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China Deletes Dozens of LGBTQ WeChat Accounts from University Students

Today WeChat permabanned most public accounts of college LGBTQ student groups in China. (Beida, Tsinghua, Fudan, etc.) Apparently coordinated decisions, but no explanation yet. Most these groups were already struggling to be recognized by their respective schools. pic.twitter.com/bAToHTG8TQ — Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅 (@ZeyiYang) July 6,…

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It Turns Out Facial Recognition AI is Pretty Easy to Trick

Most of these impending doom technologies are less about doing whatever they say they’re supposed to do, and more about controlling people’s lives. Biometric facial recognition is supposed to be about preventing fraud, but it turns out it’s really easy to commit fraud against it.…

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