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US GAO releases report on how the 2017 Equifax hack occurred and the steps taken in its aftermath, concluding Equifax left information vulnerable on many fronts — GAO report takes us inside Equifax from March 2017 onward, showing how a few slip-ups led to one of the biggest breaches in US history.| South China Morning Post: |
Alibaba says NYT story on Jack Ma's retirement is wrong; Ma will continue as executive chairman for some time, providing a succession strategy on Monday — Jack Ma, who co-founded the world's largest e-commerce platform, will unveil a succession strategy next week, part of a management plan 10 years …
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A look at how Stockholm became Europe's capital of startup exits, with Spotify's $27B IPO and iZettle's $2.2B acquisition — The exits earlier this year by two of Sweden's biggest startup names would be enough to swell the pride of any regional ecosystem. Spotify's $27 billion IPO …
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Apple removes popular anti-adware app Adware Doctor from the Mac App Store; the app surreptitiously stole and sent users' browsing history to a domain in China — Apple has removed a top Mac app called Adware Doctor, designed to “prevent malware and malicious files from infecting your Mac …
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China's Supreme People's Court rules that blockchains can be legally used to authenticate digital evidence in legal disputes — Blockchain can now be legally used to authenticate evidence in legal disputes in China, according to the country's Supreme People's Court.
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Healthcare AI has the same racial and gender biases as the data used to train it, which must be addressed if AI systems are to help make real medical decisions — Imagine there was a simple test to see whether you were developing Alzheimer's disease. You would look at a picture and describe it … | Gregory Barber / Wired: |
Researchers think we may be on the verge of breakthroughs in AI's comprehension of language similar to the AI image recognition breakthroughs of 2012 — IN 2012, ARTIFICIAL intelligence researchers revealed a big improvement in computers' ability to recognize images by feeding …
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Profile of Lina Khan, whose antitrust argument, which says Amazon has far too much power, is making waves in Washington by reframing decades of antitrust law — With a single scholarly article, Lina Khan, 29, has reframed decades of monopoly law. — The dead books are on the top floor of Southern Methodist University's law library.| Steve LeVine / Axios: |
McKinsey study says AI adoption will add $13T/year to global production, and the companies that embrace AI now will see their cash flow double by 2030 — The world is in a deceptively quiet period in which some companies and countries are aggressively developing and applying early … | Washington Post: |
Democratic AGs from NY, California, Washington, and elsewhere say they have not been invited to DOJ meeting on tech companies allegedly stifling free speech — Democratic attorneys general from key states said they have not yet been invited by the Justice Department to its upcoming review of tech companies … | Jared Schroeder / Columbia Journalism Review: |
As Trump threatens new regulations for Google, Facebook, and Twitter, experts say legal precedents show algorithms may be protected under the First Amendment — President Trump indicated last week that the White House is looking into regulating Google, Facebook, and Twitter because they are …
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House passes a bill that requires White House to create and maintain a database with the names of foreign hackers and cyber-threat groups working against US — US hopes that a name-and-shame strategy would deter foreign nation-state hacking groups to attack US infrastructure as often as now.
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