Month: December 2017

Google’s AI Built its own AI That Outperforms Any Made by Humans

Posted on by Robin Edgar

In May 2017, researchers at Google Brain announced the creation of AutoML, an artificial intelligence (AI) that’s capable of generating its own AIs.More recently, they decided to present AutoML with its biggest challenge to date, and the AI that can build AI created a ‘child’ that outperformed all of its human-made counterparts.The Google researchers automated Read more about Google’s AI Built its own AI That Outperforms Any Made by Humans[…]

PayPal Says 1.6 Million Customer Details Stolen in Breach at Canadian Subsidiary

Posted on by Robin Edgar

PayPal says that one of the companies it recently acquired suffered a security incident during which an attacker appears to have accessed servers that stored information for 1.6 million customers.The victim of the security breach is TIO Networks, a Canadian company that runs a network of over 60,000 utility and bills payment kiosks across North Read more about PayPal Says 1.6 Million Customer Details Stolen in Breach at Canadian Subsidiary[…]

Prison hacker who tried to free friend now likely to join him inside

Posted on by Robin Edgar

In a sustained campaign, Voits managed to get the login details and passwords for 1,600 county employees, including for the Xjail computer system that is used to track inmates. By March he had the logins to the prison management system and tried to amend the records of one inmate to arrange their early release. His Read more about Prison hacker who tried to free friend now likely to join him inside[…]