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Anti-adversarial machine learning defenses start to take root

Much of the anti-adversarial research has been on the potential for minute, largely undetectable alterations to images (researchers generally refer to these as “noise perturbations”) that cause AI’s machine learning (ML) algorithms to misidentify or misclassify the images. Adversarial tampering can be extremely subtle and hard to detect, even all the way down to pixel-level

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State, federal antitrust lawsuits likely to challenge Facebook for buying rivals and weaponizing data

State and federal investigators are preparing to bring antitrust charges against Facebook that will challenge the tech giant’s acquisition of two rivals, Instagram and WhatsApp, alleging that the deals helped create an anti-competitive social networking juggernaut that has left users with few quality alternatives. State, federal antitrust lawsuits likely to challenge Facebook for buying rivals

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    • Vivo announces radically redesigned OriginOS Android skin

    Vivo has announced its new Android-based operating system at its annual developer conference in China. OriginOS is the successor to FuntouchOS and features a complete design overhaul that prioritizes widgets, arranging them in a grid-like layout. The widgets can update themselves with notifications called “nano alerts.” “The genesis of OriginOS centers around three frontiers based

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    • Pixelmator releases Pixelmator Pro 2.0, which will run natively on Macs with M1, says features like ML Super Resolution will be up to 15x faster on the new Macs (Monica Chin/The Verge)

    Monica Chin / The Verge: Pixelmator releases Pixelmator Pro 2.0, which will run natively on Macs with M1, says features like ML Super Resolution will be up to 15x faster on the new Macs  —  Plus, a big redesign  —  Pixelmator has announced Pixelmator Pro 2.0, the newest update to the image-editing software Pixelmator Pro.

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    • Chipper Cash, which provides cross-border payments services in Africa, raises $30M Series B led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from Bezos Expeditions (Jake Bright/TechCrunch)

    Jake Bright / TechCrunch: Chipper Cash, which provides cross-border payments services in Africa, raises $30M Series B led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from Bezos Expeditions  —  African cross-border fintech startup Chipper Cash has raised a $30 million Series B funding round led by Ribbit Capital with participation … Chipper Cash, which provides cross-border payments

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    • Symantec says a hacking group believed to be sponsored by the Chinese gov't has exploited the Zerologon vulnerability in companies worldwide since Oct. 2019 (Charlie Osborne/ZDNet)

    Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: Symantec says a hacking group believed to be sponsored by the Chinese gov’t has exploited the Zerologon vulnerability in companies worldwide since Oct. 2019  —  A massive campaign is underway around the globe, with automotive, pharmaceutical and engineering entities top targets. Symantec says a hacking group believed to be sponsored by

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    • Amazon is laying off dozens of R&D and manufacturing staff on its drone delivery project; source says company is seeking help from two external EU manufacturers (Dave Lee/Financial Times)

    Dave Lee / Financial Times: Amazon is laying off dozens of R&D and manufacturing staff on its drone delivery project; source says company is seeking help from two external EU manufacturers  —  Restructuring comes as US tech giant turns to third parties to build component parts of long-awaited drone Amazon is laying off dozens of

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    • Mati, which is creating digital reputation tools that build trust between online services and consumers, raised $13.5M Series A from Tribe Capital and others (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

    Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Mati, which is creating digital reputation tools that build trust between online services and consumers, raised $13.5M Series A from Tribe Capital and others  —  Meet Mati, a startup that recently raised a $13.5 million Series A round to build a digital reputation API that could change the way you interact

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    • The Senate passes a bill that would require all internet-connected devices purchased by the US government to comply with NIST's minimum security recommendations (Maggie Miller/The Hill)

    Maggie Miller / The Hill: The Senate passes a bill that would require all internet-connected devices purchased by the US government to comply with NIST’s minimum security recommendations  —  The Senate this week unanimously passed bipartisan legislation designed to boost the cybersecurity of internet-connected devices. The Senate passes a bill that would require all internet-connected

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