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Facebook To Investors: There Are More Cambridge Analytica-Sized Privacy Lapses Coming
Facebook’s latest earnings report showed the company escaped its recent round of public scrutiny mostly unscathed, but a filing made this week with the US Securities and Exchange Commission shows that Facebook is expecting to find more massive misuses of data similar to the one that sparked the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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This Cassette Tape Simulator Makes Your MP3s Sound Like You’re Listening To A Retro Walkman
Released in 1979, the original Sony Walkman completely changed how people listened to music. Your tunes were free to go anywhere — and sound like complete garbage. The quality of music on cassette tapes can’t compete to today’s digital formats, but if people still like the sound of crackly records, surely there are people who…
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YouTube Basically Admits Algorithms Aren’t Such Good Babysitters After All
In its latest attempt to please anxious parents, YouTube is finally offering an option to (slightly) favour human moderators over algorithms in its app for kids. The YouTube Kids app now lets parents limit the selection of channels kids can watch to those that are human-curated. Along with some other changes, this should make it…
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How Did The Pentagon Quantify This Bizarre Statistic On ‘Russian Trolls’?
As Donald Trump’s administration, backed by France and the UK, launched a series of missile attacks on Syrian installations allegedly used in the production or deployment of chemical weapons this weekend — and the president bizarrely tweeted “Mission Accomplished!” in a worrying signal with regards to his strategic insight — the question of whether Russia…