At WWDC, Apple Furthers Its Privacy Lead — Pixel Envy
Can tracking people through phone-call data improve lives? – Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01679-5
with just four data points per person, 95% of 1.5 million callers in an anonymized mobile-phone data set can be identified
Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions Into 737 Max, Blind to a Late Design Change - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/01/business/boeing-737-max-crash.html
After Boeing removed one of the sensors from an automated flight system on its 737 Max, the jet’s designers and regulators still proceeded as if there would be two.
As the Tiananmen anniversary nears, censorship by Chinese internet companies has ramped up and is largely automated with AI and voice and image recognition tech - Reuters
Neal Stephenson Explains His Vision of the Digital Afterlife - PCMag.com
https://www.pcmag.com/news/368417/neal-stephenson-explains-his-vision-of-the-digital-afterlife
Neal Stephenson’s new book, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, is out June 4, and we spoke to him about this sprawling sci-fi epic, the digital afterlife, and why social media is a doomsday machine.
Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us? - The New Yorker
Google stored some passwords in plain text for fourteen years - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/21/18634842/google-passwords-plain-text-g-suite-fourteen-years
Only affects some G Suite customers
it can’t find any evidence that anybody’s password was improperly accessed. It’s resetting any passwords that might be affected
Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy
Driverless electric truck starts deliveries on Swedish public road - Reuters
The T-Pod is level 4 autonomous […], and uses a Nvidia Drive platform to process visual data in real time. An operator, sitting miles away, can supervise and control up to 10 vehicles at once.