Wall Street Journal

Can Internet Algorithms Be Regulated? China Is Giving It a Shot.

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Zoe Thomas: Earlier this year, China's cyberspace regulator set out rules ...
The Washington Post

What you don’t know about Internet algorithms is hurting you. (And you probably don’t know very much!)

Until about three weeks ago, Pinterest was — hands down, no contest — my absolute favorite social network. Yeah, I know it lacks the cachet of Twitter or Snapchat. I understand its associations with ...
Wired

Repeat After Me: Humans Run the Internet, Not Algorithms

The saga of Facebook Trending Topics never seems to end---and it drives us nuts. Don't get us wrong. The Facebook Trending Topics deserve scrutiny. They're a prominent source of news on a social ...
Jurist

China internet watchdog issues draft guidelines for internet recommendation algorithms

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), China’s top internet watchdog, on Friday published a 30-point draft guideline which contained proposals forbidding companies from deploying algorithms ...
TweakTown

Chinese government begins stranglehold on its internet with algorithms

This comes as no surprise. China has released a new set of internet laws that will dictate what content companies are allowed to publish online. The Chinese government will be implementing these rules ...
eturbonews

Internet Algorithms Revealed: Just like Ants

Engineers sometimes turn to nature for inspiration. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Associate Professor Saket Navlakha and research scientist Jonathan Suen found that adjustment algorithms—the same ...
Forbes

Why Algorithms Alone Can't Make The Internet Safe

Major Internet companies today find themselves in the cross-hairs of European regulators and facing increased public distrust in Europe and the U.S. One reason is that the full scope of harmful ...
Ars Technica

Global Internet commission: Leave crypto alone, ditch opaque algorithms

Crypto backdoors, the overuse of opaque algorithms, turning companies into law enforcement agencies, and online attacks on critical infrastructure have all been attacked by the Global Commission on ...
PC World

Ants Have Used Internet Algorithms for Ages, Don’t Act Pretentious About It

[Credit: Stanford Engineering News] We all know that ants are amazing biological creations, but it was only recently that researchers discovered that a certain breed of harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex ...
Wall Street Journal

Can Internet Algorithms Be Regulated? China Is Giving It a Shot.

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Zoe Thomas: This is your Tech News Briefing for Wednesday, September 7th. I'm Zoe ...
Nasdaq

China issues draft guidelines for internet recommendation algorithms

China has issued draft guidelines on regulating the algorithms used by internet service providers to make recommendations to users, part of efforts to protect the privacy and data security of users, ...