Big-Name Targets Push Midnight Blizzard Hacking Spree Back Into the Limelight
Newly disclosed breaches of Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise highlight the persistent threat posed by Midnight Blizzard, a notorious Russian cyber-espionage group.
Programming light propagation creates highly efficient neural networks
Current artificial intelligence models utilize billions of trainable parameters to achieve challenging tasks. However, this large number of parameters comes with a hefty cost. Training and deploying these huge models require immense memory space and computing capability that can only be provided by hangar-sized data centers in processes that consume energy equivalent to the electricity …
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Ring Will Stop Giving Cops a Free Pass on Warrantless Video Requests
The Amazon-owned home surveillance company says it is shuttering a feature in its Neighbors app that allows police to request footage from users. But it’s not shutting out the cops entirely.
Moving humanoid robots outside research labs: The evolution of the fully immersive iCub3 avatar system
Over the past four years, a research team at the Artificial and Mechanical Intelligence (AMI) lab at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) in Genova (Italy) has developed advanced avatar technologies, known as the iCub3 system, in continuous testing with real-world scenarios.
With Its WWE Deal, the Netflix Pivot Is Complete
By spending $5 billion for 10 years of WWE’s Raw, Netflix shows just how thoroughly it’s rewritten the old streaming rulebook.
Rethinking AI’s impact: Study reveals economic limits to job automation
Like many of us, you might find yourself nodding to a familiar digital doomsday chorus that vibrates through offices and coffee shops alike: AI will take my job!
Is OpenAI’s ‘moonshot’ to integrate democracy into AI tech more than PR? | The AI Beat
A new OpenAI team is focused adding democratic processes to AI governance. But is it more than a PR stunt?Read More
‘Palworld’: How ‘Pokémon With Guns’ Became an Overnight Hit
Pocket Pair’s Palworld has ridden a wave of internet-fueled fascination to 5 million games sold and thousands of Twitch streams.
Faulty machine translations litter the web
Near the end of the last century, Bill Gates saw the prospect of unifying citizens of nearly 200 countries, speaking more than 7,000 languages, coming together in common dialogue through the suddenly burgeoning web community.
Needle in a haystack: How enterprises can safely find practical generative AI use cases
In these nascent days of generative AI, focusing on ‘Haystack’ use cases can help build AI experience while mitigating safety concerns.Read More