AI & RoboticsNews

Research shows natural language benchmarks don’t measure AI models’ general knowledge well

August 13, 2020
Open-domain question-answering models — models theoretically capable of responding to novel questions with novel answers — often simply memorize answers found in the data on which they’re trained, depending on the data set. That’s the assertion of a team of researchers affiliated with Facebook and the University College London, who in a preprint paper present evidence that 60%-70% of…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Researchers use AI classifiers to expose potential vulnerabilities in Microsoft remote desktop

August 11, 2020
Microsoft’s encrypted Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) contains vulnerabilities that could enable attackers to detect activities, keystrokes, and mouse movements in 30-second traces. That’s according to a preprint study from researchers at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, who claim the protocol’s design exposes “fine-grained” actions on which machine learning models could be…
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MobileNews

New York’s MTA wants safer COVID-19 iPhone unlocking, and so should you

August 11, 2020
When Apple introduced its flagship iPhone X three years ago, it replaced fingerprints with facial recognition, pitching “Face ID” as even more secure than “Touch ID.” Within a year, the face-mapping tech came to additional iPhones and iPads, helping Apple ditch its finger-scanning Home buttons while following the industry-wide trend of shrinking phone and tablet bezels. Face ID worked…
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GamingNews

Fall Guys sells 2 million copies on Steam in under a week

August 10, 2020
Publisher Devolver Digital revealed on Twitter today that Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout has already sold 2 million copies on Steam. Fall Guys released on August 4, so it accomplished this goal just short of one week after launch. The battle royale game is also available on PlayStation 4, so its total sales are higher than 2 million. However, Fall Guys is available as a free download for PlayStation…
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