• FOGINT: What Do the Most Recent Telegram Function Enhancements Portend for 2025?

    Updated: 2025-01-02 15:38:43
    This is a report from the FOGINT research team. For a company without a permanent office with staff who show up everyday, Telegram has been busy in December 2024. One good example is Telegram’s chopping up the video stream from its Gateway Conference held in early November 2024. The individual talks with their unique Telegram […]

  • Google, the Modern Samurai, Becomes a Ronin. Banzai!

    Updated: 2025-01-02 10:57:00
    Written by a dinobaby, not an over-achieving, unexplainable AI system. I read “Google to Fight Japan’s Claims That It Harms Rivals in Search.” This paywalled Bloomberg story explains that Google is going to fight Japan’s allegations about hampering its competitors. Would Google do that? A brave online advertising samurai reduces arguments to tiny flakes of […]

  • Paywalls: New Angles for Bad Actors

    Updated: 2025-01-02 10:37:00
    Information literacy is more important now than ever, especially as people become more polarized in their views. This is due to multiple factors such as the news media chasing profits, bad actors purposefully spreading ignorance, and algorithms that feed people confirmation biased information. Thankfully there are people like Isabella Bruno, who leads the Smithsonian’s Learning […]

  • A Better Database of SEC Filings?

    Updated: 2025-01-02 10:07:41
    DocDelta is a new database that says it is, “revolutionizing investment research by harnessing the power of AI to decode complex financial documents at scale.” In plain speak that means it’s an AI-powered platform that analyzes financial documents. The AI studies terabytes of SEC filings, earning calls, and market data to reveal insights. DocDelta wants […]

  • A New Year Alert: Americans Cannot Read

    Updated: 2025-01-01 10:57:00
    The United States is a large country with a self-contained nature. Because of its monolith status, the United States is very isolated. The rest of the world views the US as a stupid country and NBC News shares evidence to that statement: “Survey: Growing Number Of U.S. Adults Lack Literacy Skills.” The National Center for […]

  • WhatsApp: Chasing More Money

    Updated: 2025-01-01 10:38:00
    Meta aims to make WhatsApp indispensable to businesses around the world. The app is currently responsible for just a fraction of the company’s revenue, but Zuckerberg seems to have high hopes for the messaging platform. Rest of World‘s thorough piece, “How WhatsApp Ate the World,” describes the plan. Writer Issie Lapowsky details the app’s evolution […]

  • The US and Math: Not So Hot

    Updated: 2025-01-01 10:07:00
    In recent decades, the US educational system has increasingly emphasized teaching to the test over niceties like critical thinking and deep understanding. How is that working out for us? Not well. Education news site Chalkbeat reports, "U.S. Math Scores Drop on Major International Test." Last year, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study assessed […]

  • Chinese AI Lab Deepseek Grinds Ahead…Allegedly

    Updated: 2024-12-31 10:57:00
    Is the world’s most innovative AI company a low-profile Chinese startup? ChinaTalk examines “Deepseek: The Quiet Giant Leading China’s AI Race.” The Chinese-tech news site shares an annotated translation of a rare interview with DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng. The journalists note the firm’s latest R1 model just outperformed OpenAI’s o1. In their introduction to the […]

  • Technical Debt: A Weight Many Carry Forward to 2025

    Updated: 2024-12-31 10:37:00
    Do you know what technical debt is? It’s also called deign debt and code debt. It refers to a development team prioritizing a project’s delivery over a functional product and the resulting consequences. Usually the project has to be redone. Data debt is a type of technical debt and it refers to the accumulated costs […]

  • Microservices Are Perfect, Are They Not?

    Updated: 2024-12-31 10:07:00
    “Microservices” is another synergetic jargon term that is looping the IT industry like the latest viral video. Microservices are replacing monolithic architecture and are supposed to resolve all architectural problems. Cerbos’s article says otherwise: “The Value Of Monitoring And Observability In Microservices, And Associated Challenges.” The article is part of a ten part series that […]

  • The wisdom of the few Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and dev

    Updated: 2024-12-08 09:02:04
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  • Scaling to Very Very Large Corpora for Natural Language Disambiguation Microsoft Research Your Priva

    Updated: 2024-12-08 09:02:01
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  • 2104.13259 Trend Alert How a Cross-Platform Organization Manipulated Twitter Trends in the Indian Ge

    Updated: 2024-12-08 09:01:42
    : Skip to main content We gratefully acknowledge support from the Simons Foundation , member institutions and all . contributors Donate cs arXiv:2104.13259 Help Advanced Search All fields Title Author Abstract Comments Journal reference ACM classification MSC classification Report number arXiv identifier DOI ORCID arXiv author ID Help pages Full text Search open search GO open navigation menu quick links Login Help Pages About Computer Science Social and Information Networks arXiv:2104.13259 cs Submitted on 27 Apr 2021 v1 last revised 3 Sep 2021 this version , v2 : Title Trend Alert : How a Cross-Platform Organization Manipulated Twitter Trends in the Indian General Election : Authors Maurice Jakesch Kiran Garimella Dean Eckles Mor Naaman View a PDF of the paper titled Trend Alert : How a

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