GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2021

As schools shifted online, an alarming number of students, families and schools did not have access to technology devices and reliable internet essential for learning. Government programs, nonprofits and educators have hustled to connect kids with digital resources, with varying success. Fewer meaningful social connections.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees the metaverse as the future of the internet, and of his company. That’s going to require advances across a whole range of areas, from new hardware devices to software for building and exploring worlds. Courtesy of Meta. And the key to unlocking a lot of these advances is AI.”. Who has access to this data?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 14, 2023

Whether it’s text, images, video or, more likely, a combination of multiple models and services, taking advantage of generative AI is a ‘when, not if’ question for organizations. That will start with using the Copilot features Microsoft is introducing in many products, including in Cloud for Nonprofit. “It

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

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.

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Vox

APRIL 10, 2023

While much has been made about AI’s potential to destroy our jobs, Grennan and other American workers whose tasks overlap with capabilities of software like ChatGPT are embracing the technology to do away with drudge work, to be more creative, and to level up their skills. All that other stuff just takes me away from making videos,” he said.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 18, 2023

Musk saw TruthGPT as a way to change the direction of OpenAI, the AI software nonprofit he helped start and which now has a for-profit branch. Credit: Elon Musk Musk says that he is confident that TruthGPT will be a game-changer for the internet and humanity. Can TruthGPT make the internet a better place for everyone?

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Microsoft’s internet browser was just being unveiled. “I didn’t know a lot about the internet in ’95,” Alberg said, “but I knew some because of McCaw, and I did think it was a big deal.” He believed there was more untapped internet potential in the Pacific Northwest. He was impressed.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 25, 2023

“ChatGPT net worth” is one of the most searched queries on the Internet. OpenAI is not a publicly listed stock at this time, but investors may have exposure to the firm through Microsoft stock if the software giant were to acquire a significant stake. That’s not surprising considering the popularity of this AI tool.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The video game industry came into 2021 with a lot of momentum , with millions of new customers, high sales, and venture capitalists falling over each other to put more money into the system. Bungie, makers of Destiny 2 (above), are one of several video game developers rocked by allegations of misconduct in 2021. Bungie Image).

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

And the reason why was because we felt like they had an advantage in building a product in a software world. When I talk to people who have the technical skills, who are interested in software, who are interested in startups, socio-economic barriers are really tricky. Can it do it with just software alone? That’s still core.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

They discuss how software and IoT companies can avoid becoming the next Black Mirror episode and share resources that can help survivors (and those who want to help them) deal with the technology issues that can be associated with technologically facilitated abuse. So here's the thing, SpyPhone is not an isolated incident.

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Vox

DECEMBER 28, 2023

“It’s definitely the best of the worst” “It is the everybody app,” said Nahal, a 34-year-old executive at a software company who splits her time between New York and Los Angeles, who has used the app on and off since 2020. When Alex, a video editor from New York, downloaded the app in 2018, his first date turned into a four-year relationship.

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Vox

MARCH 4, 2023

The big difference is that generative AI can create new content, such as images, text, audio, video, and even code — usually from a prompt or command. It can help developers make software. It can write news articles , movie scripts , and poetry. It can make images out of some really specific parameters. It could improve education.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

Any type of text that’s been uploaded to the internet has likely become grist to GPT-3’s mighty pattern-matching mill. Look at the entire video. As Rao wryly notes: “Every demo video became a pitch deck for GPT-3.”) And, yes, that includes the bad stuff as well. I made a fully functioning search engine on top of GPT3.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

” The event, which was captured on video and also reported in Wired magazine, sent a message to the automotive industry. In talking with Steve and Matt, though I know it's only like 30 bucks to get a software controlled radio unit. We had a video feed showing a bug bounty effort that was being done on an FFT maintenance system.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

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. I had tweeted this video, it's pinned on our Twitter account hack, not crime. And it's, no it's this short video. Is this to you know, is this for the better good?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 12, 2022

So I started attending Black Hat, Def Con, and after many years wrote my own book on the insecurity of internet of things devices. Because that's how these job applications work and that you might have software tools that filter out people that don't check the box that you have for you. It looks like a video game. It's amazing.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

The annual awards show celebrates the wide variety of things that happen online, from websites and podcasts to design and data visualizations to video series and social media accounts, and they tend to touch on a big swath of what happened in the preceding year. Here’s the full list of winners. Special Achievement.

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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

JUNE 25, 2020

The internet trust tool NewsGuard reports that Natural News “severely violates basic standards of credibility and transparency.” In the early 1990s, Adams founded an email-marketing business called Arial Software, through which he ran an anti-spam campaign.

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2021

Last month Vulcan announced that EarthRanger and a number of other AI-related projects would be moving to the nonprofit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, another organization founded by Paul Allen. EarthRanger’s software enhances understanding about what patrol management teams need to do in real time.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

And he’s learning to make pizza from scratch by watching YouTube videos. “It And I think it’s really hard to drive that vision without doing hardware, software, and services together. I saw the intro to the video where you said, “This phone sells more than the Galaxy.” I actually watched the video. He gave it a seven.

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Vox

JANUARY 12, 2021

Parler , the right wing’s social media alternative, was also booted from the internet; Google and Apple banned it from its app stores and Amazon Web Services stopped hosting the app on its servers. That means users can send texts or make phone or video calls without outsiders — or the platform itself — seeing the content of those messages.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

In that spirit, I thought today we could look at the particularly newsy week the ByteDance-owned video app has had, and then contribute some additional speculation that I will later have to disown or apologize for. In November, Dwayne Johnson, the actor and former wrestler known as The Rock, posted his first video to the app.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

Evans’s involvement in the telecoms industry began with her work as a software engineer in the early 1980s. Kasriel worked at the Medialab of The Guardian newspaper back in the early days of the Internet, before leading the Knowledge Venturing team at the Henley Centre consultancy for a decade, and then founding Futureal.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

For You is the first thing you see when you open TikTok, and it reliably serves up a feed of personalized videos that leaves you saying “I’ll just look at one more of these” for 20 minutes longer than you intended. Huang told us that when a new user opens TikTok, the algorithm fetches eight popular but diverse videos to show them.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

Some of the videos have racked up hundreds of thousands of views. (EJ Just one example: Shortly after Facebook and YouTube began taking down copies of “Plandemic” for violating their rules, I saw people in anti-vaccine groups editing it in subtle ways to evade the platforms’ automated enforcement software and reposting it.).

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Vox

JANUARY 17, 2023

At a time when US-Chinese relations aren’t great , TikTok’s popularity is a threat to America’s technological superiority, especially when it comes to the internet. But banning the sales and use of hardware is more straightforward than an app, which is distributed over a global internet that’s notoriously impossible to regulate or control.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

After Recode provided examples, YouTube removed a popular Spanish-language channel that was promoting QAnon conspiracies, as well as a political video containing coronavirus misinformation.). A spokesperson for YouTube told Recode that Otaola’s caravan video does not violate its policies. “As

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

They found that affective polarization had increased faster in the United States than anywhere else — but that in several large, modernized nations with high internet usage, polarization was actually decreasing. Klein wrote: One theory this lets us reject is that polarization is a byproduct of internet penetration or digital media usage.

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