Wired: An analysis and reconstruction of Rotterdam’s Accenture-made welfare fraud algorithm and its training data finds discrimination based on ethnicity and gender — Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Microsoft announces Dynamics 365 Copilot, built using OpenAI’s tech, helping draft contextual chat and email answers and more, rolling out in preview — Microsoft Corp., having brought artificial intelligence to its battle with Google over search, is now turning to the latest AI technology … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Associated Press: German police, Europol, FBI, and Ukrainian authorities disrupt a ransomware gang that deployed DoppelPaymer; Europol says US victims paid out €40M+ in 2019-2021 — German police said Monday that they have disrupted an international cybercrime gang which has been blackmailing large companies … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Associated Press: German police, Europol, FBI, and Ukrainian authorities disrupt a ransomware gang that deployed DoppelPaymer; Europol says US victims paid out €40M+ in 2019-2021 — German police said Monday that they have disrupted an international cybercrime gang which has been blackmailing large companies … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Andy Greenberg / Wired: A look at the AI Objectives Institute, founded by deceased privacy luminary Peter Eckersley, aiming to influence AI’s evolution and safeguard humanity’s future — Peter Eckersley did groundbreaking work to encrypt the web. After his sudden death, a new organization he founded is carrying … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Reuters: The EU says WhatsApp agreed to increase transparency over its privacy policy changes from 2021, letting users reject the rules, limiting data sharing, and more — Meta Platforms’ (META.O) WhatsApp has agreed to be more transparent about changes to its privacy policy introduced in 2021 … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Q&A with Atari CEO Wade Rosen on the company’s 50th anniversary, making use of its traditional IP, plans to focus on retro gaming hardware, licensing, and more — Wade Rosen wants Atari to come back as one of the most valuable gaming brands. After all, there aren’t many 50-year-old game companies. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kaya Yurieff / The Information: Sources: around 20 leaders at Clubhouse have left over the past year, including hires from Meta, Google, and others; Clubhouse continues to add “top talent” — Roughly 20 leaders have departed Clubhouse over the past year or so, including many of the notable hires … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: Sources: China plans to create an agency to manage the country’s data stores, shifting from multiple ministries, seeking to streamline its regulatory structure — Beijing’s plan to streamline regulatory structure would bring all data-related issues under a single agency Lees verder op Tech Meme
Laurie Chen / Reuters: At the National People’s Congress in Beijing, Tencent CEO Pony Ma and other executives were absent, as China boosts representation for its tech hardware sector — Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) founder Pony Ma and others from China’s crackdown-hit internet sector will be absent … Lees verder op Tech Meme