AI + ML
GPUs for gaming, data-center servers continue to drive up Nvidia's revenues despite chip shortages everywhere
CEO Jensen Huang admitted his wunder-biz is 'constrained'
25 Feb 06:09 | 3
AI + ML
AI + ML
Campaigners demand judicial review of NHS deal with Peter Thiel's AI firm Palantir
Report says CEO sipped watermelon cocktails with NHS England chief at cosy party
24 Feb 14:15 | 14
Databases
DataStax 'pauses' AIOps database project to figure out exactly what AIOps is
Some enterprise folk less keen on cloudy machine learning
23 Feb 09:36 | 5
In brief
I'm fired: Google AI in meltdown as ethics unit co-lead forced out just weeks after coworker ousted
Plus: IBM reportedly trying to sell Watson AI Health, and more
22 Feb 12:21 | 30
AI + ML
Google calls in Women in Technology Hall of Famer to lead new Responsible AI group amid internal strife
Move follows ousting of ethics expert Timnit Gebru
19 Feb 01:28 | 10
AI + ML
FortressIQ just comes out and says it: To really understand business processes, feed your staff's screen activity to an AI
Everything will be anonymised, promises vendor
18 Feb 06:34 | 12
AI + ML
Machine-learning software scours database of already available drugs that could treat COVID-19 infections
Next up: Clinical trials to test the code's suggestions
17 Feb 12:01 | 12
In Brief
Science of Love app turns to hate for machine-learning startup in Korea after careless whispers of data
Plus: Dodgy-looking AI coding bootcamp and a murderous conversation with OpenAI's GPT-3?
15 Feb 13:34 | 13
AI + ML
Machine-learning model creates creepiest Doctor Who images yet – by scanning the brain of a super fan
Oodkind look even more terryfing
12 Feb 07:28 | 53
AI + ML
Manhunt: 'Armed and dangerous' MIT AI scientist sought by cops probing grad student's gun murder
Victim shot dead a week after he got engaged to fiancée
12 Feb 01:10 | 11
AI + ML
Harmed by a decision made by a poorly trained AI? You should be able to sue for damages, says law prof
Let a thousand torts bloom
09 Feb 13:33 | 31
AI + ML
SoftBank likens itself to a goose laying 'golden eggs' as Vision Fund boasts best results since 2017
What would that make WeWork then?
08 Feb 20:03 | 4
AI + ML
Don't scrape the faces of our citizens for recognition, Canada tells Clearview AI – delete those images
Plus: Check if your Flickr photos are in facial recognition engines and and the list of NSFW words for AI
08 Feb 11:01 | 32
+Comment
Amazon deploys AI cameras inside delivery vans, misspells 'surveillance' as 'safety' in reason why
Another day in the world of the Bezos-built worker's panopticon
04 Feb 23:05 | 37
AI + ML
I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can do that: Microsoft unveils Custom Neural Voice – synthetic, but human-sounding speech
Out-of-work actors beware, Azure can take on voice-over duties
04 Feb 17:32 | 18
AI + ML
AI brain drain to Google and pals threatens public sector's ability to moderate machine-learning bias
With top research talent focused on commercial machine-learning goals, where do we go from here?
04 Feb 11:35 | 19
Enigma
Time to start taking machine-learning security seriously, Microsoft boffin insists
Forget academic adversarial attacks and imagine if ML were the weakest link in the chain
03 Feb 07:05 | 3
In brief
AI-generated pixelated photo of AOC in a bikini pulled from paper highlighting danger of AI-generated pics
Plus: Dead pop star brought back to life by ML, OECD develops effort to monitor AI power
01 Feb 20:47 | 21
AI + ML
Soon, no more blood tests or probing for prostate cancer? AI claims 99% success rate using more relaxing methods
Small-scale test involving biosensor and trained algorithms shows early promise
27 Jan 06:34 | 33
AI + ML
AI clocks first-known 'binary sextuply-eclipsing sextuple star system'. Another AI will be along shortly to tell us how to pronounce that properly
The cosmic ballet goes on
26 Jan 06:25 | 29
Popular
Video
NASA sends nuclear tank 293 million miles to Mars, misses landing spot by just five metres. Now watch its video
See how plucky Perseverance touched down on the unforgiving dust world
Security
1Password has none, KeePass has none... So why are there seven embedded trackers in the LastPass Android app?
Third-party code in security-critical apps is obviously suboptimal, but company says you can opt out
SaaS
Google admits Kubernetes container tech is so complex, it's had to roll out an Autopilot feature to do it all for you
More expensive, less flexible, but easier and safer to use
Networks
SpaceX small print on Starlink insists no Earth government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities
Isn't this a subplot from those James S A Corey novels?
Updated
Whistleblowers: Inflexible prison software says inmates due for release should be kept locked up behind bars
It's not a bug, it's a feature you need to put in a change request to alter, says developer
Servers
With computer brains in short supply, President Biden orders 100-day probe into semiconductor drought
And pledges to 'push' for $37bn in funding to increase chip manufacturing capacity
Interview
'We're finding bugs way faster than we can fix them': Google sponsors 2 full-time devs to improve Linux security
Plus: Why the Chocolate Factory only uses code it builds from source
Security
VMware warns of critical remote code execution flaw in vSphere HTML5 client
If you don't patch, the hosts driving all your virty servers are at risk. So maybe your to-do list needs a tickle?
Column
Facebook and Apple are toying with us, and it's scarcely believable
What to do when companies think they own their customers
Security
Clop ransomware gang leaks online what looks like stolen Bombardier blueprints of GlobalEye radar snoop jet
And what may be CAD drawing of a military radar antenna
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In Brief
Google AI ethics co-boss locked out of work account while probing controversial ousting of colleague
Plus: GPT-3 seems especially hostile toward Muslims. And Cruise, Microsoft work together on self-driving cars
25 Jan 06:54 | 51
AI + ML
LowKey cool: This web app will tweak your photos to flummox facial-recognition systems, apparently
Boffins develop improved image poisoning technique to preserve privacy
21 Jan 21:18 | 20
AI + ML
Top engineer who stole trade secrets from Google's self-driving division pardoned on Trump's last day as president
As recommended by Peter Thiel
20 Jan 18:30 | 131
In brief
US gov sets up the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office at the last minute before Trump's presidency ends
Plus: Google trains 1.6-trillion-parameter AI model, popular software used for job screenings scraps facial-recognition feature
18 Jan 10:32 | 30
AI + ML
Want to let an AI-powered doctor loose on patients? Try slapping a food-label-like sticker on it, says Uncle Sam
Action plan to regulate machine-learning software in 2021 revealed
13 Jan 23:25 | 7
AI + ML
Privacy pilfering project punished by FTC purge penalty: AI upstart told to delete data and algorithms
Face-recognition biz hammered after harvesting people's pics, videos without permission
13 Jan 00:39 | 21
AI + ML
Study: AI designed to detect diabetic eye disease blinks in the real world, makes more work for doctors
Some software errs on the side of caution too often, it is claimed
12 Jan 08:33 | 24
In brief
Facial recog biz denies its software identified 'antifa members' among mob that stormed Capitol Hill
Plus: US ban on selling AI code to China renewed for 2021, and Jim Keller hired by Canadian AI chip startup
11 Jan 11:03 | 60
AI + ML
UK's AI fairy tale sets out on its yellow-brick roadmap
But what Faculty lies behind the plans for adoption and economic expansion?
08 Jan 15:59 | 20
AI + ML
OpenAI touts a new flavour of GPT-3 that can automatically create made-up images to go along with any text description
Human art will still, erm, probably prevail
07 Jan 13:13 | 17
AI + ML
You can be my wingbot any time – US military successfully runs AI system on spy plane
Plus: Video of drone swarm formation flying through a forest
20 Dec 11:01 | 27
AI + ML
Search history can calculate better credit ratings than pay slips, says International Monetary Fund
And that’s not entirely terrifying, because plenty of people have good credit but struggle to prove it
18 Dec 05:01 | 69
AI + ML
Alibaba admits it built facial-recognition-as-a-service to detect oppressed Uyghur minority in China
Repudiates the work, says it was never used by a customer. Which is just what Huawei said
18 Dec 02:56 | 12
Sponsored
AI making you edgy? It might be time for a new laptop
It’s all about learning experiences
16 Dec 11:10 |
RoTM
There's nothing AI and automation can't solve – except bias and inequality in the workplace, says report
Nope, it just makes them worse
15 Dec 18:07 | 12
In brief
Huawei and top Chinese AI startup accused of building 'Uyghur alarm' facial recognition scanner for govt
Plus: Graphcore pits its latest AI chips against Nvidia's A100, and Google CEO apologises for ousting a top AI ethics researcher
12 Dec 11:02 | 14
AI + ML
Japan pours millions into AI-powered dating to get its people making babies again
Attempts tech fix to solve aging crisis
09 Dec 06:26 | 63
AI + ML
Uni revealed it killed off its PhD-applicant screening AI – just as its inventors gave a lecture about the tech
Fears of bias put compsci dept into damage-limitation mode after years of using it to analyze applications
08 Dec 12:04 | 21
AI + ML
Uber sends its self-driving cars on a road to nowhere, with indefinite stop at automated truck aspirant Aurora
Kicks in $400m to get its hands on future tech and cash in on its contribution
08 Dec 05:56 | 24
