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https://www.economist.com/business/2019/10/09/america-blacklists-chinas-best-artificial-intelligence-firms

The move, linked to repression in Xinjiang, strikes at the heart of China’s technological ambitions

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/world/asia/blizzard-hearthstone-hong-kong.html

the latest American company to find itself caught between its business interests in China and the values of its core customers

https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614476/a-brain-controlled-exoskeleton-has-let-a-paralyzed-man-walk-in-the-lab/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-how-tiktok-censors-videos-that-do-not-please-beijing

Leak spells out how social media app advances China’s foreign policy aims

https://www.propublica.org/article/millions-of-americans-medical-images-and-data-are-available-on-the-internet

One expert warned about it for years.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/15/tiktoks-beijing-roots-fuel-censorship-suspicion-it-builds-huge-us-audience/

Hong Kong unrest features prominently on most social media, but not on TikTok

https://www.fastcompany.com/90403645/mozilla-and-creative-commons-want-to-reimagine-the-internet-without-ads-and-they-have-100m-to-do-it

“We’re at a point where it’s clear there’s kinds of negative side effects for people and even for democracy of the data-driven ad economy that funds the internet,”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-china-cyber-exclusive/exclusive-australia-concluded-china-was-behind-hack-on-parliament-political-parties-sources-idUSKBN1W00VF

The report, which also included input from the Department of Foreign Affairs, recommended keeping the findings secret in order to avoid disrupting trade relations with Beijing

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/human-speech-may-have-universal-transmission-rate-39-bits-second

no matter how fast or slowly languages are spoken, they tend to transmit information at about the same rate: 39 bits per second

https://nrkbeta.no/2019/09/13/britisk-granskning-kan-fa-store-konsekvenser-for-norsk-personvern/

– Handelen med personopplysninger slik vi kjenner den i dag står på spill.

Det kan være bra for nordmenns personvern, men det kan også skade annonsefinansierte nettaviser og innovative internettselskaper.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/09/breakthrough-autism-research-uses-social-media-videos/597646/

“Digital exhaust” from online life could be transformed into health insights. Should it be?

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/09/first-cement-mixed-in-space-paves-the-way-for-otherworldly-buildings

By successfully mixing cement in space for the first time, researchers have taken a small step toward building structures on other worlds, such as the Moon and Mars.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/09/technology/apple-app-store-competition.html

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614235/recombinetics-gene-edited-hornless-cattle-major-dna-screwup/

contaminated by bacterial genes.

https://pxlnv.com/blog/dont-speak/

The more I’ve thought about Apple’s statement regarding the iOS exploit chains discovered last week, the more bizarre it seems

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/apple-takes-flak-for-disputing-ios-security-bombshell-dropped-by-google/

Apple statement alienates the security community when the company needs it most.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/09/06/apple-responds-to-project-zero/

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/04/youtube-to-pay-170-million-in-ftc-child-privacy-settlement.html

Google and YouTube knowingly and illegally monitored, tracked, and served targeted ads to young children just to keep advertising dollars rolling in

https://www.ft.com/content/e3e1697e-ce57-11e9-99a4-b5ded7a7fe3f

Google is secretly using hidden web pages that feed the personal data of its users to advertisers, undermining its own policies and circumventing EU privacy regulations

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/31/china-google-iphone-uyghur/