December 18, 20210CommentsAmazon issues an update to its Appstore to fix the issues that left customers unable to use their downloaded apps on Android 12 (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
December 18, 20210CommentsInvestigation: a dozen automated TikTok accounts, registered as 13-year-olds, were shown tens of thousands of weight-loss videos within a few weeks of joining (Wall Street Journal)
December 18, 20210CommentsAI language models like GPT-3 can achieve up to 97% accuracy on some Winograd schemas, but understanding language doesn’t equate to understanding the world (Melanie Mitchell/Quanta Magazine)
December 18, 20210CommentsA look at Russia’s efforts to censor Western social media with fines and takedown requests, as most posts Russia wanted removed in 2021 were pro-Navalny content (BBC)
December 18, 20210CommentsSources: China is expanding its practice of taking minority stakes in private Chinese tech companies to include firms possessing large amounts of key data (Reuters)
December 18, 20210CommentsUS software executives have cashed in hundreds of millions of dollars of stock this year, as the SEC looks to tighten rules around sales by insiders (Financial Times)
