UN Global Working Group on Big Data publishes a handbook on privacy-preserving computation techniques
On Monday, the UN Global Working Group (GWG) on Big Data published UN Handbook on Privacy-Preserving Computation Techniques. This book talks about the emerging...
Facebook will ban white nationalism, and separatism content in addition to white supremacy...
Yesterday Facebook rolled out a policy to ban white nationalist content from its platforms. This seems to be a significant step towards the longstanding...
Google and Facebook working hard to clean image after the media backlash from the...
Last Friday’s uncontrolled spread of horrific videos on the Christchurch mosque attack and a propaganda coup for espousing hateful ideologies raised questions about social...
How social media enabled and amplified the Christchurch terrorist attack
The recent horrifying terrorist attack in New Zealand has cast new blame on how technology platforms police content. There are now questions about whether...
Facebook tweet explains ‘server config change’ for 14-hour outage on all its platforms
Facebook has said a "server configuration change" was to blame for an 14-hour outage of its services, which took down the Facebook social media...
Facebook under criminal investigations for data sharing deals: NYT report
Investigations into Facebook's data handling keep piling up. Yesterday, The New York Times reported about the federal prosecutors being in the midst of a...
Facebook family of apps hits 14 hours outage, longest in its history
The biggest interruption ever suffered by Facebook goes beyond 14 hours at a stretch. Twitter was flooded with tweets about Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp...
Hadoop 3.2.0 released with support for node attributes in YARN, Hadoop submarine and more
The team at Apache Hadoop released Apache Hadoop 3.2.0, an open source software platform for distributed storage and for processing of large data sets....
Open Government Data Act makes non-sensitive public data publicly available in open and machine...
On Monday, the U.S President, Donald Trump signed the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking (FEBP) Act, which includes the Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary (OPEN)...
4 things in tech that might die in 2019
If you’re in and around the tech industry, you’ve probably noticed that hype is an everyday reality. People spend a lot of time talking...
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Is DevOps experiencing an identity crisis? [Interview]
The definition of DevOps is a hotly disputed topic among amateur practitioners and experienced engineers alike. Ironically, DevOps was actually supposed to bring some...
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3 different types of generative adversarial networks (GANs) and how they...
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been greeted with real excitement since their creation back in 2014 by Ian Goodfellow and his research team. Yann...
