eff "It felt like a Black Mirror episode" – Bird Scooter lays off 406 workers at once via Zoom Mark Frauenfelder
books How To Train Your Robot, a free kids book by an engineer and his 10-year-old daughter David Pescovitz
Business DOJ charges Huawei and CFO Meng Wanzhou with racketeering, conspiracy to steal IP Xeni Jardin
elections A vast network of shadowy news sites promote conservative talking points mixed with floods of algorithmically generated "news" Cory Doctorow
security Model stealing, rewarding hacking and poisoning attacks: a taxonomy of machine learning's failure modes Cory Doctorow
Technology Feds charge Evil Corp, Russia-based creators of Dridex malware, in $100 million bank hacking spree Xeni Jardin
AI Second wave Algorithmic Accountability: from "What should algorithms do?" to "Should we use an algorithm?" Cory Doctorow
law enforcement That Robot Dog from Boston Dynamics has a new job on the Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad Thom Dunn
security Japanese robot hotel chain ignored repeated warnings that its in-room “bed-facing” robots could be turned into spy devices Cory Doctorow
happy mutants "Martian Chronicles": Escape Pod releases a reading of my YA story about rich sociopaths colonizing Mars Cory Doctorow
