Fake news is as old as the written word, and probably older, but it’s technology that’s created the insidious version of fake news we know today. Now, the question is whether technology, and artificial intelligence in particular, can also be the foil that will prevent the eventual fakenewspocolypse. Making Rome great again We’ve had fake news for a long time. We just used to call it propaganda and lies. In the first century BC Julius Caesar, the OG populist, was already using his letters, Commentāriī dē Bellō Gallicō (Commentaries on the Gallic War), to directly communicate ‘news’ from the Gallic Wars, or at least his version of it, with the plebeians. However, Caesar’s fake news was different than the fake news we have today. Caesar’s reasons were clear: self-aggrandizement and political gain. Further, he could only effectively create and disseminate fake news because he had immense power. Still, his … [Read more...] about Why AI and advertisers should team up to fix fake news
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Amazon likely to win $10B Pentagon contract – Google, IBM, and Oracle aren’t happy
The Pentagon announced the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) project earlier this year, prompting a feeding frenzy among big tech companies eager to get the lucrative contract. Appetites have curbed a bit amid accusations the JEDI contract wasn’t ever up for grabs. Project JEDI is a $10 billion defense contract for a single commercial provider to build a cloud computing platform to support weapons systems and classified data storage. Do you like good gadgets? Those sweet cool gadgets? Oh, yeah Despite the big tech bidding war, to hear Oracle and IBM tell the story, Amazon‘s had it in the bag all along. Oracle filed a pre-award bid protest with the Government Accountability Office in August citing, among other concerns, the fact that the Pentagon intends to award the contract to a single vendor. And IBM filed a similar protest this week, just days before the bidding deadline on October 12. The single-vendor that IBM and Oracle appear concerned about is, of … [Read more...] about Amazon likely to win $10B Pentagon contract – Google, IBM, and Oracle aren’t happy
Google Calls Search Engine Bias a ‘Conspiracy Theory’ – It’s Not
In an 85-page document recently leaked to Breitbart News, Google refers to President Trump’s claims that Google search results are biased as a “conspiracy theory,” however, there is a large amount of evidence to show that the search engine was biased towards Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election. Breitbart News published an 85-page internal company briefing produced by Google that argues that for a number of reasons, including the election of President Trump, the “American tradition” of free speech on the internet is no longer a realistic goal. The document makes a number of claims which Breitbart News has been reporting on, but one specific slide from the briefing claims that President Trump’s assertion that Google favored positive search results of Hillary Clinton over negative ones during the 2016 election was a “conspiracy theory.”The slide alleging that President Trump’s claim is a conspiracy can be seen below: … [Read more...] about Google Calls Search Engine Bias a ‘Conspiracy Theory’ – It’s Not
In the Google+ case, the lack of transparency from Google is likely the biggest problem for managers, experts say (GOOG, GOOGL)
Greg Sandoval, provided by Published 8:06 pm PDT, Monday, October 8, 2018 Chris Hondros/Getty Images The Wall Street Journal's bombshell report that Google decided not to disclose a security lapse at Google+ dominated technology news on Monday. The lack of transparency in Google's handling of the situation is exactly why the European Union implemented tough privacy regulations this year, say legal and security experts. They added that following the Cambridge Analytica case at Facebook, the new issue with Google+ gives US lawmakers more reason to adopt rules similar to those in Europe. Google's explanation that it didn't report the security lapse because it could find no sign the information was misused doesn't appear consistent with a memo reviewed by the Journal's reporters. They suggested that Google wanted to avoid scrutiny from regulators. Google erred by not disclosing to users of Google+, the long struggling social network, that their personal data was left … [Read more...] about In the Google+ case, the lack of transparency from Google is likely the biggest problem for managers, experts say (GOOG, GOOGL)
In the Google+ case, the lack of transparency from Google is likely the biggest problem for managers, experts say
source Chris Hondros/Getty Images The Wall Street Journal’s bombshell report that Google decided not to disclose a security lapse at Google+ dominated technology news on Monday. The lack of transparency in Google’s handling of the situation is exactly why the European Union implemented tough privacy regulations this year, say legal and security experts. They added that following the Cambridge Analytica case at Facebook, the new issue with Google+ gives US lawmakers more reason to adopt rules similar to those in Europe. Google’s explanation that it didn’t report the security lapse because it could find no sign the information was misused doesn’t appear consistent with a memo reviewed by the Journal’s reporters. They suggested that Google wanted to avoid scrutiny from regulators. Google erred by not disclosing to users of Google+, the long struggling social network, that their … [Read more...] about In the Google+ case, the lack of transparency from Google is likely the biggest problem for managers, experts say