• How Silicon Valley’s Russia crackdown proves its power – and its threat | April Glaser, Joan Donovan and Jenna Ruddock | The Guardian

  “Tech companies around the world appeared to listen. The very public and very swift removal of Russian channels on social media represented a sea change from years of prior content moderation decisions, when government requests for removals were often done with less fanfare and were frequently met with ire from human rights groups.”

  Tags: ITGS, social media, power, media, misinformation, facebook, twitter

  • – By dr tech

• Moore’s Law: Scientists Just Made a Graphene Transistor Gate the Width of an Atom

  “The gate, a chip component that switches transistors on and off, is a critical measure of transistor size. Previous research had already pushed gate lengths to one nanometer and below. By scaling gate lengths down to the size of single atoms, the latest work sets a new mark that’ll be hard to beat. “In the future, it will be almost impossible for people to make a gate length smaller than 0.34 nm,” the paper’s senior author Tian-Ling Ren told IEEE Spectrum. “This could be the last node for Moore’s Law.””

  Tags: ITGS, MooresLaw, transistors, gates, technology

  • – By dr tech

• ‘Music is so different now’: Copyright laws need to change, says legal expert | Music | The Guardian

  “Hayleigh Bosher, associate dean of intellectual property law at Brunel University, who researches the music industry, said “the law needs to move with the times” as “making music is so different to how it was 50 years ago”.

  She added: If Sheeran loses, I imagine we will see even more cases. I don’t think copyright is doing its job properly if songwriters are afraid, that’s stifling creativity.””

  Tags: ITGS, music, ip, intellectual property, law

  • – By dr tech

• AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours – The Verge

  “Researchers put AI normally used to search for helpful drugs into a kind of “bad actor” mode to show how easily it could be abused at a biological arms control conference.

  All the researchers had to do was tweak their methodology to seek out, rather than weed out toxicity. The AI came up with tens of thousands of new substances, some of which are similar to VX, the most potent nerve agent ever developed. Shaken, they published their findings this month in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence.”

  Tags: ITGS, ai, machine learning, technology

  • – By dr tech

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