An AI poker bot who won $1.8 million from four professional (human) poker players is going to be used by the Pentagon to help with war game training. o.jnu.io/2RQaosY

“Do Not Track” - we hardly knew you existed. Yet another bit of evidence of “industry self regulation” for privacy as mere performance art o.jnu.io/2RMunc1

As privacy becomes a commodity that only the wealthy can afford, will capitalism will protect the power and stature of the wealthy by targeting those who dare to challenge the status quo? o.jnu.io/2UQj0BN Jon Evans in TechCrunch

It's hard to get most people up in arms about data breaches because it's hard to point to bad outcomes. But maybe it's been foreign agents all along, and I don't mean some Nigerian prince o.jnu.io/2DCifp5

Who’s watching the watchers? Nobody. “We found that there is no comprehensive U.S. Internet privacy law governing private companies’ collection, use, or sale of users’ data. Consumer advocates...told us greater regulatory powers are needed.” o.jnu.io/2GoRCYJ Thanks, GAO.

The bad news on human nature, in 10 findings from psychology: "We would rather electrocute ourselves than spend time in our own thoughts" 😬 Aeon Magazine o.jnu.io/2WUeUKK

An analysis of color in a sampling of Pollock's work over time: Jackson Pollock progressively removed saturated colors (yellows, reds), focusing his attention on more faded beigeish shades, with a prevalence of gray o.jnu.io/2SaE58u

Just about all consumer ‘Terms of Service' online are impossible to decipher. That's not by accident. o.jnu.io/2S98rbb

A spreadsheet of 4,557 students was attached to an academic advising email and sent to 940 computer science majors at the university -- including the name, academic standing, gender, ethnicity, and GPA of every student o.jnu.io/2N3skjj #whoneedsadatabreach

"As big, techy cities like New York, Washington, and the Bay Area seemed to increasingly inhabit a different world from the rest of America, the people and places that were ‘left behind’ revolted.” o.jnu.io/2SyOFLm

Were the Luddites right? In the last 40 years, jobs have fallen in every single industry that introduced technologies to enhance productivity -- other industries, with less productivity growth, picked up the slack. nyti.ms/2DSI2KZ?smid=n… Eduardo Porter in The New York Times

YouTube's algos are designed to maximize revenue by suggesting videos that boost your viewing time, over *everything* else. Turns out those with max viewing time are not the best choice for "ground truth" for an algorithm o.jnu.io/2NmJg4p @mattrosoff in CNBC

Definition: "Sharenting is a term used to describe the overuse of social media by parents to share content based on their children" 👼🏻👀 o.jnu.io/2Nn3KtS Taylor Lorenz in The Atlantic

Privacy advocate sues after getting pulled over at gunpoint based on license plate reader error on a rent-a-car o.jnu.io/2XizxAw Colin Lecher in The Verge. The WTF: The car was once stolen, but "the system wasn’t updated after the stolen car was recovered"

So who does go after companies after privacy breaches? Known for its hands-on approach to technology, this law firm includes a team of engineers who probe apps and gadgets searching for data leaks. o.jnu.io/2Es9gsi read/follow Jeff Roberts in FORTUNE

“We think we’re in control, and at the moment, we’re not. And unless we learn the ways that we’re being pushed and pulled around by algorithms, we’re going to be at their mercy.” o.jnu.io/2ISVMdk

"These companies have done so much—upended labor markets, changed industries, rewritten the definition of a job—and for what, exactly?" @alexismadrigal in The Atlantic does a retro on all the Ubers for Xs o.jnu.io/2VMj5He

one of the problems with a personalized experience is that users are placed into a niche and start experiencing only information that goes into that niche. However, individuals are often multifaceted and change over time o.jnu.io/2H22uef

Disruption ain't magical. "We are discovering what a world devoid of moral responsibility looks like." Noam Cohen wired.com/story/seeing-t… via WIRED

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