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| Sep 21, 2026 | Gates Foundation launches coalition to build more representative language data sets for AI | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Gates Foundation is convening Anthropic, Google, OpenAI Foundation and dozens of other organizations to help make artificial intelligence more accessible in und... |
| Jul 8, 2026 | Together AI Secures $800 Million, Valuation Soars to $8.3 Billion Amidst Open AI Boom | Together AI has raised $800 million in Series C funding. This capital injection pushes its valuation to $8.3 billion. The company champions open-source AI models. It makes running these models cheaper and more accessible. Together AI offers... |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Together AI raises $800M to grow its AI-optimized public cloud | Together AI Inc., the operator of a cloud platform optimized to run open-source artificial intelligence models, has raised $800 million from investors.
The startup stated in its funding announcement today that the Series C deal was led by A... |
| Nov 11, 2025 | Meta Expands AI Speech Recognition to 1,600+ Languages | Image: Adobe Stock
Willkommen. Bienvenue. Welcome. C’mon in. Meta has unveiled Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), an AI system that can transcribe speech in over 1,600 languages — including 500 low-resource languages that have ... |
| Oct 16, 2025 | African Languages for AI - the Project That's Gathering a Huge New Dataset | Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Siri or Google Assistant are developed by the global north and trained in English, Chinese or European languages. In comparison, African languages are largely missing from the inter... |
| Aug 11, 2025 | App da Meta AI chega ao Brasil em versões para Android e iPhone | Meta AI também está presente no WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram e Facebook (ilustração: Vitor Pádua/Tecnoblog)
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| Feb 27, 2025 | Massachusetts Judge Dismisses Auto Industry Lawsuit Over State’s Popular ‘Right To Repair’ Reforms | In late 2020, Massachusetts lawmakers (with overwhelming public support) passed an expansion of the state’s “right to repair” law. The original law was the first in the nation to be passed in 2013. The update dramatically improved it, requi... |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Subaru Software Hacked, Allowing Remote Control And Access To The Location Histories Of Millions Of Drivers | Last year Mozilla released a report showcasing how the auto industry has some of the worst privacy practices of any tech industry in America (no small feat). Massive amounts of driver behavior is collected by your car, and even more is hoov... |
| Jan 17, 2025 | FTC Bans GM From Selling Driver Location Data For 5 Years | Last year, Kashmir Hill at the New York Times published a major story confirming that automakers collect all sorts of driver behavior data then sell it to a long list of companies — without making that clear to car owners or getting consent... |
| Jan 6, 2025 | Maine Still Hashing Out The Details Of Its Year Old ‘Right To Repair’ Law As Auto Lobbyists Loom | A little over a year ago, Maine residents voted overwhelmingly (83 percent) to pass a new state right to repair law designed to make auto repairs easier and more affordable. More specifically, the law requires that automakers standardize on... |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Mozilla's Financial Landscape: A Year of Growth and Transformation | In the fast-paced world of technology, Mozilla stands as a beacon of innovation and resilience. The company recently unveiled its financial report for 2023, revealing a remarkable growth trajectory. With revenues soaring to $653 million, up... |
| Dec 18, 2024 | Mozilla выпустила финансовый отчёт за 2023 год | Компания Mozilla опубликовала финансовый отчёт за 2023 год. В 2023 году доходы Mozilla увеличились на $60 млн и составили $653 млн. Для сравнения, в 2022 году компания Mozilla заработала $593 млн, в 2021 году — $600 млн, в 2020 — $496 млн, ... |
| Dec 18, 2024 | Mozilla выпустила открытый набор голосовых данных Common Voice 20 | Компания Mozilla представила новую версию датасета Common Voice, в который вошли записи речи более 200 тысяч людей. Датасет доступен по лицензии CC0 (общественное достояние), его можно использовать для разработки моделей распознавания и ген... |
| Dec 14, 2024 | Chris Evans' Return: A New Chapter in the Marvel Universe | The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is a vast ocean of heroes, villains, and epic tales. Recently, whispers have surfaced about Chris Evans making a splash in the upcoming film, "Avengers: Doomsday." This news has sent ripples thr... |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Как решения Data Access Governance и Data Centric Audit Protection помогают бороться с утечками данных | По данным центра мониторинга внешних цифровых угроз ГК «Солар», за 2023 год в публичный доступ попали данные почти 400 российских организаций. Это означает, что в прошлом году каждый день в России происходила как минимум одна утечка данных.... |
| Nov 10, 2024 | Mozilla's Restructuring: A Shift in the Digital Landscape | In a world where technology evolves at lightning speed, the Mozilla Foundation finds itself at a crossroads. The nonprofit organization, known for its flagship product Firefox, has announced a significant restructuring plan. This move inclu... |
| Nov 6, 2024 | Mozilla Foundation Axes Staff, Halting Advocacy Efforts | Mozilla’s non-profit wing, the Mozilla Foundation, has announced a major layoff affecting 30% of its staff, and told the remaining workforce that it will no longer take part in advocacy.
The announcement, first reported by TechCrunch, was m... |
| Nov 6, 2024 | Mozilla Foundation увольняет треть сотрудников и ликвидирует подразделение по защите свободного и открытого Web | Некоммерческая организация Mozilla Foundation, которая занимается общим управлением проектами, владеющая товарными знакам и определяющая политику компании Mozilla (разработчик браузера Firefox), объявила об увольнении 30% своих сотрудников ... |
| Oct 9, 2024 | Africa: Sex Machina - Inside the Wild West World of Human-AI Relationships, Where the Lonely and Vulnerable Are Most At Risk | Chris excitedly posts family pictures from his trip to France. Brimming with joy, he starts gushing about his wife: "A bonus picture of my cutie ... I'm so happy to see mother and children together. Ruby dressed them so cute too.&... |
| Aug 15, 2024 | Texas AG Latest To Sue GM For Covertly Selling Driver Data To Insurance Companies | Last year Mozilla released a report showcasing how the auto industry has some of the worst privacy practices of any tech industry in America (no small feat). Massive amounts of driver behavior is collected by your car, and even more is hoov... |
| Aug 15, 2024 | Africa: Meta Just Closed a Vital Online Research Tool. It's Bad News for the Fight Against Misinformation | For more than a decade, researchers and journalists have relied on a digital tool called CrowdTangle to track and fight the spread of viral falsehoods online.
But earlier this week, the owner of CrowdTangle, Meta, shut the tool down. The te... |
| Jul 30, 2024 | Wyden Tells FTC: Unchecked Automakers Are Still Spying On Their Customers At Massive Scale | Automakers are among the worst “tech” companies in America when it comes to your privacy. They hoover up an ocean of contact, location and behavior data from your car and phone, don’t really clearly tell you they’re doing it, then sell acce... |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Choose how you want to navigate the web with Firefox | As Mozilla envisions Firefox’s future, we are focused on building a browser that empowers you to choose your own path and gives you the freedom to explore without worry or compromises. We do this through a few foundational ideas – simplifyi... |
| Jun 12, 2024 | One of the major sellers of detailed driver behavioral data is shutting down | Enlarge
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One of the major data brokers engaged in the deeply alienating practice of selling detailed driver behavior data to insurers has shut down that business.
Verisk, which had collected data from cars ma... |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Hey Journalists: Not Every Elon Musk Brain Fart Warrants An Entire News Cycle | So on Monday you probably saw that Apple announced it was more tightly integrating “AI” into its mobile operating system, both via a suite of AI-powered tools dubbed Apple Intelligence, and tighter AI integration with its Siri voice assista... |
| May 28, 2024 | Настоящий хоррор: кибербезопасность в автомобильной индустрии
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Атаки через телематику
Атаки на приложения и платформы
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Как противодействуют угрозам информационной безопасности в автопро ...... | Автопром сделал первый шаг в цифровую эпоху еще в 1967 году, когда в Германии выпустили Volkswagen Typ 3 с электронной системой впрыска D-Jetronic от Bosch. Сегодня же компьютерные системы управляют почти всеми функциями большинства авто — ... |
| May 15, 2024 | Mozilla Foundation Welcomes Nabiha Syed as Executive Director | Public interest tech advocate will harness collective power to deepen Mozilla’s focus on trustworthy AI
Today, Mozilla Foundation is proud to announce Nabiha Syed — media executive, lawyer, and champion of public interest technology — as it... |
| May 15, 2024 | Growing Our Movement — and Growing Mozilla — to Shape the AI Era | Last August, we announced that Mozilla was seeking a new executive director to lead its movement building arm. I’m excited to announce that Nabiha Syed — media executive, lawyer, and champion of public interest technology — is joining us to... |
| May 2, 2024 | Wyden Presses FTC To Crack Down On Rampant Auto Industry Privacy Abuses | Last year Mozilla released a report showcasing how the auto industry has some of the worst privacy practices of any tech industry in America (no small feat). Massive amounts of driver behavior is collected by your car, and even more is hoov... |
| Apr 23, 2024 | Исследование Mozilla: многие приложения для знакомств не соблюдают правила конфиденциальности | Mozilla опубликовала исследование дейтинговых приложений, которое показало, что многие из них не соблюдают строгие правила конфиденциальности и собирают больше данных, чтобы привлечь пользователей.
Всего специалисты Mozilla изучили 25 прило... |
| Apr 23, 2024 | Mozilla finds that most dating apps are not great guardians of user data | Dating apps are not following great privacy practices and are collecting more data than ever in order to woo Gen Z users, a new study by Mozilla pointed out. Researchers reviewed dating apps in terms of privacy in 2021. In the latest report... |
| Apr 23, 2024 | Mozilla Foundation Calls on WhatsApp to Combat Misinformation for the Global Elections | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 23 April 2024, 04:04 am
The Mozilla Foundation is urging Meta, the parent company of WhatsApp, to implement significant changes to the messaging platform's operations during global election periods.
These cha... |
| Apr 15, 2024 | Big Tech’s ad transparency tools are still woeful, Mozilla research report finds | Efforts by tech giants to be more transparent about the ads they run are — at very best — still a work in progress, according to a report looking at ads transparency tools. The report comes about a half year since the European Union’s Digit... |
| Apr 2, 2024 | Meta Is Ending a Monitoring Tool for Election Years Vital in Detecting Viral Falsehoods | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 02 April 2024, 02:04 am
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has announced the discontinuation of CrowdTangle, a digital tool widely recognized for its crucial role in monitoring viral falsehoods, particularly du... |
| Mar 28, 2024 | Mozilla Drops New Privacy Partner After CEO Found Tethered To Data Brokers | Last month we noted how Mozilla had launched a new privacy protection tool dubbed Mozilla Monitor Plus. According to Mozilla, the new service scours the web for your personal information at over 190 sites where brokers sell information they... |
| Mar 25, 2024 | 6 takeaways from The Washington Post Futurist Tech Summit in D.C. | A full conglomerate including journalists from The Washington Post, U.S. policymakers and influential business leaders gathered for a day of engaging discussions about technology March 21 in the nation’s capital.
Mozilla sponsored “The Futu... |
| Mar 22, 2024 | CDT Joins Letter Urging Meta to Maintain CrowdTangle, Election Integrity Efforts in Advance of Historic Year of Elections | The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) joined a coalition letter of over 90 civil society organizations and experts in response to Meta’s March 14, 2024 news that it would abandon CrowdTangle, the tool used by tens of thousands of ... |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Researchers Rally Against Meta's CrowdTangle Shutdown, Citing Risks to Election Monitoring Efforts | Inno Flores, Tech Times 21 March 2024, 11:03 pm
A collective comprising researchers is actively advocating for the preservation of the platform. They argue that the discontinuation of CrowdTangle poses a significant risk to ongoing research... |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Auto, Tech Industries Falsely Claim ‘Right To Repair’ Reforms Are A Threat To National Security | “Right to repair” reform (making it easier and more affordable to repair things you buy) is extremely popular among consumers across both sides of the aisle.
It’s obviously less popular among automakers, tractor builders, tech companies, an... |
| Mar 20, 2024 | National Politics | Election misinformation is a problem in any language. But some gets more attention than others | By DAVID KLEPPER (Associated Press)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Warnings about deepfakes and disinformation fueled by artificial intelligence. Concerns about campaigns and candidates using social media to spread lies about elections. Fears that tech ... |
| Mar 19, 2024 | GM, LexisNexis Sued For (Nontransparent) Sale Of Driver Behavior Data To Insurers | Last week the New York Times published a story confirming what everybody assumed was already happening. Automakers collect reams of personal behavior, phone, and other data (without making it clear to consumers) then sell it to a long list ... |
| Mar 14, 2024 | AI expert says Princess Kate photo scandal shows our "sense of shared reality" being eroded | London — The European Parliament passed the world's first comprehensive law regulating the use of artificial intelligence on Wednesday, as controversy swirled around an edited photo of Catherine, the Princess of Wales, that experts say... |
| Mar 13, 2024 | Auto Makers Are Selling Data On Your Driving Habits To Your Insurer Without Properly Informing You | Last September, Mozilla came out with a privacy study indicating that the auto industry was the worst tech industry the organization tracked. Mozilla found that not only does the industry hoover up a ton of data from your use of vehicles, i... |
| Mar 12, 2024 | CDT Comments in response to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Proposed Rulemaking on Advanced Impaired Driving Prevention Technology | On March 5, 2024, the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) recently filed comments in response to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) on Advanced Impaired Driving... |
| Feb 14, 2024 | Don’t trust your AI girlfriend, she may steal your heart and your data | Lonely this Valentine’s Day? Well, if so, might we suggest you think twice before spending your time with an AI girlfriend or boyfriend – they might not be trustworthy.
That’s because new AI chatbots specializing in romantic conversations w... |
| Feb 12, 2024 | Mozilla Unveils (Possibly Futile) Tool That Lets You Request That Data Brokers Delete Your Data | Every few weeks for the last fifteen years there’s been a massive scandal involving some company, telecom, data broker, or app maker over-collecting your detailed personal location data, failing to secure it, then selling access to that inf... |
| Jan 31, 2024 | Mozilla’s Biggest AI Moments | Just over a year ago Mozilla launched two big investments in AI — a $35 million investment in a responsible tech fund, Mozilla Ventures and a $30 million investment in a R+D Lab developing trustworthy AI, Mozilla.AI. Since those initial inv... |
| Dec 7, 2023 | Senator Markey Sends Automakers A Letter Criticizing Their Nonexistent Privacy Standards | Back in September Mozilla released a scathing report showing how modern vehicles are a privacy shitshow. After studying vehicle systems for over 600 hours, researchers found that most cars hoover up vast swaths of sensitive location and oth... |
| Nov 22, 2023 | Seven tips to make holiday shopping easier. Really. | Remember when the holidays meant waking up early and going down and opening up presents? When the only gift list you had to worry about was the gifts you were asking for. Last year, it was estimated that adults bought an average of nine pre... |
| Nov 21, 2023 | Mozilla Ventures Invests in Sendmarc, Global Leader in Email and Domain Security | The investment will help Sendmarc provide essential DMARC protection to thousands of customers around the world
(TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2023) – Today, Mozilla Ventures is announcing an investment in Sendmarc, an industry leader in email and ... |
| Nov 20, 2023 | AI community fractured over Israel-Hamas war | Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here.
Nearly 200 AI leaders, researchers and data scientists have signed an open letter published la... |
| Nov 3, 2023 | Connected cars -- Safety gained or safety lost? | Connected technology is everywhere and influences every part of our lives. On average, there are nine connected devices in every UK household, and according to the UK Department of Culture, Media, and Sport. This is estimated to grow to twe... |
| Oct 22, 2023 | Какую информацию современный автомобиль собирает о водителе и пассажирах | Современный автомобиль — это не просто средство передвижения, а скорее компьютер на колёсах. Около половины его стоимости составляет электроника и софт: сенсоры, контроллеры, компьютерные компоненты и управляющее ПО.
К сожалению, вслед за п... |
| Oct 19, 2023 | Your 'personal' personal information | Let’s talk about the personal information that belongs to you, your personal personal information. What is your level of tolerance for the amount of data collected about you? Are you willing to provide your email to get a 15 percent discoun... |
| Sep 8, 2023 | Nissan, Kia Cars Secretly Tracking Drivers' Sex Lives, Raises Privacy Concerns | John Lopez, Tech Times 08 September 2023, 03:09 pm
With cutting-edge smart technologies for electric vehicles, our cars have become more than just modes of transportation. They have already morphed into smart, data-gathering machines.
Howev... |
| Sep 7, 2023 | Mozilla: Modern Cars Are A Privacy Shitshow | Mozilla’s latest *Privacy Not Included report isn’t subtle when it comes to calling out the shortcomings of modern, internet-connected vehicles: |
| Sep 6, 2023 | Most major companies admit they may be selling your personal information, a new study finds | Car owners have little control over their vehicle collecting personal data. AP Photo/Michael Dwyer
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A new study found many car companies can collect and sell your personal data, sparking privacy concerns.
Carmakers like Nissan cou... |
| Jul 17, 2023 | Mozilla: Slack May Finally Give Users the Ability to Block Others | Mozilla is cautiously praising Slack for finally adding features designed to help users protect themselves from harassment.
Slack is one of the most widely used corporate communication tools, but it has traditionally lacked some of the most... |
| May 4, 2023 | Будущее индустрии ИИ стоит на бесплатной базе данных простого учителя школы | Кристоф Шуманн
Перед небольшим загородным домом на окраине Гамбурга в северной Германии на почтовом ящике карандашом нацарапано единственное слово — «ЛАЙОН». Это единственный признак того, что этот дом принадлежит человеку, стоящему за огро... |
| May 1, 2023 | Report: Halo’s final survival attempts made even Amazon’s workers concerned | Enlarge
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Amazon is discontinuing its Halo project, including the Band and View fitness trackers and the Rise bedside sleep tracker, making the devices useless on August 1. Amid the company's largest-ever w... |
| Apr 20, 2023 | The creepy secret behind online therapy | Redeem now
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Loris, a startup that helps companies improve their customer-service conversations, found a way. Founded in 2018, Loris used data generated from text conversat... |
| Apr 20, 2023 | The creepy secret behind online therapy | Mental health apps are filling in a critical need — but they have a dark side
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| Apr 20, 2023 | Insider: о стартапах, специализирующихся на психическом здоровье, и о сливе данных как побочном эффекте онлайн-терапии | О «тёмной стороне» стартапов, специализирующихся на психическом здоровье, написал Insider. Издание утверждает, что, разрабатывая свои приложения и оказывая медицинские услуги, такие компании пренебрегают конфиденциальностью и сливают данные... |
| Apr 7, 2023 | 16 Emerging Nonprofit Trends Leaders Should Be Watching In 2023 | getty |
| Apr 3, 2023 | Robust Consumer Protection Can Support a Rights-Respecting Digital Future | The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace released a report on March 13 on cyber vulnerabilities across Africa and the potential harm these can cause for underserved communities. It shared the experience of a woman in Nigeria whose rel... |
| Mar 22, 2023 | Mozilla's New AI-Focused Venture Aims To Build Trustworthy Tech | Trisha Kae Andrada, Tech Times 22 March 2023, 09:03 am
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A screen displays the logo of the open-source web browser Firefox on July 31, 2009, in London, as the software edges towards it's billio... |
| Feb 25, 2023 | This Week in Apps: Meta’s paid verifications, Instagram’s founders’ new app and Spotify’s AI DJ | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year dropped for t... |
| Feb 24, 2023 | «Полный провал»: ярлыки конфиденциальности топ-приложений Google Play оказались ложными | Anonymous 24 февраля 2023, 15:16 «Полный провал»: ярлыки конфиденциальности топ-приложений Google Play оказались ложными
Исследователи Mozilla обнаружили проблемы в маркировке безопасности данных Google. Для этого они изучили топ-40 приложе... |
| Feb 23, 2023 | Google Play Store's Privacy Labels for Popular Android Apps Are Misleading, Says Mozilla | Trisha Kae Andrada, Tech Times 23 February 2023, 10:02 am
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An illustration picture taken on April 21, 2022 in Moscow shows a smart phone screen bearing the Google Play store application logo.
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| Feb 23, 2023 | Mozilla says “most top apps” on Android have misleading privacy labels | Enlarge / The little Android robot is watching everything you do.
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| Feb 23, 2023 | Popular Android apps’ Play Store privacy labels don’t match up to their claims, Mozilla says | Google added privacy nutrition labels for apps on the Play Store last April, bringing more transparency to its Android marketplace in response to Apple introducing similar stringent rules. These labels allow developers to disclose and expla... |
| Jan 24, 2023 | Appliance makers sad that 50% of customers won’t connect smart appliances | Enlarge / This hypothetical dishwasher owner is one of a minority of smart appliance customers getting the full value of their device, including timely reminders to buy more of the company's recommended dishwasher tabs and cleaning pac... |
| Jan 19, 2023 | Period tracking startup Clue is bleeding staff and cuts its workforce by 25 percent | The pain of maturation and profitability has hit another startup. Yesterday Clue, the creator of a period and fertility tracking app, announced a reduction in staffing.
A press statement by co-CEOs Carrie Walter and Audrey Tsang shared with... |
| Dec 19, 2022 | Surprise: Telehealth Startups Playing Fast And Loose With Sensitive User Medical Data | From the Internet of very broken things to telecom networks, the state of U.S. privacy and user security is arguably pathetic. It’s 2022 and we still don’t have even a basic privacy law for the Internet era, in large part because over-colle... |
| Nov 30, 2022 | Amazon's New Halo Rise Rates Your Sleep; Do You Really Need It? | John Lopez, Tech Times 30 November 2022, 10:11 am
Amazon's Halo Rise has much promise for a health tracker. This new device from the world's leading retail company comes with motion sensors to help you better understand your sleep... |
| Nov 11, 2022 | Facebook, TikTok, Twitter failed election integrity test in Kenya’s elections | Social media platforms Facebook, TikTok and Twitter did not live up to their election integrity pledges during Kenya’s August elections, according to a new study by the Mozilla Foundation. The report says content labeling failed to stop mis... |
| Nov 11, 2022 | Facebook, TikTok, Twitter Contributed to Misinformation, Propaganda in Kenya Elections: Study | John Lopez, Tech Times 11 November 2022, 07:11 am
According to a study by the Mozilla Foundation, social media behemoths Facebook, TikTok, and Twitter have evolved into sources of false information and misinformation that have undermined Ke... |
| Nov 2, 2022 | Mozilla launches $35M venture capital fund for early-stage ‘responsible’ startups | It seems that every internet company and their dog have at least one venture capital (VC) arm under their wing, with the likes of GV (formerly Google Ventures), M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures), Salesforce Ventures, Twilio Ventures and Zoo... |
| Sep 22, 2022 | Don’t Waste Time on YouTube’s Dislike Button; It Doesn’t Work | YouTube users smashing the “Dislike” button are likely wasting their time, according to new research from Mozilla.
YouTube, like many online platforms, provides a button for individuals to dislike content. The idea is that disliking somethi... |
| Sep 21, 2022 | Исследователи выяснили, что кнопка «Не нравится» почти не влияет на ленту рекомендаций YouTube | Отчет под названием Does This Button Work? («Работает ли эта кнопка?») показал, что нажатие кнопки «Не нравится» уменьшало число похожих рекомендаций лишь на 12%. Параметр «Не рекомендовать видео с этого канала» сокращал количество похожих ... |
| Sep 20, 2022 | YouTube’s ‘dislike’ and ‘not interested’ options don’t do much for your recommendations, study says | There is no secret that both viewers and creators are confused by the puzzle that is YouTube’s recommendation algorithm. Now, a new study by Mozilla suggests that users’ recommendations don’t change a lot when they use options like ‘dislike... |
| Sep 20, 2022 | Исследование: алгоритмы YouTube игнорируют пожелания зрителей — кнопки «Не нравится» и «Не интересует» почти не работают Статьи редакции | Авторы пишут, что даже в лучшем случае система может выдать половину ненужных роликов.
Работу алгоритмов изучила команда Mozilla, данные приводит The Verge. Исследователи проверили рекомендации у более 20 тысяч пользователей-волонтёров, кот... |
| Sep 7, 2022 | Africa: Just Who Is Stirring Up Disinformation in Africa? | Kenya's election shows that understanding how voters are influenced online is central to freer, fairer elections.
As digital access deepens across Africa, there's growing evidence of external players weaponising social media platf... |
| Aug 20, 2022 | This Week in Apps: Android 13 arrives, apps plan for midterms, Amazon copies TikTok | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly f... |
| Aug 17, 2022 | Report finds most period tracking apps don’t protect privacy | In a post-Roe world, now that abortion is illegal and restricted in most states, Americans have grown concerned about the privacy protections their favorite period and pregnancy apps provide. It appears that concern is warranted, as a repor... |
| Aug 17, 2022 | TikTok launches an in-app US midterms Elections Center, shares plan to fight misinformation | TikTok announced its midterms Elections Center will go live in the app in the U.S. starting today, August 17, 2022, where it will be available to users in more than 40 languages, including English and Spanish.
The new feature will allow use... |
| Aug 17, 2022 | Mozilla slaps 18 period and pregnancy tracking apps and devices with a 'Privacy Not Included' warning label | Following the reversal of Roe v. Wade, Mozilla began investigating several popular reproductive health apps.
Mozilla found 18 have unclear guidelines on what data could be shared with law enforcement.
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| Jul 22, 2022 | Top challenge to internet health is AI power disparity and harm, Mozilla says | Image: Sundry Photography/Adobe Stock
The top challenge for the health of the internet is the power disparity between who benefits from AI and who is harmed by AI, Mozilla’s new 2022 Internet Health reveals.
Once again, this new report puts... |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Startup Wire | Doo Wop | Hi everyone. Taro here.
During my three-week stay in a rural area of Japan, it was interesting to see what technologies have or haven’t been adopted there. While places like Singapore are in hysterics about NFT art exhibitions, BNPL solutio... |
| May 10, 2022 | Report: Most Mental Health, Prayer Apps Have Abysmal Security And Privacy Standards | From the Internet of very broken things to telecom networks, the state of U.S. privacy and user security is arguably pathetic. It’s 2022 and we still don’t have even a basic privacy law for the Internet era, in large part because over-colle... |
| May 5, 2022 | SafeGraph Stops Selling Location Data Of Abortion Clinic Visitors, But… | A few days ago, Motherboard revealed they were able to purchase the location data of visitors to Planned Parenthood clinics for just $160 from a company named SafeGraph. While SafeGraph refused to comment at the time, they’ve since written ... |
| May 4, 2022 | Privacy cracks in mental health apps are a major concern for consumers | The data: 28 out of top 32 mental health apps fall short on consumer privacy, according to new research by global nonprofit Mozilla.
BetterHelp, Woebot, and Talkspace have the worst privacy and security measures.
BetterHelp’s privacy polici... |
| May 3, 2022 | Mental Health Apps: Concerns Raised Over ‘Data Harvesting Bonanza’ | Mental health apps offer many benefits, helping users to deal with issues ranging from anxiety and depression to PTSD and eating disorders. And since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the popularity of these platforms has grown steadil... |
| May 3, 2022 | Your data or your life? | Share this article:
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Did you know Margaret Thatcher? Born on October 13, 1925, she was the only British Prime Minister in the twentieth century to win three consecutive terms.
Significantly, she accelerated the evolution of the ... |
| May 3, 2022 | Why funding news slowed down in April | Share this article:
African startup funding news appeared to have slowed down in April. In the episode of the Techpoint Africa podcast, our editorial team explores the trend, and other interesting global tech news this week.
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| May 2, 2022 | Report Finds Mental Health Apps Are Bad for Your Digital Health | A new analysis covering 32 different apps in the category of mental health and prayer has concluded that the vast majority have poor user security and data policies — while still gathering a lot of personal data from their users.
Of the 32 ... |
| Apr 29, 2022 | Why We Need Crypto Payments to Work | Crypto has always held out the promise of a payments revolution. But that revolution never happened.
We're 13 years into the Bitcoin age, and there’s only one store in my neighborhood in downtown Montreal that advertises that it accept... |
| Apr 14, 2022 | Редакторы Википедии просят прекратить прием пожертвований в криптовалюте | Более 200 редакторов энциклопедии Википедия обратились к Фонду Викимедиа с просьбой прекратить принимать пожертвования в виде криптовалюты. Некоммерческая организация получила $130 тыс. криптовалютных взносов за прошлый финансовый год, что ... |
| Apr 5, 2022 | Mozilla privacy survey finds mental health and prayer apps fail privacy test pretty spectacularly | Image: md3d
Apps with the most sensitive data seem to be the worst at protecting user privacy, according to a review by Mozilla’s Privacy Not Included team. The analysts looked at 32 mental health and prayer apps to determine what kind of p... |
