This article was published on January 26, 2021Technology journalist Casey Newton has a worrying revelation in the latest issue of his : amidst rapid growth, .The messaging app presently runs as a non-profit, and is funded by donations from users and a $50 million loan from WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton.Between its lack of vested business interests, its promise of end-to-end encryption via the open-source Signal protocol, and , Signal is . The trouble is, it doesn’t yet have mechanisms to boot bad actors off its platform, like extremists who may seek to radicalize people by inviting them...…This article was published on January 26, 2021Technology journalist Casey Newton has a worrying revelation in the latest issue of his : amidst rapid growth, .The messaging app presently runs as a non-profit, and is funded by donations from users and a $50 million loan from WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton.Between its lack of vested business interests, its promise of end-to-end encryption via the open-source Signal protocol, and , Signal is . The trouble is, it doesn’t yet have mechanisms to boot bad actors off its platform, like extremists who may seek to radicalize people by inviting them...WW…

![CDATA[YII-BLOCK-HEAD]]>This article was published on November 26, 2020The vast number of festive socks you got over the past several years’ holidays bears testament to the global lack of imagination when it comes to gifts. We can do better, and we will, with the help of .More specifically, I urge you to try out , a handy AI concierge that claims to use the GPT-3 language model to recommend suitable gifts for everyone in your life.Simply describe a recipient with something like ‘my buddy from college who is 35, enjoys photography, and has a three-year-old son,’ and the bot will parse...…![CDATA[YII-BLOCK-HEAD]]>This article was published on November 26, 2020The vast number of festive socks you got over the past several years’ holidays bears testament to the global lack of imagination when it comes to gifts. We can do better, and we will, with the help of .More specifically, I urge you to try out , a handy AI concierge that claims to use the GPT-3 language model to recommend suitable gifts for everyone in your life.Simply describe a recipient with something like ‘my buddy from college who is 35, enjoys photography, and has a three-year-old son,’ and the bot will parse...WW…