2025-02-11
Before AI Predicts Your Next Friend, It Needs to Do This First
In this post we'll continue working on link prediction with the Twitch dataset.
Unsurprising: a recent study of 32M tweets from politicians from 27 countries...
Unsurprising: a recent study of 32M tweets from politicians from 27 countries shows that “far-right populists [are] much more likely than the left to spread fake news” and “amplifying misinformation...
Don't Panic, But the Chances of That City Killer Asteroid Hitting Earth Just Almost Doubled
 Scientists at NASA have closely been following a near-Earth asteroid, roughly 200 feet in length, that they say could impact the Earth on December 22, 2032. The space rock, dubbed...
Is Social Media Doing You Dirty? Apply the CUE Test.
In a recent episode of the Uncanny Valley podcast about quitting social media, Lauren Goode talked about a framework she applies to see if the time she’s spending on social...
Gcore Radar Report Reveals 56% Year-on-Year Increase In DDoS Attacks
Gcore's Q3-Q4 2024 Radar report into DDoS attack trends highlights a steep long-term growth trend. The gaming industry continues to be the most targeted by DDoS attacks, accounting for 34%...
How He Became a Series C VP of Product in 10 Years: Mike Davey
Listen now (73 mins) | Mike Davey went from PM at a small startup to VP of Product at RaptorMaps—now, he’s revealing the key lessons so you can follow his...
Asked for Products to Kill Yourself With, Amazon's AI Says "You Are Not Alone" and Hallucinates an Incorrect Phone Number for a Suicide Hotline
Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact...
Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies
The Wikimedia Foundation says it will likely roll out features previously used to protect editors in authoritarian countries more widely.
Man Trying to Buy Entire Landfill to Recover Lost Bitcoin Hard Drive
Desperate Measures In a last-ditch effort to recover his long-lost crypto wallet, a Welshman is attempting to purchase an entire landfill where he believes it may have been thrown away....
Click, Share & Conspire—The Way Out of Misinformation Maze
This paper is presented as a network analysis of public Facebook groups sharing audiovisual content on MPV and DR, based on CrowdTangle data from 2020-2021.
Click, Connect, Conspire: Unraveling Facebook’s Global Misinformation Web
This paper is presented as a theoretical analysis of how transnational connective action is enabled by Facebook groups via shared cultural and linguistic ties.
Is the TikTok Ban a Cover-Up? The Internet Thinks So
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill banning TikTok on January 19, 2025. Apple and Google Play promptly removed the app, leaving users who opened TikTok greeted with a...
30 World-Changing Prompts: OpenAI's AI Singularity, Deep Research Has Arrived
OpenAI recently released a feature to its ChatGPT Pro subscription, Deep Research. The tool has the potential to remake the world as we know it. It is a game-changer for...
Inventor of Cancer Screening Tool Says AI Could Lead Disease Detection
Peter Whitehead, CEO of Light AI and inventor of the VELscope, shares insights on how AI is revolutionizing disease detection by enabling faster, more accurate diagnoses, reducing inefficiencies, and bridging...
AI Coding Tools Are Still in the R&D Stage
According to Stack Overflow's 2024 survey, 76% of developers are using or planning to use AI tools.
Bitcoin Is Eerily Resembling the Financial System It Was Meant to Replace
Today, we need to confront an uncomfortable truth, while Bitcoin's design brilliantly enables decentralization, human nature consistently pulls us toward centralization.
Mapping the Transnational Trail of COVID Conspiracies on Facebook
This paper is presented as an examination of how COVID-19 misinformation was propagated transnationally on Facebook among non-English speaking communities.
This Library Translates Confusing FHIR Dosage Data Into Actual Human Words
Turn HAPI FHIR Dosage into human readable text in your desired language and much more.
This Guide Makes Mastering HTML-to-PDF Generation a Breeze
Generating PDFs has become a crucial feature for many modern web applications. Over the years, various tools to generate PDFs have emerged. In this post, we look at the evolution...
I Built an E-Signature System in DDD—Here’s What Went Right (and Wrong)
I implemented DDD in a project that automated procurement processes in the B2B segment.
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