Australia moves to enable algorithm opt-outs

Australia's government confirmed on Tuesday that it would seek to implement legislation to enable all social media users to ...

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri defends algorithm as Australia eyes chronological feed option

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Opinion

I turned off my algorithm for 24 hours. Is this how social media used to be?

Thanks to a little-known feature in Instagram, I attempt to travel back to 2012, before everything on the internet was an ad ...

Australia considers algorithm opt-out laws

Following the country’s social media restrictions, The Guardian reported that the government was exploring ways to let people ...
TechCrunch

X open sources its ranking algorithm, letting users see if they’ve been ‘shadowbanned’

X is significantly expanding its open source codebase, which includes the app’s “For You” algorithm and its core ranking engine, and adding a feature that will let users see if their account or posts ...
Business Insider

A sheriff launched an algorithm to predict who might commit a crime. Dozens of people said they were harassed by deputies for no reason.

A central Florida sheriff built an algorithm meant to predict which people in his jurisdiction were likely to commit a crime in the future. But according to a six-month investigation published this ...
American Institute of Physics

Algorithm optimizes machine learning techniques that use linear, tunable resistor networks

Framework applying Kirchoff’s laws of current flow and voltage changes across circuits can identify lower-energy analog ...
Interesting Engineering

New algorithm maps urban power sites using 24-hour grid simulations and local needs

ORNL researchers developed an algorithm that helps cities locate power projects using grid capacity, zoning and community ...