Phyo Phyo Aung is back in political work and is now heading up a student organization aiming to raise political awareness in Myanmar. She says she hopes that the reforms undertaken by the government will continue, but cautions that “there are many laws still in place that mean we could be arrested again for the same reasons as before.”
But the invention of brain-computer interfaces, including implants and headsets, has raised concerns that so-called Big Tech could some day be able to read people’s thoughts and use information gleaned from brain activity to make more money. Less intrusive "wearables" such as headsets are already available to buy. And the growing use of artificial intelligence technologies, which work by harvesting information from the internet. has sharpened concerns about what could happen if the bots get access to what's going on in people's heads.
According to Justice for Fishers, a campaign run by the International Transport Workers' Federation, there remains a lack of "robust evidence" that Thailand's seafood is free of "forced labour" and other forms of exploitation. The southeast Asian nation is one of the world’s main sources of frozen shrimp and canned tuna. But the massive Thai fishing industry, worth around $5-6 billion in exports each year, has for decades been blighted by accusations that workers, particularly foreign sailors, suffer abuses, even being held as slaves or captives, and of murder at sea.
An AI "sleuth" called Imagetwin can scan a paper in "just seconds" and appears able to pick up "problematic" images that the human eye skips over, according to research featured in the journal Nature. But while AI helps uncover IP theft, the likelihood is that people's own IP is helping AI companies - for free. A bot can help with plodding through a pile of academic papers, but is only able to do so because such platforms are "trained" by being fed "massive amount of contents covering a wide array of domains from journalistic texts to niche blogs," according to Nick Vincent, assistant professor of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University.
The Irish government is to spend €10 million on policing in Dublin after being accused of sitting on its hands in the wake of several muggings, beatings and stabbings, some of them targetting visitors. "While policing alone cannot solve many of the factors which contribute to criminality or people feeling unsafe, high visibility policing is crucial to providing reassurance for all who live in, work in or visit our capital city," said under-fire Justice Minister Helen McEntee on August 22. The spending will cover deployments of armed police, police dogs, checkpoints and will see police working overtime. McEntee's statement and the police's outlining of how the funding is to be spent came ahead of a court appearance by two teenagers arrested after a recent attack on British tourists in the tourist-trap Temple Bar district of the capital.