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2018-01-31

Facebook Names IBM Watson Executive AI Chief

Facebook brings in an experienced ex-IBM manager to navigate the company’s broadening ambitions for how AI can shape its products.

2018-02-05

Iran Adopts Russian Style CyberWar Tactics

The Iranian regime has deployed cyber trolls and online bots to push back against online dissent and influence social media trends.

2018-01-29

Google’s AutoML Offers Machine Learning Models Without Having To Code

AutoML Vision helps developers, including those with no machine learning expertise, build custom image recognition models.

2018-01-23

Facebook Users To Rank The News They Trust

Facebook plans to diminish its role as an arbiter of the news people see and will rank news organisations by credibility based on user feedback.

2018-01-22

Twitter Reveals True Extent Of Russian US Election Posts

Twitter has admitted that a far greater number of Russia-linked accounts posted material about the 2016 US election than it has previously disclosed.

2018-01-17

Iran’s Internal Conflict Plays Out On Social Media

Disinformation, Bots, #Hashtag wars. The civil unrest on the streets of Iran is being mirrored on social media, where government and protesters clash.

2017-12-08

Australia To Challenge Facebook & Google Over Media Disruption

Australian media companies are being squeezed hard as advertising dollars follow eyeballs to the giant US digital distribution platforms.

2017-12-08

Fake News & Botnets: Russia Has Weaponised The Web

The core concept of cyberwar is psychological manipulation, executed with targeted digital disinformation to weaken a country from within.

2017-12-06

Facebook Delivers AI To Detect Suicidal Posts

Using a combination of AI, human moderators and crowdsourced reports, Facebook hopes to prevent suicidal tragedies.

2017-11-20

Russian Fake Brexit Tweets & Attacks On The UK

The National Cyber Security Centre publicly confirms that Russia has made cyber attacks on major UK energy, technology & media companies.

2017-11-10

Tech Giants Face US Congress Over Russia Election

A showdown between Congress and the powerful social media companies that have helped define the current unsettled age in western democracies.

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