Enlarge / Drowning in a sea of data. (credit: Getty Images) The record-vying distributed denial-of-service attacks keep coming, with two mitigation services reporting they encountered some of the biggest data bombardments ever by threat actors whose tactics and techniques are constantly evolving. On Monday, Imperva said it defended a customer against an attack that lasted...
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Artist finds private medical record photos in popular AI training data set
Enlarge / Censored medical images found in the LAION-5B data set used to train AI. The black bars and distortion have been added. (credit: Ars Technica) Late last week, a California-based AI artist who goes by the name Lapine discovered private medical record photos taken by her doctor in 2013 referenced in the LAION-5B image set,...
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YouTube’s Dislike Button Rarely Shifts Recommendations, Researchers Say
New research from Mozilla shows YouTube users have little control over what is recommended to them.
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$35M fine for Morgan Stanley after unencrypted, unwiped hard drives are auctioned
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Morgan Stanley on Tuesday agreed to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a $35 million penalty for data security lapses that included unencrypted hard drives from decommissioned data centers being resold on auction sites without first being wiped. The SEC action said that the improper disposal of thousands of hard...
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Comcast promises huge boost to cable upload speeds by end of 2023
Enlarge / Comcast’s xFi Advanced Gateway. (credit: Getty Images | Jeff Fusco ) Comcast announced today that it has tested “the final technical component necessary to deliver multi-gigabit symmetrical speeds” and said it’s on track to deliver multi-gigabit download and upload speeds to at least some cable customers “before the end of 2023.” The test...
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Nvidia’s powerful H100 GPU will ship in October
Enlarge / A press handout showing the Nvidia H100 Hopper GPU and its applications. (credit: Nvidia) At today’s GTC conference keynote, Nvidia announced that its H100 Tensor Core GPU is in full production and that tech partners such as Dell, Lenovo, Cisco, Atos, Fujitsu, GIGABYTE, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and Supermicro will begin shipping products built around...
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Deepfake audio has a tell and researchers can spot it
Enlarge (credit: Knk Phl Prasan Kha Phibuly / EyeEm via Getty) Imagine the following scenario. A phone rings. An office worker answers it and hears his boss, in a panic, tell him that she forgot to transfer money to the new contractor before she left for the day and needs him to do it. She...
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Social Media Companies Still Boost Election Fraud Claims, Report Says
The report, by New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, argues that the companies fuel false conspiracies about election fraud despite promises to combat them.
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Clearview AI, Used by Police to Find Criminals, Is Now in Public Defenders’ Hands
After a Florida man was accused of vehicular homicide, his lawyer used Clearview AI’s facial recognition software to prove his innocence. But other defense lawyers say Clearview’s offer rings hollow.
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What Will Apple Do With Will Smith’s ‘Emancipation’?
The Civil War drama “Emancipation” finished filming early this year. Now, Apple faces a quandary on what to do with the movie.