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MarsJoke ransomware threatens to permanently encrypt files if a ransom is not paid - 0 views

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"A new strain of ransomware has been targeting government agencies and educational institutions in the United States, through scam emails that pretend to be something important. The malware, dubbed as 'MarsJoke' by Proofpoint security researchers, reportedly began a large-scale email campaign which distributed the cryptomalware last week. The developers are sending out emails which seems to be masked as a message from an airline company."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"A new strain of ransomware has been targeting government agencies and educational institutions in the United States, through scam emails that pretend to be something important. The malware, dubbed as 'MarsJoke' by Proofpoint security researchers, reportedly began a large-scale email campaign which distributed the cryptomalware last week. The developers are sending out emails which seems to be masked as a message from an airline company."</div>

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Machine-learning photo-editor predicts what should be under your brush / Boing Boing - 0 views

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"In Neural Photo Editing With Introspective Adversarial Networks, a group of University of Edinburgh engineers and a private research colleague describe a method for using "introspective adversarial networks" to edit images in realtime, which they demonstrate in an open project called "Neural Photo Editor" that "enhances" photos by predicting what should be under your brush."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"In Neural Photo Editing With Introspective Adversarial Networks, a group of University of Edinburgh engineers and a private research colleague describe a method for using "introspective adversarial networks" to edit images in realtime, which they demonstrate in an open project called "Neural Photo Editor" that "enhances" photos by predicting what should be under your brush."</div>

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Stealing an AI algorithm and its underlying data is a "high-school level exercise" - Qu... - 0 views

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"Researchers have shown that given access to only an API, a way to remotely use software without having it on your computer, it's possible to reverse-engineer machine learning algorithms with up to 99% accuracy. In the real world, this would mean being able to steal AI products from companies like Microsoft and IBM, and use them for free. Small companies built around a single machine learning API could lose any competitive advantage."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Researchers have shown that given access to only an API, a way to remotely use software without having it on your computer, it's possible to reverse-engineer machine learning algorithms with up to 99% accuracy. In the real world, this would mean being able to steal AI products from companies like Microsoft and IBM, and use them for free. Small companies built around a single machine learning API could lose any competitive advantage."</div>

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Elon Musk and Sam Altman's OpenAI and Pennsylvania State University made a tool to prot... - 0 views

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"To thwart such hackers, Elon Musk's OpenAI and Pennsylvania State University released a new tool this week called "cleverhans," that lets artificial intelligence researchers test how vulnerable their AI is to adversarial examples, or purposefully malicious data meant to confuse the algorithms. Once the vulnerability has been found, a defense to the attack can automatically be applied."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"To thwart such hackers, Elon Musk's OpenAI and Pennsylvania State University released a new tool this week called "cleverhans," that lets artificial intelligence researchers test how vulnerable their AI is to adversarial examples, or purposefully malicious data meant to confuse the algorithms. Once the vulnerability has been found, a defense to the attack can automatically be applied."</div>

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Amazon pushes customers towards pricier products, report claims | Technology | The Guar... - 0 views

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"Amazon's algorithms encourage customers pay more than they need to for popular products and appear to give more prominence to items that benefit the retail giant, according to an investigation by ProPublica. The investigation looked at 250 frequently purchased products over several weeks to see which ones were chosen to appear in the highly-prized "buy box" that pops up first as a suggested purchase. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Amazon's algorithms encourage customers pay more than they need to for popular products and appear to give more prominence to items that benefit the retail giant, according to an investigation by ProPublica. The investigation looked at 250 frequently purchased products over several weeks to see which ones were chosen to appear in the highly-prized "buy box" that pops up first as a suggested purchase. "</div>

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Chrome: Stop future computers from cracking current encryption - CNET - 0 views

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"Google released a beta test version of its Chrome browser that attempts to keep your data secure even if today's uncrackable encryption becomes tomorrow's code-breaking cakewalk. The Chrome 54 beta gets the ability to encipher data sent to and from websites with a technology called CECPQ1. It "protects against future attacks using large quantum computers," Google said in a blog post Thursday."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Google released a beta test version of its Chrome browser that attempts to keep your data secure even if today's uncrackable encryption becomes tomorrow's code-breaking cakewalk. The Chrome 54 beta gets the ability to encipher data sent to and from websites with a technology called CECPQ1. It "protects against future attacks using large quantum computers," Google said in a blog post Thursday."</div>

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A beauty contest was judged by AI and the robots didn't like dark skin | Technology | T... - 0 views

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The ensuing controversy has sparked renewed debates about the ways in which algorithms can perpetuate biases, yielding unintended and often offensive results.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The ensuing controversy has sparked renewed debates about the ways in which algorithms can perpetuate biases, yielding unintended and often offensive results. </div>

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Facebook deletes Norwegian PM's post as 'napalm girl' row escalates | Technology | The ... - 0 views

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In her intervention on Friday, the Norwegian prime minister wrote that the photograph, entitled The Terror of War and featuring the naked nine-year-old Kim Phúc running away from a napalm attack, had "shaped world history". Solberg added: "I appreciate the work Facebook and other media do to stop content and pictures showing abuse and violence ... But Facebook is wrong when they censor such images."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">In her intervention on Friday, the Norwegian prime minister wrote that the photograph, entitled The Terror of War and featuring the naked nine-year-old Kim Phúc running away from a napalm attack, had "shaped world history". Solberg added: "I appreciate the work Facebook and other media do to stop content and pictures showing abuse and violence ... But Facebook is wrong when they censor such images."</div>

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Quantum Computers Are Coming. The World Might Not Be Ready. - Bloomberg View - 0 views

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"As dire as that sounds, panic isn't in order just yet. Researchers are already working on "quantum-resistant" encryption. Some companies claim to have made significant progress in the field. Google, among others, is working on a new form of security for its browser that might rebuff a quantum algorithm."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"As dire as that sounds, panic isn't in order just yet. Researchers are already working on "quantum-resistant" encryption. Some companies claim to have made significant progress in the field. Google, among others, is working on a new form of security for its browser that might rebuff a quantum algorithm."</div>

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Russian YouTuber facing five years in jail after playing Pokémon Go in church... - 0 views

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"A Russian YouTuber could face five years in jail after he filmed himself playing Pokémon Go in a church. Ruslan Sokolovsky was filmed catching Pokémon in the Church of All Saints in Yekaterinburg at the beginning of August, when the Pokémon Go hype was at its height."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"A Russian YouTuber could face five years in jail after he filmed himself playing Pokémon Go in a church. Ruslan Sokolovsky was filmed catching Pokémon in the Church of All Saints in Yekaterinburg at the beginning of August, when the Pokémon Go hype was at its height."</div>

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Microsoft apologises after Bing translates 'Daesh' into 'Saudi Arabia' | Technology | T... - 0 views

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"Najjar told the Huffington Post that the error was most likely due to Bing's use of crowdsourced translations. The service can promote alternative translations to the top spot if they receive suggestions from about 1,000 people, which means that without manual correction it is possible to manipulate the system and substitute the correct translation for an alternative."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Najjar told the Huffington Post that the error was most likely due to Bing's use of crowdsourced translations. The service can promote alternative translations to the top spot if they receive suggestions from about 1,000 people, which means that without manual correction it is possible to manipulate the system and substitute the correct translation for an alternative."</div>

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Facebook fires trending team, and algorithm without humans goes crazy | Technology | Th... - 0 views

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"Facebook announced late Friday that it had eliminated jobs in its trending module, the part of its news division where staff curated popular news for Facebook users. Over the weekend, the fully automated Facebook trending module pushed out a false story about Fox News host Megyn Kelly, a controversial piece about a comedian's four-letter word attack on rightwing pundit Ann Coulter"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Facebook announced late Friday that it had eliminated jobs in its trending module, the part of its news division where staff curated popular news for Facebook users. Over the weekend, the fully automated Facebook trending module pushed out a false story about Fox News host Megyn Kelly, a controversial piece about a comedian's four-letter word attack on rightwing pundit Ann Coulter"</div>

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Self-driving taxis roll out in Singapore - beating Uber to it | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

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"In fact the $60bn multinational has just been scooped by Nutonomy, a small MIT spin-out whose electric self-driving cabs have already started picking up real customers in a Singapore business park. Initially, riders will use Nutonomy's own app to summon hail a Mitsubishi i-Miev or a Renault Zoe, ramping up to a dozen vehicles in the coming months."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"In fact the $60bn multinational has just been scooped by Nutonomy, a small MIT spin-out whose electric self-driving cabs have already started picking up real customers in a Singapore business park. Initially, riders will use Nutonomy's own app to summon hail a Mitsubishi i-Miev or a Renault Zoe, ramping up to a dozen vehicles in the coming months."</div>

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'We're just rentals': Uber drivers ask where they fit in a self-driving future | Techno... - 0 views

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"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. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"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. "</div>

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Password strength meters fail to spot easy-to-crack examples | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

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"Instead password strength meters measure entropy - the amount of time or energy needed to crack a password using brute force methods. The longer and more complex the password, the longer it will take to crack by simply iterating through a list of all possible passwords. According to Stockley, however, brute force is a password cracker's last resort."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Instead password strength meters measure entropy - the amount of time or energy needed to crack a password using brute force methods. The longer and more complex the password, the longer it will take to crack by simply iterating through a list of all possible passwords. According to Stockley, however, brute force is a password cracker's last resort."</div>

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China launches quantum satellite for 'hack-proof' communications | World news | The Gua... - 0 views

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""The satellite's two-year mission will be to develop 'hack-proof' quantum communications, allowing users to send messages securely and at speeds faster than light," Xinhua reported."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">""The satellite's two-year mission will be to develop 'hack-proof' quantum communications, allowing users to send messages securely and at speeds faster than light," Xinhua reported."</div>

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Creator of chatbot that beat 160,000 parking fines now tackling homelessness | Technolo... - 0 views

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"London-born Stanford student Joshua Browder created DoNotPay initially to help people appeal against fines for unpaid parking tickets. Dubbed "the world's first robot lawyer", Browder later programmed it to deal with a wider range of legal issues, such as claiming for delayed flights and trains and payment protection insurance (PPI)."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"London-born Stanford student Joshua Browder created DoNotPay initially to help people appeal against fines for unpaid parking tickets. Dubbed "the world's first robot lawyer", Browder later programmed it to deal with a wider range of legal issues, such as claiming for delayed flights and trains and payment protection insurance (PPI)."</div>

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Google Maps Palestine row: why neutrality in tech is an impossible dream | Leigh Alexan... - 0 views

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"Imagine if it would have more of an impact for Palestine to be recognised as a sovereign country by Google than by the UN. It's a suggestion that's caught fire - a five-month-old online petition demanding Palestine be labeled and bordered in Google Maps has gained more than 250,000 signatures just over the past few days."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Imagine if it would have more of an impact for Palestine to be recognised as a sovereign country by Google than by the UN. It's a suggestion that's caught fire - a five-month-old online petition demanding Palestine be labeled and bordered in Google Maps has gained more than 250,000 signatures just over the past few days."</div>

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Turkey coup plotters' use of 'amateur' app helped unveil their network | Technology | T... - 0 views

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"Security experts who looked at the app, known as ByLock, at the request of Reuters said it appeared to be the work of amateur software developers and had left important information about its users unencrypted."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Security experts who looked at the app, known as ByLock, at the request of Reuters said it appeared to be the work of amateur software developers and had left important information about its users unencrypted."</div>

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Is an algorithm any less racist than a human? | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

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"There's an increasingly popular solution to this problem: why not let an intelligent algorithm make hiring decisions for you? Surely, the thinking goes, a computer is more able to be impartial than a person, and can simply look at the relevant data vectors to select the most qualified people from a heap of applications, removing human bias and making the process more efficient to boot."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"There's an increasingly popular solution to this problem: why not let an intelligent algorithm make hiring decisions for you? Surely, the thinking goes, a computer is more able to be impartial than a person, and can simply look at the relevant data vectors to select the most qualified people from a heap of applications, removing human bias and making the process more efficient to boot."</div>

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MarsJoke ransomware threatens to permanently encrypt files if a ransom is not paid - 0 views

Machine-learning photo-editor predicts what should be under your brush / Boing Boing - 0 views

Stealing an AI algorithm and its underlying data is a "high-school level exercise" - Qu... - 0 views

Elon Musk and Sam Altman's OpenAI and Pennsylvania State University made a tool to prot... - 0 views

Amazon pushes customers towards pricier products, report claims | Technology | The Guar... - 0 views

​Chrome: Stop future computers from cracking current encryption - CNET - 0 views

A beauty contest was judged by AI and the robots didn't like dark skin | Technology | T... - 0 views

Facebook deletes Norwegian PM's post as 'napalm girl' row escalates | Technology | The ... - 0 views

Quantum Computers Are Coming. The World Might Not Be Ready. - Bloomberg View - 0 views

Russian YouTuber facing five years in jail after playing Pokémon Go in church... - 0 views

Microsoft apologises after Bing translates 'Daesh' into 'Saudi Arabia' | Technology | T... - 0 views

Facebook fires trending team, and algorithm without humans goes crazy | Technology | Th... - 0 views

Self-driving taxis roll out in Singapore - beating Uber to it | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

'We're just rentals': Uber drivers ask where they fit in a self-driving future | Techno... - 0 views

Password strength meters fail to spot easy-to-crack examples | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

China launches quantum satellite for 'hack-proof' communications | World news | The Gua... - 0 views

Creator of chatbot that beat 160,000 parking fines now tackling homelessness | Technolo... - 0 views

Google Maps Palestine row: why neutrality in tech is an impossible dream | Leigh Alexan... - 0 views

Turkey coup plotters' use of 'amateur' app helped unveil their network | Technology | T... - 0 views

Is an algorithm any less racist than a human? | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

Chrome: Stop future computers from cracking current encryption - CNET - 0 views