The House Intelligence Committee's Surveillance 'Reform' Bill Is a Farce
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DECEMBER 11, 2023
Two bills reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act are headed to the House floor.
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#insideBIGDATApodcast: On Language Models, Scaling Laws, Reasoning, Multimodal Models, and Ethical AI
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APRIL 30, 2023
His guest is Raymond Perrault is a Distinguished Computer Scientist at SRI International, and Co-Director of the Steering Committee for the AI Index, an annual report that tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data relating to AI, to help inform decision-makers and […]
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AUGUST 18, 2023
After the faculty of philosophy in Frankfurt rejected his dissertation and dashed his hopes for an academic career, the Marxist critic found work as a radio broadcaster.
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MAY 1, 2024
In October 1979, Fed Chairman Paul Volcker announced new measures by the Federal Open Market Committee aimed at reining in the inflation that had afflicted the US economy for several years.
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EU Parliament commitee approves cash cap and ban on anonymous crypto payments
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MARCH 22, 2024
The majority of the EU Parliament's lead committees today approved far-reaching new anti-money laundering laws: Anonymous cash payments over €3,000 will be banned in commercial transactions. Cash payments over €10,000 will even be completely banned in business transactions. And anonymous payments in
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Capturing the ripples of spacetime: LISA gets go-ahead
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JANUARY 25, 2024
Today, ESA’s Science Programme Committee approved the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, the first scientific endeavour to detect and study gravitational waves from space.
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KDnuggets Survey: Benchmark With Your Peers On Data Science Spend & Trends 2023 H2
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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
KDnuggets, along with The All Things Insights Survey Committee and its partners, have created a Spend & Trends survey to provide you and your colleagues in our community with much needed benchmarking information on mindset and focus trends as well as budget and technology spend.
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Ode to Internet – V.90 56k dialup modem handshake for orchestra [video]
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JANUARY 22, 2024
Composed from the Feb 1998 committee network protocol recommendation by the International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector /.
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A look at the top science stories and breakthroughs of 2023
DECEMBER 31, 2023
As 2023 rolls to a close, Knowable Magazine has looked back over its articles and canvassed editorial committee members from the 51 academic journals — …
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Proposed UN cybercrime treaty has evolved into an expansive surveillance tool
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JANUARY 25, 2024
EFF has joined forces with 110 NGOs today in a joint statement delivered to the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee, clearly outlining civil society non-negotiable redlines for the proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty, and asserting that states should reject the proposed treaty if these essential changes are.
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More than a third of state agencies are using AI. Texas is beginning to examine its potential impact.
JANUARY 2, 2024
Amid fears that AI could heighten bias or affect privacy, the state is forming an advisory committee to recommend how the technology is deployed. We’re gonna have to set up some rules,” the committee’s founder says.
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Dutch Police intelligence services unlawfully spied on whole population groups
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FEBRUARY 8, 2024
The police intelligence services unlawfully monitored entire population groups, the Supervisory Committee of the Intelligence and Security Services (CTIVD) said. In the four-month period between February 23 and July 1, 2022, they crossed that line three times, NOS reports.
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Tether Reveals Partnerships with Secret Service, FBI
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DECEMBER 30, 2023
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Tether, the company behind the leading USDT stablecoin, has made public the letters it sent to the U.S.
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US gov seeking comments on DCAT-US Schema v3.0
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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
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Turkish central bank raises interest rate to 42.5% to combat high inflation
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DECEMBER 22, 2023
The bank’s Monetary Policy Committee delivered its seventh interest rate hike in a row on Thursday.
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California Bar to Vote on AI Guidelines Over Disclosure, Billing
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
A California State Bar committee is calling for state lawmakers to consider regulations on non-lawyer use of AI legal products and recommending guidance for attorneys who use the technology.
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I helped select the Nobel laureates in physics
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OCTOBER 5, 2023
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FDA advisers recommend approval of over-the-counter naloxone to fight opioid overdose
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FEBRUARY 15, 2023
A government advisory committee voted unanimously on Wednesday to recommend that naloxone nasal spray, a medication used to reverse opioid overdoses, be sold and distributed without a prescription. While the FDA isn’t bound by the result, it almost always adheres to the recommendations of its scientific advisory committees.
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US Congress doubles down on claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs
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JUNE 28, 2023
Bipartisan language adopted unanimously by the Senate Intelligence Committee would immediately halt funding for any secret government or contractor efforts to retrieve and reverse-engineer craft of “non-earth” or “exotic” origin.
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What Self-Driving Cars Tell Us About AI Risks
JULY 30, 2023
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, … In 2016, just weeks before the Autopilot in his Tesla drove Joshua Brown to his death, I pleaded with the U.S.
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Stability AI Boss Admits to Using 'Billions' of Images Without Consent
JULY 13, 2023
Yesterday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright, Stability AI head of public policy Ben Brooks …
FISA "Reform" Bill Would Greatly Expand the Entities Forced to Surveil Users
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DECEMBER 11, 2023
Yesterday the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence unanimously approved the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023 (FRRA), which would reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA 702). The full House is expected to vote on this bill next Tuesday. persons located outside the United States.
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Europe takes aim at ChatGPT with what might soon be the West’s first A.I. law. Here's what it means
MAY 14, 2023
A key committee of lawmakers in the European Parliament have approved a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence regulation — making it closer to …
Let’s get to know… Sowmya Moni, WiBD India Chapter Director and a Member of Global Exec Committee
Women in Big Data
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
WiBD spoke with Sowmya Moni, WiBD India Chapter Director and member of the WiBD Global Executive Committee WiBD: Who is Sowmya Moni? The post Let’s get to know… Sowmya Moni, WiBD India Chapter Director and a Member of Global Exec Committee first appeared on Women in Big Data. WiBD: Any Quotes or inspirations that you live by? “Be
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How Congress Fell for OpenAI and Sam Altman’s AI Magic Tricks
MAY 21, 2023
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made a bold demand in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on … When it comes to the bot boom, it’s a “rush to the bottom.”
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DALL-E Boss Expects AI Will be Like Photoshop on 'Steroids'
MAY 17, 2023
Senate committee on Tuesday to discuss the possibilities and dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) … OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared before a U.S.
Sens. Want Assurances for Plan to Develop US Artificial Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
WASHINGTON — A Senate committee sought verification Thursday from artificial intelligence experts that a U.S. government policy anticipating a surge …
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MAY 16, 2023
We saw that today in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about how to govern AI. Apparently, one of generative AI's extraordinary capabilities is unifying politicians, the public, and the private sector in regulating it. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, IBM chief …
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Ai-Da becomes the first robot to speak at the House of Lords
Dataconomy
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Ai-Da robot spoke to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee. Before the speech, Ai-Da was known as the first ultra-realistic humanoid AI robot artist. So how did the robot artist get to the House of Lords? Politicians are frequently accused of responding to questions robotically, but recent events.
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Istio moved to CNCF Graduation stage
Hacker News
JULY 12, 2023
⚖️Technical Oversight Committee (TOC). Contribute to cncf/toc development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Terraform Labs bankruptcy filed and here is the story
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Trip report: Autumn ISO C++ standards meeting (Kona, HI, USA)
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NOVEMBER 11, 2023
Today, the ISO C++ committee completed its second meeting of C++26, held in Kona, HI, USA. The committee currently has 23 active subgroups, most of which met in parallel tracks throughout the week. This time, the committee adopted the next set of features for C++26. For those highlights, see the previous trip report.
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NeurIPS 2019 Outstanding Paper Awards
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DECEMBER 11, 2019
NeurIPS 2019 is underway in Vancouver, and the committee has just recently announced this year's Outstanding Paper Awards. Find out what the selections were, along with some additional info on NeurIPS papers, here.
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Let’s get to know… Naomi Molefe, WiBD South Africa Chapter Director and a Member of Global Exec Committee.
Women in Big Data
JUNE 21, 2022
Keep your essence.” – Tupac The post Let’s get to know… Naomi Molefe, WiBD South Africa Chapter Director and a Member of Global Exec Committee. Be grateful for blessings. Don’t ever change. first appeared on Women in Big Data.
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I thought I wanted to be a professor, then I served on a hiring committee (2021)
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JULY 22, 2023
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OpenAI doesn’t want people to use DALL-E for deepfakes
Dataconomy
MAY 8, 2024
Similar to major technology firms like Google and Meta, OpenAI has joined the steering committee of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity ( C2PA ). Consequently, OpenAI, along with various other organizations including nonprofits and academic institutions, is exploring additional strategies to address this challenge.
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10 Graphs That Sum Up the State of AI in 2023
APRIL 8, 2023
Says Ray Perrault, co-director of the AI Index Steering Committee : “We do know that there was an overall drop in private investment in startups in 2022; we didn’t get to answer the question of whether AI startup investment shrunk more or less than the rest.” The reason isn’t clear.
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Zuckerberg’s False Promises: Examining The Ethics of Data in the Social Media Era
Dataconomy
MAY 11, 2018
During his appearance before the United States Senate’s Commerce and Judiciary committees, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did quite the job tiptoeing through a minefield of potentially threatening inquiries. Based on his answers, he either has no idea how the platform – which was founded controversially – works, or he blatantly.
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Here is the bill that makes people think TikTok shutting down
Dataconomy
MARCH 7, 2024
" – @CongressmanRaja pic.twitter.com/OV5CLLsDKa — Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (@committeeonccp) March 6, 2024 Its provisions aim to address the potential threats posed by apps like TikTok, while also igniting discussions about free speech, data privacy, and economic implications. What will happen next?
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Antarctic bedmap data: findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable
Hacker News
JULY 31, 2023
Supported by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), the Bedmap3 Action Group aims not only to produce new gridded maps of ice thickness and bed topography for the international scientific community, but also to standardize and make available all the geophysical survey data points used in producing the Bedmap gridded products.
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Publishers Secure Widespread Support in Landmark Copyright Battle With Internet Archive
Hacker News
MARCH 25, 2024
This includes former judges and two dozen government officials and lawmakers, including Lamar Smith, former Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, and Bob Goodlatte, former Chair of the House Judiciary Committee. Another amicus brief adds more heavyweight support for the publishers.
The Most Dangerous Canadian Internet Bill You’ve Never Heard Of Is a Step Closer to Becoming Law
Hacker News
DECEMBER 14, 2023
The same scenario appears to be playing out in the House of Commons, where yesterday a majority of the House voted for the bill at second reading , sending it to the Public Safety committee for review. The bill, which is the brainchild of Senator Julie Miville-Duchêne , is not a government bill. In fact, government ministers voted against it.
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