Hackers Looted Passenger Data From Some of the Biggest Airlines through Supplier SITA

SITA, a data firm that works with some of the world’s largest airlines, announced Thursday that it had been the victim of a “highly sophisticated cyberattack,” the likes of which compromised information on hundreds of thousands of airline passengers all over the world. The attack, which occurred in February, targeted data stored on SITA’s Passenger Service Read more about Hackers Looted Passenger Data From Some of the Biggest Airlines through Supplier SITA[…]

Facebook uses one billion Instagram photos to build massive object-recognition AI that partly trained itself

Known as SEER, short for SElf-supERvised, this massive convolutional neural network contains over a billion parameters. If you show it images of things, it will describe in words what it recognizes: a bicycle, a banana, a red-and-blue striped golfing umbrella, and so on. While its capabilities aren’t all that novel, the way it was trained Read more about Facebook uses one billion Instagram photos to build massive object-recognition AI that partly trained itself[…]

Results of US ‘Universal Basic Income’ Program? Employment Increased

After getting $500 per month for two years without rules on how to spend it, 125 people in California paid off debt, got full-time jobs and reported lower rates of anxiety and depression, according to a study released Wednesday. The program in the Northern California city of Stockton was the highest-profile experiment in the U.S. Read more about Results of US ‘Universal Basic Income’ Program? Employment Increased[…]

Furious AI Researcher Creates Site Shaming Non-Reproducible Machine Learning Papers

The Next Web tells the story of an AI researcher who discovered the results of a machine learning research paper couldn’t be reproduced. But then they’d heard similar stories from Reddit’s Machine Learning forum: “Easier to compile a list of reproducible ones…,” one user responded. “Probably 50%-75% of all papers are unreproducible. It’s sad, but Read more about Furious AI Researcher Creates Site Shaming Non-Reproducible Machine Learning Papers[…]

Waymo simulated (not very many) real-world (if the world was limited to 100 sq miles) crashes to prove its self-driving cars can prevent deaths

In a bid to prove that its robot drivers are safer than humans, Waymo simulated dozens of real-world fatal crashes that took place in Arizona over nearly a decade. The Google spinoff discovered that replacing either vehicle in a two-car crash with its robot-guided minivans would nearly eliminate all deaths, according to data it publicized Read more about Waymo simulated (not very many) real-world (if the world was limited to 100 sq miles) crashes to prove its self-driving cars can prevent deaths[…]

The “Crazy Huge Hack” of Microsoft, Explained – it dwarfs SolarWinds

Last week, Microsoft announced that the on-premises version of its widely used email and calendaring product Exchange had several previously undisclosed security flaws. These flaws, the company said, were being used by foreign threat actors to hack into the networks of U.S. businesses and governments, primarily to steal large troves of email data. Since then, Read more about The “Crazy Huge Hack” of Microsoft, Explained – it dwarfs SolarWinds[…]

Hackers Target Surveillance Firm, Exposing thousands Live Camera Feeds at Tesla, Cloudflare, Hospitals, Jails, Police, etc etc etc in anti-surveillance ideology

A hacker group claims to have broken into the networks of cloud-based surveillance startup Verkada, gaining unfiltered access to thousands and thousands of live security camera feeds in the process. The hack first gained public attention Tuesday afternoon, when a Twitter user who goes by the name “Tillie” began leaking purported images of the hack Read more about Hackers Target Surveillance Firm, Exposing thousands Live Camera Feeds at Tesla, Cloudflare, Hospitals, Jails, Police, etc etc etc in anti-surveillance ideology[…]

Russian Cracker / Cybercrime Forums Hacked

n the latest in a string of “hits” on Russian dark web forums, the prominent crime site Maza appears to have been hacked by someone earlier this week. This is kind of big news since Maza (previously called “Mazafaka”) has long been a destination for all assortment of criminal activity, including malware distribution, money laundering, Read more about Russian Cracker / Cybercrime Forums Hacked[…]

GPS jamming around Cyprus gives our air traffic controllers a headache, says Eurocontrol

[…] Jamming of the essential navigational satellite signal has caused enough headaches for the EU air traffic control organisation to prompt an investigation, complete with an instrumented aircraft designed to detect signs of GPS jamming. Airliners rely on GPS to a great extent, and air traffic management (the science of making sure airliners don’t come Read more about GPS jamming around Cyprus gives our air traffic controllers a headache, says Eurocontrol[…]