The creator of DeepNude, an app that used a machine learning algorithm to “undress” images of clothed women, announced Thursday that he’s killing the software after viral backlash for the way it objectifies women. From a report: On Wednesday, Motherboard reported that an anonymous programmer who goes by the alias “Alberto” created DeepNude, an app that takes an image of a…
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Ericsson To Build ‘Fully-Automated’ 5G Factory In the US By Early 2020
Ericsson announced its plans to build a 5G factory in the U.S. sometime early next year. “The factory will be the Swedish telco equipment maker’s first fully-automated factory, the company said, and will be used to produce 5G radios designed for urban areas,” reports ZDNet. “It will also make Advanced Antenna System radios that it said are components for large-scale deployments…
Researchers Demonstrate How US Emergency Alert System Can Be Hijacked and Weaponized
After an emergency alert was accidentally sent to Hawaii residents last year, warning of an impending nuclear ballistic missile attack, researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder were prompted to ask the question: How easy would it be to exploit the nation’s emergency alert systems, wreaking havoc on the American public via fake or misleading alerts? In short, they found that…
FCC Says Verizon Can SIM Lock Phones Again
The FCC has granted Verizon a partial waiver to start SIM locking new handsets to its network for 60 days. “This news out of the FCC is the response to Verizon requesting back in February that it be allowed to lock devices to help deter fraud and theft,” reports Droid Life. From the report: Why did they need to ask the…
This Horrifying App Undresses a Photo of Any Woman With a Single Click
The $50 DeepNude app dispenses with the idea that deepfakes were about anything besides claiming ownership over women’s bodies.Source: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzm59x/deepnude-app-creates-fake-nudes-of-any-woman…
It’s a Match: Essential Skills Mapped to Critical Business Functions
By Kyle Clark, Enterprise Content Strategist Coursera’s Essential Skills Map identifies the skills of tomorrow for key functions, future-proofing your workforce while helping your business keep pace with digital transformation. ———- Technology is rapidly transforming the nature of jobs and skills. Partnering with over 1,900 companies globally through Coursera for Business takes us deep into […]
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Iran Steps Up Cyberattacks Against America
An anonymous reader quotes MarketWatch: Iran has increased its offensive cyberattacks against the U.S. government and critical infrastructure as tensions have grown between the two nations, cybersecurity firms say. In recent weeks, hackers believed to be working for the Iranian government have targeted U.S. government agencies, as well as sectors of the economy, including oil and gas, sending waves of spear-phishing…
Digital Assistants May Be Able To Automatically Detect When Someone Is Having a Heart Attack, Study Finds
Zorro shares a report from The Register: Smart speakers are always listening for wake words, and recording everything they hear to improve their neural networks and target their masters with marketing. It’s, frankly, creepy. Academics at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, however, believe there are benefits to installing a cyber-assistant at home that listens in all the time. “A…
A 53-Year-Old Network Coloring Conjecture Is Disproved
In just three pages, a Russian mathematician has presented a better way to color certain types of networks than many experts thought possible. From a report:
A paper posted online last month has disproved a 53-year-old conjecture about the best way to assign colors to the nodes of a network. The paper shows, in a mere three pages, that there are better…
Aditi’s New Passion: Making the Internet More Healthy and Safe
Aditi is a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology completing the M.S. Cyber Security program. She is also interning at Microsoft as a software engineer. Aditi is taking courses on Coursera to supplement her university learning and to further explore subjects of interest. When Aditi was 11 years old, she was diagnosed with a […]
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