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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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How Wrongful Arrests Based on AI Derailed 3 Men's Lives
Robert Williams, Michael Oliver, and Nijeer Parks were misidentified by facial recognition software. The impact cast a long shadow.
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Medical, IoT Devices Vulnerable to Attack
Researchers discovered seven vulnerabilities, known collectively as "Access:7," in more than 150 Internet of Things devices made by more than 100 companies.
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Can AI Help Casinos Cut Down on Problem Gambling?
Researchers are looking to artificial intelligence as a way to potentially identify and predict problem gambling.
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The Hidden Role of Facial Recognition Tech in Many Arrests
The technology is spreading fast among police, and often wrong. But people charged with crimes are rarely told an algorithm came into play.
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War Is Calling Crypto's 'Neutrality' Into Question
War in Ukraine and Western sanctions against Russia have made cryptocurrency a hot potato for international politics.
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HP Patches 16 UEFI Firmware Bugs Allowing Stealthy Malware Infections
Researchers at Binarly discovered 16 high-impact UEFI firmware vulnerabilities affecting multiple HP models.
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Biden Orders Sweeping Cryptocurrency Review
The long-awaited executive order aims to ensure that the U.S. fosters the surging industry while mitigating its potential threats.
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Hackers Find a New Way to Deliver Devastating DDoS Attacks
Cybercriminals are exploiting a fleet of more than 100,000 misconfigured servers to knock websites offline.
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Biden Puts Big Tech's Favorite Business Model on Notice
The regulation of surveillance advertising used to be a fringe idea. Now it's in the State of the Union address, at least when it comes to kids.
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Volunteer Hackers Converge on Ukraine Conflict
The online battles have blurred lines between state-backed hackers and patriotic amateurs, making it difficult for governments to understand who is attacking them...
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Russia Is Strengthening Its Censorship Regime by Blocking Facebook
Why Putin's crackdown on social media is a worrying sign.
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AI Tool Could Help Plan NYS's Transition to Clean Electrical Power
Cornell University's Fengqi You and Ning Zhao have designed an artificial intelligence tool that could help New York state plan its switch to clean electricity ...
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Injecting Fairness into ML Models
Researchers have devleoped a method of incorporating fairness into machine learning models, even if they are trained on unfair data.
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Millions for Crypto Start-Ups, No Real Names Necessary
Investors give money to pseudonymous developers. Venture capitalists back founders without learning their real names. What happens when they need to know?
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Ukraine Requests ICANN, Crypto Exchanges Block Russia
Namecheap tells Russian customers to leave.
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Russia's War in Ukraine Could Spur Another Global Chip Shortage
Ukraine is home to half of the world's neon gas, which is critical for manufacturing semiconductor chips.
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Fed Up With Google, Conspiracy Theorists Turn to DuckDuckGo
The embrace by some conservative influencers and conspiracy theorists is part of a broader effort to shift people away from Big Tech.
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As Tanks Rolled Into Ukraine, So Did Malware. Then Microsoft Entered the War.
After years of talks about the need for public-private partnerships to combat cyberattacks, the war in Ukraine is stress-testing the system.
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