Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Evernote just posted an update to its Privacy Policy that details how the company will make use of some new machine learning tools. In order for those tools to work, Evernote will need to allow a human review of your notes, and that’s not the only reason an employee would look at your notes. In…
A Yahoo conference last year. The company said it discovered a 2013 attack after analyzing files provided by law enforcement. Credit Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo, already reeling from its September disclosure that 500 million user accounts had been hacked in 2014, disclosed Wednesday that a different attack in 2013 compromised more than…
California regulators ordered Uber to remove its self-driving vehicles from the road on the same day that the company’s vehicles were caught running red lights – violations the company immediately blamed on “human error”. “It is essential that Uber takes appropriate measures to ensure safety of the public,” the California department of motor vehicles (DMV)…
Well, I just want to thank everybody. This is a truly amazing group of people. I won’t tell you the hundreds of calls We’ve had, asking to come to this meeting. And I will say Peter Thiel) would sort of say, “You know, that company’s too small.” And these are monster companies. And just Want…
Evernote’s terms of service allow Evernote employees to look at your stuff for slim-to-no reasons. Medium has similarly frankly god-awful terms. This very newsletter is subject to terms that give MailChimp broad authority to screen my content, share that content internally or with advisors, and otherwise market my existence (in aggregate) to third parties. This…
The proposed merger of AT&T and Time Warner has drawn censure from both sides of the political aisle, as well as a Senate hearing that looked into the potential for the combined company to become a monopoly. But if we are going to examine media monopolies, we should look first at Silicon Valley, not the…
Magby from Pokemon Pokémon Go’s latest update isn’t what players were expecting. For weeks, fans hoped for a whole batch of 2nd generation Pokémon—bright, adorable Chikoritas or Espeons, and over 90 more little monsters. Or, at least, a few new Pokémon that players could encounter in the wild. Nope. No. Nope. Yesterday, Pokémon Go released…
When shown an animation generated by artificial intelligence, famed animator Hayao Miyazaki was not impressed. “I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself,” said the man behind movies like Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro, who was shown an AI-generated animation of a human-like being “walking on his head” using creepy movements…
When it comes to measurement errors, the third time is even less charming than the second and first. Last week, Marketing Land reported that Facebook had been miscalculating how often users react to live videos and how often users like and share links posted on Facebook. Because the error is the third of its kind…