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McAfee CTO: How AI is changing both cybersecurity and cyberattacks

February 11, 2020
Artificial intelligence is sweeping through almost every industry, layering a new level of intelligence on the software used for things like delivering better cybersecurity. McAfee, one of the big players in the industry, is adding AI capabilities to its own suite of tools that protect users from increasingly automated attacks. A whole wave of startups — like Israel’s Deep Instinct — have…
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Podcast: Can AI fix broken IoT and smart home security?

February 11, 2020
Podcast host John Koetsier sat down for an interview with Cujo AI VP Marcio Avillez to discuss the problem of smart device and IoT security and what we can do about it using AI technologies. Can AI help prevent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and improve smart…
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How AI is fighting, and could enable, ransomware attacks on cities

February 11, 2020
Imagine getting to a courthouse and seeing paper signs stuck to the doors with the message “Systems down.” What about police officers in the field unable to access information on laptops in their vehicles, or surgeries delayed in hospitals? That’s what can happen to a city, police department, or hospital in a ransomware attack. Ransomware is malicious software that can encrypt or control…
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Microsoft’s AI automatically comments on video clips

February 11, 2020
Generating live video captions with AI could bolster engagement on social media, or serve as a benchmark for the task of translating video to text. Preliminary work to this end has employed encoder-decoder models to generate comments, but they haven’t modeled the…
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Google Assistant's ambient mode is coming to OnePlus phones

February 11, 2020
If you own a OnePlus phone, you may soon be able to control your smart lights or control music playback through an interface that appears when you plug it in. That’s because Android’s Google Assistant-powered ambient mode has started rolling out to the brand’s devices, particularly all OnePlus 3 and newer models. Ambient mode, which takes over the screen while the phone is…
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How enterprise is putting conversational AI to work

February 11, 2020
The market for conversational AI is expected to grow to more than $15 billion by 2024, from $4.2 billion in 2019. And for good reason — the technology is helping enterprises find new value and capabilities. In the enterprise, businesses are leveraging conversational AI for…
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ACLU rejects Clearview AI's facial recognition accuracy claims

February 10, 2020
Clearview AI’s facial recognition isn’t just raising privacy issues — there are also concerns over its accuracy claims. The ACLU has rejected Clearview’s assertion that its technology is “100% accurate” based on the civil liberty group’s methodology for testing Amazon’s Rekognition, telling BuzzFeed News that the findings are “absurd on many…
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