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Romance Scammers Are After More Than Hearts This Valentine's
Day
That's not love -- it's a cybercriminal looking to steal
your money and personal information.
Experts warn that this is the peak season for online romance
scams, which accounted for a staggering $1.3 billion in reported losses in
2022, the most recent figures available, according to the Federal Trade
Commission. Anyone could be a target.
CAREER
AI and You: A Practical Guide to AI in Recruiting
To remain competitive in today's talent market, you can't
afford to ignore the innovative solutions that technology offers. With over 73%
of companies investing in AI and recruiting automation, the conversation has
shifted from "should we?" to "how should we?".
SOCIAL
How Facebook changed the internet as we know it
Twenty years ago, Mark Zuckerberg launched TheFacebook. It
changed the internet forever — for better or worse.
You wake up on a Saturday morning and do your best to avoid
grabbing your phone. Why? Because Andrew Huberman said so in a podcast you
watched a clip of on your algorithmically curated TikTok For You Page. You make
a cup of Emma Chamberlain coffee, a product you discovered as you tapped
through your Instagram Stories. It is not very good, but you drink it anyway.
Social media algorithms ‘amplifying misogynistic content’
Algorithms used by social media platforms are rapidly
amplifying extreme misogynistic content, which is spreading from teenagers’
screens and into school playgrounds where it has become normalised, according
to a new report.
DIVERSITY
How BUiLT unites Black IT pros and builds equity
Nonprofit Blacks United in Leading Technology (BUiLT) is
bringing together Black technology professionals to raise representation,
equity, and diversity in the IT industry.
Silicon Valley’s very masculine year
Ravenous, carnivorous, and totally yoked: How men in tech
have evolved.
Silicon Valley is embracing a new era of masculinity. Its
leaders are powerful, virile, and swole. They practice Brazilian jiujitsu and
want to fight each other in a cage. They can do 200 push-ups while wearing a
20-pound weighted vest. They can spend $44 billion on a website as a sort of
elaborate joke. They can do all this because if these tech executives are one
thing above all else, it is this: They are men.
EHEALTH
Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip: what scientists think of
first human trial
Some researchers are concerned about a lack of transparency
surrounding the implant, which aims to allow people to control devices through
thought alone.
Neuralink, the company through which entrepreneur Elon Musk
hopes to revolutionize brain–computer interfaces (BCIs), has implanted a
‘brain-reading’ device into a person for the first time, according to a tweet
posted by Musk on 29 January.
Debates about social media and kids' mental health are getting us nowhere
I'm a psychologist who has studied this for over a decade.
We've lost the plot.
Last Wednesday, the CEOs of five social media companies
(Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, X, and Discord) testified before the Senate Judiciary
Committee in a hearing titled “Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation
Crisis.” Senators asked heated questions of the CEOs about children’s online
safety, while aiming to build support for proposed legislation (e.g., Stop CSAM
Act, Kids Online Safety Act).
One phrase kept coming up and, as usual, it got us nowhere.
That phrase? “Mental health.”
CYBERSECURITY
Want to buy that viral TikTok Shop product? Think twice.
Buyers should be vigilant of TikTok Shop scams.
If it feels like your TikTok FYP has turned into a glorified
products billboard, you're not alone. With the launch of TikTok's company wide
social commerce venture, known as TikTok Shop, the app has dug even deeper into
its possible future as a one-stop-shop for content and products — and its
beginning to affect users.
LAW
Samsung's Billionaire Boss Acquitted on Fraud Charges Over
Tech Merger
Samsung Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong no longer faces
stock price manipulation and fraud charges following a new verdict on a 2015
merger.
AI
How to detect poisoned data in machine learning datasets
Almost anyone can poison a machine learning (ML) dataset to
alter its behavior and output substantially and permanently. With careful,
proactive detection efforts, organizations could retain weeks, months or even
years of work they would otherwise use to undo the damage that poisoned data
sources caused.
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