The World’s Most Popular Algorithm Has A Problem No One Can Solve
SHA 256 is a deterministic one-way hash function. We also didn’t understand what half of those words meant until after watching this video.

July 15, 2019 at 08:00AM
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The Toxic Potential Of Youtube’s Feedback Loop
Nearly a decade later, I can see that our work had unintended — but not unpredictable —consequences. In some cases, the AI went terribly wrong.

July 15, 2019 at 06:53AM
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Revealed: This Is Palantir’s Top-Secret User Manual for Cops
Motherboard obtained a Palantir user manual through a public records request, and it gives unprecedented insight into how the company logs and tracks individuals.

July 12, 2019 at 02:51PM
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Millions Of Parents Are Tracking Their Kid’s Every Move
Spend enough time on the social media app TikTok, and you’re bound to see a Life360 meme. That’s because Life360, a location-sharing app aimed at families, is apparently ruining the lives of teenagers all across the United States.

July 12, 2019 at 12:42PM
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Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design
The quote often attributed to Einstein is “everything must be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.” I think the trouble was that Ive often ignored the second part of that advice in the pursuit of refinement.

July 12, 2019 at 10:37AM
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Facing The Future
Can a New Zealand-based lab take virtual assistants from the realm of marketing gimmicks and endow them with real intelligence?

July 12, 2019 at 06:49AM
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Yep, Human Workers Are Listening To Recordings From Google Assistant, Too
A report from Belgian public broadcaster VRT NWS has revealed how contractors paid to transcribe audio clips collected by Google’s AI assistant can end up listening to sensitive information about users, including names, addresses and details about their personal lives.

July 11, 2019 at 11:20PM
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How US Tech Giants Are Helping To Build China’s Surveillance State
The OpenPower Foundation, an American organization founded by tech giants Google and IBM is working with a company that is helping China’s authoritarian government conduct mass surveillance against its citizens.

July 11, 2019 at 11:02PM
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The Worst Fire Gadget Amazon Ever Made Is Even Worse Than I Remember
I spent a few weeks revisiting Amazon’s phone failure. It’s still terrible, but it’s evident that Amazon had a few good ideas that were way ahead of their time.

July 11, 2019 at 01:35PM
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The Small Town Gang Murder Broadcast Live On Snapchat
A 16-year-old Cemeren Yilmaz begged for his life, his attackers filmed him and posted the video to Snapchat. The murder was callous, utterly pointless—and representative of so many of the UK’s knife crime deaths.

July 10, 2019 at 08:27PM
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