South Korea's antitrust regulator has fined Alphabet Inc's Google 207 billion won ($176.64 million) for blocking customised versions of its Android operating system (OS), in the U.S. technology giant's second setback in the country in less than a month.

<p data-block-key="rh6cr">This paper shows how AI can trivially learn to detect someone's race from lots of different imaging modalities (including a black and white chest X-ray). This is strange, because not even expert doctors can do this.</p><p data-block…

Privateer will apparently monitor and clean up objects in space, but little else is known about the company yet

A study from MIT has used machine learning techniques to identify biased phrasing across around 100 of the largest and most influential news outlets in the US and beyond, including 83 of the most...

It’s been now a bit over 3 years since the CRPG Book was released as a PDF, back in February 2018. In this time, the PDF had over 160,000 downloads, while the hardcover book sold out and rais…

Police identify and question people on back of software meant to prevent online scams

We can't deny people are paying up left, right, and centre...

A third-pound hamburger is better than a quarter-pound hamburger, right?

A feat of elegant design wowed elite architects and promised to bring education to poor children in Nigeria. Then it collapsed.

For the past week, Rainbow Six Vegas and SWAT 4 were rendered unplayable while connected to the internet, even when playing in singleplayer. The reason why? Ads. 🧵

Software should convey a sense of calm. How do you get there?

Learning Latin shouldn’t be like solving crossword puzzles – it was a living language and is best learnt by speaking it

Managing app size at Facebook is a unique challenge: Every day, developers check in large volumes of code, and each line of code translates into additional bits in the apps that people ultimately d…

Campus Reform and its publisher, the Leadership Institute, are siccing armies of trolls on professors across the country.

What percentile approximations are, how percentiles work in PostgreSQL, and calculating them efficiently on time-series data.

Between the 3 Sept and 10 Sept, secure env vars of *all* public @travisci repositories were injected into PR builds. Signing keys, access creds, API tokens. Anyone could exfiltrate these and gain lateral movement into 1000s of orgs. #security 1/4 travis-…

The fundamental cause was a wrong attitude towards the core question: who is responsible for safety?