GeekWire

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

New AI “foundation” models like GPT-3 and DALL-E that can generate new sentences or images were built using massive training sets pulled from the internet. There is no one power of Google that includes all the health data or biological data of the world,” she said. It’s literally just there,” said Nivon.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Globally, the current 6 million jobs in clean energy manufacturing could more than double to 14 million by 2030, according to a new report from IEA, an intergovernmental nonprofit. In the meantime, a slate of new nonprofits and startups have cropped up to share jobs listings, compile resources, hold workshops and connect people.

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Vox

MARCH 4, 2023

The new Bing uses generative AI in its web search function to return results that appear as longer, written answers culled from various internet sources instead of a list of links to relevant websites. Microsoft and Google are the biggest companies with public-facing generative AI products, but they aren’t the only ones working on it.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

As Ukraine turned a corner 10 days ago with a military offensive that retook territory from Russia, former Google CEO billionaire Eric Schmidt was meeting with senior Ukrainian officials. They hit the internet of things. We fought networked wars for some time, but always in the narrowband sense,” he told me.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

No, it’s merely an autocomplete program, like the one in the Google search bar. These regularities are unknown to humans, but they’re stored as billions of weighted connections between the different nodes in GPT-3’s neural network. It’s like Google but for questions and answers. You start typing and it predicts what comes next.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Any area of the Google ecosystem fits the mold of such a juicy target. Google Docs comments functionality mishandled for phishing In early 2022, analysts at email security firm Avanan spread the word about a new unorthodox technique for delivering toxic links to numerous users. relatedlink.html?

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

That, of course, was not all, but it is an example of how someone -- anyone on the internet -- can take a photo or blog post or Yelp review from social media, or some other seemingly random open source item and tie it back to a crime. Which then I could configure to get on the internet, you know. You got into a network.

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Vox

MARCH 30, 2023

In a more innocent time (2015) Google released “DeepDream,” which used Google’s artificial neural network programs — that is, artificial intelligence that’s been trained to learn in a way that mimics a human brain’s neural networks — to recognize patterns in images and make new images from them. Pierre said.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

Who can devote nights and weekends to getting something built to show that they have started solving their problem, that has a network or a set of relationships with other people devoted to the same problem. So at 23, I’m working at Google. Nonprofits can do that. You can see how that narrows the funnel. It’s a rigor.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Vamosi: That's a gray area with the Internet of Things. Vamosi: What about the parents who just want to monitor their children's internet use. So, yeah, again, I would recommend, if Apple and Google etc are listening, make sure you keep conversations going, which I know is already happening for people working in the anti abuse space.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

What he touched off instead was a rampant epidemic last November that infected a national defense network of computers among others. We do have we do have some people on the internet who have expressed concern about, you know, cyber criminal, I think is what we were originally going with. And it cuts over to this guy, coding Java.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Google came in a close second, with 14 wins, for categories including best navigation and best branded editorial experience. Webby Break the Internet Award: Swizz Beatz + Timbaland for the Verzuz battles on Instagram Live. Webby Special Achievement: Google Classroom. Webby Special Achievement: Invisible Hands.

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Vox

JUNE 25, 2020

As one of the internet’s oldest and most prolific sources of health misinformation and conspiracy theories, Natural News is a hub for climate change deniers and anti-vaxxers. While it poses as a news outlet, Natural News is actually a network of sites filled with bylined articles and flanked by ads for survivalist gear and dodgy health cures.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

Among the biggest beneficiaries has been Signal, the encrypted messaging app whose development is funded by a nonprofit organization. Adding millions of users has served as a vindication for a company that has sought to build a healthier internet by adopting different incentives than most Silicon Valley companies.

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Vox

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Then-Google AI research scientist Timnit Gebru speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 in San Francisco. She says she was fired in 2020 (Google says she resigned) over a conflict related to one of her research papers. Speaking out against a powerful company like Google, Facebook, or Apple isn’t an easy choice. “No

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Also of note is where Boogaloo adherents are organizing themselves: social networks, most notably Facebook. Riley writes (emphasis hers): Researchers at the global nonprofit group Avaaz found nearly two dozen Facebook pages affiliated with the “boogaloo” movement, a generally anti-government and anti-law enforcement ideology.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Yesterday we talked about the audio-only social network Clubhouse , which found itself at the center of controversy after failing to take action or even make a public comment after users began to experience harassment within the app. The result was a stack of policies that are largely offensive to mainstream American sensibilities.

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Vox

JANUARY 12, 2021

Signal, for the first time, became the most downloaded app on the App Store and Google Play. A few days earlier on January 4, Facebook-owned WhatsApp had issued a new privacy policy, which many interpreted would mean users would be required to share personal information with Facebook’s ad network in order to use the platform.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. One of her focuses is building networks between Azerbaijani people and researchers across the world.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

On the other hand, the number of places where they can easily find new followers on the internet appears to be shrinking, and for that at least I’m grateful. Facebook bans a violent Boogaloo network. for 5G networks. prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India.”.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

The pessimists argue that social networks are getting played by bad actors who have gamed it to re-enforce and worsen existing power imbalances. Trending down : Google is placing ads on websites that publish coronavirus conspiracy theories, helping their owners generate revenue and continue their operations. Governing. ?

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Vox

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

If you’re looking for up-to-the-minute results on election night, Wikipedia might be one of the first sites to pop up in your Google search. While Facebook and Google have spent billions of dollars on content moderators and other measures to combat misinformation and abuse on their platforms, Wikipedia’s editors do this work for free.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

The “Tide Pods challenge” surged on social networks in 2018, and ultimately more than 10,000 children were reported to have been exposed to whatever extremely inedible substance is actually inside Tide Pods. Still, Facebook made it clear today that, like other networks before it, the company does consider QAnon a problem. Governing. ?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The problems are somewhat different on the two networks — Facebook is primarily talking about ideological diversity, where TikTok is more concerned with promoting different types of content — but I still found the distinction striking. Do social networks pull us into self-reinforcing echo chambers, or don’t they? Governing. ?

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

But you could also use it as an umbrella term to talk about initiatives related to what Facebook and other social networks have lately taken to calling “platform integrity” — removing hate speech, for example, or labeling misinformation. Late in the day, there was word of a forthcoming executive order , with no other details.

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