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    • Profile of Mike Dickison, New Zealand's first Wikipedian-at-Large, who wants to boost the country's representation on the site by pushing New Zealanders to edit (Charlotte Graham-McLay/New York Times)

    Charlotte Graham-McLay / New York Times: Profile of Mike Dickison, New Zealand’s first Wikipedian-at-Large, who wants to boost the country’s representation on the site by pushing New Zealanders to edit  —  AUCKLAND, New Zealand — In the grand library of the Auckland War Memorial Museum on a Saturday morning in August … Profile of Mike

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    • Survey: majority of US adults say it is unacceptable to use algorithms for criminal risk assessments, resume and job interview analysis, personal finance scores (Pew Research Center)

    Pew Research Center: Survey: majority of US adults say it is unacceptable to use algorithms for criminal risk assessments, resume and job interview analysis, personal finance scores  —  Real-world examples of the scenarios in this survey  —  All four of the concepts discussed in the survey are based … Survey: majority of US adults say

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    The (UV) Writing’s On The Wall

    [Michael Karliner]’s Belshazzar, named for the Biblical character upon whose wall the writing appeared, is a unique light painting machine, that tracks an array of UV LEDs across a glow-in-the-dark background to paint transient dot-matrix letters in light. It was one of many cyberpunk-themed art pieces in Null Sector at the 2018 Electromagnetic Field hacker

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    • Google's VP of News points to 2014 shutdown of Google News in Spain, says "We would not like to see that happen in Europe", due to the proposed EU "link tax" (Jim Waterson/The Guardian)

    Jim Waterson / The Guardian: Google’s VP of News points to 2014 shutdown of Google News in Spain, says “We would not like to see that happen in Europe”, due to the proposed EU “link tax”  —  Search engine is lobbying hard to stop proposed tax, aimed at compensating news publishers Google's VP of News

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    • Profile of former chief AI scientist at Google Cloud Fei-Fei Li, a Stanford professor and co-founder of AI4All nonprofit, which aims to make AI more inclusive (Jessi Hempel/Wired)

    Jessi Hempel / Wired: Profile of former chief AI scientist at Google Cloud Fei-Fei Li, a Stanford professor and co-founder of AI4All nonprofit, which aims to make AI more inclusive  —  SOMETIME AROUND 1 am on a warm night last June, Fei-Fei Li was sitting in her pajamas in a Washington, DC, hotel room, practicing

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    • How hackers are stealing the accounts of Instagram influencers with fake sponsored content deals and phishing links to spam the influencer's followers (Taylor Lorenz/The Atlantic)

    Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: How hackers are stealing the accounts of Instagram influencers with fake sponsored content deals and phishing links to spam the influencer’s followers  —  In the Wild West of “influencer” marketing, there are few protections and plenty of easy marks.  —  In early October, a publicist received an irresistible message via

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    • A look at autonomous weapons systems being developed by the US and the arguments for and against imbuing autonomous robots with lethal decision-making (Kelsey D. Atherton/New York Times)

    Kelsey D. Atherton / New York Times: A look at autonomous weapons systems being developed by the US and the arguments for and against imbuing autonomous robots with lethal decision-making  —  It’s a freezing, snowy day on the border between Estonia and Russia.  Soldiers from the two nations are on routine border patrol … A

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