## Computing in the News --- ## Thursday, December 7th - [Gmail’s AI-powered spam detection is its biggest security upgrade in years](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/gmails-ai-powered-spam-detection-is-its-biggest-security-upgrade-in-years/) - [PlayStation is erasing 1,318 seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/playstation-is-erasing-1318-seasons-of-discovery-shows-from-customer-libraries/) --- ## Thursday, November 30th - [Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers](https://futurism.com/sports-illustrated-ai-generated-writers) - [The Invisible War in Ukraine Being Fought Over Radio Waves](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/technology/russia-ukraine-electronic-warfare-drone-signals.html) --- ## Tuesday, November 28th - [Sam Altman wins power struggle, returns to OpenAI with new board](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/sam-altman-wins-power-struggle-returns-to-openai-with-new-board/) - [How Your Child’s Online Mistake Can Ruin Your Digital Life](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/technology/google-youtube-abuse-mistake.html) --- ## Tuesday, November 21st - [Ukraine’s ‘Secret Weapon’ Against Russia Is a Controversial U.S. Tech Company](https://time.com/6334176/ukraine-clearview-ai-russia/) - [AI Search Is Turning Into the Problem Everyone Worried About](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/google-generative-ai-search-featured-results/675899/) --- ## Tuesday, November 14th - [The Tech That’s Radically Reimagining the Public Sphere](https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/11/your-face-belongs-to-us-kashmir-hill-facial-recognition-book-review/675843/) - [Welcome to CAPTCHA Hell](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/captcha-test-security-robot-ai/675931/) --- ## Thursday, November 9th - [AirTags are the new go-to tool for cops after spike in car thefts](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/airtags-are-the-new-go-to-tool-for-cops-after-spike-in-car-thefts/) - [Data broker’s “staggering” sale of sensitive info exposed in unsealed FTC filing](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/data-brokers-staggering-sale-of-sensitive-info-exposed-in-unsealed-ftc-filing/) --- ## Tuesday, November 7th - [Silicon Valley Ditches News, Shaking an Unstable Industry](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/technology/news-social-media-traffic.html) - [Sam Bankman-Fried Is Found Guilty of 7 Counts of Fraud and Conspiracy](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/technology/sam-bankman-fried-fraud-trial-ftx.html) --- ## Thursday, November 2nd - [14 big landlords used software to collude on rent prices, DC lawsuit says](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/14-big-landlords-used-software-to-collude-on-rent-prices-dc-lawsuit-says/) - [Meta Accused by States of Using Features to Lure Children to Instagram and Facebook](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/technology/states-lawsuit-children-instagram-facebook.html) --- ## Tuesday, October 31st - [Apple AirTags stalking led to ruin and murders, lawsuit says](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/apple-airtags-triggered-explosion-of-stalking-reports-nationwide-lawsuit-says/) - [California suspends Cruise robotaxis after car dragged pedestrian 20 feet](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/california-suspends-cruises-robotaxis-after-pedestrian-was-critically-injured/) --- ## Tuesday, October 24th - [AI helps decipher first text of “unreadable” ancient Herculaneum scroll](https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/10/ai-helps-decipher-first-text-of-unreadable-ancient-herculaneum-scroll/) - [AI Takes on Expiration Dates](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/10/ai-food-preservation-chemistry-rancidity-detection/675723/) --- ## Thursday, October 19th - [What Happens When an Artist’s Technology Becomes Obsolete?](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/17/t-magazine/technology-art-ctl-electronics.html) - [IRS to offer free tax filing in competition against much-criticized TurboTax](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/irs-to-offer-free-tax-filing-in-competition-against-much-criticized-turbotax/) --- ## Tuesday, October 17th - [How a chatbot encouraged a man who wanted to kill the Queen](https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67012224) - [Microsoft completes $69B Activision Blizzard deal, its biggest merger ever](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/10/microsoft-finally-owns-candy-crush-as-it-closes-69b-activision-blizzard-deal/) --- ## Thursday, October 12th - [Facebook’s sexist, ageist ad-targeting violates Calif. law, court finds](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/facebook-targeting-ads-by-age-gender-violates-calif-anti-discrimination-law/) - [Israel-Hamas war has X and its users swimming in sea of disinformation](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/israel-hamas-war-has-x-and-its-users-swimming-in-sea-of-disinformation/) --- ## Thursday, October 5th - [Deepfake celebrities begin shilling products on social media, causing alarm](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/tom-hanks-warns-of-ai-generated-doppelganger-in-instagram-plea/) - [Issues Regarding the Use of Someone’s Likeness](https://www.owe.com/resources/legalities/7-issues-regarding-use-someones-likeness/) - [We try out the first legal level 3 automated driving system in the US](https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/09/mercedes-benzs-level-3-autonomous-driving-system-takes-over-in-heavy-traffic/) --- ## Tuesday, October 3rd - [Dead grandma locket request tricks Bing Chat’s AI into solving security puzzle](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/sob-story-about-dead-grandma-tricks-microsoft-ai-into-solving-captcha/) - [How a Pricing Change Led to a Revolt by Unity’s Video Game Developers](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/technology/how-a-pricing-change-led-to-a-revolt-by-unitys-video-game-developers.html) --- ## Thursday, September 28th - [FTC files “the big one,” a lawsuit alleging Amazon illegally maintains monopoly](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/ftc-files-the-big-one-a-lawsuit-alleging-amazon-illegally-maintains-monopoly/) - [3 iOS 0-days, a cellular network compromise, and HTTP used to infect an iPhone](https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/how-the-iphone-of-a-presidential-candidate-in-egypt-got-hacked-for-the-2nd-time/) --- ## Thursday, September 21st - [FCC plays whack-a-mole with telcos accused of profiting from robocalls](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/fcc-plays-whac-a-mole-with-telcos-accused-of-profiting-from-robocalls/) - [Britain Passes Sweeping New Online Safety Law](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/technology/britain-online-safety-law.html) --- ## Tuesday, September 19th - [Biden Asks Supreme Court to Lift Limits on Contacts With Social Media Sites](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/14/us/politics/supreme-court-social-media-misinformation.html) - [In Its First Monopoly Trial of Modern Internet Era, U.S. Sets Sights on Google](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/technology/modern-internet-first-monopoly-trial-us-google-dominance.html) --- ## Thursday, September 14th - [AI can now generate CD-quality music from text, and it’s only getting better](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/ai-can-now-generate-cd-quality-music-from-text-and-its-only-getting-better/) - [Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community ](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/09/game-developers-unite-against-unitys-new-per-install-pricing-structure/) --- ## Monday, September 12th - [US rejects AI copyright for famous state fair-winning Midjourney art](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/us-rejects-ai-copyright-for-famous-state-fair-winning-midjourney-art/) - [Microsoft offers legal protection for AI copyright infringement challenges](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/microsoft-offers-legal-protection-for-ai-copyright-infringement-challenges/) --- ## Thursday, September 7th - [Are self-driving cars already safer than human drivers?](https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/09/are-self-driving-cars-already-safer-than-human-drivers/) - [New York police will use drones to monitor backyard parties this weekend, spurring privacy concerns](https://apnews.com/article/drones-labor-day-eric-adams-nypd-jouvert-c2787e87bcad8fa87aa8d34b454ee6cf) --- ## Thursday, August 31st - [iFixit wants Congress to let it hack McDonald's ice cream machines](https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/29/23850595/mcdonalds-broken-ice-cream-machines-ifixit) --- ## Monday, December 12th - [Meta shuts down its Connectivity division after nearly a decade](https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/12/23505353/meta-connectivity-shutdown-facebook-internet) - [The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/technology/chatgpt-ai-twitter.html) - [Example: essays generated with ChatGTP](ChatGPTEssays.pdf) --- ## Thursday, December 8th - [San Francisco decides killer police robots aren’t such a great idea](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/san-francisco-decides-killer-police-robots-arent-such-a-great-idea/?comments=1) - [Children’s Groups Want F.T.C. to Ban ‘Unfair’ Online Manipulation of Kids](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/business/childrens-privacy-games-tom-tiktok.html) --- ## Monday, December 5th - [How China’s Police Used Phones and Faces to Track Protesters](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/business/china-protests-surveillance.html) - [Why automating trucking is harder than you think](https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/5/23490433/trucker-surveillance-autonomous-karen-levy-book-interview) --- ## Thursday, December 1st - [San Francisco will allow police to deploy robots that kill](https://apnews.com/article/police-san-francisco-government-and-politics-d26121d7f7afb070102932e6a0754aa5) - [Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Beta is now available to everyone in North America](https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/24/23476570/teslas-full-self-driving-beta-release-north-america-safety-score) - [What Riding in a Self-Driving Tesla Tells Us About the Future of Autonomy](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/14/technology/tesla-self-driving-flaws.html) - [Drivers woefully overestimate hands-free driver tech, study shows](https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/10/drivers-woefully-overestimate-hands-free-driver-tech-study-shows/) --- ## Monday, November 28th - [New Meta AI demo writes racist and inaccurate scientific literature, gets pulled](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/11/after-controversy-meta-pulls-demo-of-ai-model-that-writes-scientific-papers/) - [Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online](https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/18/1063487/meta-large-language-model-ai-only-survived-three-days-gpt-3-science/) - [Feds arrest Russians accused of running the largest pirated e-book library](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/feds-arrest-russians-accused-of-running-the-largest-pirated-ebook-library/) --- ## Monday, November 14th - [How North Korea became a mastermind of crypto cybercrime](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/11/how-north-korea-became-a-mastermind-of-crypto-cyber-crime/) - [For comparison, the GDP of North Korea is estimated to be about $30 billion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_North_Korea) - [Why can’t pollsters reach Gen Z?](https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/12/23453798/midterms-election-whitmer-fetterman-democrats-red-wave-polling-discord-facebook-youtube) --- ## Thursday, November 10th - [New Go-playing trick defeats world-class Go AI—but loses to human amateurs](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/11/new-go-playing-trick-defeats-world-class-go-ai-but-loses-to-human-amateurs/) - [Greece to Ban Sale of Spyware After Government Is Accused of Surveillance](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/07/world/europe/greece-spyware-ban.html) --- ## Monday, November 7th - [Algorithms quietly run the city of DC—and maybe your hometown](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/11/algorithms-quietly-run-the-city-of-dc-and-maybe-your-hometown/) - [Russia Reactivates Its Trolls and Bots Ahead of Tuesday’s Midterms](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/06/technology/russia-misinformation-midterms.html) --- ## Thursday, November 3rd - [Why Egypt became one of the biggest chokepoints for Internet cables](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/11/the-most-vulnerable-place-on-the-internet/) - [A scientist’s quest for an accessible, unhackable voting machine ](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/a-scientists-quest-for-an-accessible-unhackable-voting-machine/)