Computing in the News
Thursday, December 7th
Gmail’s AI-powered spam detection is its biggest security upgrade in years
PlayStation is erasing 1,318 seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries
Thursday, November 30th
Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
The Invisible War in Ukraine Being Fought Over Radio Waves
Tuesday, November 28th
Sam Altman wins power struggle, returns to OpenAI with new board
How Your Child’s Online Mistake Can Ruin Your Digital Life
Tuesday, November 21st
Ukraine’s ‘Secret Weapon’ Against Russia Is a Controversial U.S. Tech Company
AI Search Is Turning Into the Problem Everyone Worried About
Tuesday, November 14th
The Tech That’s Radically Reimagining the Public Sphere
Welcome to CAPTCHA Hell
Thursday, November 9th
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
Tuesday, November 7th
Silicon Valley Ditches News, Shaking an Unstable Industry
Sam Bankman-Fried Is Found Guilty of 7 Counts of Fraud and Conspiracy
Thursday, November 2nd
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
Tuesday, October 31st
Apple AirTags stalking led to ruin and murders, lawsuit says
California suspends Cruise robotaxis after car dragged pedestrian 20 feet
Tuesday, October 24th
AI helps decipher first text of “unreadable” ancient Herculaneum scroll
AI Takes on Expiration Dates
Thursday, October 19th
What Happens When an Artist’s Technology Becomes Obsolete?
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
Microsoft completes $69B Activision Blizzard deal, its biggest merger ever
Thursday, October 12th
Facebook’s sexist, ageist ad-targeting violates Calif. law, court finds
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
Issues Regarding the Use of Someone’s Likeness
We try out the first legal level 3 automated driving system in the US
Tuesday, October 3rd
Dead grandma locket request tricks Bing Chat’s AI into solving security puzzle
How a Pricing Change Led to a Revolt by Unity’s Video Game Developers
Thursday, September 28th
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
Thursday, September 21st
FCC plays whack-a-mole with telcos accused of profiting from robocalls
Britain Passes Sweeping New Online Safety Law
Tuesday, September 19th
Biden Asks Supreme Court to Lift Limits on Contacts With Social Media Sites
In Its First Monopoly Trial of Modern Internet Era, U.S. Sets Sights on Google
Thursday, September 14th
AI can now generate CD-quality music from text, and it’s only getting better
Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community
Monday, September 12th
US rejects AI copyright for famous state fair-winning Midjourney art
Microsoft offers legal protection for AI copyright infringement challenges
Thursday, September 7th
Are self-driving cars already safer than human drivers?
New York police will use drones to monitor backyard parties this weekend, spurring privacy concerns
Thursday, August 31st
iFixit wants Congress to let it hack McDonald's ice cream machines
Monday, December 12th
Meta shuts down its Connectivity division after nearly a decade
The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT
Example: essays generated with ChatGTP
Thursday, December 8th
San Francisco decides killer police robots aren’t such a great idea
Children’s Groups Want F.T.C. to Ban ‘Unfair’ Online Manipulation of Kids
Monday, December 5th
How China’s Police Used Phones and Faces to Track Protesters
Why automating trucking is harder than you think
Thursday, December 1st
San Francisco will allow police to deploy robots that kill
Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Beta is now available to everyone in North America
What Riding in a Self-Driving Tesla Tells Us About the Future of Autonomy
Drivers woefully overestimate hands-free driver tech, study shows
Monday, November 28th
New Meta AI demo writes racist and inaccurate scientific literature, gets pulled
Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online
Feds arrest Russians accused of running the largest pirated e-book library
Monday, November 14th
How North Korea became a mastermind of crypto cybercrime
For comparison, the GDP of North Korea is estimated to be about $30 billion
Why can’t pollsters reach Gen Z?
Thursday, November 10th
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
Monday, November 7th
Algorithms quietly run the city of DC—and maybe your hometown
Russia Reactivates Its Trolls and Bots Ahead of Tuesday’s Midterms
Thursday, November 3rd
Why Egypt became one of the biggest chokepoints for Internet cables
A scientist’s quest for an accessible, unhackable voting machine
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