Faceless creators are becoming collateral damage in YouTube’s AI cleanup

As YouTube cracks down on low-quality AI content, faceless creators who built real audiences without showing their face are ...

Home Office knew AI age checks for migrant children were flawed — but will roll it out anyway

Exclusive: Government advisors describe the tool as ‘hideously flawed’ amid concern facial age estimation has ‘baked-in racial bias’ — and can wrongly identify a 14-year-old as an adult ...
KVPR

How 'algorithm' got its name from a 9th-century Persian mathematician

Kharizmi helped solidify the concept of algorithms in mathematics and popularized algebra and the use of the zero.
Finextra

Sanctions Screening False Positives Are A Data Problem, Not An Algorithm One

Every sanctions team I speak to quotes a false-positive rate above 95 per cent as if it were weather. That number is not a property of the matching engine. It is a property of the data fed into it and ...
Scientific American

The million-dollar math problem hardly anyone is trying to solve

Then it’s kind of a mystery to try to figure out why and how they’re related.” The Riemann hypothesis has proved to be a font of surprising connections all over math and beyond it, to the realm of the ...
Orange County Register

The problem with social media isn’t the algorithm — it’s the parenting

As Big Tech companies face legal backlash for addictive features and potential mental health risk, parents are ceding responsibility for what happens inside the home. On March 25th, Meta and Google ...
Investopedia

Algorithms in Trading: Understanding Key Concepts and Strategies

Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who has been working in ...
Engadget

X's 'open source' algorithm isn't a win for transparency, researchers say

When X's engineering team published the code that powers the platform's "for you" algorithm last month, Elon Musk said the move was a victory for transparency. "We know the algorithm is dumb and needs ...
TechCrunch

OK, what’s going on with LinkedIn’s algo?

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...
Phys.org

Algorithm finds smallest dataset that guarantees optimal solutions to complex problems

Determining the least expensive path for a new subway line underneath a metropolis like New York City is a colossal planning challenge—involving thousands of potential routes through hundreds of city ...
The Globe and Mail

Federal probe into deadly listeria outbreak finds major flaws with algorithm guiding inspections

A federal investigation into a deadly listeria outbreak last year has found significant flaws with an algorithm-based system deployed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency that oversees how often ...