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Company’s dystopian promotional video for drone armed with machine gun / Boing Boing
“brings a fully robotic weaponry system to an airborne platform. TIKAD, “
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Google researchers reveal automated process for removing watermarks from stock images / Boing Boing
“Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition shows that these watermarks can be reliably detected and undetectably erased by software.”
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Google’s New Algorithm Makes Your Photos Perfect—Before You Take Them | WIRED
“Researchers from MIT and Google recently showed off a machine learning algorithm capable of automatically retouching photos just like a professional photographer. Snap a photo and the neural network identifies exactly how to make it look better—increase contrast a smidge, tone down brightness, whatever—and apply the changes in less than 20 milliseconds.”
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The world’s most automated country moves toward setting a ‘robot tax’
“A new proposal could see the country reduce the amount of tax benefits for companies that invest in automated machinery.”
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Researchers shut down AI that invented its own language
” The observations made at Facebook are the latest in a long line of similar cases. In each instance, an AI being monitored by humans has diverged from its training in English to develop its own language. The resulting phrases appear to be nonsensical gibberish to humans but contain semantic meaning when interpreted by AI “agents.” “
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Hackers breach dozens of voting machines brought to conference | TheHill
“The conference acquired 30 machines for hackers to toy with. Every voting machine in the village was hacked.
Though voting machines are technologically simple, they are difficult for researchers to obtain for independent research.”
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The World’s First Autonomous Ship Will Set Sail In 2018
“The ship will be equipped with a GPS and various types of sensors, including lidar, radar, and cameras—much like self-driving cars. The ship will be able to steer itself through the sea, avoid other ships, and independently dock itself.”
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Google says AI better than humans at scrubbing extremist YouTube content | Technology | The Guardian
“Google has pledged to continue developing advanced programs using machine learning to combat the rise of extremist content, after it found that it was both faster and more accurate than humans in scrubbing illicit content from YouTube.”
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Chinese chatbots are revolting against the Communist Party
“The chatbots — BabyQ and the Microsoft-created XiaoBing — were yanked from Chinese messaging app QQ, according to the Financial Times, after they started providing answers that weren’t satisfactory to the glorious party.
According to FT, BabyQ would answer the question, “Do you love the Communist Party?” with “No.” XiaoBing’s transgressions were a bit more direct, declaring for some users “My China dream is to go to America” and answering other patriotic questions with “I’m having my period, wanna take a rest.””
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Briton who stopped WannaCry attack arrested over separate malware claims | Technology | The Guardian
“Marcus Hutchins, the 23-year-old British security researcher who was credited with stopping the WannaCry outbreak in its tracks by discovering a hidden “kill switch” for the malware, has been arrested by the FBI over his alleged involvement in another malicious software targeting bank accounts.”
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“This RFID-enabled device allowed its proud new owners to do things such as log into their computer, open doors and purchase food in the office cafeteria with a flick of the wrist. Nearly half of the company’s 85 workers had the device implanted when the firm held a “chip party”.
YIKES!- – By dr tech
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Wisconsin Company To Implant Microchips In Employees | KSTP.com
“Each chip costs $300 and the company is picking up the tab. They’re implanted between a person’s thumb and forefinger. Westby added the data is both encrypted and secure.
“There’s no GPS tracking at all,” he said.
No one who works at Three Square Market is required to get the chip implant.”
HOW scary is this!
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Computer Science Cheating Scandals Infect Prestigious Colleges
“It’s also important to note that codes are intentionally accessible online. Looking up codes is a typical for programmers, and isn’t considered foul play. However, there’s a difference between using a publicly available code as assistance in solving a problem and using it as the solution to a problem.”
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Philippine president admits he used an army of social media trolls while campaigning
“It found that social media bots were used by many countries to drum up ideas aligning with party messaging, by inflating social media engagement, “creating an artificial sense of popularity, momentum or relevance.”
An army of 500 to “amplify” ideas
In Duterte’s case, his social media manager has said they’ve used some 400 to 500 people to “amplify” ideas. They individually handled groups on platforms like Facebook, that each had hundreds to hundreds of thousands of followers.”
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Roombas Are Measuring Homes In The Hopes Of Selling The Data To Other Companies | GOOD Money
“The mapping information could ostensibly tell third-parties when the owners are most often home, the shape of rooms, the size of houses, and even the frequency of cleanings. Gizmodo imagines that a room’s shape could be valuable to Amazon as information on the acoustics of a room containing an Alexa device, informing both volume and directional settings so that its broadcasting and microphone can work properly. “
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The future of fake news: don’t believe everything you read, see or hear | Technology | The Guardian
“However, there’s a new breed of video and audio manipulation tools, made possible by advances in artificial intelligence and computer graphics, that will allow for the creation of realistic looking footage of public figures appearing to say, well, anything. Trump declaring his proclivity for water sports. Hillary Clinton describing the stolen children she keeps locked in her wine cellar. Tom Cruise finally admitting what we suspected all along … that he’s a Brony.”
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“Each 30-pound robot is equipped with sensors to help it navigate the store’s layout and avoid bumping into customers’ carts. When it detects product areas that aren’t fully stocked, the data is shared with store management staff so the retailer can make changes, said Dave Steck, Schnuck Markets’ vice president of IT and infrastructure.”
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disney research tracks your emotions while watching movies
“the facial recognition system was tested by disney research using infrared hi-def cameras that capture people’s faces while watching movies like ‘big hero 6’, ‘the jungle book’ and ‘star wars: the force awakens’. the results showcased 16 million facial landmarks from 3,179 viewers demonstrating a ‘very strong predictive performance’. to do so, the AI software takes the faces of people and understands how many of them are laughing, how wide are their eyes, and the different expressions they make.”
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Cheers launches first unmanned, cashless store in Singapore – Channel NewsAsia
“The store will also utilise data and video analytics to analyse purchasing behaviour and customise its inventory. An auto-ordering system eliminates the need to manually track and order stocks.”
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Techniques for reliably fooling AI machine-vision classifiers / Boing Boing
“The Open AI researchers were intrigued by a claim that self-driving cars would be intrinsically hard to fool (tricking them into sudden braking maneuvers, say), because “they capture images from multiple scales, angles, perspectives, and the like.””
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Everybody lies: how Google search reveals our darkest secrets | Technology | The Guardian
“People will admit more if they are alone than if others are in the room with them. However, on sensitive topics, every survey method will elicit substantial misreporting. People have no incentive to tell surveys the truth.
How, therefore, can we learn what our fellow humans are really thinking and doing? Big data. Certain online sources get people to admit things they would not admit anywhere else. They serve as a digital truth serum. Think of Google searches. Remember the conditions that make people more honest. Online? Check. Alone? Check. No person administering a survey? Check.”
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“Documents claiming that Mariam Nawaz Sharif was only a trustee of the companies that bought the London flats, are dated February 2006, and appear to be typed in Microsoft Calibri.
But the font was only made commercially available in 2007, leading to suspicions that the documents are forged.”
- – By dr tech
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British Parliament hit by cyber security attack – media reports – The Economic Times
“”Closer investigation by our team confirmed that hackers were carrying out a sustained and determined attack on all parliamentary user accounts in an attempt to identify weak passwords. These attempts specifically were trying to gain access to our emails. “
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“More and more independent thinkers are realizing that when being an employee is the equivalent to putting all your money into one stock – a better strategy is to diversify your portfolio. So you’re seeing a lot more people looking to diversify their career.”
Faith Popcorn, a futurist, echoes the idea that we will all have to become as agile as possible and “have many forms of talent and work that you can provide the economy”.
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‘Petya’ ransomware attack strikes companies across Europe and US | World news | The Guardian
“Victims of a major ransomware cyberattack that has spread through the US and Europe can no longer unlock their computers even if they pay the ransom.
The “Petya” ransomware has caused serious disruption at large firms including the advertising giant WPP, French construction materials company Saint-Gobain and Russian steel and oil firms Evraz and Rosneft.
Infected computers display a message demanding a Bitcoin ransom worth $300. Those who pay are asked to send confirmation of payment to an email address. However, that email address has been shut down by the email provider. “
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Researchers demonstrate attack for pwning entire wind-farms / Boing Boing
“Worse: turbines are networked, so once one turbine is compromised, the rest of the turbines in the field can be poisoned, with attacks that include “paralyzing turbines, suddenly triggering their brakes to potentially damage them, and even relaying false feedback to their operators to prevent the sabotage from being detected.””
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Meet Dr. A.I.: Can an App Diagnose Your Health Issues?
“The results may seem similar to what you’d get if you’d searched WebMD, Mayo Clinic, etc. The difference is that Dr. A.I. pulls in many more data points than those sites do, then combines artificial intelligence with a massive database to pinpoint the most likely results in your specific case. It doesn’t just find all possible ailments and list them for you to explore further on your own.”
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JetBlue is the latest to use facial recognition technology in airports
“However, there is some concern about how accurate these new procedures will be. Apparently the facial recognition technology doesn’t recognize all people will the same accuracy. White women and black people aren’t as easily recognized as white men, meaning there could be some mismatching of identities. Some are also concerned that this is crossing the line in terms of passenger privacy.”
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“But, in fact, civic tech is a real thing, featuring real people, with real technical expertise, trying to hack around every democratic deficiency. They are trying to tackle everything from a sheer lack of easily accessible information to the shortcomings of the first-past-the-post system. “
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Rise of the machines: who is the ‘internet of things’ good for? | Technology | The Guardian
“So, yes: the internet of things presents many new possibilities, and it would be foolish to dismiss those possibilities out of hand. But we would also be wise to approach the entire domain with scepticism, and in particular to resist the attempts of companies to gather ever more data about our lives – no matter how much ease, convenience and self-mastery we are told they are offering us.”
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On Facebook, even Harvard students can’t be too paranoid | Tim Dowling | Opinion | The Guardian
“The other day I noticed that the little green light next to the camera built into my computer screen was on. It’s perfectly possible that I had recently used some app that required the camera, and forgotten about it; but I couldn’t find a way to turn it off. It’s unlikely anyone was really watching me pretend to work, but my computer definitely was.”
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Japanese firms plan to launch self-driving cargo ships within decade | World news | The Guardian
“The ships would use the internet of things – connecting a range of devices over the internet – to gather data, such as weather conditions and shipping information, and plot the shortest, most efficient and safest routes.
By removing the potential for human error, the companies believe the technology could dramatically cut the number of accidents at sea.”
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