Unusual family business, AI and bias, smart city and more / Daily digest

March 25, 2024

Unusual family business, AI and bias, smart city and more / Daily digest

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What’s the Price of a Childhood Turned Into Content?

In the unregulated world of vloggers, children are, for the most part, not entitled to a single cent they help earn. We spoke to creators—and a former kid influencer—to understand how this unusual family business actually works.

Politicians Who Voted to Ban TikTok May Own as Much as $126 Million in Tech Stocks

Disclosures suggest Congress holds millions worth of stock in Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Snap, companies that could benefit from a TikTok ban.

TIPS

27 Windows 11 Tips and Tricks You Need to Know

Customize your Windows experience, learn about the best new features, and squeeze the most out of your desktop OS with these tips.

AI to create a half billion new jobs — here’s why

Over the next decade, generative artificial intelligence will replace some jobs. But as has always been the case with revolutionary technologies — from the steam engine to digitization — it’s destined to create far more jobs than it eliminates.

AI image generators often give racist and sexist results: can they be fixed?

Researchers are tracing sources of racial and gender bias in images generated by artificial intelligence, and making efforts to fix them.

Why more women aren’t CISOs and how to change that

Four successful women in cybersecurity share their learnings on overcoming gender bias to get to the C-suite.

CYBERSECURITY

IRS, Security Summit partners warn of surge in “new client” scams aimed at tax pros as 2024 filing season approaches

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service and the Security Summit partners today alerted tax professionals to watch out for a new round of filing season-related email schemes where cybercriminals pose as potential clients.

Cool Technology

Mass human experiment’: Inside Japan’s futuristic $15 billion smart city

Toyota announced its Woven City project in 2020. In 2021, it broke ground on construction at a site close to the foot of Japan’s Mount Fuji. Three years later, documents on Woven City website confirm Phase 1 of the development will be complete by the end of the year and trials will start in 2025.

AI tech takes just minutes to convert GoPro videos into 3D coral reef maps

A new AI-based system allows coral reefs to be 3D-mapped faster and easier than ever before. It could prove integral to saving threatened reefs, by letting scientists study them both onsite and at their computers in their labs.