Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping
Censorship Expert Says Musk ‘Has Stepped on a Rattlesnake’ Jonas Mäki / Gamereactor UK : Twitter stops data collection by adding lots of restrictions Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph : Elon Musk impose...
Six robotics companies, including Boston Dynamics, pledge not to support the weaponization of their products and say adding weapons will erode trust in robots
the provider of a bot model that was outfitted with a machine gun and later a RPG launcher—make the same pledge. https://www.pcmag.com/... @litcapital : That's exactly what you'd say right before weap...
Facebook Oversight Board upholds Trump's suspension, but asks Facebook to review the decision within six months to determine a penalty consistent with its rules
For Now Kari Paul / The Guardian : Facebook ruling on Trump renews criticism of oversight board Donald J. Trump : Donald Trump calls the actions of “corrupt social media companies” like Facebook, Twit...
Intel details Bleep, which uses AI to redact audio when it detects “hate speech” and lets users toggle how much they want to hear
But On A Sliding Scale James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : Intel's new hate speech-purging AI Bleep comes under criticism Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net : Intel's AI-powered Bleep tech lets you choose exactl...
Google says it expects most of its staff to work from home until 2021
"price" discrimination (*every* kind of discrimination) in all aspects of human life https://twitter.com/... Sheryl Jean / @sjeanwrites : The US stock market is up today despite massive job losses for...
Tech workers should distinguish between the role of technologies like AI and AR on the battlefield and general questions of whether US war-making is right
Lucas Kunce / New York Times : Tweets: @paul_scharre , @athertonkd , @ebkania , @dellsystem , @nytopinion , @matthewstoller , and @matthewstoller Tweets: Paul Scharre / @paul_scharre : Great article ...
Leaked documents show how Amazon automatically tracks and terminates warehouse workers for failing to meet productivity quotas
10% of its staff, for not moving fast enough packing hundreds of boxes an hour. Monopoly has its privileges http://www.theverge.com/... Nilay Patel / @reckless : Here's @colinlecher on the reality of ...
Inside Facebook's content policy team, which is made up of several dozen Facebook engineers, lawyers, and PR people, who decide what users can post
The company blew it on privacy and fake news. Can it do better against trolls and racists? An exclusive embed with Facebook's shadow government. Tweets: @etbrooking , @athertonkd , @antoniogm , and ...
As US Army launches Army Esports, a new gamer recruitment initiative, a look at its long collaboration with the gaming industry using tools like Marine Doom
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Kotaku : Tweets: @gamingthemind , @gik_and_a_half , @athertonkd , and @cecianasta Tweets: @gamingthemind : Despite claiming concerns over video games & gun violence, one importa...
A look at autonomous weapons systems being developed by the US and the arguments for and against imbuing autonomous robots with lethal decision-making
Kelsey D. Atherton / New York Times : Tweets: @cnasdc , @nytimesatwar , and @bankillerrobots Tweets: Cnas / @cnasdc : In a conversation with @NYTmag, @paul_scharre describes “a world where we'll have...