In the News

• The Desperate Hunt for the A.I. Boom’s Most Indispensable Prize
  8/16/23 – The New York Times
• The Messy Afterlife of China’s Covid Health Codes
  8/16/23 – Bloomberg
• Teens much more likely to believe online conspiracy claims than adults – US study
  8/16/23 – The Guardian
• Hawaii wildfires: 'Directed energy weapon' and other false claims go viral
  8/16/23 – BBC News
• US congressman says Chinese spies hacked his emails
  8/15/23 – Reuters
• TechScape: ‘Are you kidding, carjacking?’ – The problem with facial recognition in policing
  8/15/23 – The Guardian
• US watchdog to announce plans to regulate 'surveillance industry'
  8/15/23 – Reuters
• In the Battle Between Bots and Comedians, A.I. Is Killing
  8/15/23 – The New York Times
• Texas jury orders man to pay ex-girlfriend $1.2bn in revenge porn case
  8/15/23 – The Guardian
• Russia fines Reddit for first time over 'banned content,' RIA says
  8/15/23 – Reuters
• A video doesn’t show a laser beam igniting Maui’s wildfires. It’s a transformer explosion in Chile
  8/14/23 – AP News
• Trees and poles standing amid Maui fire wreckage aren’t unusual, contrary to conspiracy theories
  8/14/23 – AP News
• To steal today’s computerized cars, thieves go high-tech
  8/14/23 – The Conversation
• 3 ways AI is transforming music
  8/14/23 – The Conversation
• Video claiming to show a directed-energy weapon is actually an edited clip of an explosion in Russia
  8/14/23 – AP News
• Netflix: How did it know I was bi before I did?
  8/13/23 – BBC News
• Silicon Valley's latest hype: Eyeball-scanning silver orbs to confirm you're human
  8/13/23 – NPR
• Don’t expect quick fixes in ‘red-teaming’ of AI models. Security was an afterthought
  8/13/23 – AP News
• The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco.
  8/13/23 – The New York Times
• Netflix: How did it know I was bi before I did?
  8/13/23 – BBC News
• Hackers Trick AI With ‘Bad Math’ to Expose Flaws and Biases
  8/12/23 – Bloomberg
• Old photos are being misrepresented online to fuel a conspiracy theory about the Maui wildfires
  8/11/23 – AP News
• Teens Don’t Really Understand That the World Can See What They Do Online, but I Do
  8/11/23 – The New York Times
• Midjourney Is Easily Tricked Into Making AI Misinformation, Study Finds
  8/11/23 – Bloomberg
• US cyber body to review cloud computing safety, Microsoft breach
  8/11/23 – Reuters