March 2023

Beloved hacking veteran Kelly ‘Aloria’ Lum passes away at 41

March 22, 2023

Kelly Lum, better known in hacking circles as Aloria, passed away on Sunday. Aloria was a veteran of the cybersecurity community, especially the one in New York, her home for many years. The Twitter account of the New York City security conference SummerCon announced her death on Monday, prompting a seemingly endless list of people […]

Beloved hacking veteran Kelly ‘Aloria’ Lum passes away at 41 by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai originally published on TechCrunch

These new tools let you see for yourself how biased AI image models are

March 22, 2023
Popular AI image-generating systems notoriously tend to amplify harmful biases and stereotypes. But just how big a problem is it? You can now see for yourself using interactive new online tools. (Spoiler alert: it’s big.) The tools, built by researchers at AI startup Hugging Face and Leipzig University and detailed in a non-peer-reviewed paper, allow…

Europe tools up for the repairable future

March 22, 2023

The European Commission has laid out another piece of its Circular Economy Action Plan today — adopting a proposal to set common EU rules which are intended to make it easier for consumers to get faulty products repaired. The “right to repair” measures are aimed at reducing e-waste by preventing repairable products from being prematurely […]

Europe tools up for the repairable future by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch