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In the wake of the WannaCry ransomware computer virus attack, here’s one more thing to worry about. The fingerprint identification systems that some modern laptops use to recognize users can be easily compromised with a spoofing process. Just in case you felt that giving the finger to your computer was completely secure
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ScienceAlert.com : "This Dystopian Device Warns You When AI Is Trying to Impersonate Actual Humans" [^].
But, all my friends are already virtual ...Quote: The wearable prototype device is designed to identify synthetic speech and alert the user that the voice they're listening doesn't belong to a flesh-and-blood individual. Developed as a proof of concept in just five days, the prototype makes use of a neural network powered by Google's Tensorflow machine learning software.
...While the gravest concerns envision a future dystopia where unregulated, super-powerful AIs threaten humanity's very existence, the truth is we're already entering a new, unsettling era in which machines can deceive humans by impersonating the ways we speak and look.
... As this technology gets even more sophisticated, it's becoming easier to imagine a world where soon it may be difficult or even impossible to tell when a 'person' you're talking to on the phone – or watching on TV – is or isn't a real human being.
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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Researchers from Bochum, Germany, and San Diego, California, say they’ve found the precise mechanisms that allowed diesel Volkswagens and Audis to engage or disengage emissions controls depending on whether the cars were being driven in a lab or driven under real-world conditions. {Company} should hire these guys to hide the bugs in {Software product}
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A series of errors resulted in the parachute being released too early It's a lander, it landed.
Or:
"Worked on my machine."
Or:
Did they install an Imperial timer, instead of a metric one?
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... and here I was expecting a link to an article on AlphaGo
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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It's my "All AlphaGo, All the Time" theme today
TTFN - Kent
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They mixed imperial inches and US inches.
(These actually differed slightly until the 1930s)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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What's the chance Edge can contest Chrome's lock on the enterprise I'm sure this did not play into the decision to lock them out of the Windows store
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Google co-founder is building airship designed to be able to deliver supplies and food on humanitarian missions to remote locations, sources said You know what they say about guys that need big airships...
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Google’s AlphaGo — the AI developed to tackle the world’s most demanding strategy game — is stepping down from competitive matches after defeating the world’s best talent It wants to spend more time with its subroutines
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It wants to spend more time with its subroutines
isn't this just another case of Google's long-running tradition of killing off their successful products?
Surly they don't want to let the public down.
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You might be on to something there!
TTFN - Kent
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Scientists analyzed the physical changes that occur as “executive function” — the set of skills associated with greater discipline and focus — develops Present company not included
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The number of on-demand workers in the U.S. is expected to nearly double in the next four years. A solution for the 'codes plz' folk?
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Containers are an important trend in our industry and .NET is part of that. Microsoft and Docker have been working together so that you’ll have a great experience using Docker with .NET apps. You got tzatziki in my chocolate (or vice versa)
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Raspberry Pi and CoderDojo are teaming up to help more young people become tomorrow's programmers. "Defeat does not exist in this dojo, does it?"
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The bitcoin rally looks like it's finally running out of steam. "Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket"
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Personal health information and other sensitive data is left exposed as businesses overlook encryption and network security. But it's on the Cloud! That's automatically secure, right?
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SQL Server? I'm not using insecure M$ apps....I'm going to use MongoDB and put it in the cloud!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: But it's on the Cloud! That's automatically secure, right?
Of course! No one can reach that high, except the military and commercial airlines. Scratch that. I don't trust United or the government.
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In accidents or terror attacks which are suspected to involve radioactive substances, it can be difficult to determine whether people nearby have been exposed to radiation. But by analysing mobile phones and other objects which come in close contact with the body, it is possible to retrieve important information on radiation exposure. The glowing might also be a sign
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Uh, radiation from the phone, yes.
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