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Facebook’s former PR firm seeded fake stories about bias at Apple News

Nov16
by on November 16, 2018 at 10:28 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Facebook‘s recently-fired PR firm allegedly floated a story to journalists that Apple News was biased against Republicans. The company, Definers Public Affairs, made headlines this week after a bombshell New York Times report revealed that it was employed by Facebook to dig up dirt on critics and competitors. One of these competitors, according to documents obtained by CNN, was Apple News. Apple’s News app is pre-installed on all iOS devices, and features human editors working with AI to curate stories in a range of topics, from business, to fashion. According to CNN, the company pitched a story titled “Apple News Curators’…

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Facebook’s former PR firm seeded fake stories about bias at Apple News

Nov16
by on November 16, 2018 at 10:28 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Facebook‘s recently-fired PR firm allegedly floated a story to journalists that Apple News was biased against Republicans. The company, Definers Public Affairs, made headlines this week after a bombshell New York Times report revealed that it was employed by Facebook to dig up dirt on critics and competitors. One of these competitors, according to documents obtained by CNN, was Apple News. Apple’s News app is pre-installed on all iOS devices, and features human editors working with AI to curate stories in a range of topics, from business, to fashion. According to CNN, the company pitched a story titled “Apple News Curators’…

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A beginner’s guide to AI: Human-level machine intelligence

Nov16
by on November 16, 2018 at 7:37 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, evergreen


Welcome to TNW’s beginner’s guide to AI. This (currently) five part feature should provide you with a very basic understanding of what AI is, what it can do, and how it works. The guide contains articles on (in order published) neural networks, computer vision, natural language processing, algorithms, and artificial general intelligence.  There are few technologies that inspire the imagination like artificial intelligence. And, in the field of AI, the Holy Grail is living machines. The quest to imbue machines with the spark of life is an ancient one. The golem of Jewish folklore is an early example of an automaton, as well…

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Twitter says the Bitcoin scam wave came from third-party app

Nov16
by on November 16, 2018 at 4:44 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Twitter has confirmed the series of cryptocurrency-related hackings on its platform originated from a third-party software provider – and not its own system. In an email to Hard Fork, a Twitter spokesperson confirmed attackers exploited a third-party marketing solution to blast fake Bitcoin giveaway links from a slew of verified accounts, including Google and Target. Twitter refrained from naming the app in question. The confirmation comes only days after a number of high-profile public figures and brands – including Google and retail giant Target – got their accounts breached to propagate malicious cryptocurrency giveaway links. While Target initially suggested attackers…

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Details of 170,000 Pakistani debit cards leaked on dark web

Nov16
by on November 16, 2018 at 3:55 pm
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Last week, we reported that nearly 20,000 Pakistani debit cards were put up for sale on the dark web. Now, cybersecurity firm Group-IB has found out that earlier this week, a new dump of whooping 177,878 appeared on the dark web. The report noted that the new dump appeared on the dark website Joker Stash on November 13. From the total number of cards, there were 150,632 cards of Pakistani banks, 16,227 cards of other regions’ banks, and 11,019 cards of undefined banks. The report further notes cards issued by Habib Bank accounted for nearly 20 percent of the dump. “Card dumps are usually obtained…

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