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Mine, Mine, All Mine

John Battelle's Searchblog

Author’s musical preferences not included… No Longer Mine When I write, I like to listen to music. I Want To Mine This raises much larger issues about how – or whether – we are intelligently architecting the possibilities that define our interaction with knowledge. Yes, everything did turn to data.

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Government Websites Deliver Cryptocurrency Mining Code

Data Breach Today

and Australian governments, have been turning their visitors' computers into mining machines to harvest the virtual currency Monero. The security lapse continues the recent trend of cryptocurrency mining malware overtaking ransomware.

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How process mining improves IT service management to save your business time and money

IBM Big Data Hub

Auto-discovery tools like process mining — a tool gaining popularity with organizations — does just that. 36% of respondents polled primarily use automated discovery tools like process mining, which improve their ability to analyze processes objectively and at scale.

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UK government using confidential patient data in coronavirus response

The Guardian Data Protection

Palantir, the US big data firm founded by the rightwing billionaire Peter Thiel, is working with Faculty, a British artificial intelligence startup, to consolidate government databases and help ministers and officials respond to the pandemic.

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3 new steps in the data mining process to ensure trustworthy AI

IBM Big Data Hub

Sometimes as data scientists, we are often so determined to build a perfect model that we can unintentionally include human bias into our models. Often the bias creeps in through training data and then is amplified and embedded in the model. How does a data architecture impact your ability to build, scale and govern AI models?

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The Family That Mined the Pentagon's Data for Profit

WIRED Threat Level

The Freedom of Information Act helps Americans learn what the government is up to. The Poseys exploited it—and became unlikely defenders of transparency.

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Victorians’ Covid contact tracing data sent to crime authority for potential use by Palantir

The Guardian Data Protection

Data security experts described the move as “dubious” and “outrageous”. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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