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For this Amazon van driver, AI surveillance was the final straw
by Avi Asher-Schapiro | @AASchapiro | Thomson Reuters Foundation Friday, 19 March 2021 12:02 GMT (https://news.trust.org/item/20210319120214-n93hk/?fbclid=IwAR19hxiueSRjFazxoiYfdDU1afKo1o1odNJ7YQJnUocTqHDPT-SIXen8JWo) For Vic, an Amazon driver since 2019, the company’s decision to install a four-lens, AI-powered camera in his van was the final indignity. This month, he quit *Amazon is rolling out AI-powered cameras in its branded delivery vans *Some workers say the cameras violate their privacy and worry who gets their data *Five U.S. Senators have written to Amazon seeking an explanation By Avi Asher-Schapiro March 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Vic started delivering packages for Amazon in 2019, he enjoyed it – the work was physical, he liked the autonomy, and ...
Beware those scientific studies—most are wrong, researcher warns
Seafood is one of many food types that have been linked with lower cancer risks by Ivan Couronne phys.org (https://phys.org/news/2018-07-beware-scientific-studiesmost-wrong.html) A few years ago, two researchers took the 50 most-used ingredients in a cook book and studied how many had been linked with a cancer risk or benefit, based on a variety of studies published in scientific journals. The result? Forty out of 50, including salt, flour, parsley and sugar. “Is everything we eat associated with cancer?” the researchers wondered in a 2013 article based on their findings. Their investigation touched on a known but persistent problem in the research world: too few studies have large enough samples to support generalized conclusions. But pressure on researchers, competition betwe...
Arianna Rosenbluth Dies at 93; Pioneering Figure in Data Science
Dr. Arianna Wright Rosenbluth in 2013. She helped create what has become one of the most important algorithms of all time. Credit…via Rosenbluth family By Katie Hafner Feb. 9, 2021 –The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/science/arianna-wright-dead.html) Dr. Rosenbluth, who received her physics Ph.D. at 21, helped create an algorithm that has became a foundation of understanding huge quantities of data. She died of complications of the coronavirus. The Metropolis algorithm, a technique for generating random samplings, started out as a way to understand a fundamental problem: how atoms rearrange themselves as solids melt. Over the decades, the Metropolis algorithm and its subsequent variations have been put to a vast number of uses and now serve as an underpinni...
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Facebook vs. Apple: Here’s what you need to know about their privacy feud
Facebook and Apple are sparring over privacy. James Martin/CNET Queenie Wong Feb. 10, 2021 5:07 a.m. PT Cnet (https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-vs-apple-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-their-privacy-feud/) A privacy change coming to the software that powers Apple’s popular iPhone has prompted a war of words in Silicon Valley. The iPhone maker will in the coming months roll out an update to its iOS 14 operating system that prompts you to give apps permission to track their activity across other apps and the web. That change may seem small. Lots of apps already track our web activity through default settings we accept when we install them. By signing up, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. Facebook,...
Microsoft sacks journalists to replace them with robots
From July, the MSN homepage will no longer feature news stories produced by journalists at PA Media, formerly the Press Association. Photograph: Alamy Dozens of journalists have been sacked after Microsoft decided to replace them with artificial intelligence software. Staff who maintain the news homepages on Microsoft’s MSN website and its Edge browser – used by millions of Britons every day – have been told that they will be no longer be required because robots can now do their jobs. Around 27 individuals employed by PA Media – formerly the Press Association – were told on Thursday that they would lose their jobs in a month’s time after Microsoft decided to stop employing humans to select, edit and curate news articles on its homepages. Employees were told Microsoft’s decision to end the ...
An automated Telegram bot is selling Facebook account phone numbers-Yahoo Finance
Access to a database reportedly containing 500 million users’ private information is being sold on a cybercrime forum. Motherboard reports that the database, which hosts data pulled from Facebook more than two years ago, contains people’s phone numbers. It added that would-be stalkers can then use an automated bot for (messaging app) Telegram which enables hackers to look up those numbers to tie them to an identity. Access is being sold on a per-search basis, with a single lookup costing $20, although you can bulk buy up to 10,000 search credits at a time. The report says that it tested the bot for itself and found it could identify the number of a user who opted to keep their phone number private. Facebook is said to have confirmed that the data breach is real, and that it concerns a secu...
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