Florida Teenager Is Charged as ‘Mastermind’ of Twitter Hack
New York Times
OAKLAND, Calif. — One by one, the celebrity Twitter accounts posted the same strange message: Send Bitcoin and they would send back double your money. Elon Musk. Bill Gates. Kanye…
Month: July 2020
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21 Professional CV / Resume Templates with Matching Cover Letter
Graphic Design Junction
Creative and unique resume templates with beautiful cover letter and portfolio pages. These resume templates[1] can save your time and keep your resume clean and well-structured to help you get…
‘Hey, You Free on Friday for a Meeting and a Bank Heist?’
The ask-nice approach had not worked. Lewis Smithingham, an advertising executive in Brooklyn, was trying to land a virtual meeting with an analyst at an investment management firm, who he…
Microsoft Said to Be in Talks to Buy TikTok, as Trump Weighs Curtailing App
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions, as President Trump said on Friday that…
Amazon Wins Without Even Trying
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.[1] Three months ago, the Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos effectively declared that…
The field of natural language processing is chasing the wrong goal
MIT Technology
At a typical annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics[1] (ACL), the program is a parade of titles like “A Structured Variational Autoencoder for Contextual Morphological Inflection.”[2] The same…
The problems AI has today go back centuries
In the same way, the paper’s authors argue, this colonial history explains some of the most troubling characteristics and impacts of AI. They identify five manifestations of coloniality in the…
How an EU tax could slash climate emissions far beyond Europe
Last week, European Union leaders approved the most aggressive climate-change plan in history[1]. The eye-catching part was the $600 billion dedicated to green measures, spread across a massive economic recovery…
The Economy Is in Record Decline, but Not for the Tech Giants
A day after lawmakers grilled the chief executives of the biggest tech companies about their size and power, Amazon, Apple, Alphabet and Facebook reported surprisingly healthy quarterly financial results, defying…
‘This Is a New Phase’: Europe Shifts Tactics to Limit Tech’s Power
LONDON — European Union leaders are pursuing a new law to make it illegal for Amazon and Apple to give their own products preferential treatment over those of rivals that…
