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☆ Alarming new study finds half of Americans believe news organizations intend to mislead and misinform with their reporting
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Perhaps more startling: the report found that 72% of Americans believe national newsrooms are capable of serving the public, but that they do not believe they’re well intentioned. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. 61% of respondents said the increase in information across the media landscape has made it harder to sort bad information from good. The media landscape has fractured and it’s not uncommon to now see the same story presented in entirely different ways to different audiences. What is also clear is that the truth will offend members of one political party far more than the other.

☆ Why Instagram Will Never Be Able to Compete With TikTok
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-02 | by ( Chris Stokel-Walker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

TikTok's secret sauce is its ability to keep users on the platform, and without sacrificing its core, Instagram won't be able to compete. That's because on TikTok, every video a creator makes has to outperform every other TikTok video. Victim of its own successUnlike TikTok, Instagram has long been seen as a secure place on which to build a digital following. A year ago, when the researcher Valdovinos Kaye was interviewing TikTok creators for his book, he found that they desperately sought to transport their audiences over to Instagram. Rather than copying TikTok's success, Instagram might need to focus on what separates it from the pack.

☆ Military tech is racing towards a dangerous AI future, and Russia's war in Ukraine is paving the way, drone experts say
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Currently, the drones are guided at launch by a human operator, according to independent Russian outlet Novaya Gazeta Europe. But more advanced drone technology is enabling what Rogers calls "on" the loop of control. "In the case of the systems that we have seen used, there's still a human operator authorizing the use of force," she said. Under pressure and potentially under fire, a drone operator may take the machine's prompt less as a suggestion and more as an infallible instruction. In a fully autonomous future of drone warfare, he asked, will drone AI be programmed "to avoid those who are waving a white flag?"

☆ Google claims a Supreme Court defeat would transform the internet — for the worse
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —An unfavorable ruling against Google in a closely watched Supreme Court case this term about YouTube’s recommendation engine could have sweeping unintended consequences for much of the wider internet, the search giant argued in a legal filing Thursday. But a Supreme Court decision that says AI-based recommendations do not qualify for those protections could “threaten the internet’s core functions,” Google wrote in its brief. Driving the case are claims that Google violated a US antiterrorism law with its content algorithms by recommending pro-ISIS YouTube videos to users. The case, Gonzalez v. Google, is viewed as a bellwether for content moderation, and one of the first Supreme Court cases to consider Section 230 since its passage in 1996. Multiple Supreme Court justices have expressed interest in weighing in on the law, which has been broadly interpreted by the courts, defended by the tech industry, and sharply criticized by politicians in both parties.

☆ Read the pitch deck Anima, an augmented-reality startup, used to raise $3 million
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An augmented-reality startup called Anima announced a $3 million funding round. Anima shared 15 pages of the pitch deck it used to convince investors. Anima plans to offer the technology to allow creators to bring 3D assets into AR and easily view and interact with their creations. Examples of augmented-reality art on Anima include this mirror sculpture on a beach. Anima gave Insider an exclusive look at 15 slides from the pitch deck it used to raise $3 million.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced new charges against Bankman-Fried, FTX and Alameda Research, alleging that FTX commingled customer funds and that the onetime crypto billionaire violated the Commodities Exchange Act. From the founding of FTX in 2019, the CFTC alleged, Alameda "accessed and used FTX customer funds for Alameda's own operations and activities, including to fund its trading, investment, and borrowing/lending activities." The CFTC filing echoed charges that the SEC unveiled earlier Tuesday, which said Bankman-Fried operated his empire as a fraud "from the start." FTX allowed Alameda access to massive amounts of liquidity, backstopping risky bets on crypto assets and derivatives, the CFTC alleged. "At Bankman-Fried's direction, FTX executives created features in the underlying code for FTX that allowed Alameda to maintain an essentially unlimited line of credit on FTX," the CFTC alleged.

☆ Users are uploading entire movies to Twitter – and many aren't being blocked
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Twitter users are uploading entire movies to the platform and most are yet to be taken down. Movies including "Hackers" and "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" have been posted on the site. However, Insider found posts on Sunday allowing users to view a full-length film that have not been blocked. Another Twitter user posted "Need for Speed" in 66 tweets through an account with the username "Need for speed movie", which was also still viewable on Sunday. Earlier this month, Elon Musk laid off close to 3,500 Twitter employees after he took control of the company.

☆ Some OnlyFans creators have found a loophole to put their their nudes on TikTok
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Morgan Sung | Morgan Sung Is A Trends Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Some OnlyFans creators are using a TikTok artificial intelligence art filter to get around the platform’s community guidelines and promote their explicit content without getting their videos removed. People began posting AI-generated paintings of their explicit photos around late October, according to meme database Know Your Meme. tiktok and onlyfans creator amethyst roseAmethyst Rose, a creator known as walmartladygaga on TikTok, said she joined in on the trend because she'd previously heard that "TikTok is a good way to promote" an OnlyFans account. Instead of referring to explicit photos as "nudes," for example, TikTok users will write out the word as "n00ds" or "spicy pics." “Images also pass through the phone, so [they] may be backed up on the cloud.”Despite the restrictions on TikTok, Rose said that in her experience, TikTok remains the "best platform" on which to promote her OnlyFans content.

☆ What to know about Mastodon, the Twitter alternative
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Rachel Metz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

I am one of these Mastodon newcomers, trying it out of curiosity and because Twitter has felt increasingly toxic over time. Davide Bonaldo/SOPA Images/ShutterstockBut while it can be exciting to seek out a new social network, it can be tricky, too. Mastodon and Twitter have some similarities, yet they’re quite different — both in how they work and how they’re operated. I have mostly taken the more manual route by searching on Twitter for the word “Mastodon” to pull up people I follow who have added Mastodon usernames to their Twitter profile names. There also isn’t a Mastodon equivalent to Twitter’s quote-tweet feature, where you can repost another user’s post and append your own thoughts to it.

☆ With Twitter in chaos, Mastodon is on fire
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Rachel Metz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN Business —In the week since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the number of people signing up for a small social network called Mastodon has surged. Ascannio/Adobe StockRochko said in an interview Thursday that Mastodon gained 230,000 users since October 27, when Musk took control of Twitter. And she pointed out that Twitter users may migrate to Mastodon in particular because its user experience is pretty similar to Twitter’s. But unlike on Twitter, where I can easily interact with a large audience, my Mastodon network is less than 100 followers. A social-media escape hatchI’m not quite ready to close my Twitter account, though; for me, Mastodon is a sort of social-media escape hatch in case Twitter becomes unbearable.

☆ Days before the midterms, Twitter lays off employees who fight misinformation
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Ben Collins | Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Brandy-Zadrozny-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

Musk has said the company won’t allow anyone back on Twitter who was previously banned for at least a few more weeks. One current and two former employees were also concerned about a planned product that would allow Twitter users to buy verification badges. “Twitter isn’t prepared for that scale,” said one Twitter employee who survived Friday’s layoffs and asked to remain nameless because they were not authorized to speak publicly about internal company projects. The Twitter employee said that, as of the layoffs, the plan was that “there’s not going to be any verification of ID” to acquire a verification badge. “Now they’ve taken the brakes off the car.”One laid-off Twitter employee told NBC News that “the only saving grace is that he changes his mind on things all the time.”“There were some incredibly talented people who didn’t deserve this,” said a current Twitter employee.

☆ Inside the little-known team of engineering execs Google Cloud uses as its secret weapon to solve customers' toughest tech challenges
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-09 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Google Cloud's Office of the CTO is a group of former tech execs with engineering experience. Nestled inside Google's burgeoning cloud business is a small group of engineering pros who work on some of the tech giant's most ambitious projects. Finance is another sector target for Google Cloud, which is benefitting from the cloud revolution taking over Wall Street. While the group sits within the cloud business, OCTO can leverage all of Google's resources from research and development to engineering, Rowe said. Through OCTO, Google Cloud is able to keep a pulse on what its customers are thinking about and what they care about.

☆ YouTube considers adding short-form videos to its YouTube Kids app, making kids' content the latest weapon against TikTok
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-07 | by ( Tom Dotan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

YouTube told creators of kids' content to start thinking about short-form content for its Kids app. If YouTube goes through with adding Shorts to its Kids app, it would mark an escalation in the battle between YouTube and TikTok. "At YouTube, when it comes to kids and families, our product and policy development is always centered on the safety and well-being of kids while helping them explore their curiosity on YouTube and YouTube Kids," a YouTube spokesperson said. The company first launched its Kids app in 2015 to corral all kids' content. But YouTube, which has stricter oversight of kids' content and more of a regulatory nod, could be a safer place to experiment with short-form content.

☆ Amazon launched a recruiting tool that offers senior engineers multiple jobs at once. Here's how it can help you land one of 10,000 open roles.
▼ + stars: | 2021-12-16 | by ( Catherine Henderson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Best Fit allows candidates to list their preferences and be matched with at least two offers. Demand for software engineers is especially high at the moment. What makes Best Fit unique, Palacios said, is how it accommodates the variety of roles engineers fill. Best Fit differs from screening AIWhile Amazon's program for senior talent is unique, it's common practice for big companies to use technology and artificial intelligence when screening applicants. According to Palacios, senior software engineers that get past the initial coding exam, interviews, and qualifications will be offered positions.

Before reading "Millionaire Teacher," I thought my investing options were: go it alone, or hire a pro. But, as it turns out, there's a Goldilocks-esque option sitting smack-dab in the middle that I'd never considered: intelligent investment firms. Hallam uses Vanguard's Target Retirement Funds to outline how intelligent investing works (though robo-advisors aren't quite the same thing). In addition to the Vanguard Target Retirement Funds described above, which come with a wide range of target retirement dates, Hallam lists out a series of companies that offer the same services. ), you might really benefit from handing the reins over to an intelligent investment firm.

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