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FBI’s LockBit Takedown Postponed a Ticking Time Bomb in Fulton County, Ga.

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The FBI’s takedown of the LockBit ransomware group last week came as LockBit was preparing to release sensitive data stolen from government computer systems in Fulton County, Ga. But LockBit is now regrouping, and the gang says it will publish the stolen Fulton County data on March 2 unless paid a ransom. LockBit claims the cache includes documents tied to the county’s ongoing criminal prosecution of former President Trump, but court watchers say teaser documents published by the crime gang suggest a total leak of the Fulton County data could put lives at risk and jeopardize a number of other criminal trials. Continue reading FBI’s LockBit Takedown Postponed a Ticking Time Bomb in Fulton County, Ga.→

E-Paper News Feed Illustrates the Headlines with AI-Generated Images

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It’s hard to read the headlines today without feeling like the world couldn’t possibly get much worse. And then tomorrow rolls around, and a fresh set of headlines puts the …read more Continue reading E-Paper News Feed Illustrates the Headlines with AI-Generated Images→

How To Roll Your Own Custom Object Detection Neural Network

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Real-time object detection, which uses neural networks and deep learning to rapidly identify and tag objects of interest in a video feed, is a handy feature with great hacker potential. …read more Continue reading How To Roll Your Own Custom Object Detection Neural Network→

Render Yourself Invisible to AI with This Adversarial Sweater of Doom

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Ugly sweater season is rapidly approaching, at least here in the Northern Hemisphere. We’ve always been a bit baffled by the tradition of paying top dollar for a loud, obnoxious …read more Continue reading Render Yourself Invisible to AI with This Adversarial Sweater of Doom→

Machine Learning Helps You Track Your Internet Misery Index

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We all seem to intuitively know that a lot of what we do online is not great for our mental health. Hang out on enough social media platforms and you can practically feel the changes your mind inflicts on your …read more

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Machine Learning Takes the Embarrassment Out of Videoconference Wardrobe Malfunctions

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Telecommuters: tired of the constant embarrassment of showing up to video conferences wearing nothing but your underwear? Save the humiliation and all those pesky trips down to HR with Safe Meeting, the new system that uses the power of artificial intelligence to turn off your camera if you forget that …read more

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Creating Surreal Short Films from Machine Learning

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Ever since we first saw the nightmarish artwork produced by Google DeepDream and the ridiculous faux paintings produced from neural style transfer, we’ve been aware of the ways machine learning can be applied to visual art. With commercially available trained models and automated pipelines for generating images from relatively small …read more

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Machine Learning System Uses Images to Teach Itself Morse Code

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Conventional wisdom holds that the best way to learn a new language is immersion: just throw someone into a situation where they have no choice, and they’ll learn by context. Militaries use immersion language instruction, as do diplomats and journalists, and apparently computers can now use it to teach themselves …read more

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