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The US Senate Homeland Security Committee grilled executives from Meta, TikTok, YouTube and Twitter over privacy and moderation failures on their respective platforms in recent years, saying that they "keep avoiding sharing really very important information with us".TikTok COO Vanessa Pappas, Twitter General Manager of Consumer and Revenue, Jay Sullivan, Meta Chief Product Officer Chris Cox and YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan testified before the panel late on Wednesday.Read Also"I'll be honest, I'm frustrated…

The Commission critically considers the global response to the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, citing widespread failures of prevention, transparency, rationality, basic public health practice, and operational cooperation and international solidarity that resulted in an estimated 17.7 million deaths. The report also finds that most national governments were unprepared and too slow in their response, paid too little attention to the most vulnerable groups in their…

Twitter’s former security chief will testify at a Senate hearing about the company’s security practices. Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, who recently went public with a lengthy whistleblower complaint based on his experiences at the company, will appear at a Judiciary Committee hearing on September 13th. “Mr. Zatko’s allegations of widespread security failures and foreign state actor interference at Twitter raise serious concerns,” committee chair Sen. Dick Durbin said in a statement. “If these claims are accurate, they may show…

James Webb Space Telescope has completed the complex process of deploying its kite-shaped sunshield. The sunshield, about the size of a tennis court, has five layers. The first three were deployed initially and the last two were done late last night. Deploying all five layers was crucial for the $10-billion (roughly Rs. 74,525 crore) space observatory. The sunshield will keep the telescope cool enough to enable it to begin its quest to capture images of faraway stars and planets.NASA said the tensioning of the sunshield…

Bandai Pippin AtmarkPhoto: Evan Amos/Creative CommonsThe Pippin had a short but fascinating history, starting as a way for Apple to expand into the multimedia market and ending as a failed gaming console created by Bandai.Let’s jump back to the early ‘90s, a few years after Steve Jobs was ousted and during a particularly tough phase in Apple’s history. Looking to expand into more households, Apple created an open hardware platform based on the Macintosh operating system. It was described at the time as a “trimmed-down…

"I'm talking to you from my rural pile. Yes, I actually have signal." Getty Images/iStockphotoTech companies can sometimes make it easy to be unreasonably annoyed.They make such exalted promises and then deflate customers with aberrant ease.Who doesn't get annoyed when they're out somewhere, pick up their phone, and find that they're suddenly completely out of bars? (Not those sorts of bars. Stop it.) No signal here, I'm afraid. No, no wifi either. Too bad, huh?It's hard not to blame cellphone carriers, isn't it? They…

About a decade ago, the clean tech boom went bust. Industry darlings were dropping like flies. Solyndra, most famously, shut down after taking a $500 million loan from the U.S. government. Germany’s Q-Cells went bankrupt, too, and was bought by South Korea’s Hanwha. A123 Systems, a battery maker, was snapped up on the cheap by Wanxiang, a Chinese auto parts company. That’s just a partial list. There are myriad reasons why so many companies went belly up. Some had the right tech at the wrong…

IRA Financial Trust, a platform that lets users save for retirement in alternative assets like cryptocurrency, is suing the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange over an alleged failure to protect its customers from a heist that resulted in the theft of $36 million in crypto. The financial platform partners with Gemini, owned by the Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, to allow customers to trade and store cryptocurrency. In February, IRA was the victim of a major attack that drained the millions in funds customers had stored…

Generating value from the project needs more than data, coding skills, and toolsPhoto by Andrea Piacquadio by PexelsMore than 85% of data science projects fail, and only 20% of analytic insights deliver business outcomes, according to Gartner. I can confirm these rates from my experience when advising companies.And no, it is not the data. It is neither missing data nor bad data.The Data Days at ETH Zurich closed with a 24-hours Machine Learning hackathon on May 15, 2022, and I was a jury member in one of the four…

Twitter has agreed to hand over $150 million as part of a settlement relating to accusations that the social media outfit misused private data it collected from users. The FTC and Department of Justice say that Twitter asked users for information that was supposed to be used to secure their accounts. However, TechCrunch reports that Twitter instead used that information to target ads. Twitter asked users to hand over email addresses and phone numbers in order to secure their accounts, but that information was then used…