The nation's top-level intelligence office, the Director of National Intelligence, wants to find "the most accurate unconstrained face recognition algorithm."
Ars Technica From ACM News | June 1, 2017
In the early hours of Friday morning, two U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers in the waters of the eastern Mediterranean Sea launched a barrage of Tomahawk Land...Ars Technica From ACM News | April 12, 2017
The US House of Representatives voted Tuesday to eliminate ISP privacy rules, following the Senate vote to take the same action last week. The legislation to kill...Ars Technica From ACM News | March 30, 2017
Rather than share the now-classified technological means that investigators used to locate a child porn suspect, federal prosecutors in Washington state have ...Ars Technica From ACM News | March 6, 2017
President-elect Donald Trump continues to discount or attempt to discredit reports that the intelligence community has linked the hacking of the DNC, the Hillary...Ars Technica From ACM News | December 13, 2016
Although electronic voting in various forms has become more prevalent outside the U.S., its primary difficulties include its inability to verify source code and...Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | November 7, 2016
Google Brain researchers say they have developed artificial intelligence technology that can form encryptions and communicate securely.Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | November 2, 2016
Google Brain has created two artificial intelligences that evolved their own cryptographic algorithm to protect their messages from a third AI, which was trying...Ars Technica From ACM News | October 28, 2016
Half of American adults are in a face-recognition database, according to a Georgetown University study released Tuesday.Ars Technica From ACM News | October 20, 2016
Since Edward Snowden stepped into the limelight from a hotel room in Hong Kong three years ago, use of the Tor anonymity network has grown massively.Ars Technica From ACM News | September 1, 2016
Security experts often talk about the importance of educating people about the risks of "phishing" e-mails containing links to malicious websites. But sometimes...Ars Technica From ACM News | September 1, 2016
A group called the Shadow Brokers made headlines this month by leaking a hacking tool belonging to the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) team. Now this week...Ars Technica From ACM News | August 24, 2016
FBI Director James Comey has some phones—650 of them, to be exact—that he'd really, really like to take a look at.Ars Technica From ACM News | August 9, 2016
New data shows that the majority of robot-enabled scam phone calls came from fewer than 40 call centers, a finding that offers hope the growing menace of robocalls...Ars Technica From ACM News | August 5, 2016