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• 12 Articles That Changed My Views Over the Past Decade

  January 1, 2020

  Hi, it’s Nicolas from The Family. Today, I’m sharing articles that were published over the past decade and which had a profound impact on me. https://europeanstraits.substack.com/p/12-articles-that-changed-my-views more ›

• How Your Phone Betrays Democracy

  December 25, 2019

  In footage from drones hovering above, the nighttime streets of Hong Kong look almost incandescent, a constellation of tens of thousands of cellphone flashlights, swaying in unison. Each twinkle is… more ›

• Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy

  December 22, 2019

  Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile… more ›

• Facebook Discovers Fakes That Show Evolution of Disinformation

  December 22, 2019

  Researchers said the profiles, linked to the Epoch Media Group, used photos generated by artificial intelligence in a preview of an “eerie, tech-enabled future of disinformation. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/business/facebook-ai-generated-profiles.html more ›

• Testifying at the Senate about A.I.‑Selected Content on the Internet—Stephen Wolfram Writings

  December 15, 2019

  Three and a half weeks ago I got an email asking me if I’d testify at a hearing of the US Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation and… more ›

• Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding—Stephen Wolfram Writings

  December 15, 2019

  Logic is a foundation for many things. But what are the foundations of logic itself? In symbolic logic, one introduces symbols like p and q to stand for statements (or… more ›

• Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World

  December 15, 2019

  Software start-ups have a phrase for what Amazon is doing to them: ‘strip-mining’ them of their innovations. SEATTLE — Elastic, a software start-up in Amsterdam, was rapidly building its business… more ›

• He Was One of Mexico’s Deadliest Assassins. Then He Turned on His Cartel.

  December 14, 2019

  JOJUTLA, Mexico — The recruits filed into a clearing, where a group of trainers with the stern bearing of drill sergeants stood in a tight row, hiding something. The trainers… more ›

• December 14, 2019

  https://www.nytimes.com/video/technology/100000006082083/lethal-autonomous-weapons.html more ›

• Biased Algorithms Are Easier to Fix Than Biased People

  December 9, 2019

  Racial discrimination by algorithms or by people is harmful — but that’s where the similarities end. In one study published 15 years ago, two people applied for a job. Their… more ›