The company said Covid-19 restrictions were slowing production of the company’s new phones ahead of the holiday season.
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Greece to Ban Sale of Spyware After Government Is Accused of Surveillance
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the ban after a news report claimed that he had directed the use of spyware against prominent politicians and journalists, which he denied.
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Hacker took pains to hide $3.36B of stolen bitcoin. Feds found it anyway
Enlarge / Bitcoin laundering concept vector illustration. Federal prosecutors have recovered $3.36 billion in bitcoin that was stolen a decade ago from Silk Road, the dark web bazaar responsible for distributing massive quantities of illegal drugs and other illicit goods and services to people worldwide. Last November, federal agents executing a search warrant on a...
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New Go-playing trick defeats world-class Go AI—but loses to human amateurs
Enlarge / Go pieces and a rulebook on a Go board. (credit: Getty Images) In the world of deep-learning AI, the ancient board game Go looms large. Until 2016, the best human Go player could still defeat the strongest Go-playing AI. That changed with DeepMind’s AlphaGo, which used deep-learning neural networks to teach itself the...
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British Soccer, Brought to You by American Crypto Optimism
A group of American cryptocurrency investors is trying to turn an obscure English soccer club into “the internet’s team,” with a global following of crypto enthusiasts.
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Meta Is Said to Plan Significant Job Cuts This Week
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, said last month that many “teams will stay flat or shrink over the next year” as his company faces economic challenges.
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Russia Reactivates Its Trolls and Bots Ahead of Tuesday’s Midterms
Researchers have identified a series of Russian information operations to influence American elections and, perhaps, erode support for Ukraine.
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Twitter Said to Delay Changes to Check Mark Badges Until After Midterms
Users and employees had raised concerns that Elon Musk’s plan to give check marks to those who paid a monthly fee could be misused to sow discord.
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Apple Could Be Short of iPhones Because of Factory Disruptions in China
The company said Covid-19 restrictions were slowing production of the company’s new phones ahead of the holiday season.
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Algorithms quietly run the city of DC—and maybe your hometown
Enlarge (credit: Dmitry Marchenko/Getty Images) Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29 obscure algorithms that shape their lives. City agencies use automation to screen housing applicants, predict criminal recidivism, identify food assistance fraud, determine if a high schooler is likely to drop...