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NeurIPS 2018: Rethinking transparency and accountability in machine learning

Key takeaways from the discussion To solve problems with machine learning, you must first understand them. Different people or groups…

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Hackers are our society’s immune system – Keren Elazari on the future of Cybersecurity

Keren Elazari, a world renowned cybersecurity analyst and senior researcher at the Tel Aviv University Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center, author…

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Kelsey Hightower on Serverless and Security on Kubernetes at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon

In a stream hosted earlier this week by The New Stack, Kelsey Hightower, developer advocate, Google Cloud Platform, talked about…

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Key Takeaways from Sundar Pichai’s Congress hearing over user data, political bias, and Project Dragonfly

Google CEO, Sundar Pichai testified before the House Judiciary Committee earlier this week. The hearing titled “Transparency & Accountability: Examining…

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Deep Learning Indaba presents the state of Natural Language Processing in 2018

The ’Strengthening African Machine Learning’ conference organized by Deep Learning Indaba, at Stellenbosch, South Africa, is ongoing right now. This…

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Accountability and algorithmic bias: Why diversity and inclusion matters [NeurIPS Invited Talk]

One of the most awaited machine learning conference, NeurIPS 2018 is happening throughout this week in Montreal, Canada. It will…

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Dark Web Phishing Kits: Cheap, plentiful and ready to trick you

Spam email is a part of daily life on the internet. Even the best junk mail filters will still allow…

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How NeurIPS 2018 is taking on its diversity and inclusion challenges

This year the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference is asking serious questions to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion at NeurIPS.…

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Tech Workers Coalition volunteers talk unionization and solidarity in Silicon Valley

In the latest podcast episode of Delete your account, Roqayah Chamseddine and Kumars Salehi talked to Ares and Kristen, volunteers…

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Open Source Software: Are maintainers the only ones responsible for software sustainability?

Last week, a Californian Computer Scientist disclosed a malicious package ‘flatmap-stream’ in the popular npm package, ‘event-stream’. The reason for…

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