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A software issue caused Arizona prison inmates to be stuck behind bars longer than legally allowed.
A separate software issue resulted in potentially thousands of inmates wrongly held in max custody.
Other software issues have led to fatal outcomes, leading experts to call for increased oversight.
It s easy to forget just how much of the modern world is powered by software, from trains and planes to emails and file transfers. Corene Kendrick, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) s National Prison Project, says that when software is working behind the scenes, that kind of business operations stuff, you just assume normally it s doing its job.
Two physicists developed an algorithm to analyze Taylor Swift s emotions in each of her songs.
The analysis was published on April 1, and the paper is meant as a joke but the science is real.
A total of nine hours, 43 minutes, and six seconds of music were analyzed by the pair.
Two physicists from the University of Chicago released an in-depth report on Thursday outlining an algorithm that they developed to analyze 149 Taylor Swift songs to decode the award-winning singer s emotions over the past 14 years.
The report, titled I Knew You Were Trouble: Emotional Trends in the Repertoire of Taylor Swift, was published on arXiv, a prominent online repository for papers on math, science, and artificial intelligence. And despite the fact that it was released on April Fools Day, the research and data that went into this paper are real.
Amid all of this, developers are taking a side: An open letter calling for his removal from all leadership positions has racked up signatures from almost 3,000 individuals and nearly 60 organizations at the time of publication, while an opposing letter in support of Stallman has racked up over 5,000 individual signatures (no organizations have signed).
The response to the return of Stallman both the fierce backlash and the show of support highlights how open source software is grappling with issues of accountability and power dynamics. On one side are those who say his behaviours shouldn t supersede his contributions to the industry, while the other believes that allowing him in leadership implicitly condones his behavior, harms the community, and drives out talent.