science fiction Douglas Rain, HAL 9000's voice in '2001: A Space Odyssey,' has died. He was 90. Xeni Jardin
Copyfight Mercedes' weird "Trolley Problem" announcement continues dumb debate about self-driving cars Cory Doctorow
coronavirus U.S. sets record high COVID cases for 3 days in a row, nearly 69,000 new cases today Xeni Jardin
drm Unauthorized Charcoal: GE fridges won't dispense ice or water unless your filter authenticates as an official ($55!) component Cory Doctorow
privacy Facial recognition isn't just bad because it invades privacy: it's because privacy invasions fuel discrimination Cory Doctorow
surveillance Toronto business and government signal full support for Sidewalk Labs' dominance of the city and beyond Rosemary Frei
security Idiotic security mistakes in smart conferencing gear allows hackers to spy on board rooms, steal presentations Cory Doctorow
privacy Search-warrant demands that Google turn over account info, Android info, all accounts and passwords, calendar, contacts, cloud docs, financial data, photos, location history, search history, call records, etc Cory Doctorow
privacy AI Now's annual report: stop doing "emotion detection"; stop "socially sensitive" facial recognition; make AI research diverse and representative — and more Cory Doctorow
twitter German researchers with ties to for-profit "neuromarketing" company want to use AI to guess peoples' "intelligence" from their writing Cory Doctorow
racism Amazon secretly planned to use facial recognition and Ring doorbells to create neighborhood "watch lists" Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Tiny alterations in training data can introduce "backdoors" into machine learning models Cory Doctorow
Business "Out of Home Advertising": the billboards that spy on you as you move through public spaces Cory Doctorow
