Twitter still a mess in the aftermath of the take over of their systems
Read the whole thing – Twitter blog post update. It’s pretty clear they still do not have a full handle on the situation. Twitter acknowledges that the hackers downloaded the…
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Read the whole thing – Twitter blog post update. It’s pretty clear they still do not have a full handle on the situation. Twitter acknowledges that the hackers downloaded the…
The Japanese government has pledged to fix within a week bugs that have caused its coronavirus contact-tracing smartphone app to be shut down, the health minister said Tuesday. The free…
Those of us who have seen Neil Ferguson’s ICL Covid sim model have the same views as this computational epidemiologist: As Ferguson himself admits, the code was written 13 years…
I will not comment on Covid-19 and only make a few comments on the publicly available source code. This is not a comment about whether models should be used –…
Oh my: It wasn’t so much that the new app that the Iowa Democratic Party had planned to use to report its caucus results didn’t work. It was that people…
Some are calling for a "code of tech ethics", particularly regarding social media and privacy issues. Where this is logically headed is to Professional Engineer licensing for at least some…