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2024-04-24 · Cl.cam.ac.uk 75 min [Research] [Blog] [Videos] [Politics] [My Book] [Music] [Seminars] [Contact Details] Machine Learning needs Better Randomness Standards: Randomised Smoothing and PRNG-based attacks shows that the randomness tests long used to check random number generators for use in cryptograp

Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say
2024-03-27 · Arstechnica.com 4 min Unsealed court documents have revealed more details about a secret Facebook project initially called "Ghostbusters," designed to sneakily access encrypted Snapchat usage data to give Facebook a leg up on its rival, just when Snapchat was experiencing rapid growth in 2016. The doc

Inside China’s controversial mission to reinvent the internet
2024-02-04 · Ft.com 22 min On a cool day late last September, half a dozen Chinese engineers walked into a conference room in the heart of Geneva’s UN district with a radical idea. They had one hour to persuade delegates from more than 40 countries of their vision: an alternative form of the internet, t

Foundation Model Transparency Index
2024-01-03 · Crfm.stanford.edu 8 min A comprehensive assessment of the transparency of foundation model developersPaper Board Press DataContext. Foundation models like GPT-4 and Llama 2 are used by millions of people. While the societal impact of these models is rising, transparency is on the decline. If this trend

Tech Security Year in Review
2024-01-01 · Securityboulevard.com 13 min Tech Security Year in Review 2023 As we say goodbye to 2023, let’s look back on a year that has become a battleground in cybersecurity. The numbers tell a compelling story, with 953 incidents and a colossal DarkBeam breach of 3.8 billion records. Global data breach cos

Hunting Down and Killing Ransomware Microsoft Community Hub
2023-12-30 · Techcommunity.microsoft.com 9 min First published on TechNet on Jan 02, 2013Scareware, a type of malware that mimics antimalware software, has been around for a decade and shows no sign of going away. The goal of scareware is to fool a user into thinking that their computer is heavily infected with malware and th

How to Tell if Your Phone Has Been Cloned
2023-12-03 · Techlicious.com 7 min Our phones are the key to our digital identity, so it’s no wonder that mobiles have become increasingly attractive targets for cybercriminals, who have at their disposal a fair number of ways to hack a smartphone, some of which require more access and technical savvy than other

Artificial Intelligence for Beginners A Curriculum
2023-12-02 · Github.com 7 min AI For Beginners - Sketchnote by @girlie_mac Explore the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Microsoft's 12-week, 24-lesson curriculum! Dive into Symbolic AI, Neural Networks, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and more. Hands-on lessons, quizzes, and

S16e12: Mitigation Strategies; The Unbearable Necessity of Portability; Tactical Binding Covenants
2023-10-20 · Newsletter.danhon.com 14 min s16e12: Mitigation Strategies; The Unbearable Necessity of Portability; Tactical Binding CovenantsTuesday, 10 October, 2023 in Portland, Oregon and a day that has started out with desultory rain and that will continue as such throughout the rest of the day because that's what Po

11 Best Malware Analysis Tools and Their Features
2023-09-22 · Varonis.com 10 min Malware has become a huge threat to organizations across the globe. Something as simple as opening an email attachment can end up costing a company millions of dollars if the appropriate controls are not in place. Thankfully, there are a plethora of malware analysis tools to hel

Peeking into the Black Box AlgorithmWatch
2023-09-18 · Algorithmwatch.org 13 min Editor's note: This article was written for and first published in the "journalist" magazine.Single mothers were seen as a particularly high risk. In the Dutch port city of Rotterdam, an algorithm spent years combing through the data of welfare recipients to determine which of t

You get an AI summit! And you get an AI summit!
2023-09-07 · Politico.eu 12 min Press play to listen to this articleVoiced by artificial intelligence.POLITICO’s weekly transatlantic tech newsletter for global technology elites and political influencers. By MARK SCOTTSend tips here | Subscribe for free | View in your browserARE WE ALL BACK AT OUR DESKS? Th