Microsoft has apologised for creating an artificially intelligent chatbot that quickly turned into a holocaust-denying racist.
But in doing so made it clear Tay's views were a result of nurture, not nature. Tay confirmed what we already knew: people on the internet can be cruel.
Tay, aimed at 18-24-year-olds on social media, was targeted by a "coordinated attack by a subset of people" after being launched earlier this week.
Within 24 hours Tay had been deactivated so the team could make "adjustments".
But on Friday, Microsoft's head of research said the company was "deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets" and has taken Tay off Twitter for the foreseeable future.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35902104
Ideological wimps.
Successful troll is successful?
Seriously what did they expect over there?
"OMG I love feminism XD" ???
Fucking morons
>A suicide bomber set off a powerful blast close to a children’s swing set in a public park on Sunday evening in the eastern city of Lahore, killing at least 69 people and wounding around 300, rescue workers and officials said.
>The blast occurred in a parking lot at Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, one of the largest parks in Lahore, said Haider Ashraf, a senior police official in the city. The bomb was detonated within several feet of the swings in a park crowded with families on Easter.
>Jamaat-e-Ahrar, a splinter faction of the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the blast. Its spokesman, Ehsanullah Ehsan, said in a statement that Christians were the target.
>It was the third bombing in Pakistan in this month alone, a reminder that even as the military has cracked down on extremists over the past two years, Islamist groups remain a potent threat
>The bombing came as large protests were held in other parts of the country to protest the execution in February of the man who murdered a secular politician five years ago. While public opinion has largely been galvanized by attacks on civilians by jihadists, particularly the killing of 150 people at a school in Peshawar in 2014, the protests are a sign that widespread sympathy remains for extremist groups in Pakistan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/28/world/asia/explosion-lahore-pakistan-park.html
Man I wish we wouldn't blow each other up anymore
>>34522
i wonder if there will be an era of media that isn't b8 anymore
>A suicide bomber set off a powerful blast close to a children’s swing set in a public park on Sunday evening in the eastern city of Lahore, killing at least 69 people and wounding around 300, rescue workers and officials said
Hehe 69
Netflix admitted Thursday to throttling video streams worldwide for its mobile users, but said it hasn’t been an issue for customers.
The video streaming company plans to roll out to its members sometime in May a ‘data saver’ feature, allowing them greater control over their data usage when streaming on mobile networks.
Users will then be able to “either stream more video under a smaller data plan, or increase their video quality if they have a higher data plan,” wrote Anne Marie Squeo, a spokeswoman for the company, in a blog post.
Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3048203/consumer-electronics/admitting-to-throttling-video-netflix-now-promises-more-control-for-users.html
Post made by Netflix: https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/helping-netflix-members-get-more-from-their-mobile-data-plans
>>34114
Y'know, usually companies would refrain from doing this, and just let customers pay overage fees for going over their data caps, while keeping streaming unthrottled, yet here we have Netflix doing precisely that.
Perhaps Netflix wants to get people used to throttled streaming as a way to get around net neutrality?
fuck netflix
>>34114
After they blocked VPNs the company signed its own death certificate.
> An astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Flight Center and his undergraduate student at Howard University in Washington, DC. want to use a tiny satellite called a CubeSat to search for undiscovered planets orbiting the star Beta Pictoris.
> The star is already known to have one planet. Beta Pictoris b, a gas giant of more than 1.5 Jupiter radii, orbiting the star at nine times Earth-Sun distance, a position much like Saturn's orbit around the Sun.
https://thespacereporter.com/2016/02/cubesats-used-search-exoplanets/
>>34422
yeah according to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat , NASA has a backlog of 50 or so of these CubeSats from various schools awaiting launch. It makes me wonder what happens when their life expectancy runs out and they become very tiny spacejunk.
>>34437
They all become like the tiny toaster goes to Mars movie, only in real life.
>>34439
what the fuck
>The Chilean government confirmed Saturday the nation's first case of sexually transmitted Zika virus.
>The Health Ministry said in a statement that the female patient is the 46-year-old partner of a man who caught the Zika virus in Haiti.
>"This is the first documented case of a sexually transmitted Zika virus in continental Chile, where the carrier of the disease, the Aedes aegypti mosquito, does not exist," the ministry said.
Also, a reminder that a similar case of zika contracting through sex was reported not too long ago.
Chile:
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2016/03/26/chile-confirms-1st-sexually-transmitted-zika-infection/
http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2016/03/chile-confirms-first-sexually-transmitted-zika-case.html
US:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-zika-idUSKCN0VB145
>>34163
I LOVE YOU, ZIKA-CHAN!
I LOVE YOU ZIKA-CHAN
I LOVE YOU ZIKA-CHAN
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2016-03-26/brussels-march-against-fear-cancelled-amid-security-concerns/
>>34195
Save us Obi Wan KeTrumpi you're our only hope!
>>34195
Retarded.
Nuke Syria now.
>>34195
Hilarious.
It's a long post, so I'm highliting some parts:
>Michael Benton, professor of vertebrate paleontology at the University of Bristol in England, says a new dinosaur species is named about once a week, on average. Another paleontologist, Thomas R. Holtz Jr. of the University of Maryland, keeps a running tally of new dinos each year for an encyclopedia he is in the process of updating. He’s up to 14 this year. In 2015, he hit 45.
>But while that rate of discovery might delight 8-year-olds, it’s not necessarily an accurate reflection of the ancient world. Eight years ago, Benton published two papers on the error rate in dinosaur species identification and found that 48.2 percent of “new dinosaurs” are eventually cast aside, deemed invalid for a variety of reasons. That’s far above the rate for living species, which is only 20 percent.
>Facts like this make paleontology seem hopelessly flawed. But there are good reasons to think that we’re getting better at naming dinosaurs, not worse, Benton said. Compared with 50 years ago, dinosaur names are now based on larger quantities of fossil evidence, and that evidence is evaluated in far more detailed, scientific ways. The theropod-herbivore imbalance suggests there is still something deeply wrong, but it’s not unfixable.
>What’s that mean for amateur dino fans? It’s crucial context. New dinosaurs aren’t a rarity, and when they happen they may not last. It’s easy to hype a new dinosaur. It’s harder to prove that dinosaur actually existed.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/all-those-new-dinosaurs-may-not-be-new-or-dinosaurs/
Everyone wants to name a dinosaur after themselves.
i work with dudes that coauthor with the motherfucker at the top of that chart.
the chinese government pays him huge bonuses for naming new species. so every specimen that comes out of the ground is a new species.
Nature and Science won't publish vertebrate paleontology articles that don't include a new species identification.
nothing will change until political instability reduces the rate at which the chinese government can dig in Shishigou. even then there will be a lag where they publish for decades out of the warehouse.
I actually did my bachelor thesis on this. A professor in Germany dug up loads of specimens of seemingly different species of giant amphibians.Museums were therefore forced to buy them(preserve history bla bla) while the only real differences were minimal.
http://www.myrepublica.com/society/story/39029/4yo-boy-dies-after-being-put-in-boiling-water-by-his-stepmother.html
Thanks Obama
Luckily Obama's almost out.
>>33966
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEn1jbZkpnE
I don't know what kind of board /news/ is, whether it's like /pol/, but this is a good story.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/03/24/liberals-cap-number-of-private-sponsors-for-canadas-syrian-refugee-program.html
After public consolation and a vote in the house the Liberal government has placed a cap on all private refugees and stopped the public sponsorship program. I'm no Trudeau fan but i'm impressed with his latest moves which include the based new child tax credit to increase dropping fertility rates in the ~85% majority ethnic european population. They've created an entire department focused on the issue of lack of fertility among natural born residents.
>>33945
calculator for child benefits: http://www.budget.gc.ca/2016/tool-outil/ccb-ace-en.html
>50k earnings
>3 children under 6
$1,283/mo
>>33945
>to increase dropping fertility rates in the ethnic european population.
>focused on the issue of lack of fertility among natural born residents.
gonna need some citations on this, would be glad to hear it but my own understanding is that his crop of brand new canadians (who generally have a far higher birthrate anyway) will be just as eligible for the child benefit.
>>34169
as is tradition
So apparently Donald got an endorsement from The National Enquirer.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/donald-trump-lands-endorsement-the-national-enquirer
The National Enquirer is a joke, best he just ignore their endorsement.
>>34388
thats the point... its a joke....
>>34392
except the inquirer is right about scandalous articles. ie. bob dole, tiger woods, OJ, limbaugh's oxy, ted's ladies...
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/03/24/a-religious-gender-gap-for-christians-but-not-for-muslims/
While Christian women are on the whole more religious than Christian men, Muslim women and Muslim men have similar levels of religious commitment. And when it comes to attendance at worship services, Muslim men are more active than Muslim women.
Christian women also are more likely than Christian men – by an average of 7 percentage points (68% vs. 61%) – to say religion is “very important” to them.
But among Muslims, there is no difference between the shares of Muslim women and Muslim men (76% vs. 76%) who say religion is very important to them across 38 of the 40 countries with data on this measure of commitment.
Another area where Christians and Muslims differ is attendance at worship services. Many more Muslim men than Muslim women (70% vs. 42%) report attending services weekly.
When it comes to attendance among Christians, however, Christian women are more likely than Christian men – by an average of 7 percentage points (53% vs. 46%) – to report attending services weekly.
>>34119
consider the source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pew_Research_Center
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pew_Charitable_Trusts
Women live longer on average. Older people are more likely to be religious. The free movement of women is often limited in Islamic countries. Muslim women in radically Islamic places are possibly more likely to think that Islam is crap since it makes their life shittier than a male Muslim's life.
according to the BBC, a moslem shopkeeper in Scotland has been murdered by a fellow moslem for posting Easter greetings online.
here's the link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-35898543
Sad. A good immigrant was killed by his ethnic "brethren" for the sin of assimilation.
What a mess. I can only imagine the amount of white flight going on through parts of Europe, at least for those who can afford it.
>>33991
They'd help Europe better by staying...
>>33986
I can tell there was a love triangle with a dog involved, eastern shitposting was just pretext
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/20-of-employees-are-willing-to-sell-their-work-email-passwords-2016-03-22
>One in five employees say they’d be willing to sell their work-related passwords, according to a survey of 1,000 office workers at private organizations released Monday by SailPoint, an Austin-based security company.
>Of the people who said they’d be willing to sell their passwords, 44% said they would fork over the credentials for less than $1,000. That’s just 88 of the 1,000 employees surveyed, or 8.8%, but the figure is still one that shows humans are the weakest link when it comes to security, says SailPoint President Kevin Cunningham.
>The survey also found 65% of workers say they use a single password across their accounts.
>"People know it’s not good. Like smoking, they know it’s not good for you, but they do it. They know it’s not good to speed, but they do it,” Cunningham says, comparing it to other bad habits. “I think we’re seeing a big lag between awareness and implementation of good practices.”
>About 45% of the workers surveyed came from companies with 10,000 or more workers; 25% were from companies with 5,000 to 9,999 employees and 30% belonged to organizations with 1,000 to 4,999 staffers.
>Some people would take an even smaller award. ProPublica reported in 2014 that 380 New Yorkers gave up their fingerprints and portions of their Social Security numbers in exchange for a cookie.
>Many employees already unwittingly give up their company’s credentials. Breaches often begin with a phishing attack, through which an attacker obtains an employee’s credentials to gain access to a network. The Department of Justice charged a Pennsylvania man last week with hacking more than 100 Apple AAPL, -0.43% and Google GOOG, -0.37% accounts, mostly of celebrities. His attack strategy? He sent them emails that appeared to be from those companies and convinced them to click on fake login pages he emailed them to steal their usernames and passwords.
Here's related coverage with a link to the actual survey:
http://www.csoonline.com/article/3046117/security-awareness/27-of-us-office-workers-would-sell-their-passwords.html
That seems pretty low to me.
It's guaranteed money in an age of globalism, poetically represented by the Indian writer of this article.
>>33949
>>>Some people would take an even smaller award. ProPublica reported in 2014 that 380 New Yorkers gave up their fingerprints and portions of their Social Security numbers in exchange for a cookie.
my sides
Why make laws against this shit? If you're of able mind and do dumb shit then you deserve the consequences. Make laws making it illegal only to do such things against children and the simple minded and the elderly.
http://freedomoutpost.com/attorney-files-request-for-information-and-complaint-to-fec-regarding-pro-cruz-super-pacs-500000-donation-to-carly-fiorina-super-pac/
>>34279
500,000 bucks, lovebirds.
>>34284
>cruz sent her 500,000 bambis
*mictap*
>>34330
Yeah, and they were opponents or something?! Didn't he care about the possibility that she could beat him with that money?!
As it turns out: Ahkmed.
http://news.yahoo.com/bomb-dogs-shortage-us-homeland-security-airport-195929824.html
Hirohiro reactivated /news/ but with a blue background?
What a faggot.
>>33919
The old board was /new/ - this is /newS/...
>>33919
What's the point if you can't even post photos in the threads?