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Junior Geek of the Month: Heven Ambachew uses tech to pursue her passion around social justice

GeekWire

Three years later, the high school graduate is doing her own teaching for the nonprofit. Ambachew is GeekWire’s Junior Geek of the Month for July, a monthly honor presented by Northern Trust , which recognizes talented young innovators, creators and entrepreneurs in the Pacific Northwest. Ambachew, of SeaTac, Wash.,

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Amy Klobuchar takes aim at 12 vaccine misinformation influencers

Vox

Now, two senators are turning their attention to the vaccine misinformation superspreaders that push the bulk of conspiracy theories and lies on social media — and asking the social media giants to take more aggressive action. These accounts include Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Kennedy Jr.,

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Researchers: Instagram 'Bullied' Us Into Halting Algorithmic Research

Gizmodo

A Berlin-based nonprofit studying the ways in which Instagram’s algorithm presents content to users says parent company Facebook “bullied” its researchers into killing off experiments and deleting underlying data that was collected with consent from Instagram users. Read more.

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4 Parallels Between a Pandemic and Cybersecurity

SecureWorld News

The Cyberspace Solarium Commission originally presented a list of dozens of urgent steps the U.S. As a backdrop, consider the massive shift to remote work and other risks created by the pandemic's social distancing efforts: 1. Pass an Internet of Things Security Law. Establish the Social Media Data and Threat Analysis Center.

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Mark Zuckerberg wants to build a voice assistant that blows Alexa and Siri away

Vox

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees the metaverse as the future of the internet, and of his company. The presentation comes during one of the most challenging moments in the company’s history. AI in the metaverse will present ethical challenges. Courtesy of Meta. And the key to unlocking a lot of these advances is AI.”.

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

The Verge

And while there are ways to get them taken down, it’s time-consuming to chase down every fake to get it removed, and demoralizing to see ripoffs continue to proliferate across the internet. Prove that you are the owner or the agent,’ or whatever, after they’ve presented an affidavit under penalty of perjury to do this.”.

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Why you should care about Facebook’s big push into the metaverse

Vox

The futuristic tech Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in could remake the internet. It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. It’s a joke.