Android Phone Makers’ Encryption Keys Stolen and Used in Malware
Device manufacturers use “platform certificates” to verify an app’s authenticity, making them particularly dangerous in the wrong hands.
Activision Blizzard Has Another Union on Its Hands. Now What?
A group of quality assurance workers in New York just won legal recognition of its union—a second milestone for organizing efforts within the gaming industry.
Devialet Mania Review: Bottom-Heavy, But Powerful
If you think “bass” equals “excitement,” then this is for you. But the fact that this high-end French audio brand is no longer bonkers does not bode well.
How Chinese Netizens Swamped China’s Internet Controls
The government regained control of streets and social networks, but citizens protesting zero-Covid policies proved smartphones can help fuel mass action.
DeepMind’s new AI app plays Stratego at expert level
A team of researchers at DeepMind Technologies Ltd., has created an AI application called “DeepNash” that is able to play the game Stratego at an expert level. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes the unique approach they took to improve the app’s level of play.
DeSTSeg: Segmentation Guided Denoising Student-Teacher for Anomaly Detection
Visual anomaly detection, an important problem in computer vision, is usually formulated as a one-class classification and segmentation task. The student-teacher (S-T) framework has proved to be effective in solving this challenge. However, previous works based on S-T only empirically applied constraints on normal data and fused multi-level information. In this study, we propose an …
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Technical Controls, Rollout, and Edge Cases (Passwordless Authentication Series, #2)
(Editor’s Note: This is the second post in the Passwordless Authentication Series, which shares insights from our journey on enforcing FIDO2 authentication via hardware authenticators (YubiKeys) across all of Palantir. While Palantir has enforced mandatory strong multi-factor authentication for well over a decade, hardware-backed authentication using FIDO2 represents the strongest form of modern authentication available.) …
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Talking to Robots in Real Time
Posted by Corey Lynch, Research Scientist, and Ayzaan Wahid, Research Engineer, Robotics at Google A grand vision in robot learning, going back to the SHRDLU experiments in the late 1960s, is that of helpful robots that inhabit human spaces and follow a wide variety of natural language commands. Over the last few years, there have …
Illustrative notebooks in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart is the Machine Learning (ML) hub of SageMaker providing pre-trained, publicly available models for a wide range of problem types to help you get started with machine learning. JumpStart also offers example notebooks that use Amazon SageMaker features like spot instance training and experiments over a large variety of model types and …
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Interactive data prep widget for notebooks powered by Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler
According to a 2020 survey of data scientists conducted by Anaconda, data preparation is one of the critical steps in machine learning (ML) and data analytics workflows, and often very time consuming for data scientists. Data scientists spend about 66% of their time on data preparation and analysis tasks, including loading (19%), cleaning (26%), and …
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