YouTube removed phrase critical of Chinese government due to AI error

May26
by on May 26, 2020 at 10:44 pm
Posted In: Google


For the last few weeks, users have noticed that particular Chinese expressions have been automatically removed from YouTube comments. After rampant speculation about why Google would want these phrases — both of which are critical of the Chinese government — to be banned, it now claims it was an error by its machine learning software. YouTube has deleted every comment I ever made about the Wumao (五毛), an internet propaganda division of the Chinese Communist Party. Who at Google decided to censor American comments on American videos hosted in America by an American platform that is already banned in China?…

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US tech execs have dumped $3.6 billion in company stock this month

May25
by on May 25, 2020 at 3:13 pm
Posted In: Hard Fork


Stock markets are floundering in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and while many are stuck assessing its long-term effects — loads of tech executives have dumped their shares for major profit. In fact, insiders at US tech companies — from fintech to cloud services — collectively unloaded at least $3.6 billion worth of company shares in May, with top executives from big players like Facebook, General Electric, Cloudflare, and Activision all selling small fortunes worth of stock. [Read: Bezos and Zuckerberg worth $60B more in two months, thanks to COVID-19] To digest the loin-thumping wealth recently generated by stock sales, Hard Fork built the visualisation…

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Pardon the Intrusion #18: Marcus Hutchins, the ransomware hero

May25
by on May 25, 2020 at 2:51 am
Posted In: newsletter


Subscribe to this bi-weekly newsletter here! Welcome to the latest edition of Pardon The Intrusion, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter in which we explore the wild world of security. Two contrasting developments unfolded in the US and Germany last week. While the US Senate voted to reauthorize the USA Freedom Act, allowing law enforcement to collect Americans’ browsing and internet search records without a warrant, Germany’s constitutional court ruled that the country’s intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), can no longer spy on the world’s internet traffic without any restrictions. The bill takes aim at Section 215, a sweeping surveillance law in the…

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