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BBC News - NatWest online services hit by cyber attack - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-25262790

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  • ails safe On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's IT failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6");
  • Details safe On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's IT failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6"); hyper-depth-st
  • 's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's IT failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6"); Your Savings
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  • and cash machines. Details safe On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's IT failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&amp;A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&amp;A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&amp;A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6"); <h4 cla
  • It came less than a week after a major computer failure left some customers unable to use cards and cash machines.
  • On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website
  • Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today,
dr tech

Who needs the Metaverse? Meet the people still living on Second Life | Second Life | Th... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...le-still-living-on-second-life

ITGS DS metaverse second life people social expression

shared by dr tech on 11 Jun 23 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 11 Jun 23
     
    "Second Life's endurance demonstrates that, whatever the configuration, a metaverse's success can only be founded on human qualities of social interaction and self-expression. "I obviously don't feel as excited now as when I started roaming around Second Life," Aufwie says. "But I still feel gratitude towards this apparently everlasting pioneering metaverse that allowed me to express myself, make friends, learn and share thoughts and all the good things humanity has within it.""
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Diary of a TikTok moderator: 'We are the people who sweep up the mess' | TikTok | The G... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...e-people-who-sweep-up-the-mess

ITGS DS tiktok moderator censorship social media

shared by dr tech on 29 Dec 23 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 29 Dec 23
     
    "Next, was two months of probation where we moderated on practice queues that consisted of hundreds of thousands of videos that had already been moderated. The policies we applied to these practice videos were compared with what had previously been applied to them by a more experienced moderator in order to find areas we needed to improve in. Everyone passed their probation. One trend that is particularly hated by moderators are the "recaps". These consist of a 15- to 60-second barrage of pictures, sometimes hundreds, shown as a super fast slideshow often with three to four pictures a second. We have to view every one of these photos for infractions. If a video is 60 seconds long then the system will allocate us around 48 seconds to do this. We also have to check the video description, account bio and hashtags. Around the end of the school year or New Year's Eve, when these sort of videos are popular, it becomes incredibly draining and also affects our stats. "
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Google's DeepMind beats Lee Se-dol again to go 2-0 up in historic Go series | The Verge - 0 views

www.theverge.com/...deepmind-google-match-2-result

google ITGS ai peopleandmachines deepmind

shared by dr tech on 11 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 11 Mar 16
     
    "Google stunned the world by defeating Go legend Lee Se-dol yesterday, and it wasn't a fluke - AlphaGo, the AI program developed by Google's DeepMind unit, has just won the second game of a five-game Go match being held in Seoul, South Korea. AlphaGo prevailed in a gripping battle that saw Lee resign after hanging on in the final period of byo-yomi ("second-reading" in Japanese) overtime, which gave him fewer than 60 seconds to carry out each move."
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Human thought runs at just 10 bits per second, say Caltech scientists - that's why we a... - 0 views

www.tomshardware.com/...y-we-are-mostly-single-taskers

ITGS DS Hardware bit processing neural network

shared by dr tech on 30 Dec 24 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 30 Dec 24
     
    Humans process thoughts at just 10 bits per second, according to a recent paper published by Caltech researchers. In contrast, a human's sensory organs gather data at a billion bits per second. So, if you ever feel overwhelmed by what is going on around you, it's only natural. The research paper, dubbed 'The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?' ponders the human neural substrate which limits thoughts to such a slow pace, and proposes new research to look into this 'bottleneck' now that it has been quantified.
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Who Owns Our Data? - 3 Quarks Daily - 1 views

3quarksdaily.com/...who-owns-our-data.html

ITGS privacy and anonymity personal data intellectualproperty

shared by dr tech on 31 Oct 21 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 31 Oct 21
     
    "The slightly misleading name for this resource is "personal data." Whether handed over intentionally or unwittingly, it captured by social media, cookies, and the internet of things captures, second-by-second now, granular details of behavior, temperament, and even thinking. It is an enormously valuable asset because it can be used to draw inferences not just about the expected future behavior of the producing subject."
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Say what: AI can diagnose type 2 diabetes in 10 seconds from your voice - 0 views

www.diabetes.co.uk/...0-seconds-from-your-voice.html

ITGS DS app heathcare diabetes ai machine learning

shared by dr tech on 03 Nov 23 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 03 Nov 23
     
    "Researchers involved in a recent study trained an artificial intelligence (AI) model to diagnose type 2 diabetes in patients after six to 10 seconds of listening to their voice. Canadian medical researchers trained the machine-learning AI to recognise 14 vocal differences in the voice of someone with type 2 diabetes compared to someone without diabetes. The auditory features that the AI focussed on included slight changes in pitch and intensity, which human ears cannot distinguish. This was then paired with basic health data gathered by the researchers, such as age, sex, height and weight. Researchers believe that the AI model will drastically lower the cost for people with diabetes to be diagnosed."
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Second study finds Uber used opaque algorithm to dramatically boost profits | Uber | Th... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...-to-dramatically-boost-profits

DS ITGS algorithm uber fairness values and ethics data power economic

shared by dr tech on 26 Jun 25 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 26 Jun 25
     
    "A second major academic institution has accused Uber of using opaque computer code to dramatically increase its profits at the expense of the ride-hailing app's drivers and passengers. Research by academics at New York's Columbia Business School concluded that the Silicon Valley company had implemented "algorithmic price discrimination" that had raised "rider fares and cut driver pay on billions of … trips, systematically, selectively, and opaquely"."
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The creator of Second Life has a lot to say about all these new 'metaverses' | PC Gamer - 0 views

www.pcgamer.com/...econd-life-metaverse-interview

ITGS blockchain metaverse second life equality of access

shared by dr tech on 03 Apr 22 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 03 Apr 22
     
    "The problem, he believes, is that total decentralization inevitably increases wealth inequality. He pointed me to a simulation he designed last year in which bouncing balls demonstrate the theory that "the rich actually always get richer, no matter what." "
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Update: New 25 GPU Monster Devours Passwords In Seconds | The Security Ledger - 0 views

securityledger.com/r-devours-passwords-in-seconds

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shared by dr tech on 06 Dec 12 - Cached
  • dr tech on 06 Dec 12
     
    Yikes...scary...
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UK government online disability benefits signup requires IE6 - Boing Boing - 0 views

boingboing.net/...vernment-online-disabilit.html

government online ITGS compatibility IE6 peopleandmachines policiesandstandards

shared by dr tech on 10 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 10 Jun 13
     
    "To claim Disability Living Allowance or Attendance Allowance in the UK people are being asked to use Internet Explorer 5 or 6 and other systems that are so out of date they are available on less than 2% of computers. If you want to claim online you will need to take a step back to the 1990s and hunt through second hand shops for an old PC that you can power up. "
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Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter? | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views

www.wired.com/...all

ITGS algorithm human reporter wired peopleandmachines ai

shared by dr tech on 03 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 03 Apr 13
     
    "For now, however, Hammond tries to reassure journalists that he's not trying to kick them when they're down. He tells a story about a party he attended with his wife, who's the marketing director at Chicago's fabled Second City improv club. He found himself in conversation with a well-known local theater critic, who asked about Hammond's business. As Hammond explained what he did, the critic became agitated. Times are tough enough in journalism, he said, and now you're going to replace writers with robots? "I just looked at him," Hammond recalls, "and asked him: Have you ever seen a reporter at a Little League game? That's the most important thing about us. Nobody has lost a single job because of us.""
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Face recognition app taking Russia by storm may bring end to public anonymity | Technol... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...end-public-anonymity-vkontakte

ITGS algorithm recognition face app anonymity privacy

shared by dr tech on 17 May 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 17 May 16
     
    "Unlike other face recognition technology, their algorithm allows quick searches in big data sets. "Three million searches in a database of nearly 1bn photographs: that's hundreds of trillions of comparisons, and all on four normal servers. With this algorithm, you can search through a billion photographs in less than a second from a normal computer," said Kabakov, during an interview at the company's modest central Moscow office. The app will give you the most likely match to the face that is uploaded, as well as 10 people it thinks look similar."
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'We're just rentals': Uber drivers ask where they fit in a self-driving future | Techno... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...-pittsburgh-what-drivers-think

drivers ITGS uber ai autonomous peopleandmachines

shared by dr tech on 20 Aug 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 20 Aug 16
     
    "Ingram, a 60-year-old Uber driver in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, had just learned that Uber would be deploying autonomous cars to accept fares in her city within weeks. The announcement on Thursday morning sent shockwaves through the community of about 4,000 drivers that serve Pennsylvania's second largest city. "
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$10 router blamed in Bangladesh bank hack - BBC News - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-36110421

ITGS router bank hack policiesandstandards security policies

shared by dr tech on 23 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 23 Apr 16
     
    "The bank had no firewall and used second-hand routers that cost $10 to connect to global financial networks. Better security and hardware would have hampered the attackers, Reuters said, quoting an official investigator."
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Tesla driver dies in first fatal crash while using autopilot mode | Technology | The Gu... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ath-self-driving-car-elon-musk

tesla driver dies ai autonomous policiesandstandards peopleandmachines ITGS

shared by dr tech on 01 Jul 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 01 Jul 16
     
    "The first known death caused by a self-driving car was disclosed by Tesla Motors on Thursday evening, a development that is sure to cause consumers to second-guess the trust they put in the booming autonomous vehicle industry. "
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Robot monitors in homes of elderly people can predict falls, says study | Technology | ... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...e-can-predict-falls-says-study

ITGS robot monitors elderly peopleandmachines reliability equalityofaccess

shared by dr tech on 19 Feb 17 - Cached
  • dr tech on 19 Feb 17
     
    "The study found that when a person's gait-speed dropped by 5cm/second within a week, this was a sign that they were at increased risk of a fall - in fact, 86% had a fall within three weeks when such a drop in walking speed was observed. By contrast, the elderly residents who had no change in walking speed had a background probability of falling of 19.5%."
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Talking to a Computer May Soon Be Enough to Diagnose Illness - 0 views

singularityhub.com/...-be-enough-to-diagnose-illness

ITGS reliability peopleandmachines healthcare ai

shared by dr tech on 13 Feb 17 - Cached
  • dr tech on 13 Feb 17
     
    "Participants used an app on their phones to record 30-second intervals of themselves reading a piece of text, describing a positive experience, then describing a negative experience. Doctors also took recordings from a control group of 25 patients who were either healthy or getting non-heart-related tests. The doctors found 13 different voice characteristics associated with coronary artery disease. Most notably, the biggest differences between heart patients and non-heart patients' voices occurred when they talked about a negative experience."
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Engineer Sees Big Possibilities in Micro-robots, Including Programmable Bees - 0 views

news.nationalgeographic.com/...science-engineering-technology

engineer bees programmable robots ai ITGS peopleandmachines

shared by dr tech on 27 Sep 14 - Cached
  • dr tech on 27 Sep 14
     
    "One prototype system that Wood has helped developed, called Second Skin, can be worn by patients with neuromuscular disorders to stimulate nerve activity and advance rehabilitation. He says that soft- and micro-robotic devices may one day be used inside the body to aid minimally invasive medical procedures."
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Stock Markets Had a Rough Second Yesterday - Bloomberg View - 0 views

www.bloombergview.com/...s-had-a-rough-second-yesterday

ITGS stock markets ai reliability

shared by dr tech on 17 May 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 17 May 14
     
    "high-frequency trading that you hear a lot is that it destabilizes markets, because all the computers trading with each other don't have the common sense famously possessed by stock exchange floor traders, and so they sometimes do dumb stuff like sell stock for a penny or buy it for $99,999.99, and then later when you yell at them they just point to their algorithms and shrug. "
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