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Google is releasing an open source harassment filter for journalists

The Verge

Google’s Jigsaw unit is releasing the code for an open source anti-harassment tool called Harassment Manager. The tool, intended for journalists and other public figures, employs Jigsaw’s Perspective API to let users sort through potentially abusive comments on social media platforms starting with Twitter.

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Your car is about to go open source

Galido

Having an open-source IVI operating system would create a reusable platform consisting of core services, middleware and open application layer interfaces that eliminate the redundant efforts to create separate proprietary systems. By developing an open-source platform, carmakers can share upgrades as they arrive.

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Seattle mayor expands tech tool built with Google to streamline benefit program application process

GeekWire

The City received pro-bono support from the Google.org Fellowship program , a part of Google’s philanthropic arm that provides technical expertise to help nonprofits and civic entities solve technical challenges. Smart Cities Connect named CiviForm one the 50 most transformative smart projects of 2023.

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Meredith Whittaker wants to keep your digital conversations private

Vox

In a recent paper , she and her co-authors explained why “open source” AI isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. And when, in March, AI leaders (and Elon Musk) signed an open letter urging all labs to press pause on powerful AI, she withheld her signature. Some 3,000 employees signed and Google pulled out of the project.

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Meredith Whittaker wants to keep your digital conversations private

Vox

In a recent paper , she and her co-authors explained why “open source” AI isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. And when, in March, AI leaders (and Elon Musk) signed an open letter urging all labs to press pause on powerful AI, she withheld her signature. Some 3,000 employees signed and Google pulled out of the project.

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Online scammers are rushing to exploit people desperate to get the Covid-19 vaccine

Vox

“We’re not surprised scammers are taking advantage of this opportunity because each of the states are rolling out the vaccine a little bit differently,” Sandra Guile of the Better Business Bureau, a nonprofit that focuses on consumer and marketplace trust, told Recode. And these fakes aren’t just popping up on social media.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

More and more criminals are identified through open source intelligence (OSINT). Find out what Daniel looks for and how he does digital forensics using social media and other open source resources. And they did, relatively quickly, using something known as Open Source Intelligence, or OSINT.