Collaborate Disseminate
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: A hardware neural network backdoor that hides in plain sight Deep learning systems on edge devices often rely on third-party-designed FPGAs and ASICs for … Continue reading Week in review: 74k Fortinet firewall credentials stolen, Splunk Enterprise RCE under active attack
For most of us the abbreviation “CRT” brings to mind a monitor or TV. But at its core it’s about the special vacuum tube that makes the images appear. Regardless …read more Continue reading How to Bias a CRT After Installation
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press:
Officials in Kansas City, Missouri, are preparing to equip cameras on some public buses with facial recognition software capable of identifying passengers who appear on a list of banne… Continue reading Facial Recognition on Public Buses? Kansas City Says Yes
The Bernoulli disk was a wild piece of 1980s hardware. Take a big floppy. Spin the platter at 1500 RPM just a micron or so from a read head. The …read more Continue reading Bernoulli Disk Goes “Wii!” When Plugged Into WiiU
In January a college student posted a video showing him winning $100,000 on Polymarket — one of 145 that appeared to show bets adding up to almost $410,000, reports the Wall Street Journal. “But none of those bets were real.”
Instead its creato… Continue reading Polymarket Paid Dozens to Post Videos of Themselves ‘Winning’ With Fake Bets
With the advent of affordable 2.5 Gbit, 5 Gbit, and 10 Gbit consumer networking gear, more and more people are taking advantage of these higher networking speeds, with [This Does …read more Continue reading Autopsy of a Freshly Cooked 10Gbit SFP+ Network Adapter
The gaming news site Aftermath reports:
Four gamers are suing Sony Interactive Entertainment for allegedly breaking a California law that requires digital storefronts selling games to make it clear people are buying licenses, not actually owning the… Continue reading Gamers Sue PlayStation: It’s Not Clear They’re Selling Licenses Rather Than Ownership of Games
The Wall Street Journal reports on internet-connected devices — and how every year millions of them “can contain a secret digital backdoor that opens up access to your home internet, so that anyone… can surf the web as if they were you.” (And t… Continue reading How Millions of Digital Home Devices Are Secretly Powering Cyberattacks
Few things are more satisfying during a Summer night than hearing the crackle and pop of another mosquito hurling itself against a bug zapper and knowing that it won’t be …read more Continue reading Defeat Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes by Becoming the Bug Zapper
This week OpenAI announced a 750-task test to to measure “whether AI systems can support realistic life science research tasks, not just answer biology questions.”
But while OpenAI’s top-performing GPT-Rosalind model led the rankings, Slashdot reader… Continue reading OpenAI Announces Benchmarks for AI Life Sciences Research. Its Best Model Failed 63.9% of the Test