Hungary’s Parliament not only voted to ban Pride events. They also voted to allow authorities to use facial recognition software to identify attenders and potentially fine them [The nationwide legislation] amends the country’s law on assembly to make it an offence to hold or attend events that violate Hungary’s contentious Read more…
European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane warned that Europe must develop a digital euro to counter growing American influence over the continent’s financial system amid escalating geopolitical tensions. Lane specifically cited Europe’s “current dependence on US payment-card providers Visa and Mastercard, as well as technology companies including PayPal, Apple Read more…
Web infrastructure provider Cloudflare unveiled “AI Labyrinth” this week, a feature designed to thwart unauthorized AI data scraping by feeding bots realistic but irrelevant content instead of blocking them outright. The system lures crawlers into a “maze” of AI-generated pages containing neutral scientific information, deliberately wasting computing resources of those Read more…
Computer programming jobs in the US have declined by more than a quarter over the past two years, placing the profession among the 10 hardest-hit occupations of 420-plus jobs tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and potentially signaling the first concrete evidence of artificial intelligence replacing workers. The timing Read more…
Founded in 1979, the Association for the Advancement of AI is an international scientific society. Recently 25 of its AI researchers surveyed 475 respondents in the AAAI community about “the trajectory of AI research” — and their results were surprising. Futurism calls the results “a resounding rebuff to the tech Read more…
Besides administering standardized pre-college tests, America’s nonprofit College Board designs college-level classes that high school students can take. But now they’re also crafting courses “not just with higher education at the table, but industry partners such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the technology giant IBM,” reports Education Week. Read more…