Who needs a supercomputer? Your desktop PC and a GPU might be enough to solve some of the largest problems | ZDNet

A new method significantly reduces the amount of memory needed for brain simulations, freeing some AI…

Vulnerability in Azure Functions allows an attacker to escape to the Docker host – SiliconANGLE

Vulnerability in Azure Functions allows an attacker to escape to the Docker host. Read more at…

‘Weird new things are happening in software,’ says Stanford AI professor Chris Re | ZDNet

The time has come, said Re, for AI scientists to focus on higher-level tasks such as…

Google researcher discovers new iOS security system | ZDNet

iOS 14 shipped with BlastDoor, a new sandbox system for processing iMessages data. Read more at…

An AI saw a cropped photo of AOC. It autocompleted her wearing a bikini.

Image-generation algorithms are regurgitating the same sexist, racist ideas that exist on the internet. Read more…

How Transformers work in deep learning and NLP: an intuitive introduction

Transformers work in deep learning and nlp: an intuitive introduction. How did we go from attention…

Scientists look to harness the power of AI and the mind combined

European Commission gives project £3m to explore a new kind of technology. Is it worth it?…

Here’s what happened when AI and humans met in a strawberry-growing contest

Top strawberry growers were pitted against data scientists in a smart-agriculture competition organized by Chinese e-commerce…

Fruit Fly Brain Hacked For Language Processing

A simulated fruit fly brain has learnt to perform natural language processing tasks. Read more at…

10-years-old Sudo bug lets Linux users gain root-level access | ZDNet

The vulnerability, named “Baron Samedit,” impacts most Linux distributions today. Read more at ZDNet…

DDoSers are abusing Microsoft RDP to make attacks more powerful

DDoS amplification attacks have abused all kinds of legit services. Now, it’s Windows. Read more at…

YouTuber Upgrades RTX 2070 to 16GB of VRAM

The 16GB RTX 2070/2080 rumors may have been real. Read more at Tom’s Hardware…

Hackaday takes a close look at Raspberry Pi’s new $4 microcontroller, the Pico | Boing Boing

Pico is the new $4 Raspberry Pi microcontroller board. It looks amazing for the price. Hackaday…

Microsoft patent details tech that could turn dead people into AI chatbots

It’s Black Mirror come to life. Read more at CNET…

Raspberry Pi: The newest member of the family is this tiny $4 microcontroller | ZDNet

Raspberry Pi releases the Pi Pico and is partnering with Arduino and Adafruit to expand the…

Bitcoin falls 11% after report suggests a critical flaw in the cryptocurrency called ‘double spend’ may have occurred

A report from bitmex research suggested ‘double spend’ had occurred in the bitcoin blockchain – the…

It finally happened — you can now get iMessage on Android

A new universal chat app called Beeper promises to finally bring iMessage to Android, Windows, and…

AI-powered text from this program could fool the government

Volunteers couldn’t tell AI-generated comments from those penned by humans. Read more at Ars Technica…

AI Technology Will Replace Humans In the Feild of Cybersecurity By 2030

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes all-pervasive, a new report has forecast that technology would replace humans…

AI Weekly: Meet the people trying to replicate and open-source OpenAI’s GPT-3

A grassroots group of researchers is attempting to create an open source language model as powerful…