Technology

According to new research published Thursday, conservatives on Facebook during the 2020 presidential election were more isolated and saw more misinformation than the platform’s liberal users — though Facebook widely affected users’ political content in different ways. Slashdot reader RUs1729 shared one of the four peer-reviewed studies, appearing in the Read more…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has implemented new rules requiring publicly traded companies to disclose any cyberattacks considered material incidents within four business days of discovery. According to the Wall Street watchdog, material incidents are those that a public company’s shareholders would consider important “in making an investment Read more…

Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren, writing at The New York Times: Enough is enough. It’s time to rein in Big Tech. And we can’t do it with a law that only nibbles around the edges of the problem. Piecemeal efforts to stop abusive and dangerous practices have failed. Congress is Read more…

Some of the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence companies have formed a group to research increasingly powerful AI and establish best practices for controlling it, as public anxiety and regulatory scrutiny over the impact of the technology increases. On Wednesday, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI launched the Frontier Model Forum, Read more…

Smartphones should be banned from schools to tackle classroom disruption, improve learning and help protect children from cyberbullying, a UN report has recommended. From a report: Unesco, the UN’s education, science and culture agency, said there was evidence that excessive mobile phone use was linked to reduced educational performance and Read more…