Federal jury in Miami finds Tesla partly liable for 2019 car crash that killed one and left another injured when car was on Autopilot. NBCNews.com reports:
Google is testing a machine learning-powered tech to determine the age of users and filter content across its products. The key age the tech giant is focused on predicting? If you guessed 18, you’ve been paying attention. @Techcrunch has more:
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Fediverse Development
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FediCon kicks off tomorrow in Vancouver 💫
And... our co-founder @michael is making the trip across the Atlantic to be there - that's over 7,460 km!
We wouldn't make these trips if we didn't believe in the Open Social Web and how it can be used to better the world.
In particular, Michael is looking forward to meeting all the amazing faces we speak to regularly online in person.
If you're there, say hello!
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Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet. (It’s not ready.)
We thought the good thing about AI models was that they wouldn’t have the same biases as humans. Right? @TechRadar has more on a new study that found that AI chatbots routinely suggest lower salaries to women and some ethnic minorities.
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Last week saw a data breach with women's dating safety app Tea, and today, @404mediaco reports on a second — an independent security researcher told the reporting team of @emanuelmaiberg and @josephcox that they were able to access messages between users discussing abortions and cheating partners, as well as phone numbers they exchanged. Tea is a "whisper network" where women can check out and share information with other women on the men they are in a relationship with or considering dating. "It’s hard to overstate how sensitive this data is and how it could put Tea’s users at risk if it fell into the wrong hands," write the 404 team, who say it was straightforward to find the real-world identities of some users based on the nature of their messages.
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Allianz Life says "majority" of customers’ personal data stolen in cyberattack.
@TechCrunch reports: "The insurance giant would not say if it had received any communication from the hackers, such as a ransom note. The company also would not attribute the breach to a hacking group."
Can you outsmart AI? The more advanced it gets, the better it is at scheming and lying to meet its goals. Read more from @LiveScience:
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Like many software engineers, Preston Thorpe spends most of his waking hours learning everything he can about programming. What makes him different is he's serving his 11th year in prison. @Techcrunch has more on Thorpe’s journey from a teen who was kicked out of his home to a man making the most of a second chance at life.
Tea, the app that allows women to post anonymously about men they’ve dated, announced Friday that 72,000 images – selfies, photo IDs and pics from posts, comments and DMs. It’s almost enough to make you want to go back to the old-fashioned way of dating. @Techcrunch has more:
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A fear of going to prison for falsifying federal documents didn’t prevent an Arizona woman from using her home as a “laptop farm” for North Korean hackers. @ArsTechnica has more on the scheme that landed the woman a 102-month sentence. Plus, how "remote work" scams have become increasingly common over the last few years.
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