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I’ve gotten emergency weather alerts on my phone for most of my life, but didn’t get one today that another person in my household did. It’s …possible that they lied about this -but, still, it spooked me and I want to make sure that I get important weather alerts where I live. In my phone’s settings, it says that...

Authoritarian countries - but also democracies - use surveillance technology from China.

The proposed Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act by Senators Warren and Graham seeks to create a new federal commission to regulate large tech platforms. However, the bill contains many problematic provisions that threaten free speech and internet freedom. It would require platforms to reveal content moderation policies,...

So this is getting interesting (following on from the failed replication study (posted here)....

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Prof. Yair Neuman and the engineer Yochai Cohen at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have designed an AI system that identifies social norm violations. They trained a system to identify ten social emotions: competence, politeness, trust, discipline, caring, agreeableness, success, conformity, decency, and loyalty....

While looking into artificial intelligence “behavior,” researchers affirmed that yes, OpenAI’s GPT-4 appeared to be getting dumber.

I’ve been thinking about the arguments that are increasingly common when dealing with tech: “it’s too complicated” and “I just want something that works”....

I’ve been using GitHub’s UI to do it. It seems just very slow to open issues in a new tab to analyse and label the issues....

The European Commission today decided it is safe for personal data to be transferred from the European Union to US-based companies, handing a victory to firms like Facebook and Google despite protests from privacy advocates who worry about US government surveillance.

Hi everyone, hope you’re doing well and staying safe. i’m currently wrighting this with brave browser on mac os. my question to you all is this. how do i post to rblind using mlem on ios? i’ve been able to figer out how to reed and reply to posts but not how to create my own posts. if someone could help me with this that...

This explains the units of measuring digital information and the relationships between each other.