Google employees claim a senior researcher fired earlier this year sought to undermine two more junior AI researchers by suggesting their results were wrong or...Wired From ACM News | June 6, 2022
Today, Microsoft's AI can take control of characters in Minecraft. Soon, it could help you control your whole computer.
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Many cybercriminals and ransomware groups have links to Russia and don't target the nation. Now, it's being opened up.
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Moxi and other delivery-focused assistants have become even more critical as the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed health care workers to their limits.
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Ukraine claims to have doxed Russian troops and spies, while hacktivists are regularly leaking private information from Russian organizations.
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The proposal would stop the biggest platforms from giving themselves an advantage over the little guys. Who's afraid of a little competition?
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The venerable (and yes, super dull) piece of officeware is getting reinvented as a tool for non-coders to automate and simplify their lives.
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Lawmakers advance proposals to let police forces across the EU link their photo databases—which include millions of pictures of people's faces.
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For years, the country has been trying to create its own sovereign Internet—a goal given new impetus by the backlash to its invasion of Ukraine.
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The biggest hack since Russia's war began knocked thousands of people offline. The spillover extends deep into Europe.
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The EU targets tech giants' walled gardens with aggressive new rules, but the smaller companies the DMA is meant to help are skeptical it will work.
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Robert Williams, Michael Oliver, and Nijeer Parks were misidentified by facial recognition software. The impact cast a long shadow.
Wired From ACM News | March 14, 2022
The technology is spreading fast among police, and often wrong. But people charged with crimes are rarely told an algorithm came into play.
Wired From ACM News | March 10, 2022
The regulation of surveillance advertising used to be a fringe idea. Now it's in the State of the Union address, at least when it comes to kids.
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