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Graduates study how to fake out AI systems

mardi 28 janvier 2020 à 01:00

In South Korea, graduates need to study how to fake out AI systems used to choose who to hire.

Insecurity of 5G mobile networks

mardi 28 janvier 2020 à 01:00

Bruce Schneier: 5G mobile networks are so pervasively insecure that it hardly matters who built the hardware — people and countries are screwed anyway.

People are good

mardi 28 janvier 2020 à 01:00

Videos of responses to real victims of street violence showed no sign of a "bystander effect".

The idea of a bystander effect was launched by reporting in the New York Times of the murder of Kitty Genovese. Wikipedia says that the New York Times admitted in 2016 that the original story was fabricated — the reporter did not find evidence of a bystander effect after all.

Democratic backsliding

mardi 28 janvier 2020 à 01:00

*Countries from Britain to Greece are guilty of democratic backsliding.* It is not only Hungary and Poland.

Sex offender list for stripping to the waist

mardi 28 janvier 2020 à 01:00

Tilli Buchanan faces charges of "lewdness" in Utah for stripping to the waist, along with her husband, inside their house, while his children were present.

If convicted, she could be put on the sex offender's list. As this shows, people can be put on the sex offender's list for things that are not very wrong. Some didn't actually do anything to anyone.