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    • AI researchers are beginning to acknowledge and confront the "reproducibility" crisis, which makes it hard for others to replicate the results of AI systems (Gregory Barber/Wired)

    Gregory Barber / Wired: AI researchers are beginning to acknowledge and confront the “reproducibility” crisis, which makes it hard for others to replicate the results of AI systems  —  Machine-learning systems are black boxes even to the researchers that build them.  That makes it hard for others to assess the results. AI researchers are beginning

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    • Facebook removes accounts for spreading disinformation on Instagram and FB, hundreds from Ukraine, linked to PR firm, and from Iraq, posting on societal issues (Nathaniel Gleicher/Facebook)

    Nathaniel Gleicher / Facebook: Facebook removes accounts for spreading disinformation on Instagram and FB, hundreds from Ukraine, linked to PR firm, and from Iraq, posting on societal issues  —  Today, we removed multiple Pages, Groups and accounts that were involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram. Facebook removes accounts for spreading disinformation on

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    • A new generation of cameras in the UK that feed into facial recognition software, enabling real-time identity checks, raises new privacy concerns among citizens (Adam Satariano/New York Times)

    Adam Satariano / New York Times: A new generation of cameras in the UK that feed into facial recognition software, enabling real-time identity checks, raises new privacy concerns among citizens  —  Facial recognition technology is drawing scrutiny in a country more accustomed to surveillance than any other Western democracy. A new generation of cameras in

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    • Filing: DevOps platform Gitlab has authorized a Series E round that could raise up to $268M at a $2.55B valuation (Amanda/Prime Unicorn Index)

    Amanda / Prime Unicorn Index: Filing: DevOps platform Gitlab has authorized a Series E round that could raise up to $268M at a $2.55B valuation  —  Gitlab authorized enough shares for a $268 million raise at a valuation of $2.55 billion, if all shares authorized are issued.  The open-source code collaboration platform … Filing: DevOps

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    Laser Crown Shines At Night

    Sometimes you need something really flashy to complete an outfit. Whether it’s a sparkly pair of earrings or a stylish necklace, accessories are key to competing on the fashion battlefield. For those who want to bring some serious firepower, [p3nguin’s] laser crown might be just what the doctor ordered. At the outset, we should state

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    • Making diversity fly

    I’m passionate about diversity, but not (just) because it’s the right thing to do. Sure, affording people equal opportunity, regardless of which genitalia they happen to be born with is a morally justifiable choice, but to me, it’s mostly a business no-brainer. Over what now feels like an eternity working in the creative and technology

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    • Richard Stallman resigns from MIT following comments about Epstein’s victims

    Free software advocate and computer scientist Richard Stallman has resigned from his position at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). The news comes just days after he made comments in an email conversation with others at the lab about the victims of billionaire and alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who had previously donated

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    • Hong Kong-based AutoX, which recently announced plans to roll out 100 robotaxis in Shanghai by early 2020, has closed $100M Series A from Alibaba and others (Song Jingli/KrASIA)

    Song Jingli / KrASIA: Hong Kong-based AutoX, which recently announced plans to roll out 100 robotaxis in Shanghai by early 2020, has closed $100M Series A from Alibaba and others  —  Hong Kong-based startup AutoX said on Monday that it has closed its Series A financing round, bagging USD 100 million, according to a press

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    • Crisp, which helps food brands reduce food waste by analyzing data from sources such as inventory databases and POS systems, raises $14.2M Series A (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

    Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Crisp, which helps food brands reduce food waste by analyzing data from sources such as inventory databases and POS systems, raises $14.2M Series A  —  “Optimizing output,” or cutting waste, has emerged as something of a micro-trend in the investment realm. Crisp, which helps food brands reduce food waste by analyzing

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    • LastPass fixes a bug in its Chrome and Opera extensions which exposed credentials entered on previously visited websites (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

    Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: LastPass fixes a bug in its Chrome and Opera extensions which exposed credentials entered on previously visited websites  —  LastPass has released a fix last week.  Vulnerability details are now public.  Users advised to update.  —  Password manager LastPass has released an update last week … LastPass fixes a bug in

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    • Richard Stallman has resigned as president and director of Free Software Foundation and from MIT's CSAIL over his comments related to Jeffrey Epstein (Joseph Cox/VICE)

    Joseph Cox / VICE: Richard Stallman has resigned as president and director of Free Software Foundation and from MIT’s CSAIL over his comments related to Jeffrey Epstein  —  Stallman said the “most plausible scenario” is that one of Epstein’s underage victims was “entirely willing.” Richard Stallman has resigned as president and director of Free Software

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