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|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
U.S. lawmakers are moving ahead with efforts to ban facial recognition software even as the technology helps identify supporters of President Donald Trump who ransacked their workplace and forced them to evacuate this month.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Custom malware disguaised as benign software was used to steal wallet addresses of cryptocurrenct holders for months.
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
A New Jersey man was accused of shoplifting and trying to hit an officer with a car. He is the third known Black man to be wrongfully arrested based on face recognition
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
U of Texas at Austin has stopped using a machine-learning system to evaluate applicants for its Ph.D. in computer science. Critics say the system exacerbates existing inequality in the field.
|| Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Hackers aligned with a foreign nation-state successfully breached the systems of FireEye, the $3.5 billion Silicon Valley cybersecurity giant.
|| Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
New research from the IoT security firm Forescout highlights 33 flaws in an open source internet protocol bundles that potentially expose millions of embedded devices to attacks, and affected devices may be difficult or impossible to patch due to the longevity of these bundles
|| Security || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
The Silicon Valley company said hackers — almost certainly Russian — made off with tools that could be used to mount new attacks around the world.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Gebru, a widely respected leader in AI ethics research, is known for coauthoring a groundbreaking paper that showed facial recognition to be less accurate at identifying women and people of color, which means its use can end up discriminating against them.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Following a dispute over several emails and a research paper on Wednesday, AI ethics pioneer and research scientist Timnit Gebru no longer works at Google.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Timnit Gebru, one of Google’s top artificial intelligence researchers, says the company abruptly fired her. The technical co-lead of Google’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team claims managers were upset about an email she’d sent to colleagues.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Timnit Gebru, one of the few Black women in her field, has voiced exasperation over the company's response to efforts to increase minority hiring.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Timnit Gebru, a co-leader of the Ethical Artificial Intelligence team at Google, said she was fired for sending an email that management deemed “inconsistent with the expectations of a Google manager.”
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Timnit Gebru says a manager asked her to either retract or remove her name from a research paper she had coauthored, because an internal review had found the contents objectionable. The contents were about bias in AI.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
The workers were involved in labor organizing at the company and participated in walkouts last year.
|| Health and Medical Applications Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Cyber security researchers uncovered an online attack that tricks scientists into creating toxic chemicals or deadly viruses in their own labs by replacing ordered sequences with malicious ones.
|| Security || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
The attack disrupted the district’s websites and remote learning programs, as well as its grading and email systems, officials said.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
State-of-the-art image-classifying AI models trained on ImageNet, a popular (but problematic) dataset containing photos scraped from the internet, automatically learn humanlike biases about race, gender, weight, and more according to new research from scientists at Carnegie Me
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A fight over replacing bail with "risk assessment tools" has split reform advocates. Some fear the change will worsen anti-Black discrimination.
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A study finds that two-thirds of Europeans surveyed would consider human augmentation. The article breaks down the study to see how location, age, gender impacted responses, and what concerns people had.
|| Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
The female patient, suffering from a life-threatening illness, had to be turned away and died after the ambulance carrying her was diverted.