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Google is releasing an open source harassment filter for journalists

The Verge

It’s debuting as source code for developers to build on, then being launched as a functional application for Thomson Reuters Foundation journalists in June. For now, however, there’s not a standalone application that users can download.

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David Bray of FCC @FCC_CIO Discusses Public Service and Data Analytics at 2014 Analyst Forum 

CTOvision

Bray has observed the increasing blurring of the lines differentiating the public sector, the private sector, academia, and nonprofits. To illustrate his point, Mr. Bray shared the story of an application for smartphones created by the FCC.

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Artists are playing takedown whack-a-mole to fight counterfeit merch

The Verge

We comply with applicable intellectual property laws by assessing all reports, removing items when we receive proper notices of infringement and terminating sellers who receive repeat notices of infringement,” Pavlovic told The Verge. Even people who should be experts in copyright matters can struggle to contend with takedown policies.

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AI2 researchers release new multimodal approach to boost AI capabilities using images and audio

GeekWire

The c4 and mmc4 corpuses are both derived from data collected by Common Crawl, a nonprofit organization that crawls the web, then provides its archives and datasets to the public for free. In its initial application, mmc4 was used to provide training data for OpenFlamingo, the first public model trained on this corpus.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

And so some of the things because of those work on nonprofit side, again, all all around the InfoSec community, but looking at these different villages, and if you remember to 2014 Around that time before that or so, car hacking was starting to be in the news, people were talking about it. That would seem to be a juicy target.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Surviving Stalkerware

ForAllSecure

Then there's the broader issue of technology facilitated abuse, in which a device such as a smart device in a home or an application on a mobile device can be used to inflict emotional or even physical harm. It also means that just about anyone can do this, download the stalkerware onto another device. Both involve people getting hurt.

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Apple and Google roll out their new exposure notification tool. Interest seems limited.

Vox

Apple, specifically, rolled out a software update to iOS devices that some users could download immediately. Built by the nonprofit Mitre Corporation, Sara Alert is an open source project developed with the cooperation of several state public health authorities, which is similar in some ways to what Apple and Google are trying to do. “We

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