Fast Company
See how Google Autocomplete describes every state in the U.S.
1 min · · Boy do we search a lot of terrible things about our own country. · Shared by 27, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
Le Monde
L’Assemblée nationale vote une loi pour encadrer le travail des enfants youtubeurs et influenceurs
3 min · · Le texte, à l’initiative de députés de la majorité, entend protéger les activités rémunératrices des mineurs sur le Net. · Shared by 6
TNW
Report: Whichever country claims AI supremacy this decade will rule the Earth
2 min · · The Brookings Institution last week published a report from global economy expert Indermit Gill prophesying that the AI leader in 2030 will go on to rule the planet until at least 2100. The… · Shared by 22, including Bob E. Hayes, Nige Roberts-Willson, Tamara McCleary, TNW Top Stories, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
The Brookings Institution
Whoever leads in artificial intelligence in 2030 will rule the world until 2100
8 min · · Indermit Gill predicts the dominant player for the age of artificial intelligence: the United States, China, or the European Union. · Shared by 220, including Niklaus Gerber, Katja Evertz, Thomas Power, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Gengo 🦁, Gerd Leonhard, sircharlsxavier, Tamara McCleary, Iain Brown, PhD, Matthias Lampe, Ronald van Loon, Nicolas Dengler, Steve Faktor, Shawn Venasse, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Francesco Corea
Les Echos
La France cherche sa place dans la révolution de l'informatique quantique qui s'annonce
2 min · · La mission relative aux technologies quantiques, commandée par le Premier ministre, présente ses conclusions ce jeudi. Le gouvernement doit annoncer dans la foulée ses mesures pour positionner la…
cigionline.org
Four Internets: The Geopolitics of Digital Governance
1 min · · The internet — a fragile construction of hardware, software, standards and databases — is run by an ever-expanding range of private and public actors constrained only by voluntary protocols and… · Shared by 18, including Tom Connor, Katja Evertz
ZDNET
Russia successfully disconnected from the internet
2 min · · RuNet disconnection tests were successful, according to the Russian government. · Shared by 22, including Neeraj K Agrawal, Tara Imani, AIA, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, John Koetsier, Thomas Power
NBC News
Facebook says a pro-Trump media outlet used artificial intelligence to create fake people and push conspiracies
3 min · · Facebook took down more than 600 accounts tied to The Epoch Times, a media outlet that has spent heavily on digital ads to push pro-Trump conspiracy theories. · Shared by 20, including Gideonro, Renee DiResta, Amber Mac
metro.co.uk
Investigation finds 88% of Tory ads misleading compared to 0% for Labour
3 min · · Over 5,000 Tory ads contained claims branded misleading by Full Fact. · Shared by 35, including Ray Monk, front-end.social/@heydon, A C Grayling #FBPE #Reform #Rejoin #FBPR, Brad Brooks, Guy Longworth, Jake Archibald, Barry C Smith
WIRED
France Plans a Revolution to Rein in the Kings of Big Tech
3 min · · Cédric O, the French digital affairs minister, says taxes are just a start; future moves could ban acquisitions or make companies share data with rivals. · Shared by 82, including Backchannel, Jonathan Kogan, Matthias Lampe, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Thomas Power
TNW
Facebook’s new chatbot teaches employees how to answer difficult questions about the company
2 min · · Facebook’s public relations teams built an artificial intelligence bot to help its employees deflect criticism from relatives over the holiday season. · Shared by 14, including TNW Top Stories, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
The Guardian
Inside the hate factory: how Facebook fuels far-right profit
16+ min · · Guardian investigation reveals a covert plot to control some of Facebook’s largest far-right pages and harvest Islamophobic hate for profit · Shared by 134, including Bjorn Larsen, luis antónio santos, Noely ⚡️🏐, Ayala Sherbow, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Mark Little, Brad Brooks, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Josep M. Ganyet, Matthias Lampe, Loughlin O'Nolan, Mathew Ingram, Faik Ersoy, Katja Evertz
The Guardian
Tim Berners-Lee unveils global plan to save the web
2 min · · Inventor of web calls on governments and firms to safeguard it from abuse and ensure it benefits humanity · Shared by 357, including Mark Little, Pablo Felip, Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social, Oliver Raduner, Gabriele, Thomas Power, Chris Isak, Neuropsychology, Mathew Ingram, Richard Dawkins, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Guy Kawasaki, Bill Johnston, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Katja Evertz, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, zoeamar, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Ines Bieler, patrick h. lauke (redux) "Big Dog" #toryScum #cis
The New York Times
Google to limit targeting of political ads
4 min · · Google said while it has never allowed any advertiser — including politicians — to make false assertions, it was clarifying its policy to explicitly ban ads that make “demonstrably false claims that… · Shared by 31, including The Indian Express, Scott Galloway, Mathew Ingram, Trey Tweets Into the Void
The New York Times
How not to plot secret foreign policy: On a cellphone and WhatsApp
10 min · · Rudy Giuliani, US President Donald Trump's 'cybersecurity adviser,' ran an 'irregular channel' of Ukraine diplomacy over open cell lines and communications apps in Ukraine that the Russians have… · Shared by 23, including Scott McLeod, Joe Germuska
The New York Times
How Trump Reshaped the Presidency in Over 11,000 Tweets
20+ min · · The president’s tweeting was once a sideshow. But it transformed how he exerted power, leaving the White House and Twitter to grapple over whether, and how, to rein it in. · Shared by 96, including W. David Stephenson, Gideonro, Jon Keegan 🇺🇦, Jörgen Camrath, Thomas Power, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Liliane Ferrari ™, Klaus Eck, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Chris Messina, Daniel Jörg, felix salmon, Steve Case, Steve Markowitz, NYTimes Communications