Curated Commons // Edition 93
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We did it. But we don’t know how.
Most AI-based systems!
Music labels are obsessing over TikTok
Labels are pushing artists to go viral on TikTok. How long before artists start realizing if they can bring the audience, then the need for a label reduces that much? - Read here ($)
Related read on how labels are digging their own grave - Read here
Do you troll your spammers?
If not, you should start. It’s so much fun - Read here
Australia going all-in on facial recognition?
Why bother with the error rates and risks of bias! Sigh… - Read here
Japan, high-tech in PPT panels, low-tech in the streets
An employee working for a company that worked on providing benefits to tax-exempt households apparently lost the personal info of the entire residents of a city after a heavy evening of after-work drinks. He apparently had transferred the entire database to a USB stick! - Read here
Software is hard
Update on NASA’s mission Psyche, a mission to visit a metal-rich asteroid.
Product managers love dystopia
Not the first time. Definitely won’t be the last time.
How does a large-scale surveillance system look like?
China, who else, has a working model for Governments globally to emulate. - See here ($).
Thread on the report here
One area where startup winter might not apply
Climate Tech. Lot of investable dry powder here. Good piece - Read here
Military intelligence, using consumer apps
Fascinating piece on how some users on Strava, an app for tracking cycling/running tracks, are spying on Israeli military by creating fake routes in bases. - Read here
Using tech to fight the harms of tech
Interesting report from the FTC on how AI might be used to combat the harms of AI systems. - Read here
Summarized here.
Is 60% of the increase in inflation going to corporate profits?
Interesting blog on the potential link between inflation and retail profits- Read here
Another related article from the ocean freight industry - Read here
Science, FTW
A new generation of cancer-preventing vaccines could wipe out tumors before they form. - Read here
Is Google dying?
A bit dramatic, but good piece that lays out all the ways that Google search has been changing, not all for the good. - Read here ($)
What is the future of work? Hybrid or Remote?
Many are settling in on hybrid - Read here ($)
Not all -
More Interesting Reads:
Is 60% of the increase in inflation going to corporate profits? - Read here
Why do fingertips and toes go wrinkly in water? - Read here
“Central Bank Digital Currencies are not very interesting or useful” - Read here
Amazon wants to deliver through drones. Some people want to shoot them down- Read here($)
Are natural products better than synthetic ones? - Read here
Good read on the declining (?) American dominance of semiconductors - Read here
Security software finally getting the importance it deserves from CXOs - Read here
Autonomous trucks might be coming much faster than autonomous cars - Read here ($)
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