CVS, Walgreens Look for Big Data Reward From Covid-19 Vaccinations
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Chains plan to use information they collect on vaccine recipients to promote stores, tailor marketing
Ethics and Computing Repository
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EU report warns that AI makes autonomous vehicles ‘highly vulnerable’ to attack
Researcher hacks over 35 tech firms in novel supply chain attack
|| Ethical Hacking/Role of Designers || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A researcher managed to breach over 35 major companies' internal systems, including Microsoft, Apple, PayPal, Shopify, Netflix, Yelp, Tesla, and Uber, in a novel software supply chain attack.
Quantum Computing Scientists Call for Ethical Guidelines
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A group of quantum computing experts are raising ethical concerns about the technology’s potential to accelerate human DNA manipulation.
Fake collaboration apps are stealing data as staff struggle with home-working security
|| Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Cyber criminals know that working from home can provide them with an easier way into corporate networks - resulting in a rise in attacks targeting remote devices.
Fake collaboration apps are stealing data as staff struggle with home-working security
|| Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Cyber criminals know that working from home can provide them with an easier way into corporate networks - resulting in a rise in attacks targeting remote devices.
U.S. lawmakers aim to curtail face recognition even as the technology IDs Capitol attackers
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
U.S. lawmakers are moving ahead with efforts to ban facial recognition software even as the technology helps identify supporters of President Donald Trump who ransacked their workplace and forced them to evacuate this month.
Cryptocurrency stealer for Windows, macOS, and Linux went undetected for a year
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Custom malware disguaised as benign software was used to steal wallet addresses of cryptocurrenct holders for months.
Another Arrest, and Jail Time, Due to a Bad Facial Recognition Match
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
A New Jersey man was accused of shoplifting and trying to hit an officer with a car. He is the third known Black man to be wrongfully arrested based on face recognition
The Death and Life of an Admissions Algorithm
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
U of Texas at Austin has stopped using a machine-learning system to evaluate applicants for its Ph.D. in computer science. Critics say the system exacerbates existing inequality in the field.
$3.5 billion cybersecurity giant FireEye says it was hacked by a 'nation with top-tier offensive capabilities,' and the attackers made off with its own hacking tools
|| Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Hackers aligned with a foreign nation-state successfully breached the systems of FireEye, the $3.5 billion Silicon Valley cybersecurity giant.
Critical Flaws in Millions of IoT Services May Never Get Fixed
|| Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
New research from the IoT security firm Forescout highlights 33 flaws in an open source internet protocol bundles that potentially expose millions of embedded devices to attacks, and affected devices may be difficult or impossible to patch due to the longevity of these bundles
FireEye, a Top Cybersecurity Firm, Says it was Hacked by a Nation-State
|| Security || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
The Silicon Valley company said hackers — almost certainly Russian — made off with tools that could be used to mount new attacks around the world.
We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Gebru, a widely respected leader in AI ethics research, is known for coauthoring a groundbreaking paper that showed facial recognition to be less accurate at identifying women and people of color, which means its use can end up discriminating against them.
AI ethics pioneer’s exit from Google involved research into risks and inequality in large language models
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Following a dispute over several emails and a research paper on Wednesday, AI ethics pioneer and research scientist Timnit Gebru no longer works at Google.
Google fires prominent AI ethicist Timnit Gebru
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Timnit Gebru, one of Google’s top artificial intelligence researchers, says the company abruptly fired her. The technical co-lead of Google’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team claims managers were upset about an email she’d sent to colleagues.
Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Timnit Gebru, one of the few Black women in her field, has voiced exasperation over the company's response to efforts to increase minority hiring.
Google’s Co-Head of Ethical AI Says She Was Fired for Email
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Timnit Gebru, a co-leader of the Ethical Artificial Intelligence team at Google, said she was fired for sending an email that management deemed “inconsistent with the expectations of a Google manager.”
Prominent AI Ethics Researcher Says Google Fired Her
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Timnit Gebru says a manager asked her to either retract or remove her name from a research paper she had coauthored, because an internal review had found the contents objectionable. The contents were about bias in AI.
Federal Labor Agency Says Google Wrongly Fired 2 Employees
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
The workers were involved in labor organizing at the company and participated in walkouts last year.