Vox

OCTOBER 21, 2020

It’s always enlightening to give privacy reports like that a read, just to get a sense of who is tracking you, how often, and where. The big trade-off with Tor is that all that encrypted routing means pages take longer to load, and some sites block traffic from the Tor network entirely. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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Vox

JUNE 10, 2020

The Associated Press, meanwhile, reported that IBM’s decision “is unlikely to affect its bottom line,” as the company is heavily focusing on areas like cloud computing and other companies had more success in the market for facial recognition technology. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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Vox

MARCH 9, 2021

After years of allowing anti-vaccine groups and pages to rack up followers on its social network, Facebook announced last month that it wants to lead the world’s largest Covid-19 inoculation information campaign and encourage its users to get vaccinated. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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Vox

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In the United Kingdom, where the Pfizer vaccine was rolled out in early December, the National Health Service is planning to get celebrities to encourage people to take the vaccine, with soccer player Marcus Rashford and members of the British royal family identified as optimal candidates, the Guardian reported.

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Vox

MAY 20, 2020

A recent ProPublica report suggests that this may still be the best method, with health experts saying that something like the Apple-Google tool, which relays no data back to public health authorities and relies on widespread adoption to be effective, will be of limited use. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

President Trump told reporters on Air Force One that he planned to ban TikTok from operating in the United States , and a few days later he did. But the TikTok Transparency and Accountability Center is now open for (virtual) business — and on Wednesday I was part of a small group of reporters who got to take a tour over Zoom.

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Vox

MARCH 4, 2023

And the open-source model Stable Diffusion can generate detailed and specific images in all kinds of styles from text prompts. It uses deep learning, or algorithms that create artificial neural networks that are meant to mimic how human brains process information and learn. TikTok has a generative AI text-to-image system.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Tracking all those contracts “is an entire project that, in a just world, a team of people would be summarizing in real time,” says Jack Poulson, founder of the nonprofit watchdog Tech Inquiry. We fought networked wars for some time, but always in the narrowband sense,” he told me.

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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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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

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. You find clues.

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