Leo’s Twitter Updates for 2008-03-16

Disentangled and rewrapped everything in my wire drawer. 10 orphan cell & 20 USB power cords. Still can’t find the thing I was looking for. #
@themacmommy Either it’s spring cleaning or I’m about to have a baby. #
I’m testing the capacity of stickam right now. Help me break it by visiting http://twit.tv/live – we’ll stream TWiT live there at 3p Pacific #

Facebook deceived users about the way it used phone numbers, facial recognition, FTC to allege in complaint - The Washington Post 23 July 2019

The two privacy violations are included in a complaint tied to a settlement brokered between the FTC and Facebook, which multiple sources said they expect to be announced Wednesday. The agreement requires Facebook to submit to unprecedented federal oversight of its business practices, as The Post first reported in May, including the creation of a […]

Inside Apple Factory Thefts: Secret Tunnels, Hidden Crawl Spaces — The Information 23 July 2019

Individuals who leak parts (or images of parts) do so for different reasons, people familiar with Apple’s security policies say. Some post photos of unreleased devices on social media to gain popularity. Others want to sell unreleased components to accessory makers, which are eager to get a head start on developing products like iPhone cases. […]

US attorney general William Barr says Americans should accept security risks of encryption backdoors | TechCrunch 23 July 2019

The risk, he said, was acceptable because “we are talking about consumer products and services such as messaging, smart phones, e-mail, and voice and data applications,” and “not talking about protecting the nation’s nuclear launch codes.”

The Best Algorithms Still Struggle to Recognize Black Faces | WIRED 23 July 2019

Many top performers in that report show similar performance gaps to Idemia’s 10-fold difference in error rate for black and white women. NIST has published results of demographic tests of facial recognition algorithms since early 2017. It also has consistently found that they perform less well for women than men, an effect believed to be […]

Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI to develop AI technologies on Azure | VentureBeat 23 July 2019

Microsoft today announced that it would invest $1 billion in OpenAI, the San Francisco-based AI research firm cofounded by CTO Greg Brockman, chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, and others, with backing from luminaries like LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman and former Y Combinator president Sam Altman. In a blog post, Brockman said the investment will […]

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