Editorial
Cybernews podcast #30: wild side of women's tech
Does female-oriented technology empower us as women, or is it quite the opposite?
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She’s behind your Android VPN app: I do magic
“I've had occasions where people are going to come straight up to my face and say, yeah, you got this promotion just because, you know, you're a woman,” Iva Nedeleva, an Android engineer from Private Internet Access (PIA), a VPN company, told Cybernews.
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Book review: Musk finds “extremely hardcore” ways to destroy Twitter
Zoë Schiffer’s new book is the story of how Elon Musk has done the near-impossible and took the mantle of most hated tech personality from Mark Zuckerberg – in less than two years.
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AI will fuel online self-diagnoses, doctors warn
Patient self-diagnosis is about to become an even thornier problem for doctors, with the market set to be flooded by AI-driven medical apps.
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Claude 3 passed the Tetris test: I asked it to be my mentor
AI just got beaten by AI at being AI. After putting the newest Claude 3 to the test by having it code a Tetris game, I explored its potential as my mentor and daily companion, which, luckily, left me longing for human interactions.
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AI urbanism: opportunities and challenges
The world is becoming steadily more urbanized. Today, 56% of the world's population lives in cities, and by 2050 it’s forecast that seven out of ten people will live in cities.
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AI evaluates Tinder profile pictures to rate the hottest
An AI application is helping users rate their profile images to tell them which one has the best chance to perform well on dating apps.
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Cybernews podcast #29: TikTok as a news source
14% of US adults say they get news from TikTok. Given TikTok’s addictiveness and toxicity, where does it lead, we wondered.
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Rethinking the impact AI might have on work
It's been a decade since Oxford's Frey and Osborne published their hugely influential paper on the susceptibility of jobs to automation. The paper sparked a wave of concern about the impact that the latest wave of automated technologies would have on the labor market.
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European champion no more: Mistral AI's painful bluff also eye-opener
From now on, when a European tech startup says it will surely become a valid alternative to American giants if it’s not weighed down by regulations – believe them at your own peril.
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Musk faces conundrum over SpaceX contract with Pentagon
Facing pressure from hawkish members of US Congress to make SpaceX’s Starshield satellite network available to American forces in Taiwan, billionaire Elon Musk is risking his business relationship with China – but does he care?
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Sora’s shaking up Hollywood
It’s difficult to discern what’s real and what isn’t in this content-driven world, yet OpenAI is widening the gap even further by creating Sora, a text-to-video service that allows you to create videos using prompts.
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The Fediverse: a new era for social media or just a fad?
Social media pioneers hope for new era that would see different platforms communicate with one another.
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Expecting privacy from ChatGPT is like asking the NSA to stop spying on citizens
OpenAI is rolling out the ability for its chatbot to memorize conversations with users. A privacy researcher Davi Ottenheimer thinks it’s “Orwellian.”
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Cyberstalking and cyber harassment: knowing the laws and your rights
Most of us in the hacker world have been stalked or are being stalked right now. For this reason, we try to plant eyes and ears everywhere to know everything about the unseen threats lying in the shadows, waiting to strike.
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Book review: Kyle Chayka’s “Filterworld” investigates algorithms
We might be inadvertently outsourcing our cultural tastes and abilities to curate our consumption to all-powerful algorithms. They’re literally everywhere, Kyle Chayka says in his new book.
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The unequal nature of working from home
The fact that remote work ballooned during the pandemic is beyond doubt, but the availability of remote work has been far from equal.
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Cybernews podcast #28: how algorithms curate and flatten our online lives
The latest Cybernews podcast is a nostalgia trip dedicated to our ever-changing digital lives and the possibility of clawing back human agency from powerful algorithms.
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Workers willing to forgo salary to work remotely
The COVID pandemic normalized the concept of working remotely for vast swathes of the workforce, and yet, despite huge amounts of evidence about its efficacy and value to employees, the debate rages as to whether to continue with the practice or not.
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How a forgotten password turned me into a vandal
Screw it, no more accounts! I’ll tell you the story of how, in one day, I lost access to my entire digital life, which taught me a lesson about the importance of organizing digital identities.
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