In 2021, Apple enacted the App Tracking Transparency policy, preventing app creators from tracking activities of users across other apps without first obtaining their permission. The policy was highly praised by privacy advocates, though it was also warned that it…
Volunteers Make Concerted Effort to Preserve Ukraine’s Digital Culture
Quinn Dombrowski and 1,300 other volunteers are in a scramble to save Ukraine’s digital culture before the servers and computers that store them are destroyed. Digital culture includes the images, videos, websites and others stored by libraries, museums, companies and…
New Hack Attack Disrupts Charging of Electric Vehicles
A collection of academics from the University of Oxford and Armasuisse S+T recently revealed a novel attack technique against the popular Combined Charging System (CCS) which has the potential to disrupt the ability to charge electric vehicles. Referred to as…
New ML Model Allows Researchers Identify People with PTSD through Text Data
Researchers in the University of Alberta recently trained a machine learning model to detect people with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) by mere analysis of texts these people wrote with 80% accuracy. The model has potential of becoming an accessible and…
New Algorithm Distinguishes Between Treatable and Untreatable Cardiac Arrest
At the Smidt Heart Institute in Cedars-Sinai, clinician-scientists have developed a clinical algorithm which differentiates between treatable and untreatable sudden cardiac arrest. Their findings were published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Clinical Electrophysiology. The key risk…
Fighting Against Discrimination in Mortgage Lending
A study carried out by the Journal of Financial Economics found that borrowers from minority groups are charged interest rate almost 8% higher and are rejected for loans 14% more than those from privileged groups. This is despite the U.S.…