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MIT Review: "Military artificial intelligence can be easily and dangerously fooled: AI warfare is beginning to dominate military strategy in the US and China, but is the technology ready?"Quote: Last March, Chinese researchers announced an ingenious and potentially devastating attack against one of America’s most prized technological assets—a Tesla electric car.
The team, from the security lab of the Chinese tech giant Tencent, demonstrated several ways to fool the AI algorithms on Tesla’s car. By subtly altering the data fed to the car’s sensors, the researchers were able to bamboozle and bewilder the artificial intelligence that runs the vehicle.
In one case, a TV screen contained a hidden pattern that tricked the windshield wipers into activating. In another, lane markings on the road were ever-so-slightly modified to confuse the autonomous driving system so that it drove over them and into the lane for oncoming traffic.
Tesla’s algorithms are normally brilliant at spotting drops of rain on a windshield or following the lines on the road, but they work in a way that’s fundamentally different from human perception. That makes such “deep learning” algorithms, which are rapidly sweeping through different industries for applications such as facial recognition and cancer diagnosis, surprisingly easy to fool if you find their weak points.
Leading a Tesla astray might not seem like a strategic threat to the United States. But what if similar techniques were used to fool attack drones, or software that analyzes satellite images, into seeing things that aren’t there—or not seeing things that are?
[^] Hopefully it will be a lot "smarter" than Google ad-AI that continually tries to sell me Chinese heavy-industry machine-tool-systems.
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«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Can't we just have an electric car?
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I have a used Tesla I can sell you 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I meant an electric car without all the hackable do hickys.
It seems as soon as we toss out the ICE drive train and replace it with motors, oh then we have to have all this other crap I guess because we can.
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Thanks to the spread of the Internet Of Sh*t Things, there are much simpler vulnerabilities in common infrastructure, without the need to trick "artificial" intelligence.
Just imagine some hacker manipulating the traffic lights in town, giving green light to everyone ...
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Rajeev Jayaram wrote: hmm, Die Hard 4.0!
FTFY
M.D.V. 
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Forget protective covers – there are now skin-like phone cases that respond to being pinched and tickled. I think they found David Cronenberg's phone
Also: Aaaaaaaaaa!
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So we are living in the original Rick and Morty universe then.
Like I sometimes do I originally posted this against the wrong thread - doh!
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Thank you, this reduces my confusion greatly
TTFN - Kent
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It’s time for the government to step in and regulate big tech companies, says Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. What could have possibly changed his mind?
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If your message does not appear immediately but goes to moderation then please do not repost, it just builds up a queue in the spam filter. A moderator will release it in the fullness of time.
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.NET Core 3.0 brings many exciting new features, including a new major release of C#, improved performance and support for building Windows desktop applications (on Windows). What... no WinForms?
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To mark Unix’s 50th anniversary, the CHM Software History Center is delighted to make publicly accessible for the first time some of the earliest source code produced in the Unix story. Just in case you want to start up your PDP-7 and use it again
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From the article: A page from the source code listing for Space Travel, ca. 1970. Space Travel was critical to the start of the Unix story. Ken Thompson began implementing the science fictional game, in which players guide a spacecraft through the solar system to land on various moons and planets
It all started with the dream of creating a computer game. Just like a lot of software. 
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Though Windows built-in security systems were once the subject of quite a bit of criticism, today's incarnation of Windows Defender is able to hold its own against other major antivirus programs. This independent testing lab brought to you by Microsoft
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Kent Sharkey wrote: This independent testing lab brought to you by Microsoft
If you read the lounge, this time looks like a real result, many high respected members are for windows defender.
At least one thing they have really done good.
I wonder how long will it take them to screw it up like the rest 
M.D.V.
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Buffer overflow can be triggered in Realtek Wi-Fi chips, no user interaction needed. I guess Linux really is growing popularity
"The bug is serious"
"I'm still working on exploitation, and it will definitely... take some time (of course, it might not be possible)"
The sky is falling! Maybe. One day. Possibly!
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The Mersenne Twister is a very common random number generator. It is used in C, Python, Mathematica, Excel, PHP, Ruby ... A new paper suggests it shouldn't be. Roll D20 for random check
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Equifax used the word “admin” as both password and username for a portal that contained sensitive information, according to a class action lawsuit filed in federal court in the Northern District of Georgia. There is nothing I can add to make this more absurd
I am in awe of their comedic skills.
Or maybe I'm crying for other reasons.
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IN light of the fact that is being reported by Yahoo....
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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For the record, when Equifax was hacked its IT dept was being headed by Susan Mauldin, someone who studied music compilation in school. Why did they hire Susan as opposed to the best person for the job? She was a diversity hire. Shortly after the exposure of the hack a lot of info about this came out but you may have trouble finding info on it today as someone or something began scrubbing her info from the internet because Equifax knew this would look really bad. It would look bad because it shows their priority was not on security but adhering to identify politics. It also would look bad because it might make it look like a woman can not handle that kind of job. We know that a properly educated and trained woman could do the job but a music student whether they are male or female is a poor choice for the role.
Equifax put politics ahead of security and millions paid the price. Just think about that the next time you read about, hear about or witness diversity hiring.
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A flaw that means any fingerprint can unlock a Galaxy S10 phone has been acknowledged by Samsung. Hopefully it keeps out those damned, dirty apes
And keeps the cats from logging on to watch cat videos (really, I never do - it must be my cat)
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a Déjà-vu...
And they still wonder, why I still prefer to use passwords
M.D.V.
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