Author: Tech Support

    • Researchers discover breach at EU's diplomatic communications network, which yielded over 1,100 cables, and 100+ other orgs, likely occurring over several years (New York Times)

    New York Times: Researchers discover breach at EU’s diplomatic communications network, which yielded over 1,100 cables, and 100+ other orgs, likely occurring over several years  —  WASHINGTON — Hackers infiltrated the European Union’s diplomatic communications network for years, downloading thousands … Researchers discover breach at EU's diplomatic communications network, which yielded over 1,100 cables, and

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    Tired of going to the grocery store? In Arizona, a robot-driven car will deliver groceries to your home.

    The robot delivery revolution is underway, with autonomous vehicles delivering groceries in cities across the country. The latest example is in Arizona, where Kroger has begun delivering groceries via an unmanned vehicle. Tired of going to the grocery store? In Arizona, a robot-driven car will deliver groceries to your home. Source: Washington Post Tech

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    • Facebook open sources its DeepFocus VR research, which aims to create ultra-realistic visuals for eye-tracking headsets (Ian Hamilton/UploadVR)

    Ian Hamilton / UploadVR: Facebook open sources its DeepFocus VR research, which aims to create ultra-realistic visuals for eye-tracking headsets  —  Facebook is releasing public code and formally open sourcing its DeepFocus research into ultra-realistic visuals for VR headsets.  —  The DeepFocus approach … Facebook open sources its DeepFocus VR research, which aims to create

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    • AG for District of Columbia Karl Racine files lawsuit against Facebook over allowing Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy, access to users' information (Washington Post)

    Washington Post: AG for District of Columbia Karl Racine files lawsuit against Facebook over allowing Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy, access to users’ information  —  The attorney general for the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Facebook for allowing Cambridge Analytica … AG for District of Columbia Karl Racine files lawsuit against

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    D.C. attorney general sues Facebook over alleged privacy violations from Cambridge Analytica scandal

    The attorney general for the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Facebook for allowing Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy, to gain access to the names, “likes” and other personal data about tens of millions of the social site’s users without their permission. D.C. attorney general sues Facebook over alleged privacy violations from

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    D.C. attorney general sues Facebook over Cambridge Analytica scandal, the first major U.S. regulatory action in company’s crisis

    The lawsuit, according to two people familiar with the matter, marks the first time that regulators in the United States have sought to penalize the tech giant for its entanglement with Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that at one point had worked for the Trump campaign. Cambridge Analytica gained access to personal data from tens

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    • Munich-based Price f(x), which offers a cloud-based pricing platform, raises €25M Series B led by Digital + Partners and Bain & Company (Steve O'Hear/TechCrunch)

    Steve O’Hear / TechCrunch: Munich-based Price f(x), which offers a cloud-based pricing platform, raises €25M Series B led by Digital + Partners and Bain & Company  —  Price f(x), a startup that offers cloud-based pricing software, has raised €25 million in Series B funding. Munich-based Price f(x), which offers a cloud-based pricing platform, raises €25M

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    • An overview of how deep convolutional neural networks have gotten good at recognizing images, after a landmark 2012 paper called AlexNet transformed the field (Timothy B. Lee/Ars Technica)

    Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: An overview of how deep convolutional neural networks have gotten good at recognizing images, after a landmark 2012 paper called AlexNet transformed the field  —  A landmark 2012 paper transformed how software recognizes images.  —  Right now, I can open up Google Photos, type “beach,” … An overview of

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    • Nvidia researchers show how far AI image generation has advanced in recent years in creating realistic and customizable faces (James Vincent/The Verge)

    James Vincent / The Verge: Nvidia researchers show how far AI image generation has advanced in recent years in creating realistic and customizable faces  —  Those people on the right aren’t real; they’re the product of machine learning  —  Developments in artificial intelligence move at a startling pace — so much so that it’s often

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    • Hackers steal personal data including credit card information of ~300K people across 46 cities, using a vulnerability in government payment software Click2Gov (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)

    Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: Hackers steal personal data including credit card information of ~300K people across 46 cities, using a vulnerability in government payment software Click2Gov  —  Paying parking tickets or municipal water taxes is never fun—and it’s even worse when hackers have compromised your town’s payment system. Hackers steal personal data including credit

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