Meta rolls out Meta AI in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, the UAE, and Yemen, and adds language support for Arabic
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch :
A look at Project Maven, the US DOD's flagship AI effort which identifies battlefield targets, and at concerns, including adversaries poisoning training data
and could run at speeds faster than humans can comprehend https://www.bloomberg.com/... Katrina Manson / @katrinamanson : AI identifies targets and supplies Maven Smart System, along with other data f...
Facebook's Q3 Widely Viewed Content Report: in a first, none of the top 20 posts broke platform rules; sources detail Meta's latest fight against spammy content
linked to individuals associated with the US military — operated across many internet services and focused on Afghanistan, Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Somalia, Syria, Tajikist...
Ericsson CEO says the company might have made payments to ISIS to gain access to transport routes in Iraq in 2018, causing shares to drop by over 8.5%
Ericsson may have made payments to the ISIS terror organization to gain access to certain transport routes in Iraq, in a shock admission following years of regulatory investigations.
As autonomous war tech advances, the US military must confront complex ethical issues, like how much control to give machines to kill on the battlefield
Zachary Fryer-Biggs / Washington Post : Tweets: @martoiu , @jdflynn , @henrybendon , @washingtonpost , @marywareham , and @kevincarey1 Tweets: Mihai Martoiu Ticu / @martoiu : The Pentagon is investin...
US says it has seized 300+ “cryptocurrency accounts”, worth around $2M, four websites, and four Facebook pages used by al-Qaeda, Hamas' military wing, and ISIS
that it claimed were FDA approved— across four Facebook pages to finance the terror group's operations, according to Homeland Security Investigations. 👉The sale of illicit items on Facebook is literal...
Apple announces that the App Store is launching in 20 new countries this year, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Serbia, Morocco, and Myanmar
In a post on its developer website this afternoon, Apple has announced that the App Store is launching in 20 new countries this year.
Facebook removes accounts for spreading disinformation on Instagram and FB, hundreds from Ukraine, linked to PR firm, and from Iraq, posting on societal issues
Nathaniel Gleicher / Facebook :
South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb says it's banning trading in 11 countries, including Iran, Iraq, North Korea, to improve anti-money laundering compliance
Joseph Young / NewsBTC :
Baltimore police have been testing an aerial surveillance system that uses wide-angle cameras flown at 8.5K feet, without informing the public, since January
Since January, police have been testing an aerial surveillance system adapted from the surge in Iraq. And they neglected to tell the public.