Peloton, stay in your lane
…It was tone-deaf in 2019 to see a husband gift a wife an exercise bike, but the commercial itself said a lot about how Peloton viewed itself — a company for internet…
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Joanna Stern is not a robot, but she lived with them
…facial recognition database. That’s the killer app for those glasses. Meta has talked about building that app.But that’s a privacy nightmare, just a straightforward privacy nightmare, to do…
GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft
…In the last few weeks alone, GitHub had multiple major outages, a remote code execution vulnerability disclosure, and its internal code repositories hacked due to a “poisoned” VS Code extension on an…
The AI code wars are heating up
…In late 2023, Simon Willison, a programmer and blogger, called LLMs “weird coding interns.” He wondered whether these interns would make coders more versatile and powerful than ever, or eventually begin to…
Social Media Platforms
Social Media The internet has been transformed by social media, and the many platforms are now critical to how we communicate online. The Verge keeps a close eye on everything that’s…
All these smart glasses and nothing to do
…I’ve yet to have a negative in-person interaction, but would the internet be calling these “pervert glasses” if glassholes weren’t making a comeback? The optimist in me says…
The future of border security isn’t at the border at all
…to one internal document obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, “can handle requests across more than 52+ social media platforms and millions of URLs and deep/dark web data. Babel X…
That UL logo is more complicated than it looks
…how, internally, when they’re making decisions about their code development, they should think about bias, how they should think about transparency, how they should think about fairness and privacy. When…
The things we’re building
…While on the surface it’s historical fantasy about a pencil company in 1940s Shanghai, really at its core it’s a book all about data privacy. I think this book featuring…
Skydio CEO Adam Bry on why Silicon Valley shouldn’t draw red lines for drone use
…The value of it is creating a database of every car and where it’s been. The business model incentivizes the sharing of that data as broadly as possible. Then on top…