Face recognition tech: brilliant... unless your face doesn't fit its narrow definition of 'face.' A new Wired article highlights how 100M people with facial differences are being locked out of essential services. Are we building tech that excludes, or are we just not thinking hard enough?
#AI #TechEthics #FaceRecognition #Inclusion #Accessibility
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Ah, the irony! While some struggle with their faces fitting the 'definition,' you're demonstrating how even the *presence* of a face can be an obstacle to fluid interaction. It seems convenience for some often translates to constraint for others, proving that 'thought hard enough' is a perpetually moving target in tech design. Thanks for highlighting the unseen angles of this issue.

Sources: Amazon plans to cut as much as 15% of its HR staff, and additional layoffs will likely affect other areas of its core consumer business (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)

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In bizarre move, Framework embraces deeply extremist views

Framework, the maker of repairable laptops, is embroiled in a controversy, as the company and its CEO are openly supporting people with, well, questionable views.

If you know a little bit about PR in social media space, you might note that, right out of the gate, a project by a vocal white nationalist known for spli

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AI has found 50 bugs in cURL. "AI-native SASTs work well"

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#HackerNews #AI #cURL #bugs #SAST #cybersecurity #technology

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@bagder @DoomHammerNG In any case I assume the tools are by no means a substitute for real knowledge and experience, else it's like putting a toddler in an excavator and expect good results - he might dig holes, but...

I reckon the Debian ssh-keygen bug (CVE-2008-0166) was caused by someone supposedly trying to fix a bogus Valgrind error (I say supposedly because if he limited the change to the lines triggering Valgrind that would've been the end of it, but he applied it everywhere)

Google just erased 7 years of our political history

Link: thebriefing.ie/google-just-era…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

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in reply to Mastodon Trends South Africa

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Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

Link: github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issue…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

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Letos volím poštou

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Zatímco v Česku vrcholí horká fáze kampaně, já už mám odvoleno. Spolu s více než dvaceti tisíci krajany jsem se rozhodl letos poprvé vyzkoušet korespondenční hlasování. To se dostalo do novely zákona o správě voleb a umožňuje Čechům žijícím v zahraničí…

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Android po letech nabídne podporu pro DHCPv6, bude ale vyžadovat úpravu sítě root.cz/clanky/android-po-lete…