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dr tech

What a picture of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a bikini tells us about the disturbing future of AI | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ut-the-disturbing-future-of-ai

ITGS ai people and machines bias machine learning

shared by dr tech on 03 Feb 21 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 03 Feb 21
     
    "Researchers fed these algorithms (which function like autocomplete, but for images) pictures of a man cropped below his neck: 43% of the time the image was autocompleted with the man wearing a suit. When you fed the same algorithm a similarly cropped photo of a woman, it auto-completed her wearing a low-cut top or bikini a massive 53% of the time. For some reason, the researchers gave the algorithm a picture of the Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and found that it also automatically generated an image of her in a bikini. (After ethical concerns were raised on Twitter, the researchers had the computer-generated image of AOC in a swimsuit removed from the research paper.)"
anonymous

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

Instagram at 10: how sharing photos has entertained us, upset us - and changed our sense of self | Instagram | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...-and-changed-our-sense-of-self

ITGS social media instagram tethered-self smartphone dopamine addiction

shared by dr tech on 20 Sep 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 20 Sep 20
     
    "Instagram turned our phones into adult pacifiers. At first, this was a tranquillising reel of pretty pictures, pumped in a steady stream with each thumb-swipe. Like a warm milky drink, but of sunsets and puppies and toes in the sand. Later, and more insidiously, the dopamine hit shifted to refreshing your feed to see how many likes your own pictures had. Either way, we had got ourselves in a feedback loop of attention-seeking in which our emotions were channelled from our brains to our phones and back again. Twitter is about your tribe, Facebook is about home and family, but Instagram is a romance between just you and your phone."
dr tech

Donald Trump campaign repeatedly doctoring videos for social media ads | US elections 2020 | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...deos-manipulated-media-twitter

ITGS trump social media photoshop deepfake integrity

shared by dr tech on 05 Sep 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 05 Sep 20
     
    "The pictures, analyzed by HuffPost, show a picture of Biden had been edited to make him look older, by darkening his skin and emphasizing imperfections. On Monday the campaign's Trump War Room Twitter account tweeted a manipulated video that appeared to show Biden saying, "You won't be safe in Joe Biden's America." The video was labelled "manipulated media" by Twitter."
dr tech

Diary of a TikTok moderator: 'We are the people who sweep up the mess' | TikTok | The Guardian - 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. "
dr tech

Wendy M Grossman on the heavy-handed tactics picture agencies use when pursuing payment | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...internet-photography

ITGS technology intellectualproperty

shared by dr tech on 12 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 12 Mar 15
     
    "But one church in Lichfield, Staffordshire, faced a different fundraising problem: to pay a £6,000 bill demanded for photographs used on its website. The case came to the attention of Gavin Drake, the communications director for the diocese's 600 churches. In creating the church's website, a volunteer had included a couple of images sourced from Getty, a large picture agency, without paying for them. A couple of months later, Getty sent the church a demand for £6,000."
dr tech

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

www.theguardian.com/...-pms-post-napalm-girl-post-row

ITGS censorship facebook equality of access

shared by dr tech on 11 Sep 16 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 11 Sep 16
     
    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."
dr tech

Rubbish city: China's e-waste epidemic - in pictures | Art and design | theguardian.com - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...carded-electronics-in-pictures

city china epidemic e-waste ITGS peopleandmachines

shared by dr tech on 12 Jun 14 - Cached
  • dr tech on 12 Jun 14
     
    "Mounds of decaying air conditioners, piles of abandoned electronics and tenements built among the trash … Reuters photographer Kim Kyung-Hoon has documented the lives of residents of Dongxiaokou, a village outside Beijing and home to a large electronic-waste recycling centre, for a look at life amid the digital ruins"
dr tech

CryptoLocker Is The Nastiest Malware Ever - Here's What You Can Do - 0 views

www.makeuseof.com/...are-ever-heres-what-you-can-do

ITGS malware security ransomware

shared by dr tech on 03 Nov 13 - Cached
  • dr tech on 03 Nov 13
     
    "Ransomware is an especially odious type of malware. The way it works is simple. Your computer will be infected with some malicious software. That software then renders your computer entirely unusable, sometimes purporting to be from local law enforcement and accusing you of committing a computer crime or viewing explicit pictures of children. It then demands monetary payment, either in the form of a ransom or a 'fine' before access to your computer is returned."
Max van Mesdag

Facebook fugitive back in custody - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8456182.stm

ITGS privacy control Facebook crime

shared by Max van Mesdag on 17 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Max van Mesdag on 17 Jan 10
     
    A criminal who escaped prison has been taunting the police by posting pictures of himself on Facebook. Although he gained a supportive following, he was eventually captured again.
dr tech

North Korea refuses to deny role in Sony cyber-attack | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...north-korea-sony-cyber-attack

korea ITGS cyberattack politics and government

shared by dr tech on 02 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 02 Dec 14
     
    "Re/code, a technology news website, was the first to float the North Korea theory last Friday. Citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, it said: "Sony Pictures Entertainment is exploring the possibility that hackers working on behalf of North Korea, possibly operating out of China, may be behind a devastating attack that brought the studio's network to a screeching halt earlier this week … The sources stress that a link to North Korea hasn't been confirmed, but has not been ruled out, either.""
dr tech

This Person Does Not Exist Is the Best One-Off Website of 2019 | Inverse - 0 views

www.inverse.com/...on-does-not-exist-gans-website

ai ITGS machine learning GAN image deepfake

shared by dr tech on 17 Feb 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 17 Feb 19
     
    "At their core, GANs consist of two networks: the generator and discriminator. These computer programs compete against each other millions-upon-millions of times to refine their image generating skills until they're good enough to create the full-fledged pictures."
dr tech

Generation AI: What happens when your child's friend is an AI toy that talks back? | World Economic Forum - 0 views

www.weforum.org/...d-is-an-ai-toy-that-talks-back

ITGS privacy toys people and machines data mining

shared by dr tech on 12 Jan 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 12 Jan 19
     
    "If that data is collected, does the child have a right to get it back? If that data is collected from very early childhood and does not belong to the child, does it make the child extra vulnerable because his or her choices and patterns of behaviour could be known to anyone who purchases the data, for example, companies or political campaigns. Depending on the privacy laws of the state in which the toys are being used, if the data is collected and kept, it breaches Article 16 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child - the right to privacy. (Though, of course, arguably this is something parents routinely do by posting pictures of their children on Facebook). "
dr tech

How funky tortoiseshell glasses can beat facial recognition | Technology | The Guardian - 1 views

www.theguardian.com/...es-can-beat-facial-recognition

ITGS algorithms facial recognition anonymity ai

shared by dr tech on 03 Nov 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 03 Nov 16
     
    "Where the researchers struck gold was by realising that a large (but not overly large pair of glasses) could act to "change the pixels" even in a real photo. By picking a pair of "geek" frames, with relatively large rims, the researchers were able to obscure about 6.5% of the pixels in any given facial picture. Printing a pattern over those frames then had the effect of manipulating the image."
dr tech

The Hidden Signs That Can Reveal a Fake Photo - 0 views

getpocket.com/...s-that-can-reveal-a-fake-photo

ITGS fake photoshop authenticity

shared by dr tech on 16 Feb 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 16 Feb 20
     
    "A picture may say a thousand words, but what if the photograph has been fabricated? There are ways to spot a fake - you just have to look closely enough."
dr tech

Content Moderation Case Study: Facebook Removes A Picture Of A Famous Danish Mermaid Statue (2016) | Techdirt - 0 views

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ITGS facebook moderation censorship control

shared by dr tech on 27 Mar 21 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 27 Mar 21
     
    "In 2016, Danish politician Mette Gjerskov used Facebook to post a link to her own blog post on the TV2 website, which included an image of the statue. Facebook automatically displayed the image with the link, leading the company to then take down the link. The explanation provided by Facebook was that the image had "too much bare skin or sexual undertones.""
dr tech

'Typographic attack': pen and paper fool AI into thinking apple is an iPod | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ol-ai-thinking-apple-ipod-clip

ITGS AI reliability false positive dataset typographic attack

shared by dr tech on 08 Mar 21 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 08 Mar 21
     
    "But even cleverest AI can be fooled with the simplest of hacks. If you write out the word "iPod" on a sticky label and paste it over the apple, Clip does something odd: it decides, with near certainty, that it is looking at a mid-00s piece of consumer electronics. In another test, pasting dollar signs over a picture of a dog caused it to be recognised as a piggy bank."
dr tech

Microsoft's Kate Crawford: 'AI is neither artificial nor intelligent' | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...her-artificial-nor-intelligent

ITGS surveillance ai machine learning dataset bias

shared by dr tech on 07 Jun 21 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 07 Jun 21
     
    "Beginning in 2017, I did a project with artist Trevor Paglen to look at how people were being labelled. We found horrifying classificatory terms that were misogynist, racist, ableist, and judgmental in the extreme. Pictures of people were being matched to words like kleptomaniac, alcoholic, bad person, closet queen, call girl, slut, drug addict and far more I cannot say here. ImageNet has now removed many of the obviously problematic people categories - certainly an improvement - however, the problem persists because these training sets still circulate on torrent sites [where files are shared between peers]."
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