Planting Tiny Spy Chips in Hardware Can Cost as Little as $200 | WIRED
Ever wondered how much it woud cost to add spy chips on a server motherboard? It can be as litte as $200. Of course, you…
Most Deepfakes Are Porn, and They’re Multiplying Fast | WIRED
Two years ago, software was realeased that montaged faces of Hollywood actresses into pornographic video clips. This is now known as deepfakes and the technology…
Q’News – Next Generation Newsletter
In den letzten Jahren haben sich im Bereich der Messenger Plattformen, parallel zu bestehenden Systemen, mobile Newsletter-Services etabliert. Es gibt zahlreiche Dienstleister die Newsletter-Services auf…
We Are All Confident Idiots – Pacific Standard
Incompetent people cannot recognize just how incompetent are. In order to realize how incompetent they are, they must have expertise in the area they simply…
Warum die Katze im Sack kaufen?
Welche Katze? Welcher Sack? Die Katze im Sack ist in diesem Fall der Email-Newsletter und das Kaufen ist die Anmeldung. Email-Newsletter sind kein sehr spannendes…
Artificial Intelligence Confronts a ‘Reproducibility’ Crisis | WIRED
It has become notoriously difficult to replicate experiments in the AI field. Generally speaking, getting neuronal networks to perform well can be like an art…
The Fantasy of Opting Out | The MIT Press Reader
In a world where the cost of opting out is getting constantly higher, the pressure of not to opt out is mounting. Almost every platform…
Facebook’s Latest Purchase Gets Inside Users’ Heads—Literally | WIRED
Facebook purchased CTRL-Labs (pronounced “Control” labs), a company that allows uses to control computer interafaces with brainpower. They use a mix of machine learning and…
OpenAI has released the largest version yet of its fake-news-spewing AI – MIT Technology Review
A half-size version of the now infamous language model of OpenAI has been released and the group examined the impact of their decisions so far…