Can Internet Algorithms Be Regulated? China Is Giving It a Shot. Chinese regulators are taking unprecedented steps to rein in the power of algorithms, the automated systems that shape the internet.

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), China’s top internet watchdog, on Friday published a 30-point draft guideline which contained proposals forbidding companies from deploying algorithms ...

Over the last two years, a series of updates to Google Search amount to a dramatic upheaval to the Internet's most powerful tool, complete with an unprecedented AI feature. Will Google save the ...

When Internet algorithms discriminate Because browsing habits are tracked so regularly, computers, over time, begin to gain a greater understanding of the person at the keyboard.

With the Facebook Trending mess, people are arguing over whether humans or algorithms should run Facebook. But that makes no sense.

Crypto backdoors, the overuse of opaque algorithms, turning companies into law enforcement agencies, and online attacks on critical infrastructure have all been attacked by the Global Commission ...

The NYU Stern report recommended that each of the major Internet companies “create and staff Russian-focused teams that include specialists with language skills and area expertise.” Even as ...

Words are also being replicated intentionally. An organic trend can take longer to percolate into general usage but an algorithmic trend like the “clanker” joke may be deliberately reproduced by ...

Scientists have discovered that certain harvester ants work the same way Internet protocols do. Discworld's Hex, anyone?