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Deepfake Detector Can Spot Real/Fake Video from Blood Flow
Semiconductor giant Intel claims its FakeCatcher technology can detect whether videos are genuine or deepfakes with 96% accuracy in real time.
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Singapore, Germany to Mutually Recognize IoT Cybersecurity Labels
Singapore and Germany have agreed to mutually recognize their respective smart computer product cybersecurity rating labels.
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Microsoft: Hackers are Using Open Source Software, Fake Jobs in Phishing Attacks
The software giant details how hackers are using easily available tools and non-existent job offers to trick developers and IT workers.
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Meta's LeCun: Most of Today's AI Approaches Will Never Lead to True Intelligence
Fundamental problems elude many strains of deep learning, says LeCun, including the mystery of how to measure information.
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IBM Open Source Tools Help Companies Spot Bias in Advertising
IBM's Artificial Intelligence Fairness 360 toolkit has confirmed the existence of bias in digital advertising.
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Linux Malware Has a Sneaky Way of Staying Hidden
Researchers discovered the Syslogk Linux rootkit delivers a backdoor trojan hides on a targeted machine until triggered.
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How One Paper Blew Up Bitcoin's Claim to Anonymity
All individuals transacting in Bitcoin are within six degrees or fewer of separation from a core group, say researchers.
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Ed Tech Wrongfully Tracked Schoolchildren During Pandemic: Human Rights Watch
A study of 164 government-endorsed education technology products found 146 endangered children's privacy by collecting and selling their data to ad tech companies...
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Highest Paying Jobs with a Computer Science Degree
Computer science is a broad and rewarding field. Find out the computer science degree salary you can expect depending on your chosen career path.
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Zyxel Remote Execution Bug Being Exploited
Researchers found that a bug in Zyxel firewalls that could enable unauthenticated remote attackers to execute code.
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Decade-Old Bugs Discovered in Avast, AVG Antivirus Software
Researchers at cybersecurity software company SentinelOne reported two high-severity bugs in Avast and AVG antivirus products that have gone undetected for a decade...
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Corrupted Open Source Software Enters the Russian Battlefield
A programmer behind the popular open-source npm program node-ipc poisoned it with malware that erased the hard drives of computers located in Russia or Belarus....
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How MIT's Robot Cheetah Got Its Speed
Researchers have designed a new version of the Mini Cheetah robot that can achieve high running speeds more efficiently than its predecessors.
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UC Berkeley Robot Navigation Could Chart New Course for Self-Driving Systems
An approach that uses hours of video and elements of reinforcement learning can guide a robot vehicle almost two miles without a full map of the surroundings.
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Brazilian Academics Create Automated Fake News Detection Platform
A team of researchers has developed a Web platform that can automatically detect fake online news.
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Robot Fry Cook Gets Job at 100 White Castle Locations
Miso Robotics' Flippy 2 robot fry cook is being deployed in 100 White Castle fast food restaurants.
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IonQ Teams with U.S. Department of Energy
IonQ and DoE are trying to create a stable, domestic pipeline for sourcing the barium qubits used in quantum processors built by IonQ.
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Intel Invests in Open-Source RISC-V Processors, Creates Billion-Dollar Fund
Intel and RISC-V working together is a game-changer, and today is the day that RISC-V becomes a chip power.
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Software Is Crammed Full of Bugs. This 'Exciting' Project Could Banish Most of Them
Chip designer Arm has released a prototype development board based on the Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI) architecture.
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