TSMC makes the world’s most advanced chips in Taiwan. Geopolitical shifts are pushing it to set up a new factory in the American desert.

It needs to bring its cutting-edge tech but also a notoriously harsh, military-style work culture to the U.S. 🧵
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‘How good can his gull impression really be?’ I thought to myself. Then he changed my world entirely

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The work Slack's conversation bot trolling Taylor Swift

How do you investigate elections campaigning happening over WhatsApp?

If you're at #IJF24 come check out our session at 3pm with Srishti Surya Mattu and me! We'll talk through how we're doing just that.

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#ijf24 folks don’t miss today Pulitzer Center AI Accountability fellow Srishti’s panel on how political parties use WhatsApp to influence elections. With great partners Surya Mattu Vicki Turk journalismfestival.com/programme/2024…

Un nouvel outil très intéressant par Rest of World un média essentiel pour comprendre les enjeux liées aux technologies avec un prisme non-occidental :

Un outil pour suivre comment l'IA est utilisée dans un contexte politique (campagnes, désinformation, memes) dans le monde 👌

المحتوى المولد بالذكاء الاصطناعي والمرتبط بالانتخابات ترصده هذه الاداة خلال عام 2024.

Who's going to #IJF24 ? I'm excited to be taking part in a session at 3pm on Thurs, discussing a project investigating WhatsApp use around the Indian elections with Srishti and Surya Mattu. Come join us! journalismfestival.com/programme/2024…

Author 1: How many buzzwords do you want in the title?
Author 2: YES

So, um, what is a media party?

Do you want to edit features? At Rest of World? With me?!

Come join us! We have an opening for a Features Editor, on a contract role (25hrs/week).

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From Iran to India, facial recognition is touted as a tool to capture terrorists or criminals, but it has emerged as a critical instrument to punish protesters - often belonging to a racial, ethnic, or religious minority. Great read by Darren Loucaides
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Will facial recognition tech kill off mass protest as we know it? I spent some 6 months reporting this for Rest of World restofworld.org/2024/facial-re…

About a year ago, I started looking into links between an obscure gig work platform and facial recognition companies which the Russian government has used to identify and detain protesters, dissidents, and more recently, people paying their respects to Alexei Navalny.

This is so cool!

it seems obvious that facial recognition defeats the most empowering characteristic of mass protest (anonymity in a crowd) but i think we've yet to reckon with the effect this will have on free speech in countries like the UK restofworld.org/2024/facial-re…

Around the world, facial recognition technology is changing the equation of protest. Story by Darren Loucaides

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