head of AI Andrej Karpathy is out - The Verge
- 2022-07-15 - Andrej Karpathy, Tesla autopilot head, leaves company - Washington Times
- 2022-07-20 - Tesla A.I. Head Andrej Karpathy departs in blow to Elon Musk's big promises | Fortune
- 2022-10-31 - Andrej Karpathy considers coming back to Tesla
- 2022-10-31 - Techmeme: Sources: Elon Musk has pulled more than 50 of his trusted Tesla employees, mostly software engineers from the Autopilot team, to help at Twitter (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
86: Artificial intelligence and war (16 items)
- 2022-02-14 - Russia-Ukraine Conflict Prompted U.S. to Develop Autonomous Drone Swarms, 1,000-Mile Cannon - Scientific American
- 2022-03-02 - Russia-Ukraine war: 10 AI Companies Facing the Consequences
- 2022-03-18 - Russia's Killer Drone in Ukraine Raises Fears About AI in Warfare | WIRED
- 2022-03-23 - Russia may have used a killer robot in Ukraine. Now what? - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- 2022-03-23 - War in Ukraine: Kyiv Says Using Artificial Intelligence, Social Media to Identify Slain Russians
- 2022-04-07 - Ukraine Uses 'Controversial' Artificial Intelligence Tech In Its War Against Russia As Kiev Looks To Win The 'Digital War'
- 2022-04-15 - Russia’s Artificial Intelligence Boom May Not Survive the War - Defense One
- 2022-04-24 - AI is already learning from Russia�s war in Ukraine, DOD says | American Military News
- 2022-05-26 - US Exploits Artificial Intelligence To Monitor Ukraine War; Kiev Uses 'Raw Methods' To Bust Russian Spies
- 2022-06-03 - China spurred by Russia’s setbacks in Ukraine to develop smarter military drones | South China Morning Post
- 2022-06-15 - Ukraine Using Artificial Intelligence to Catch People Sabotaging War Effort
- 2022-07-13 - Autonomous weapons: Efforts to regulate 'killer robots' are threatened by war in Ukraine | New Scientist
- 2022-08-17 - Russia military to develop weapons using artificial intelligence
- 2022-08-17 - Russia military to develop weapons using artificial intelligence
- 2022-12-21 - Techmeme: A look at the intelligence and battle management system, built around software developed by Palantir, that has given Ukraine a high-tech edge in Russia's war (David Ignatius/Washington Post)
- 2022-12-21 - Artificial intelligence to be used in army decision-making — Putin - Military & Defense - TASS
87: Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) headsets (69 items)
- 2022-01-05 - Meta reportedly shuts down plans to build custom AR/VR operating system - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-01-05 - Techmeme: Sources: Meta has stopped developing an OS for its VR and AR devices; the project had been ongoing for several years and involved hundreds of employees (Sylvia Varnham O'Regan/The Information)
- 2022-01-05 - Techmeme: Sony says its upcoming VR headset PS VR2 for PS5 will have a 4K HDR OLED display, 2000×2040 pixels per eye resolution, 110-degree FoV, haptic feedback, and more (Sam Machkovech/Ars Technica)
- 2022-01-06 - Meta Platforms Halts VR and AR Operating System Project — The Information
- 2022-01-06 - Techmeme: Meta says it is still working on a “highly specialized OS” for its AR/VR devices, and it is not “halting or scaling back” operations in building AR/VR software (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
- 2022-01-08 - Meta reportedly canceled a 300-person VR / AR operating system project - The Verge
- 2022-01-09 - Techmeme: Gurman: Apple's upcoming mixed reality headset will not be an all-day device and will be used for bursts of gaming, communication, and content consumption (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
- 2022-01-10 - Apple predictions: new iPhone SE in March, VR headset won't include 'metaverse' support - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-01-11 - Apple Won't Join the Metaverse Hype With Its Headset: Report
- 2022-01-14 - Report: Development challenges may delay launch of Apple’s mixed-reality headset - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-01-14 - Techmeme: Sources: Apple is considering delaying the debut of its mixed-reality headset from WWDC due to development challenges related to overheating, cameras, software (Bloomberg)
- 2022-01-20 - Google reportedly is developing an augmented reality headset - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-01-20 - Techmeme: Sources: Google's AR headset could launch in 2024, powered by a custom processor, resembling ski goggles, and no need for an external power connection (Alex Heath/The Verge)
- 2022-01-24 - Google Accelerates AR Headset Development: Report - Voicebot.ai
- 2022-02-09 - Techmeme: References to “realityOS” appear to have briefly shown up again in Apple's code, this time in a GitHub repo; reports of a new AR headset OS date back to 2017 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
- 2022-02-09 - Apple source code references ‘realityOS’ for potential VR/AR headsets – TechCrunch
- 2022-02-14 - Rising popularity of VR headsets sparks 31% rise in insurance claims | Virtual reality | The Guardian
- 2022-02-21 - Metaverse drives AR/VR headset shipments to hit 14 Mn units in 2022
- 2022-02-22 - Techmeme: Sony reveals the design of PlayStation VR2, including a similar color scheme, lens adjustment dial, updated vent design, and weight reduction (The Verge)
- 2022-02-22 - Apple completes production tests of its AR/ VR headset
- 2022-02-25 - Techmeme: Sources: Meta broke up a 300+ team working on OSes for its VR headsets and upcoming AR glasses, including a group working on a new OS code-named XROS (Sylvia Varnham O'Regan/The Information)
- 2022-04-11 - iOS 16 beta code reportedly references Apple mixed reality headset - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-05-02 - Techmeme: Road map: Meta plans four VR headsets by 2024; source says high-end MR headset Cambria, once slated for 2021, could debut in Sept. before its successor in 2024 (The Information)
- 2022-05-02 - Report: Meta to launch four new virtual reality headsets by 2024 - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-05-03 - Meta Plots Ambitious VR Release Schedule of Four Headsets by 2024 — The Information
- 2022-05-11 - Google’s new ‘multisearch’ features hint towards an AR glasses future – TechCrunch
- 2022-05-12 - Techmeme: Mark Zuckerberg gives an early look at mixed reality on Meta's Project Cambria headset; Meta announces Presence Platform to let developers make MR apps (Scott Stein/CNET)
- 2022-05-17 - Techmeme: Report details the challenges Apple's mixed reality headset has faced over the years, including initial pushback from Jony Ive on a VR headset concept (Michael Potuck/9to5Mac)
- 2022-05-18 - Apple struggled to develop mixed reality headset because of internal politics - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-05-19 - Techmeme: Sources: Apple executives previewed the upcoming MR headset to its board last week, as the company ramps up the development of its reality OS (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- 2022-05-20 - Techmeme: Report details Jony Ive's work on Apple's MR headset as sources say he remains involved as an external consultant and that the device is not gaming focused (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
- 2022-05-20 - Apple mixed reality headset reportedly shown to board, could go on sale this year - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-05-22 - Apple's AR/VR headset gets one step closer to a reality | Digital Trends
- 2022-05-31 - Techmeme: Kuo: Sony will begin mass producing its PSVR 2 headset in H2 2022 ahead of a possible launch in Q1 2023, depending on the state of flagship game titles (David Heaney/UploadVR)
- 2022-06-04 - Techmeme: Sources: Apple enlisted Hollywood directors like Jon Favreau to develop video content for its MR headset that resembles ski goggles and may ship in 2023 (New York Times)
- 2022-06-05 - Techmeme: Apple is working on VR versions of FaceTime and Maps, SwiftUI for AR and VR apps, and a way for its headset to extend a Mac's display, bringing it into 3D (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- 2022-06-06 - Google finally finds a true purpose with its new augmented reality glasses… sort of like Apple and its watch - Yanko Design
- 2022-06-20 - Meta’s latest VR headset prototypes will help it pass the ‘Visual Turing test’ – TechCrunch
- 2022-06-20 - Techmeme: Mark Zuckerberg demos multiple prototype VR headsets from Reality Labs, none of which will ship, as Meta continues working on VR and mixed reality devices (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
- 2022-06-24 - Apple's "game-changing" VR headset coming out in January, says analyst | iMore
- 2022-06-25 - Techmeme: As Apple is expected to announce a headset in January and Meta slows VR investment, a look at opportunities for the VR supply chain and competing headset makers (Ming-Chi Kuo/Medium)
- 2022-07-01 - Techmeme: IDC: global shipments for VR headsets jumped 241.6% during Q1 2022, with Meta capturing 90% of market share thanks to its Quest 2 headset (The Economic Times)
- 2022-07-07 - Techmeme: Code in Meta's iPhone app for VR headsets suggests Meta's Project Cambria headset will be called the Meta Quest Pro; a source says it will cost over $1,000 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- 2022-07-19 - Google Begins Publicly Testing Its AR Glasses - CNET
- 2022-07-19 - Techmeme: Google plans to test AR prototypes in public, starting with a few dozen employees and trusted testers in August and ramping up to hundreds by the end of 2022 (Scott Stein/CNET)
- 2022-07-22 - Google to test AR prototype glasses, lenses for visual search and more
- 2022-07-26 - Techmeme: Meta increases the price of Meta Quest 2 headsets to $400 for the 128GB model and $500 for 256GB, starting on Aug. 1, and will bundle Beat Saber through Dec. 31 (Ian Hamilton/UploadVR)
- 2022-07-27 - Techmeme: Sony reveals more PlayStation VR2 details, including a see-through view, a broadcast mode for filming gameplay, and a cinematic mode for non-VR games and media (Tom Warren/The Verge)
- 2022-08-23 - Techmeme: Sony says the PlayStation VR2 headset is coming in “early 2023” but does not reveal its pricing (The Verge)
- 2022-08-25 - Techmeme: Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's next VR headset will debut in October with improved eye- and facial-tracking features to bolster users' feeling of “social presence” (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
- 2022-08-28 - Techmeme: Trademark filings suggest Apple is considering the names Reality One, Reality Pro for its mixed-reality headset, and Reality Processor for the chip in the set (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- 2022-08-29 - Apple trademarks reveal ‘Reality’ branding for upcoming mixed reality headsets - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-09-06 - Meta to launch new mixed reality headset at virtual event Oct. 11 - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-09-06 - Techmeme: Meta announces its Connect conference will be held virtually on October 11, where it is expected to debut its next high-end VR headset (Ian Hamilton/UploadVR)
- 2022-09-08 - Meta to Reveal Long Awaited VR Headset Cambria at Meta Connect on Oct 11
- 2022-09-14 - Techmeme: PlayStation VR2 hands-on: easy to set up, a joy to use, the OLED display looks great, refreshed Sense controllers are an improvement, gameplay is fun, and more (The Verge)
- 2022-10-03 - Techmeme: Sources: Sony plans to make 2M PlayStation VR2 units by March 2023, an ambitious target, and has not yet faced supply chain constraints (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
- 2022-10-08 - Techmeme: A history of consumer VR since 2012, from the first Oculus developer kit and the 2016 hype cycle to Quest 2, and what mainstream success for VR could look like (Steve Haske/Ars Technica)
- 2022-10-11 - Techmeme: A look inside Meta's Reality Labs, with demos of its neural input wristband, 3D audio, photorealistic avatars with Codec Avatars 2.0, and 3D object scanning (Scott Stein/CNET)
- 2022-10-11 - Techmeme: Meta unveils the $1,499 Quest Pro headset, offering eye and face tracking and color passthrough video for mixed reality, shipping on October 25 in 22 countries (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
- 2022-10-11 - Techmeme: A video of Meta's Connect 2022 keynote, showcasing the Quest VR headset, plans for the metaverse, new partnerships, and more (Meta on YouTube)
- 2022-10-26 - Techmeme: Meta plans to launch the next generation of its consumer Quest headset in 2023 (Nick Statt/Protocol)
- 2022-11-02 - Techmeme: Sony plans to launch the PlayStation VR2 on February 22 for $550, £530, or €600; preorders open November 15 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
- 2022-11-11 - Techmeme: Meta Quest Pro review: improved controllers but irredeemably bad software and feels like it was launched without plan or purpose, highlighting VR's drawbacks (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
- 2022-11-14 - Apple job listings suggest the company is building a metaverse of its own for its long-rumored headset
- 2022-12-01 - Techmeme: Sources: Apple is ramping up work on a mixed-reality headset to be introduced as early as next year and has renamed the headset's OS from realityOS to xrOS (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- 2022-12-02 - Apple mixed-reality headset operating system reportedly now known as 'xrOS' - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-12-04 - Techmeme: Kuo: mass shipments of Apple's AR/VR headset may be delayed until H2 2023, from previously estimated Q2 2023, due to “software-related issues” (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
- 2022-12-28 - Techmeme: CCS Insight: global shipments of VR and AR devices fell 12%+ YoY to 9.6M in 2022; NPD Group: US sales of VR headsets fell 2% YoY to $1.1B as of early December (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
88: Boris Johnson (13 items)
- 2022-01-31 - Brexit news: Boris Johnson sparks £1BN mega-Brexit bonfire TODAY – hated EU red tape blitz | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
- 2022-01-31 - Boris Johnson continues partygate fightback with new 'Brexit Freedoms Bill' to ease ditching of EU laws | Politics News | Sky News
- 2022-01-31 - Prime Minister pledges Brexit Freedoms Bill to cut EU red tape - GOV.UK
- 2022-01-31 - 'Brexit Freedoms' Bill launched by Boris Johnson to scrap outdated EU law
- 2022-01-31 - U.K.’s Boris Johnson gets ‘partygate’ report after lockdown-breaching bashes - National | Globalnews.ca
- 2022-01-31 - Boris Johnson gets 'partygate' report but questions linger
- 2022-01-31 - Boris Johnson pledges to slash red tape and boost trade... and says the EU CAN'T hold us back | Daily Mail Online
- 2022-01-31 - Boris Johnson tries to change subject from 'partygate' woes | The Independent
- 2022-01-31 - London promises Brexit Freedom Bill to speed up scrapping of EU laws
- 2022-01-31 - Brexit Freedom Bill re-promises GDPR reform • The Register
- 2022-01-31 - Boris Johnson to try to regain control with Brexit bill and political blitzkrieg
- 2022-01-31 - Brexit Freedoms Bill to propel UK investment 'Number 1 place for business!' | Politics | News | Express.co.uk
- 2022-01-31 - Boris Johnson gets 'partygate' report but questions linger
89: DALL-E (22 items)
- 2022-04-06 - Techmeme: OpenAI unveils DALL-E 2, the successor to its text-to-image neural network, built using its CLIP language model and available to researchers in preview (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
- 2022-04-06 - OpenAI showcases DALL-E 2, a powerful A.I. for creating photorealistic scenes from text descriptions | Fortune
- 2022-04-06 - OpenAI's DALL-E 2 produces fantastical images of most anything you can imagine | Engadget
- 2022-04-07 - OpenAI’s DALL-E AI image generator can now edit pictures, too - The Verge
- 2022-04-09 - OpenAI Introduces DALL-E 2: A New AI System That Can Create And Edit Realistic Images And Art From A Description In Natural Language - MarkTechPost
- 2022-04-11 - OpenAI’s new A.I system DALL-E 2 can create mesmerizing images from text
- 2022-05-24 - Techmeme: Google Research details Imagen, an AI-based text-to-image generator to rival OpenAI's DALL-E 2 (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)
- 2022-06-26 - OpenAI's DALL-E 2 may now generate faces
- 2022-07-20 - OpenAI expands access to DALL-E 2, its powerful image-generating AI system – TechCrunch
- 2022-09-19 - OpenAI begins allowing users to edit faces with DALL-E 2 • TechCrunch
- 2022-09-20 - OpenAI’s image generator DALL-E can now edit human faces - The Verge
- 2022-09-20 - You can now edit faces with DALLE-2 on OpenAI
- 2022-09-23 - OpenAI Starts Letting DALL-E 2 Users Edit Faces on Synthetic Images - Voicebot.ai
- 2022-09-28 - AI Image Generator DALL-E is Now Available to Everyone | PetaPixel
- 2022-09-28 - Dall-E Opens Its AI Art Creation Tool to Everyone - CNET
- 2022-09-29 - OpenAI’s image generator DALL-E is available for anyone to use immediately - The Verge
- 2022-09-30 - OpenAI opens its doors to DALL-E text-to-image service • The Register
- 2022-10-20 - OpenAI offers early look at DALL-E API, showcases text-to-image use case | VentureBeat
- 2022-10-27 - OpenAI DALL-E Image Generation Is Now Available in Shutterstock - WinBuzzer
- 2022-11-02 - Picsart Launches a Free and Unlimited AI Text-to-Image Generator | PetaPixel
- 2022-11-03 - OpenAI opens up AI text-to-image generation to businesses with launch of DALL-E API - The Verge
- 2022-11-10 - Canva Adds a Free and Unlimited AI Text-to-Image Generator | PetaPixel
90: TikTok (37 items)
- 2022-03-02 - Techmeme: Several US state AGs launch a probe into TikTok, focusing on whether the app's design and operations negatively impact young users' physical and mental health (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)
- 2022-03-03 - TikTok faces investigation into its impact on young people’s mental health - The Verge
- 2022-03-05 - US Attorneys General Launch New Probe into the Dangers of TikTok for Young Users | Social Media Today
- 2022-03-06 - Techmeme: TikTok suspends livestreaming and new content uploads in Russia amid the country's new law that would impose prison terms for spreading “fake news” (Bloomberg)
- 2022-03-07 - TikTok restricts service in Russia and Netflix stops streaming | TikTok | The Guardian
- 2022-03-09 - Techmeme: Sources detail TikTok's struggles to moderate its service as Russia invades Ukraine; in lieu of detailed instructions, junior employees had to refine the rules (Liza Lin/Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-03-11 - Techmeme: Sources: TikTok is nearing a deal for Oracle Corp to store US users' data and ringfence it from ByteDance, hoping to address US national security concerns (Reuters)
- 2022-03-30 - TikTok’s Black Box Obscures Its Role in Russia’s War | WIRED
- 2022-04-13 - Techmeme: Research details the impact of TikTok's decision to block outside content from appearing to Russian users while allowing state propaganda (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
- 2022-04-14 - TikTok's Russia strategy: Censorship, loopholes and propaganda - The Washington Post
- 2022-04-15 - Techmeme: Sources: TikTok is under investigation by US government agencies for CSAM and how a specific privacy feature is being exploited by predators (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
- 2022-06-20 - TikTok and Oracle teamed up after all, but concerns about data privacy remain - The Verge
- 2022-06-29 - Techmeme: FCC's Brendan Carr writes to Apple and Google demanding they remove TikTok from app stores over China-related security concerns or provide statements by July 8 (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
- 2022-06-30 - FCC commissioner urges Apple and Google to remove TikTok from app stores | IT PRO
- 2022-06-30 - Citing security concerns, FCC commissioner asks Apple and Google to remove TikTok from app stores - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-07-05 - TikTok is "unacceptable security risk" and should be removed from app stores, says FCC | Malwarebytes Labs
- 2022-07-14 - US leaders sound alarm on TikTok data privacy concerns | WSAV-TV
- 2022-08-10 - TikTok Is ‘Shadow-Promoting’ Banned Content in Russia | WIRED
- 2022-08-14 - Techmeme: A look at the growing bipartisan scrutiny of TikTok in the US; email: House officials told staff they did not recommend using the app, citing security concerns (David McCabe/New York Times)
- 2022-09-11 - Techmeme: At Code, CEOs and politicians voiced concerns about TikTok's power, rapid growth, and surveillance potential, with some calling for it to be banned altogether (Alexandra S. Levine/Forbes)
- 2022-09-27 - TikTok Seen Moving Toward US Security Deal, but Hurdles Remain - The New York Times
- 2022-10-29 - Techmeme: A look at the US government's handwringing over TikTok and national security concerns, as China's government seeks to protect its powerful app and algorithms (Washington Post)
- 2022-10-30 - Techmeme: Some teens are using TikTok to self-diagnose mental illnesses, as health providers worry about inaccurate information and accounts encouraging harmful behavior (Christina Caron/New York Times)
- 2022-11-23 - TikTok data practices under investigation by EU - Dataconomy
- 2022-12-06 - Techmeme: Sources: the US-TikTok national security deal faces further delays as US officials fret over the app's risks; both sides agree Oracle will host TikTok's US data (Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-12-07 - Techmeme: Texas bans the use of TikTok on government-issued devices, becoming the fourth GOP-led state to do so, following South Dakota, South Carolina, and Maryland (Shawna Chen/Axios)
- 2022-12-08 - Texas joins other states and bans the use of TikTok on government-issued devices - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-12-14 - Techmeme: US lawmakers introduce legislation that aims to ban TikTok or any social media company in, or under the influence of, China, Russia, and other US adversaries (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)
- 2022-12-15 - Techmeme: The US Senate unanimously passed the No TikTok on Government Devices Act over security concerns related to the app, after 13 states imposed similar bans (Al Weaver/The Hill)
- 2022-12-19 - A bill to ban TikTok is gaining traction in Congress, and with some marketers - Digiday
- 2022-12-20 - Techmeme: A provision to bar TikTok from government devices was included in the US government's $1.7T omnibus spending bill that is due for a vote this week (Washington Post)
- 2022-12-21 - Omnibus bill bans TikTok on government phones just as the app is making algorithm changes - Vox
- 2022-12-22 - Techmeme: Sources: aiming to appease the US government, TikTok offers to operate more of its business at arm's length and allow more outside scrutiny by Oracle and others (Reuters)
- 2022-12-23 - Exclusive: TikTok steps up efforts to clinch U.S. security deal | Reuters
- 2022-12-24 - Congress passes spending bill with TikTok ban on government devices
- 2022-12-28 - Techmeme: The US House bans TikTok on all House-managed devices, citing a “high risk due to a number of security issues”, following similar bans for US government devices (Moira Warburton/Reuters)
- 2022-12-28 - House of Representatives bans TikTok ahead of likely ban on all government devices - SiliconANGLE
91: Zero-day vulnerabilities in Chrome (14 items)
- 2022-01-20 - Update now! Chrome patches critical RCE vulnerability in Safe Browsing | Malwarebytes Labs
- 2022-02-15 - Update now! Chrome patches actively exploited zero-day vulnerability | Malwarebytes Labs
- 2022-03-26 - Techmeme: Google releases a Chrome update for Windows, Mac, and Linux to fix a high-severity zero-day exploited in the wild, the second such patch for Chrome in 2022 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
- 2022-03-28 - Update now! Google releases emergency patch for Chrome zero-day used in the wild | Malwarebytes Labs
- 2022-03-28 - Google Chrome CVE-2022-1096 Emergency Patch - Security Boulevard
- 2022-03-30 - Update now! Google launches Chrome version 100 and fixes 28 vulnerabilities | Malwarebytes Labs
- 2022-04-15 - Techmeme: Google updates Chrome to fix a type confusion vulnerability actively exploited in the wild and other security flaws, the third zero-day patch for Chrome in 2022 (Jeff Burt/The Register)
- 2022-04-15 - Google releases patch for high-severity Chrome vulnerability - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-04-22 - Google fixes Chrome zero day being used in exploits in the wild | ZDNet
- 2022-07-04 - Techmeme: Google releases a Chrome update for Windows to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild, its fourth Chrome zero-day patch in 2022 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
- 2022-07-25 - Update Google Chrome now! New version includes 11 important security patches | Malwarebytes Labs
- 2022-09-05 - Google rolls out update for high-severity vulnerability in Chrome - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-09-06 - Techmeme: Google updates Chrome to address an actively exploited high-severity zero-day vulnerability in Mojo, its sixth patch for zero-day vulnerabilities in 2022 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
- 2022-11-25 - Google releases patch for zero-day Chrome vulnerability - SiliconANGLE
92: DOD and Artificial Intelligence (47 items)
- 2022-01-18 - Congress wants to boost the prominence of Pentagon’s AI center
- 2022-01-26 - New DOD Chief Digital and AI Office to start work by Feb. 1 - FedScoop
- 2022-01-30 - US DOD AIDA program will create AI tools for decision-making in All Domain Operations | International Defense Security & Technology Inc.
- 2022-02-02 - DOD Debuts Office to Help It 'Move Faster' on Artificial Intelligence - Nextgov
- 2022-02-02 - DoD names CIO as acting official to deliver ‘end-to-end’ integration on data, AI | Federal News Network
- 2022-02-02 - John Sherman tapped to be acting chief digital and AI officer at DOD - FedScoop
- 2022-02-02 - Pentagon’s new data and AI office hits IOC milestone, gets $500M budget - Breaking Defense Breaking Defense - Defense industry news, analysis and commentary
- 2022-02-02 - Pentagon names acting chief digital and AI officer as it moves toward full capability
- 2022-02-02 - Pentagon names acting chief digital and AI officer as it moves toward full capability
- 2022-02-03 - DOD Debuts Office to Help It 'Move Faster' on Artificial Intelligence - Defense One
- 2022-02-04 - Scale AI to Accelerate US Government AI Capabilities - Defense Advancement
- 2022-02-22 - Hundreds of AI projects underway as Defense Department eyes future combat
- 2022-02-23 - Hundreds of AI projects underway as Defense Department eyes future combat
- 2022-03-04 - Department of Defense Invests in Artificial Intelligence
- 2022-03-11 - Pentagon names Navy's Palmieri as deputy for new digital and AI office - Breaking Defense Breaking Defense - Defense industry news, analysis and commentary
- 2022-03-15 - Pentagon Names Deputy Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer | SIGNAL Magazine
- 2022-03-28 - 61 Defence specific Artificial Intelligence Projects identified: Govt
- 2022-04-25 - Lyft exec Craig Martell tapped as Pentagon's AI chief: Exclusive Interview - Breaking Defense
- 2022-04-25 - Techmeme: The Department of Defense hires Craig Martell, Lyft's head of machine learning, as the Pentagon's first chief digital and artificial intelligence officer (Billy Mitchell/FedScoop)
- 2022-04-26 - Lyft exec will head the Pentagon’s AI efforts
- 2022-04-26 - Pentagon hires Lyft machine learning expert Craig Martell as its first chief digital and AI officer - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-04-26 - Craig Martell Appointed DOD Chief Digital and AI Officer - GovCon Wire
- 2022-04-26 - Lyft’s Craig Martell Named DoD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer - HS Today
- 2022-04-26 - Pentagon taps former Lyft executive Craig Martell to be artificial intelligence chief | Washington Examiner
- 2022-04-27 - Pentagon Taps Lyft’s Machine-Learning Chief - WSJ
- 2022-04-28 - All about Pentagon’s new AI chief
- 2022-05-04 - Pentagon must advance AI to stay ahead of rivals, industry execs tell Congress
- 2022-05-05 - Google exec pushes lawmakers to support Pentagon's AI efforts - Breaking Defense
- 2022-05-05 - Pentagon must advance AI to stay ahead of rivals, industry execs tell Congress
- 2022-05-22 - Pentagon hires first chief digital and AI officer from Lyft - FedScoop
- 2022-05-25 - Pentagon names new chief of responsible artificial intelligence - FedScoop
- 2022-05-26 - Head of DOD artificial intelligence command warns Pentagon must improve to beat China on AI - CyberScoop
- 2022-06-02 - Pentagon’s AI, data office fully operational as leadership posts filled
- 2022-06-03 - Pentagon’s AI, data office fully operational as leadership posts filled
- 2022-06-08 - Pentagon's new AI chief vows to crack 'bureaucratic inertia' on tech advances | Stars and Stripes
- 2022-06-09 - Pentagon’s Hicks expects real results from artificial intelligence office
- 2022-07-02 - Pentagon elevates key AI governance body - FedScoop
- 2022-07-16 - Pentagon AI roadmap seen helping build warfighter, public trust
- 2022-09-15 - Pentagon artificial intelligence boss says real data to guide work
- 2022-09-16 - Pentagon artificial intelligence boss says real data to guide work
- 2022-12-09 - US Army intel office plots AI development with Project Linchpin
- 2022-12-09 - US Army intel office plots AI development with Project Linchpin
- 2022-12-09 - US Army intel office plots AI development with Project Linchpin
- 2022-12-10 - US Army intel office plots AI development with Project Linchpin
- 2022-12-15 - Coming soon: DIA’s new strategy for AI readiness
- 2022-12-15 - DIA to release AI strategy as Pentagon grapples with tech talent challenges | Federal News Network
- 2022-12-21 - Pentagon Seeks Proposals for AI Talent 2.0 Procurement Vehicle - GovCon Wire
93: AI-generated images (27 items)
- 2022-07-22 - Commercial image-generating AI raises all sorts of thorny legal issues – TechCrunch
- 2022-08-03 - Now Microsoft wants a share of the ‘AI image generator’ pie
- 2022-09-21 - Techmeme: Getty Images bans the upload and sale of AI-generated images using tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, citing concerns over legal challenges (James Vincent/The Verge)
- 2022-09-21 - Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges - The Verge
- 2022-09-22 - Getty bans AI-generated art due to potential copyright issues - DIY Photography
- 2022-10-14 - Microsoft takes AI image generation mainstream, strolling into ethics minefield | Ars Technica
- 2022-10-16 - Artists: AI Image Generators Can Make Copycat Images in Seconds
- 2022-10-21 - Getty Says ‘No’ to AI-Generated Images
- 2022-10-25 - AI images for the masses: Shutterstock and OpenAI partner up
- 2022-10-25 - Shutterstock integrates DALL-E 2 for AI-generated art and launches contributor fund - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-10-25 - Techmeme: Shutterstock partners with OpenAI to begin selling DALL-E 2-generated stock imagery “in the coming months” and launches a Contributor Fund to reimburse creators (James Vincent/The Verge)
- 2022-10-26 - Shutterstock will start selling AI-generated stock imagery with help from OpenAI - The Verge
- 2022-10-26 - Shutterstock and OpenAI will team up to sell AI-generated stock images | Engadget
- 2022-10-26 - Shutterstock will sell AI-generated art and 'compensate' human artists | New Scientist
- 2022-10-26 - Shutterstock to integrate OpenAI's DALL-E 2 and launch fund for contributor artists • TechCrunch
- 2022-10-27 - Shutterstock to integrate OpenAI's DALL-E 2 and launch fund for contributor artists
- 2022-10-27 - An AI image generator is coming to Shutterstock | Popular Science
- 2022-10-27 - OpenAI partners with Shutterstock to start selling AI-generated images soon | TechSpot
- 2022-10-30 - Shutterstock Is Now Selling Images Generated By AI - In Coll
- 2022-12-05 - Exclusive: Adobe will sell AI-made stock images
- 2022-12-05 - Techmeme: Unlike Getty Images, Adobe says it will sell stock images made by artists who used generative AI programs like Dall-E, but requires images be labeled as such (Ina Fried/Axios)
- 2022-12-05 - Adobe Confirms Plan To Sell AI-Generated Stock Images
- 2022-12-05 - Adobe to allow AI in stock images | LinkedIn
- 2022-12-06 - Adobe Stock will sell images created with the help of artificial intelligence
- 2022-12-06 - Adobe Stock to Allow AI-Generated Images on Its Service - CNET
- 2022-12-09 - Adobe sets new guidelines for AI-generated stock images | ZDNET
- 2022-12-10 - Adobe Gets Into the Generative AI Image Game | PCMag
94: Starlink (29 items)
- 2022-01-29 - Techmeme: FCC announces $1.2B in funding through the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund to expand broadband services across 32 states, provided by 23 telecom companies (Emma Roth/The Verge)
- 2022-02-02 - Techmeme: Elon Musk announces Starlink Premium, a $500/month tier with claimed 150Mbps to 500Mbps download speeds, up from 50Mbps to 250Mbps on the standard tier (Jon Porter/The Verge)
- 2022-02-27 - Techmeme: In a viral tweet, Elon Musk says SpaceX's Starlink internet is now active in Ukraine with “more terminals en route”, but it's unclear when or how many (Jason Koebler/VICE)
- 2022-03-03 - Techmeme: Experts warn that Russia can use satellite signals to geolocate and target Starlink users in Ukraine; Elon Musk says the “probability of being targeted is high” (Jackie Wattles/CNN)
- 2022-03-20 - Techmeme: Mykhailo Fedorov says the quality of Starlink is excellent, as Ukrainians use the terminals to stay online; source says there are 5K+ terminals in the country (Washington Post)
- 2022-03-23 - Techmeme: Starlink is increasing the price of its starter kit to $599, up $100, and its monthly internet service to $110, up $11, according to an email to customers (Loren Grush/The Verge)
- 2022-04-13 - Users of SpaceX's Starlink lost service at the weekend • The Register
- 2022-04-22 - SpaceX shut down a Russian electromagnetic warfare attack in Ukraine last month — and the Pentagon is taking notes
- 2022-04-24 - Explained: How Starlink Of Elon Musk Prevented Russian Electromagnetic Attack In Ukraine
- 2022-06-11 - Techmeme: Elon Musk's Starlink has become an unexpected lifeline in Ukraine, on the battlefield and in the war for public opinion, impressing many Western militaries (Politico)
- 2022-06-21 - Techmeme: A look at LTD Broadband, which won rights to $1.3B in federal funds to deliver rural broadband in 15 states but missed deadlines and approvals to get the money (Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-07-01 - Techmeme: The FCC authorizes SpaceX to provide Starlink satellite internet to vehicles in motion, including commercial airlines, shipping vessels, and trucks (Michael Sheetz/CNBC)
- 2022-07-01 - SpaceX receives FCC approval to provide Starlink connectivity to moving vehicles - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-07-08 - Techmeme: SpaceX debuts Starlink Maritime, a yacht-focused satellite internet service with speeds up to 350 Mbps, for $5K/month and a $10K one-time hardware fee (Andrew Mendez/TechCrunch)
- 2022-08-10 - Techmeme: The FCC rejects SpaceX's application for a $885M subsidy to provide Starlink broadband to rural America over 10 years, after tentatively approving it in 2020 (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)
- 2022-08-30 - Techmeme: Starlink users in the US, the UK, New Zealand, Mexico, and elsewhere complain of a multi-hour outage; the Starlink app reports “Degraded Service” (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)
- 2022-10-07 - Techmeme: Sources: Ukrainian troops report widespread outages of Starlink devices, often in newly liberated territories where their advances have not been made public yet (Financial Times)
- 2022-10-12 - Techmeme: Sources: Ukrainian officials say some Starlink devices that suffered outages have come back online; officials rule out technical malfunctions or Russian jamming (Financial Times)
- 2022-10-14 - Techmeme: Documents: SpaceX told the Pentagon it can't donate more Starlink terminals to Ukraine or keep funding the service there, asking the Pentagon to provide funding (Alex Marquardt/CNN)
- 2022-10-15 - Techmeme: Elon Musk claims SpaceX will continue subsidizing Starlink in Ukraine “for free” even though the service is still losing money; SpaceX receives government funds (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
- 2022-10-16 - Techmeme: Starlink in Ukraine: Musk, SpaceX, and its government partners should stop finger-pointing, commit to transparency, and figure out a long-term funding solution (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)
- 2022-10-17 - Elon Musk says SpaceX will keep funding Starlink internet in Ukraine | Ukraine | The Guardian
- 2022-10-19 - Techmeme: SpaceX unveils its Starlink Aviation service, promising speeds up to 350Mbps in airplanes, with a $150K one-time hardware cost and $12.5K to $25K monthly fees (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
- 2022-10-26 - Techmeme: An investigation into the FCC's ~$17B Emergency Broadband Benefit reveals how US telecom giants abused the program with price hikes, speed cuts, and fraud risks (Tony Romm/Washington Post)
- 2022-11-05 - Techmeme: Sources: 1,300 Starlink units in Ukraine went offline over funding issues, as SpaceX negotiates with US DoD despite Musk's claims to keep funding the units (CNN)
- 2022-11-14 - Techmeme: Sources and docs: Elon Musk's SpaceX orders a large Twitter ad package, promoting Starlink in a “takeover” in Spain and Australia that can cost $250K+ per day (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
- 2022-11-17 - Techmeme: Analysis of 22K US broadband bills highlights issues: far higher average cost than in Europe at $75/month, little carrier choice, bogus charges, and more (Russell Brandom/The Verge)
- 2022-11-30 - Techmeme: SpaceX's Starlink increases the price for new Ukrainian customers to $700, far above the $385 cost from earlier in 2022; monthly subscriptions rise to $75 (Financial Times)
- 2022-12-02 - Techmeme: SpaceX gets FCC approval to deploy up to 7,500 next-generation Starlink internet satellites in low Earth orbit; SpaceX had applied for nearly 30K satellites (Michael Sheetz/CNBC)
95: Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra (20 items)
- 2022-01-04 - Techmeme: Samsung unveils Galaxy S21 FE, with a 6.4-inch display, Snapdragon 888, 120Hz refresh rate, triple-lens rear camera, and a 32MP selfie camera, starting at $699 (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
- 2022-01-25 - Techmeme: Samsung announces its next Galaxy Unpacked event will be held virtually on February 9 at 7am PT, where it's expected to unveil the Galaxy S22 (Cherlynn Low/Engadget)
- 2022-01-30 - Samsung Galaxy S22 launch — here's how Samsung can make its new phones stand out from the crowd | Tom's Guide
- 2022-02-08 - Techmeme: What to expect from Samsung's Unpacked event: Galaxy S22, S22+, and S22 Ultra, Galaxy Tab S8 series, and more (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
- 2022-02-09 - Techmeme: Samsung debuts Galaxy S22 Ultra, starting at $1,199 with a 6.8" 120Hz display, S-Pen support, up to 1TB storage, and updated cameras, on sale from February 25 (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
- 2022-02-09 - Samsung unveils Galaxy S22 smartphones and Tab S8 tablets - UPI.com
- 2022-02-09 - Techmeme: Samsung unveils 6.1" Galaxy S22 and 6.6" S22+ with updated cameras, 10Hz-120Hz, and Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, coming February 25; S22 starts at $800, S22+ at $1,000 (Chris Welch/The Verge)
- 2022-02-09 - Techmeme: Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra hands-on: a laptop replacement and iPad Pro rival that is unwieldy as a tablet, the screen has a notch, and S-Pen is responsive (Phillip Tracy/Gizmodo)
- 2022-02-09 - Samsung unveils Galaxy S22 smartphone with improved nighttime photography | Daily Mail Online
- 2022-02-09 - Techmeme: Samsung unveils the $1,100 Tab S8 Ultra, with a 14.6" 120Hz display, 16GB RAM, two front-facing cameras, and Snapdragon Gen 1 chip, shipping later in February (Dan Seifert/The Verge)
- 2022-02-09 - Techmeme: Hands-on with Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra: feels like the Note, distinctive hardware, mesmerizing display, impressive specs, and welcome S-Pen support (Sam Rutherford/Engadget)
- 2022-02-09 - Samsung Galaxy S22 ultra hands-on review: Unpacked event reveals the new king of Android phones | The Independent
- 2022-02-09 - Samsung focuses on camera tech in Galaxy S22 series - Mobile World Live
- 2022-02-09 - Samsung debuts new flagship Galaxy S22 Ultra smartphone and upgraded tablets - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-02-10 - Samsung Boosts Performance For Creators And Galaxy Note Fans With New S22 Ultra
- 2022-02-11 - iPhone 13 is Significantly Faster Than Samsung's New Galaxy S22 in Benchmarks - MacRumors
- 2022-02-11 - iPhone 13 Pro easily outperforms Samsung’s latest Galaxy S22 in new benchmarks - 9to5Mac
- 2022-02-14 - Samsung's Galaxy S22 Ultra gets crushed by last year's iPhone benchmarks
- 2022-02-21 - Techmeme: Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra review: great performance, improved cameras, and welcome S-Pen support, but lackluster battery and the stylus might not suit everyone (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
- 2022-03-01 - Techmeme: Samsung Galaxy S22 and S22+ review: excellent performance, cameras, build quality, and support policy, but battery life is poor and One UI feels cluttered (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
96: Animal communication (19 items)
- 2022-03-07 - Grunt of the litter: scientists use AI to decode pig calls | Science | The Guardian
- 2022-03-19 - Techmeme: How researchers are using self-supervised learning, a branch of AI that has proven effective for handling human language, to better understand animal sounds (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-04-25 - Automated analysis of animal behaviour | ETH Zurich
- 2022-04-25 - Automated analysis of animal behavior -- ScienceDaily
- 2022-04-26 - Algorithm could save hours of analyzing animal behavior - Futurity
- 2022-04-28 - AI can now understand animal behavior
- 2022-05-06 - Artificial intelligence helps decode animal sounds
- 2022-05-30 - People could soon speak to animals thanks to state-of-the-art 'Dr Doolittle' devices - Mirror Online
- 2022-06-29 - Artificial intelligence could spot baby chickens in distress | Science | AAAS
- 2022-06-29 - AI that detects chicken distress calls could improve farm conditions | New Scientist
- 2022-07-04 - AI could improve welfare of farmed chickens by listening to their squawks | Science | The Guardian
- 2022-07-13 - Artificial Intelligence to detect poultry distress - Poultry World
- 2022-08-14 - China develops artificial intelligence to reduce chicken stress – europeantimes.news
- 2022-08-21 - Ambitious Researchers Want to Use AI to Talk to All Animals
- 2022-08-26 - Machine Learning Gives Cats One More Way To Control Their Humans | Hackaday | neurons.AI
- 2022-08-30 - Techmeme: How scientists are using ML to decode communication between fruit bats, crows, whales, and naked mole rats, eventually planning to converse with marine animals (Emily Anthes/New York Times)
- 2022-10-18 - AI answers the call for quail information
- 2022-11-30 - New artificial intelligence could help humans talk to animals
- 2022-12-01 - New artificial intelligence could help humans talk to animals
97: Quantum computing (31 items)
- 2022-01-05 - Techmeme: As companies race to find practical applications for quantum computers, the short term focus is on boosting machine learning (Richard Waters/Financial Times)
- 2022-02-10 - AI Efficiently Fixes Mistakes In Error-prone Quantum Computers | QNewsHub
- 2022-02-10 - Quantum AI: Machine learning offers fix for error-prone computers | New Scientist
- 2022-02-24 - Quantum Machines claims unique ability to perform real-time quantum error correction - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-02-24 - Entanglement unlocks scaling for quantum machine learning
- 2022-02-25 - Entanglement unlocks scaling for quantum machine learning: New No-Free-Lunch theorem for quantum neural networks gives hope for quantum speedup -- ScienceDaily
- 2022-03-23 - NVIDIA Partners With Xanadu To Accelerate Quantum Computing Research - Quantum Zeitgeist
- 2022-03-24 - Google wants to win the quantum computing race by being the tortoise
- 2022-05-25 - Error-free quantum computing gets real
- 2022-05-27 - A quantum computer could catch its own errors on any calculation | New Scientist
- 2022-06-09 - Quantum physics exponentially improves some types of machine learning | Science News
- 2022-06-14 - Harnessing machine learning to analyze quantum material
- 2022-06-17 - Cornell University: Harnessing machine learning to analyze quantum material – India Education | Latest Education News | Global Educational News | Recent Educational News
- 2022-06-24 - Google claims quantum advantage for machine learning
- 2022-07-12 - Nvidia reveals QODA platform for quantum, classical computing | VentureBeat
- 2022-07-12 - Nvidia Announces QODA, a Platform for Hybrid Quantum Apps – The New Stack
- 2022-07-12 - Nvidia unveils QODA platform to accelerate hybrid quantum-classical computing research - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-07-14 - Nvidia wants to mix up quantum and classical computing | TechRadar
- 2022-07-15 - Physics - Quantum-Aided Machine Learning Shows Its Value
- 2022-07-18 - Artificial Intelligence Giant NVIDIA Creates A New Platform For Hybrid Quantum-Classical Computing: QODA | Quantum Zeitgeist
- 2022-07-26 - NVIDIA wants to replicate CUDA success with Quantum Computing
- 2022-08-04 - First studies with Quantum Machine Learning at LHCb - News - University of Liverpool
- 2022-08-04 - First studies with Quantum Machine Learning at LHCb
- 2022-08-06 - University of Liverpool: First studies with Quantum Machine Learning at LHCb | India Education | Latest Education News | Global Educational News | Recent Educational News
- 2022-08-17 - Quantinuum Announces Advancements In Quantum Error Correction Using Logical Qubits | Quantum Zeitgeist
- 2022-08-19 - Google's quantum supremacy challenged by ordinary computers, for now | New Scientist
- 2022-08-24 - Los Alamos Claims Quantum Machine Learning Breakthrough: Training with Small Amounts of Data - High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC
- 2022-08-24 - LANL: Quantum AI Breakthrough – Theorem Shrinks Appetite For Training Data – Los Alamos Reporter
- 2022-09-14 - Breakthrough reported in machine learning-enhanced quantum chemistry
- 2022-09-19 - Quantum Error Correction With Silicon Spin Qubits | Quantum Zeitgeist
- 2022-09-27 - ‘Revolutionary’ artificial intelligence makes quantum physics 99.99% simpler
98: Apple workers petition for more work from home options (13 items)
- 2022-03-04 - Techmeme: In a memo, Tim Cook says Apple corporate staff will have to work from the office at least one day per week from April 11, and three days per week from May 23 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- 2022-05-17 - Techmeme: Memo: Apple indefinitely delays its three-day-per-week return to office deadline, citing rising COVID cases; staff still expected in the office two days a week (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- 2022-05-18 - Apple now says its plan to have a three-day week at the office is indefinitely postponed - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-06-02 - Techmeme: Sources: Apple plans to improve working hours for retail staff, including more hours between shifts, no work for more than five days in a row, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- 2022-08-15 - Techmeme: Sources: Apple sets a return-to-office deadline of September 5, for Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a regular third day that will be determined by individual teams (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- 2022-08-16 - Apple employees will need to work from its offices three times a week starting in September
- 2022-08-16 - Apple employees will need to work from its offices three times a week starting in September | Engadget
- 2022-08-16 - Apple ups in-person work to three days a week for corporate employees | AppleInsider
- 2022-08-16 - Apple sets deadline for employees to return to the office - 9to5Mac
- 2022-08-22 - Apple employees are “happier and more productive” working remotely, petition says | Ars Technica
- 2022-08-22 - Apple Staff Hit Back Against Return-to-Office Plan, Demand Flexibility
- 2022-08-22 - Apple employees launch petition to protest return-to-office plans | Engadget
- 2022-08-22 - Apple Workers Petition for More Work From Home Options
99: Artificial intelligence (40 items)
- 2022-01-12 - Michael Jordan joins UAE's artificial intelligence university - News | Khaleej Times
- 2022-01-31 - This company says it’s developing a system that can recognize your face from just your DNA | MIT Technology Review
- 2022-02-05 - Israel based Corsight AI claims it can model a person’s face from DNA sample
- 2022-02-08 - Israeli Defence Forces disclose their AI war strategy
- 2022-02-09 - This Israeli Based Artificial Intelligence Startup Claims To Have A Plan To Develop An AI … | neurons.AI
- 2022-02-09 - This Israeli Based Artificial Intelligence Startup Claims To Have A Plan To Develop An AI System That Can Recognize Your Face From Just Your DNA - MarkTechPost
- 2022-02-11 - Israel unveils artificial intelligence strategy for armed forces
- 2022-02-11 - Israel unveils artificial intelligence strategy for armed forces
- 2022-02-14 - PH, UAE to tie up on artificial intelligence – Manila Bulletin
- 2022-03-01 - UAE launches artificial intelligence and coding licence
- 2022-03-01 - New artificial intelligence and coding licence in Dubai
- 2022-03-01 - New artificial intelligence and coding licence launched in Dubai
- 2022-03-01 - Dubai: New AI, coding licence launched; employees to get 10-year Golden Visa
- 2022-03-02 - Dubai economic zone launches artificial intelligence ‘license’ - Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East
- 2022-03-10 - Saudi-US business forum to focus on defense, artificial intelligence - Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East
- 2022-03-28 - Israel developing national artificial intelligence strategy
- 2022-04-03 - Dubai Police officer named among 30 leading Arab artificial intelligence experts - News | Khaleej Times
- 2022-04-27 - UAE vows 'responsible' artificial intelligence rollout
- 2022-04-27 - UAE vows 'responsible' artificial intelligence rollout - Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East
- 2022-06-20 - UAE: MBZUAI ranked 30th globally in universities specialising in Artificial Intelligence - News | Khaleej Times
- 2022-06-20 - UAE: Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Artificial Intelligence top in Arab world, 30th globally | Uae – Gulf News
- 2022-06-21 - UAE's best universities: Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
- 2022-07-13 - UAE jobs: Technology will not completely replace humans, says artificial intelligence minister - News | Khaleej Times
- 2022-07-24 - Google Is Selling Advanced AI to Israel, Documents Reveal
- 2022-07-25 - Techmeme: Google employees, kept in the dark about firm's sale of advanced AI tools to Israel, say it could bolster Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestine (Sam Biddle/The Intercept)
- 2022-08-02 - Google arming Israel with advanced AI, machine-learning capabilities, report reveals – Middle East Monitor
- 2022-08-08 - Abu Dhabi criminal cases now followed up by artificial intelligence | Crime – Gulf News
- 2022-08-23 - Saudi Arabia to host second edition of Global AI Summit | Arab News
- 2022-09-01 - Some Google Workers Protest $1.2 Billion Israeli Contract | Daily Business Review
- 2022-09-03 - Artificial Intelligence is our future, coding our language, UAE minister tells graduates | Uae – Gulf News
- 2022-09-08 - Google, Amazon employees protest companies' $1.2 billion deal with Israel - UPI.com
- 2022-09-09 - Google And Amazon Workers Protest Their Companies’ $1.2 Billion AI Contract With Israel
- 2022-09-09 - From saving man-hours to fighting crime, UAE forum reveals power of artificial intelligence | Science – Gulf News
- 2022-09-13 - Global summit on artificial intelligence kicks off in Riyadh | Al Arabiya English
- 2022-09-15 - Saudi Arabia plans new AI center - Al-Monitor: Independent, trusted coverage of the Middle East
- 2022-09-15 - TEchnion AI Program Rated No. 1 in Europe | The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com | Hana Levi Julian | 19 Elul 5782 – September 15, 2022 | JewishPress.com
- 2022-09-28 - Abu Dhabi’s Thriving Artificial Intelligence Scene
- 2022-10-04 - Saudi Arabia takes ‘Data is the New Oil’ Seriously, Invests Heavily in AI
- 2022-10-27 - UAE’s Minister for Artificial Intelligence’s praise for Jaishankar | News - Times of India Videos
- 2022-12-21 - UAE-Israel Cooperating to Develop Arabic Language Applications for Artificial Intelligence (AI) | The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com | TPS / WAM | 27 Kislev 5783 – December 21, 2022 | JewishPress.com
100: Qualcomm (30 items)
- 2022-01-03 - Verizon and Google Cloud Partnering on 5G Mobile Edge Computing | Datamation
- 2022-01-24 - Vodafone takes customer service to next level with Google Cloud and Genesys-powered AI virtual assistant ‘TOBi’ and Speech IVR | Mirage News
- 2022-02-28 - Qualcomm's Snapdragon X70 Modem 5Gs Smarter, Not Harder | PCMag
- 2022-02-28 - Qualcomm introduces new wireless audio features and a smarter 5G modem - The Verge
- 2022-02-28 - Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X70 modem uses AI to boost your 5G connection | Android Central
- 2022-02-28 - Qualcomm debuts new AI-powered 5G networking chip for mobile devices - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-02-28 - Techmeme: Qualcomm announces X70, its first 10-gigabit 5G modem, and says the modem uses a dedicated AI processor to improve signal strength and power efficiency (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
- 2022-03-01 - Qualcomm unveils its AI-powered Snapdragon X70 modem
- 2022-03-03 - Qualcomm embeds artificial intelligence into latest 5G processor to boost speeds and signal coverage
- 2022-03-03 - Qualcomm revs up capabilities of latest processor as more 5G use cases come into focus - The San Diego Union-Tribune
- 2022-05-10 - Qualcomm goes beyond smartphones with 5G and edge-AI robotics solutions | VentureBeat
- 2022-05-20 - Techmeme: Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1, says it will offer 10% faster CPU performance, 10% faster GPU clocks, and have up to 30% better power efficiency (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
- 2022-05-20 - Qualcomm debuts new flagship Snapdragon processor for mobile devices - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-06-03 - Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 delivers faster, longer-lasting Android flagships | Engadget
- 2022-07-06 - Vodafone and Google Cloud build AI and ML platform to boost network | TechRadar
- 2022-07-07 - Vodafone, Google Cloud continue modernization efforts with AI Booster
- 2022-07-13 - AI Booster: Google and Vodafone join forces to launch a new platform - Dataconomy
- 2022-07-21 - Verizon 5G Edge tech appeals to developers as mobile technology advances - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-08-03 - Vodafone, Ericsson Launch Preemptive Support Service for Private 5G Networks using AI & ML
- 2022-08-29 - Verizon Wireless AI platform paves way for 5G build-out - ARN
- 2022-09-07 - More midrange Android phones will have AI features next year with the new Snapdragon chips - The Verge
- 2022-11-15 - Techmeme: Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, claiming 35% faster CPU performance, 25% Adreno GPU performance, Wi-Fi 7 support, and up to 4.35x faster AI performance (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
- 2022-11-15 - Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 with Wi-Fi 7 support, AI and gaming performance boosts and more | ZDNET
- 2022-11-15 - Qualcomm unveils new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 smartphone platform with heavy focus on AI | Seeking Alpha
- 2022-11-16 - Qualcomm announces Snapdragon AR2 chipset to power next-gen augmented reality - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-11-16 - Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 features and release date for the new chip
- 2022-11-16 - Qualcomm spotlights embedded artificial intelligence in its latest Snapdragon smartphone chip
- 2022-11-17 - Qualcomm debuts latest flagship Snapdragon chip and a new AI platform • TechCrunch
- 2022-11-17 - Techmeme: Qualcomm debuts Snapdragon AR2 Gen 1 designed for slim AR glasses, using 4nm process, claims 2.5x better AI performance than XR2 with 50% less power consumption (Pranob Mehrotra/XDA Developers)
- 2022-11-23 - Qualcomm Announces the Snapdragon 782G - techENT
101: Conti ransomware group (16 items)
- 2022-01-14 - Techmeme: Russia's FSB says it detained and charged members of the REvil ransomware gang at the request of the US; source: Russian citizens won't be handed over to the US (Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber/Reuters)
- 2022-01-16 - A bad day in the office for the REvil ransomware gang, as Russia arrests 14 members • Graham Cluley
- 2022-01-17 - REvil ransomware gang arrested in Russia - BBC News
- 2022-01-17 - REvil ransomware gang busted by Russian Federal Security Service | Malwarebytes Labs
- 2022-02-25 - Conti ransomware gang: You attack Russia, we’ll hack you back • Graham Cluley
- 2022-03-03 - Techmeme: Leaked chat logs reveal the internal structure and hierarchy of the Conti ransomware group, which some experts believe is a rebrand of the Ryuk ransomware gang (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
- 2022-03-11 - Leaked correspondence and files expose infamous Conti ransomware gang - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-03-17 - Conti Leak: A Ransomware Gang's Chats Expose Its Crypto Plans | WIRED
- 2022-03-31 - 'I can fight with a keyboard': How one Ukrainian IT specialist exposed a notorious Russian ransomware gang - CNNPolitics
- 2022-03-31 - Techmeme: Interview with pseudonymous Ukrainian IT specialist Danylo, who released chat logs from the Russia-linked Conti ransomware gang, on his motivations and more (Sean Lyngaas/CNN)
- 2022-04-10 - Techmeme: A hacking group called NB65 claims it is using modified versions of Conti's leaked ransomware to attack Russian entities, including the space agency Roscosmos (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
- 2022-04-12 - Conti ransomware offshoot targets Russian organizations | Malwarebytes Labs
- 2022-04-22 - Infamous REvil ransomware gang appears to have returned to business - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-05-20 - Techmeme: AdvIntel: the Conti ransomware group has taken its infrastructure offline and its leaders have partnered with other smaller ransomware groups to conduct attacks (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
- 2022-07-10 - Techmeme: How the Conti ransomware group, whose attacks crippled Costa Rica's digital infrastructure for months, fell apart after it was betrayed by one of its insiders (Financial Times)
- 2022-07-19 - Report find hackers linked to Conti ransomware gang active again - SiliconANGLE
102: Machine Learning and Deep Learning (25 items)
- 2022-02-03 - Students dive into research with the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2022-02-17 - Master of Science in Data Science | Office of Academic and Learning Innovation | University of Colorado Boulder
- 2022-02-23 - KDnuggets™ News 22:n08, Feb 23: Complete Collection of Data Science Cheat Sheets; Easy Guide to Choose the Right Machine Learning Algorithm - KDnuggets
- 2022-03-30 - KDnuggets News March 30: The Most Popular Intro to Programming Course From Harvard is Free!; Top 13 Skills That Every Data Scientist Should Have - KDnuggets
- 2022-04-06 - KDnuggets™ News, April 6: 8 Free MIT Courses to Learn Data Science Online; The Complete Collection Of Data Repositories – Part 1 - KDnuggets
- 2022-04-13 - KDnuggets News, April 13: Python Libraries Data Scientists Should Know in 2022; Naïve Bayes Algorithm: Everything You Need to Know - KDnuggets
- 2022-04-20 - KDnuggets News 22:n16, Apr 20: Top YouTube Channels for Learning Data Science; Data Visualization in Python with Seaborn - KDnuggets
- 2022-04-27 - KDnuggets News 22:n17, April 27: A Brief Introduction to Papers With Code; Machine Learning Books You Need To Read In 2022 - KDnuggets
- 2022-05-04 - KDnuggets News, May 4: 9 Free Harvard Courses to Learn Data Science; 15 Python Coding Interview Questions You Must Know For Data Science - KDnuggets
- 2022-05-04 - Data science minor graduates first students | UNC-Chapel Hill
- 2022-06-01 - KDnuggets News, June 1: The Complete Collection of Data Science Books; Projects That Will Land You The Job in 2022 - KDnuggets
- 2022-06-08 - KDnuggets News, June 8: 21 Cheat Sheets for Data Science Interviews; Top 18 Data Science Group on LinkedIn - KDnuggets
- 2022-06-22 - KDnuggets News, June 22: Primary Supervised Learning Algorithms Used in Machine Learning; Top 15 Books to Master Data Strategy - KDnuggets
- 2022-06-22 - TECH SA: Behind the scenes of UTSA’s School of Data Science
- 2022-07-11 - UO’s First Data Science Graduates | Around the O
- 2022-07-20 - KDnuggets News, July 20: Machine Learning Algorithms Explained in Less Than 1 Minute Each; Parallel Processing Large File in Python - KDnuggets
- 2022-07-25 - Summer Program Opens the Door to a Future in Data Science | Columbia Public Health
- 2022-08-04 - Data Science Meets Climate Research in New Summer Program | Duke Today
- 2022-09-14 - KDnuggets News, September 14: Free Python for Data Science Course • Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Machine Learning - KDnuggets
- 2022-09-21 - KDnuggets News, September 21: 7 Machine Learning Portfolio Projects to Boost the Resume • Free SQL and Database Course - KDnuggets
- 2022-10-06 - UTSA's School of Data Science ready for students in January | TPR
- 2022-10-19 - KDnuggets News, October 19: 3 Valuable Skills That Have Doubled My Income as a Data Scientist • The Complete Free PyTorch Course for Deep Learning - KDnuggets
- 2022-10-26 - KDnuggets News, October 26: A Data Science Portfolio That Will Land You The Job in 2022 • Is OLAP Dead? - KDnuggets
- 2022-11-02 - KDnuggets News, November 2: The Current State of Data Science Careers • 15 Free Machine Learning and Deep Learning Books - KDnuggets
- 2022-11-09 - KDnuggets News, November 9: 7 Tips To Produce Readable Data Science Code • 30 Resources for Mastering Data Visualization - KDnuggets
103: AI in retail and e-commerce (18 items)
- 2022-01-03 - 75% of B2B Sales Organizations Will Use AI-Guided Selling by 2025 | Datamation
- 2022-01-04 - Report: 43% of consumers feel transparency is key for positive AI innovations | VentureBeat
- 2022-01-18 - Google's latest AI tool helps retailers accurately forecast demand in real time - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-01-18 - With surge of online buying, retailers now looking to artificial intelligence to help boost sales | CBS 17
- 2022-01-18 - With surge of online buying, retailers now looking to artificial intelligence to help boost sales | WNCT
- 2022-01-31 - Email Tops Marketing Uses Of Artificial Intelligence, Study Finds 01/31/2022
- 2022-02-01 - Email Tops Marketing Uses Of Artificial Intelligence, Study Finds 01/31/2022
- 2022-02-04 - Report: 78% of U.S. execs rely on AI insights to enhance marketing efforts | VentureBeat
- 2022-02-24 - Report: A majority of consumers believe AI will have a positive impact in the next decade | VentureBeat
- 2022-03-25 - Report: 70% of U.S. consumers want to use AI for their jobs | VentureBeat
- 2022-04-01 - AI governance adoption is leveling off – what it means for enterprises | VentureBeat
- 2022-06-09 - More Than 60% of Companies Are Only Experimenting with AI, Creating Significant Opportunities for Value on their Journey to AI Maturity, Accenture Research Finds - insideBIGDATA
- 2022-06-14 - AI yields 30% of revenue at tech-savvy companies: Accenture | CFO Dive
- 2022-06-21 - Research confirms AI adoption growing but governance is lagging | VentureBeat
- 2022-09-08 - Report: Data access hurdles affect AI adoption for 71% of enterprises | VentureBeat
- 2022-11-03 - Researchers encourage retailers to embrace AI to better serve customers
- 2022-11-03 - Researchers encourage retailers to embrace AI to better service customers – ScienceDaily | neurons.AI
- 2022-12-07 - Techmeme: A survey finds that while 50% of businesses have adopted AI in 2022, 2.5x higher than in 2017, AI adoption has plateaued between 50%-60% for the past few years (McKinsey & Company)
104: Supply chain and logistics (13 items)
- 2022-01-05 - Amazon to use thousands of electric Ram delivery vans
- 2022-04-21 - Amazon launches $1B fund to invest in supply chain technology companies - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-04-21 - Techmeme: Amazon announces the $1B Industrial Innovation Fund to back companies of all stages developing customer fulfillment, logistics, and supply chain technologies (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
- 2022-04-22 - Amazon launches a $1 billion fund to invest in startups developing supply chain, logistics, and fulfillment technologies | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-04-23 - Amazon Launches $1 Billion Fund to Support Fulfillment, Logistics and Supply Chain Innovation - Retail TouchPoints
- 2022-04-25 - Amazon flags off Industrial Innovation Fund of $1 billion
- 2022-07-04 - Techmeme: Amazon launches a “micromobility” hub in Hackney, London with a fleet of e-cargo bikes and on-foot delivery staff to replace thousands of van deliveries (Sarah Butler/The Guardian)
- 2022-07-11 - Amazon announces backing for Black-founded voice AI tech startups - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-07-22 - Amazon is starting to deliver packages with Rivian electric vans
- 2022-09-20 - Techmeme: Marketplace Pulse: funding for startups that acquire and grow third-party Amazon sellers drops to $2B+ in 2022 so far, down from $12B+ in 2021 (Financial Times)
- 2022-10-05 - Amazon to invest $150M in funds that back underrepresented entrepreneurs - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-10-05 - Techmeme: In a first, Amazon plans to give $150M through 2023 to 10+ outside VC funds to invest in underrepresented startup founders at or before the seed stage (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)
- 2022-12-22 - Amazon offers innovative freight transportation solutions - FreightWaves
105: Apple (15 items)
- 2022-06-21 - Apple’s iOS 16 feature will help you avoid some CAPTCHAs — here’s how
- 2022-07-06 - Techmeme: Apple announces Lockdown Mode in iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura to protect against “highly targeted cyberattacks” by disabling features, apps, and more (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
- 2022-07-06 - New Apple feature protects system functionality from highly targeted cyberattacks - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-07-07 - Apple unveils new security setting to block Pegasus attacks on iPhones - The Washington Post
- 2022-07-08 - Apple unveils "Lockdown Mode," a new ultra security feature that lets iPhone users block government spyware and hackers | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-08-12 - Techmeme: Hands-on with iOS 16's Lockdown Mode, which aims to protect against highly targeted attacks by disabling link previews in messages, limiting FaceTime, and more (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
- 2022-09-28 - Cloudflare goes all in on Apple's CAPTCHA alternative
- 2022-09-28 - Cloudflare wants to replace CAPTCHAs with Turnstile • TechCrunch
- 2022-09-28 - Techmeme: Cloudflare releases Turnstile, a CAPTCHA alternative that tests the browser, not users, through JavaScript-based challenges, in beta (Umar Shakir/The Verge)
- 2022-09-29 - Cloudflare launches invisible, privacy-focused Captcha to take on Google | TechSpot
- 2022-12-07 - Apple to roll out new set of cybersecurity features for users - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-12-08 - Apple to encrypt iCloud - The Washington Post
- 2022-12-08 - Apple Plans New Encryption System to Ward Off Hackers and Protect iCloud Data - WSJ
- 2022-12-09 - Apple’s move to full iCloud data encryption hasn't impressed the snoops - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-12-13 - FBI is Not Thrilled About Apple’s New Encryption Services
106: Plastic-eating enzyme (13 items)
- 2022-02-23 - IBM Researchers Built a Machine Learning Model That can Help Harness the Power of Enzymes for Greener Chemistry - MarkTechPost
- 2022-04-27 - Plastic-eating enzyme developed with machine learning could solve waste crisis | E&T Magazine
- 2022-04-28 - This AI-Designed Enzyme Can Devour Plastic Trash In Hours: Video
- 2022-05-02 - UT researchers create plastic-eating enzyme that could clean landfills, polluted areas
- 2022-05-03 - AI helps scientists design novel plastic-eating enzyme • The Register
- 2022-05-03 - Texas researchers create plastic-eating enzyme that could quickly reduce waste, clean landfills
- 2022-05-06 - Machine Learning Helped Scientists Create an Enzyme That Breaks Down Plastic at Warp Speed | neurons.AI
- 2022-05-06 - Machine Learning Helped Scientists Create an Enzyme That Breaks Down Plastic at Warp Speed | neurons.AI
- 2022-05-06 - Scientists Use AI to Create an Enzyme That Breaks Down Plastic in a Week Instead of a Century
- 2022-05-09 - AI-engineered enzyme eats entire plastic containers | Research | Chemistry World
- 2022-09-30 - Machine learning may enable bioengineering of the most abundant enzyme on the planet
- 2022-10-01 - Machine learning may enable bioengineering of the most abundant enzyme on the planet
- 2022-11-03 - Artificial intelligence makes enzyme engineering easy
107: Google Location Tracking Settlement (27 items)
- 2022-01-14 - Techmeme: State AGs' suit alleges Google misled publishers and advertisers for years about ad pricing by deflating sales for some and increasing prices for buyers (Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-01-24 - Washington D.C. and three states sue Google over location data collection practices - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-01-24 - Techmeme: District of Columbia, Texas, Washington, and Indiana AGs sue Google, alleging it deceived users to gain access to their location data from at least 2014 (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)
- 2022-01-25 - Google Tricks Users Into Handing Over Location Data, State AGs Say
- 2022-01-25 - Washington attorney general sues Google over location tracking
- 2022-01-26 - Google sued over deceptive location tracking | Malwarebytes Labs
- 2022-02-11 - Techmeme: European Publishers Council, whose members include News UK, files an antitrust complaint in EU against Google for its alleged anti-competitive ad practices (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
- 2022-03-11 - Techmeme: EU and the UK open an antitrust probe into Google and Meta's Jedi Blue deal on online ads; EU is also probing whether Google acted without Meta's knowledge (Financial Times)
- 2022-03-11 - EU, UK launch antitrust probes of Google and Meta’s ‘Jedi Blue’ agreement - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-05-21 - Techmeme: A look at the antitrust woes of Google, which is potentially in more trouble than other Big Tech companies, as several bills and lawsuits target its businesses (Sara Morrison/Vox)
- 2022-05-23 - Search, Play, Ads: Google’s many antitrust problems - Vox
- 2022-07-14 - Techmeme: Sources: the DOJ is likely to reject concessions offered by Google and file an antitrust lawsuit in the coming weeks over its dominance of the online ad market (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
- 2022-07-15 - Report: DOJ moves to file lawsuit after rejecting Google's latest concessions - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-08-09 - Techmeme: Sources: the US DOJ is preparing to sue Google over its ad market business as soon as September, as the DOJ's antitrust division lawyers interview publishers (Bloomberg)
- 2022-08-12 - Google fined $40M+ for misleading location-tracking settings on Android – TechCrunch
- 2022-08-12 - Techmeme: Google has agreed to pay $60M to settle a court case with Australia's ACCC over misleading some Android users about collection of personal location data (The Guardian)
- 2022-08-12 - Google fined $42.7M in Australia over Android’s location tracking settings - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-09-01 - Techmeme: In federal court, Google defends Jedi Blue, arguing the 2018 pact with Meta does not violate antitrust law as Meta can still use rival ad exchanges (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
- 2022-09-13 - Techmeme: NY judge rules the bulk of the state AGs' ad tech antitrust suit against Google can proceed, but dismissed the claim Meta and Google colluded via Jedi Blue (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
- 2022-09-20 - Techmeme: New York and the DOJ urged a federal appeals court to reinstate an antitrust suit brought by 48 state AGs that alleged Meta schemed to “buy or bury” its rivals (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
- 2022-10-04 - Techmeme: Arizona's AG: Google will pay $85M to resolve the state's consumer privacy lawsuit that claims it surreptitiously collects users' location data for targeted ads (Malathi Nayak/Bloomberg)
- 2022-10-13 - Techmeme: Sources: the EU could file antitrust charges against Google over its ad business in 2023 as regulators grow frustrated over slow settlement talks (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
- 2022-10-26 - Techmeme: Google agrees to improve its compliance program for legal demands in a settlement with the US DOJ, which said Google lost data sought by investigators in 2016 (Richard Vanderford/Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-11-14 - Google will pay $391.5M to settle multistate lawsuit over location tracking settings - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-11-14 - Techmeme: Google agrees to a record $391.5M privacy settlement with a coalition of 40 state AGs over charges it misled users into thinking they disabled location tracking (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
- 2022-11-15 - Google settles location-tracking case for $392 million : NPR
- 2022-11-15 - Google location settlement claim: Google tracking class action lawsuit explained - Dataconomy
108: Boston Dynamics AI Institute (20 items)
- 2022-05-22 - Hyundai Motor Group to invest more than US$10-billion in the United States up to 2025 - The Globe and Mail
- 2022-05-22 - Hyundai Motor Group to invest $5-billion in U.S. up to 2025 - The Globe and Mail
- 2022-05-23 - Hyundai Invests $5B in US Operations for AI, ‘Urban Air Mobility'
- 2022-08-12 - Hyundai announces $400M AI, robotics institute powered by Boston Dynamics – TechCrunch
- 2022-08-12 - Hyundai launches Boston Dynamics AI Institute
- 2022-08-13 - Hyundai To Spend $400 Million To Found Boston Dynamics AI Institute In Massachusetts | Carscoops
- 2022-08-13 - Boston Dynamics backing $400 million AI and robotics research center in Kendall Square - The Boston Globe
- 2022-08-14 - Hyundai, Boston Dynamics Invest $400 Million To Make Robots Smarter
- 2022-08-14 - Hyundai to pour $400 million into artificial-intelligence foundation in Kendall Square | Universal Hub
- 2022-08-14 - Boston Dynamics AI Institute to Research AI & Robotics Led By Marc Raibert | auto connected car news
- 2022-08-14 - Hyundai to pour $400 million into artificial-intelligence foundation in Kendall Square | Universal Hub
- 2022-08-15 - Hyundai Launches a New Robotics Institute Powered by Boston Dynamics
- 2022-08-15 - Hyundai to set up Robot AI research institute in US
- 2022-08-15 - Hyundai, Boston Dynamics invest $400 million to make robots smarter
- 2022-08-16 - Hyundai launches $400-million Boston Dynamics AI institute
- 2022-08-16 - Hyundai invests in AI, software research centres - Just Auto
- 2022-08-20 - Hyundai Motor Group's New Artificial Intelligence Program
- 2022-10-01 - Boston Dynamics AI Institute Targets Basic Research - IEEE Spectrum
- 2022-12-06 - Hyundai Heavy creates chief artificial intelligence officer position - Splash247
- 2022-12-07 - Hyundai Heavy is Hiring a Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer
109: Inflection AI (12 items)
- 2022-03-08 - LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman sets up A.I firm with DeepMind co-founder
- 2022-03-08 - LinkedIn and DeepMind co-founders form AI startup to help humans talk to computers | Engadget
- 2022-03-10 - LinkedIn and DeepMind cofounders launch AI startup called Inflection
- 2022-03-13 - DeepMind and LinkedIn Co-Founders Unveil New Conversational AI Startup Inflection AI - Voicebot.ai
- 2022-05-13 - Newly launched AI startup Inflection AI raises $225M in funding - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-05-13 - Inflection AI, led by LinkedIn and DeepMind co-founders, raises $225M to transform computer-human interactions – TechCrunch
- 2022-05-13 - Techmeme: SEC filing: Inflection AI, a human-computer interface startup headed by LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman and DeepMind's Mustafa Suleyman, raises $225M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- 2022-05-16 - Just months old Inflection AI raises USD 225 million in equity financing
- 2022-05-16 - Inflection AI: LinkedIn and DeepMind co-founders raise $225 million
- 2022-05-17 - DeepMind, LinkedIn Cofounders Create New AI Start-Up, Securing $225 Million Fundings | Tech Times
- 2022-07-21 - LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman Turns DALL-E AI Art Into Solana NFTs - Decrypt
- 2022-07-24 - LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman converts AI art to NFTs
110: Twitter data breach (16 items)
- 2022-07-23 - Twitter data breach exposes contact details for 5.4M accounts
- 2022-07-24 - Hacker selling Twitter account data of 5.4 million users for $30k
- 2022-07-26 - Millions of Twitter users' data is for sale on the dark web | Digital Trends
- 2022-08-07 - Twitter confirms data breach that exposed data of 5.4m anonymous users
- 2022-08-08 - Twitter confirms July data breach that affected millions of accounts
- 2022-11-25 - Massive Twitter data breach worse that reported; multiple hacks
- 2022-11-28 - 5.4 million Twitter users' stolen data leaked online — more shared privately
- 2022-12-24 - Twitter Data Breach: 400-million-users-data-for-sale-on-darkweb
- 2022-12-26 - Twitter data breach: Hacker posted list of hacked data of 400 million users-- Check whether your data is leaked or not | Technology News | Zee News
- 2022-12-26 - Twitter Data Breach: 400 Million Users Affected, A Hacker Claimed - Dataconomy
- 2022-12-26 - Twitter Data Breach: Hacker claims to have data of 400 million Twitter users, releases Salman Khan, Sundar Pichai's user data as Proof
- 2022-12-26 - Data of 400 million users of Twitter leaked, this is the demand of hackers – PressWire18
- 2022-12-27 - Hacker claims to be selling Twitter data of 400 million users
- 2022-12-27 - Data of 400 mn Twitter users stolen by hacker, put for sale on dark web | Business Standard News
- 2022-12-27 - Twitter data of 400 mn accounts allegedly up for sale on dark web
- 2022-12-27 - Twitter Data Breach: 400 Million User Data Hacked & Posted on Dark Web
111: AI generated faces are more trustworthy than real faces (10 items)
- 2022-02-14 - AI Generated Faces Are More Trustworthy Than Real Faces Say Researchers Who Warn of “Deep Fakes” - Neuroscience News
- 2022-02-15 - Fake faces created by AI look more trustworthy than real people | New Scientist
- 2022-02-16 - Humans Find AI-Generated Faces More Trustworthy Than the Real Thing - Scientific American
- 2022-02-16 - AI-generated faces found more trustworthy than real faces: Researchers warn of 'deep fakes'
- 2022-02-18 - Scientists Warn That New AI-Generated Faces Are Seen as More Trustworthy Than Real Ones
- 2022-02-19 - AI-generated faces are now more trustworthy than real ones
- 2022-02-19 - Humans 'More Likely' to Trust Computer-Generated Faces Than the Real Ones, Says AI Study | Tech Times
- 2022-02-23 - People Trust Deepfake Faces Generated by AI More Than Real Ones, Study Finds
- 2022-03-15 - People trust AI fake faces more than real ones - study | World Economic Forum
- 2022-04-10 - People trust AI fake faces more than real ones - Big Think
112: NeRF (14 items)
- 2022-03-25 - Nvidia shows off AI model that turns a few dozen snapshots into a 3D-rendered scene - The Verge
- 2022-03-25 - Nvidia's new AI magic turns 2D photos into 3D scenes in milliseconds
- 2022-03-26 - Nvidia AI Tech Lets Computers Understand the 3D World From 2D Photos - CNET
- 2022-03-27 - NVIDIA's Tiny New AI Transforms Photos Into Full 3D Scenes in Mere Seconds
- 2022-03-28 - NVIDIA's New NeRF AI for Turining 2D Images into 3D Scenes
- 2022-03-28 - AI tool renders 2D photos as all-around 3D scenes in seconds
- 2022-03-28 - NVIDIA's NeRF AI Turns 2D Images Into 3D Scenes | HYPEBEAST
- 2022-03-31 - Nvidia AI Demonstrates Insanely Fast Neural Rendering Model Called 'NeRF' That Turns 2D Photos into 3D Objects in Seconds - MarkTechPost
- 2022-03-31 - Nvidia says its AI model can turn 2D photos into 3D scenes in seconds
- 2022-06-21 - Nvidia’s new AI magic turns 2D photos into 3D graphics
- 2022-09-23 - NVIDIA AI Research Helps Populate Virtual Worlds With 3D Objects | NVIDIA Blog
- 2022-09-23 - NVIDIA ‘GET3D’ AI Model to Populate Virtual Worlds Revealed | Animation World Network
- 2022-09-24 - NVIDIA's new AI model quickly generates objects and characters for virtual worlds | Engadget
- 2022-09-25 - Nvidia's latest open-source AI generates 3D models from a single 2D image
113: Artificial intelligence and copyright (15 items)
- 2022-02-21 - The US Copyright Office says an AI can’t copyright its art - The Verge
- 2022-02-22 - U.S. Copyright Office Rules That AI Cannot Hold Copyright – ARTnews.com
- 2022-02-22 - Techmeme: The US Copyright Office rejected a request to grant copyright to a work of art created by an AI, as the image didn't include an element of “human authorship” (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
- 2022-02-22 - AI cannot copyright a digital art it creates, rules US Copyright Office in case of Creativity Machine
- 2022-02-22 - AI denied copyright for its artwork
- 2022-02-22 - Artificial Intelligence can't own artwork: US Copyright Office
- 2022-02-22 - Artificial Intelligence can't own artwork: US Copyright Office, CIO News, ET CIO
- 2022-02-22 - Artificial Intelligence Can’t Own Rights to its Art, Says US Copyright Office
- 2022-02-23 - USCO Refuses to Issue Copyright for Art Created By Artificial Intelligence
- 2022-02-23 - US Copyright Office says AI can't copyright of its art • The Register
- 2022-02-25 - Can A.I.-Generated Art Receive Copyright Protection? U.S. Authorities Say No, Citing a Lack of 'Human Authorship'
- 2022-03-24 - U.S. Copyright Office Rules A.I. Art Can't Be Copyrighted | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
- 2022-03-28 - US Copyright Office refuses to register AI-generated work, finding that "human authorship is a prerequisite to copyright protection" - The IPKat
- 2022-09-27 - AI copyright: Who owns the rights to art generated by artificial intelligence? | New Scientist
- 2022-12-22 - Techmeme: The US Copyright Office rules that a comic book made using AI art is ineligible for copyright protection, reversing a September 2022 decision (Brian Cronin/CBR)
114: Surveillance and privacy (20 items)
- 2022-01-12 - China ‘Weaponizing’ Americans’ Personal Data: Expert
- 2022-06-21 - China’s Expanding Surveillance State: Takeaways From a NYT Investigation - The New York Times
- 2022-06-21 - Techmeme: An investigation into Chinese government bidding documents details its huge surveillance apparatus, including ~500M cameras and extensive phone tracking tools (New York Times)
- 2022-06-26 - Techmeme: Hundreds of documents detail the software bought by China to sift through its vast troves of surveillance data to “predict” who will become troublemakers (New York Times)
- 2022-07-03 - Shanghai police database for sale in what could be China's biggest ever data breach | Asia Markets
- 2022-07-04 - Techmeme: In a forum post, an unidentified hacker claims to have stolen 23TB of data on up to 1B Chinese residents after breaching a Shanghai police database (Sarah Zheng/Bloomberg)
- 2022-07-05 - Hacker claims to have obtained data on 1 billion Chinese citizens | Hacking | The Guardian
- 2022-07-06 - China data leak: Nearly one billion people had their personal data leaked, and it's been online for more than a year - CNN
- 2022-07-06 - Hacker claims to have stolen data of 1bn Chinese from police - Nikkei Asia
- 2022-07-06 - Hacker claims to have stolen 1 billion records of Chinese citizens from police - CNA
- 2022-07-06 - Techmeme: Experts say a dashboard used to manage the Shanghai police database was left exposed from April 2021 to June 2022, letting a hacker steal details on ~1B people (Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-07-06 - China Police Database Was Left Open Online for Over a Year, Enabling Leak - WSJ
- 2022-07-07 - A huge data leak of 1 billion records exposes China’s vast surveillance state – TechCrunch
- 2022-07-08 - Computer Hackers Claim to Have Data of 1 Billion Chinese
- 2022-07-08 - A huge data leak in China was not unexpected | The Economist
- 2022-07-16 - Techmeme: As China builds up its vast surveillance and security apparatus, it is running up against growing public unease about data security and privacy in the country (New York Times)
- 2022-07-18 - Techmeme: Researchers say Alibaba's cloud platform that hosted Shanghai's now-leaked police database used outdated systems that didn't offer the ability to set a password (Karen Hao/Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-07-24 - Techmeme: How China's mass collection of personal info and its new, unevenly enforced data security rules contribute to a thriving underground market for stolen data (Karen Hao/Wall Street Journal)
- 2022-08-30 - Techmeme: A researcher says a huge Chinese database with up to 800M records was exposed for months, storing images of faces, license plates, resident ID numbers, and more (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
- 2022-09-30 - The Tech Site That Took On China’s Surveillance State - The Atlantic
115: Facebook (26 items)
- 2022-01-14 - Techmeme: Meta faces a $3.1B UK class action suit alleging it abused Facebook's market dominance and set an “unfair price” for 44M UK users' data from 2015 to 2019 (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)
- 2022-02-07 - Techmeme: Unpacking Meta's “regulatory headwinds” warning, as the adtech industry faces a privacy reckoning and Belgium upends IAB Europe's GDPR compliance framework (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
- 2022-02-07 - Techmeme: Adtech experts explain how GDPR has proven ineffective thanks to the ingenuity of adtech firms, which have managed to effectively skirt its consent requirement (Shoshana Wodinsky/Gizmodo)
- 2022-02-16 - Facebook parent Meta settles decade-old data-privacy lawsuit - ABC News
- 2022-02-17 - Facebook Agrees to Pay $90 Million to Settle Decade-Old Privacy Violation Case
- 2022-04-26 - Techmeme: A leaked document written by some Facebook ad team privacy engineers: Meta has an inadequate level of “control and explainability over how our systems use data” (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/VICE)
- 2022-04-28 - Leaked Facebook ads document raises fresh questions over GDPR enforcement – TechCrunch
- 2022-05-23 - Techmeme: As GDPR turns four, despite some positives, regulators are struggling with enforcement, the ad industry remains littered with potential abuses, and more (Matt Burgess/Wired)
- 2022-06-21 - Techmeme: Meta settles its housing discrimination lawsuit with the DOJ, agreeing to alter its ad targeting methods and pay a $115K fine (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
- 2022-06-22 - Facebook settles with DOJ over discriminatory housing ads - The Washington Post
- 2022-06-22 - Facebook, US Sign Deal To End Discriminatory Housing Ads
- 2022-06-22 - Facebook's Meta to pay $115K in DOJ settlement of discriminatory housing ad allegations | Fox Business
- 2022-06-22 - Facebook and US sign deal to end discriminatory housing ads - The Washington Post
- 2022-06-23 - Facebook finally agrees to eliminate tool that enabled discriminatory advertising
- 2022-06-23 - Meta to settle with DOJ over Fair Housing Act claims - HousingWire
- 2022-08-23 - Facebook's Meta agreed to pay $37.5 million for violating users' privacy and tracking their movements through smartphones without their permission | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-08-26 - Techmeme: Facebook agrees in principle to settle a lawsuit alleging it violated consumer privacy laws by sharing user data with 3rd parties, including Cambridge Analytica (Reuters)
- 2022-08-28 - Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data breach lawsuit ends in 11th hour settlement | Facebook | The Guardian
- 2022-08-28 - Facebook agrees to settle Cambridge Analytica data privacy lawsuit | Facebook | The Guardian
- 2022-08-28 - Meta’s Facebook agrees to settle Cambridge Analytica data privacy suit – POLITICO
- 2022-11-28 - Facebook's Meta fined $277 million for leaking data of half a billion users | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-11-29 - $275M Fine for Meta After Facebook Data Scrape
- 2022-12-07 - Meta's behavioral ads will finally face GDPR privacy reckoning in January • TechCrunch
- 2022-12-07 - Facebook's Meta cannot run ads based on personal data without users' consent, EU privacy watchdog rules | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-12-23 - Techmeme: Filing: Meta to pay $725M to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing the company of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users' data (Nate Raymond/Reuters)
- 2022-12-24 - Facebook parent Meta agrees to pay $725 million to settle privacy lawsuit
116: Cryptocurrency heists (14 items)
- 2022-01-14 - North Korea stole a record $400 million in cryptocurrency last year, researchers say
- 2022-01-16 - North Korea made '$400m' in cryptocurrency heists last year • The Register
- 2022-04-14 - Techmeme: The US Treasury says North Korea-backed hacking group Lazarus is tied to the theft of cryptocurrencies worth $600M+ from the Axie Infinity-linked Ronin bridge (CoinDesk)
- 2022-04-15 - North Korean 'Lazarus' group behind the $615 million cryptocurrency theft, U.S. officials say | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-04-15 - North Korean hacking group Lazarus linked to $615M Ronin Network theft - SiliconANGLE
- 2022-04-19 - US: Hackers Continue Aiding North Korea Generate Funds via Cryptocurrency Attacks | SecurityWeek.Com
- 2022-04-25 - Techmeme: North Korean hackers who stole $600M from Axie Infinity are still laundering their haul, recently moving $4.5M of ETH, after the US tried to freeze those assets (Washington Post)
- 2022-06-29 - Techmeme: Elliptic: North Korea-backed hacking group Lazarus might be behind Harmony's $100M altcoin theft; the hack bore similarities to the $600M Ronin bridge attack (Margi Murphy/Bloomberg)
- 2022-06-29 - Techmeme: Experts say the crypto crash has wiped out millions of dollars stolen by North Korean hackers, threatening a key source of funding for its weapons programs (Josh Smith/Reuters)
- 2022-06-30 - Crypto crash threatens North Korea's stolen funds as it ramps up weapons tests | Reuters
- 2022-07-11 - Techmeme: How North Korean spies infiltrate US crypto firms, posing as remote workers; UN says the country has stolen billions of dollars' worth of crypto from exchanges (Sean Lyngaas/CNN)
- 2022-09-09 - The U.S. recovers over $30 million in crypto stolen by North Korean-linked hacker group Lazarus | Tech News | Startups News
- 2022-10-10 - North Korea's Crypto Hackers Are Paving the Road to Nuclear Armageddon - CNET
- 2022-11-14 - Techmeme: An in-depth look at North Korea's crypto cyber crime, used to support the regime: hacking Axie Infinity and Bangladesh Bank, running a fraudulent ICO, and more (Financial Times)
117: Data breach (13 items)
- 2022-02-28 - State Bar of California Investigates Huge Data Breach That Exposed Confidential Records – CBS San Francisco
- 2022-02-28 - 260,000 confidential attorney discipline records published after data breach, State Bar says – Orange County Register
- 2022-02-28 - State Bar of California Addresses Breach of Confidential Data - The State Bar of California - News Releases
- 2022-03-01 - 260,000 confidential attorney discipline records published after data breach, State Bar of California says
- 2022-03-02 - State Bar of California Investigates Data Breach - Infosecurity Magazine
- 2022-03-12 - [CA bar says attorney records leaked through database flaw, not hac