š§¹ A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?
Plus: Elon Wants Some Twitter Help, The Dangers of Censoring Real-Time Flight Trackers, and moreā¦
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A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? They were the sorts of scenes that internet-connected devices regularly capture and send back to the cloudāthough usually with stricter storage and access controls. Yet earlier this year, MIT Technology Review obtained 15 screenshots ofā¦ (Eileen Guo / MIT Technology Review)
Elon Wants Some Twitter Help. Imagine taking the job! Yesterday Elon Musk tweeted a poll asking if he should step down as āheadā of Twitter Inc.; 17.5 million people voted, and the results were 57.5% to 42.5% in favor of him stepping down. āI will abide byā¦ (Matt Levine / Bloomberg)
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The Dangers of Censoring Real-Time Flight Trackers. I woke up Friday morning to the message I'd been expecting: āYour account, @Justin_Ling has been locked for violating the Twitter Rules. ā Below was the offending tweet: a link to one of the few websites that provide real-time privateā¦ (Justin Ling / WIRED)
How to spot AI-generated text. In an already polarized, politically fraught online world, these AI tools could further distort the information we consume. If they are rolled out into the real world in real products, the consequences could be devastating. We're in desperate needā¦ (Melissa HeikkilƤ / MIT Technology Review)
Opinion | The Stanford Guide to Acceptable Words. Parodists have it rough these days, since so much of modern life and culture resembles the Babylon Bee. The latest evidence is that Stanford University administrators in May published an index of forbidden words to be eliminated from the school'sā¦ (The Editorial Board / Wall Street Journal)
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