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Meta maps way to 'kill' online deception campaigns
AFP, Published on 17/03/2023
» SAN FRANCISCO: Meta on Thursday released a framework for exposing and combating malicious online campaigns from election lies to terrorist recruitment.
AI-aided hope on the horizon
Life, James Hein, Published on 13/02/2019
» Despite some of my criticisms in the past there are some excellent examples of emerging artificial intelligence technologies. I've mentioned some of these from the medical world in earlier articles but a new one caught my eye this week, figuring out in which hotel a picture was taken. No, not to help people remember where holiday snaps were taken but to track down human trafficking where pics of women are taken to sell them for sex. The three groups behind this identification technology are from George Washington University, Temple University and Adobe, all in the US. Like many AI systems a large amount of source data is used and to help with this more than a million images have been collected from 50,000 hotels worldwide. Using all the room elements in backgrounds a neural network is being trained to identify a hotel chain and then a location.
Report wildlife trafficking through app
Life, AKIN, Published on 27/07/2016
» Wildlife trafficking happens across the world. But to stop the illegal trade of animals and protect them can be complicated -- one of the reasons is that sometimes general and protected species can be indistinguishable.
'We have not provided source code to China': Apple
AFP, Published on 20/04/2016
» WASHINGTON - Apple has not provided its underlying software instructions or "source code" to China, the company's top lawyer said Tuesday, seeking to quash rumors about the iPhone maker's data security.
Apple fight on iPhone access extends to other cases
AFP, Published on 23/02/2016
» WASHINGTON - Apple is battling the US government over accessing locked devices in at least 10 cases around the country, in addition to the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino attackers, court documents show.
UK police campaign targets hackers as young as 12
AFP, Published on 08/12/2015
» LONDON - Britain's National Crime Agency on Tuesday launched a campaign to discourage youngsters from becoming hackers after it found the average age of suspects had plummeted to 17.
Ex-DEA agent gets 6.5 years in Silk Road case
AFP, Published on 20/10/2015
» WASHINGTON - A former US Drug Enforcement Administration agent was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison for extortion and money laundering in connection with the Silk Road investigation.
Ashley Madison hackers vow more attacks: report
AFP, Published on 22/08/2015
» WASHINGTON - The hacking group behind the Ashley Madison breach compared the affair-seeking website to "a drug dealer abusing addicts" in an email exchange threatening to carry out more attacks.
Former US federal agent pleads guilty in Silk Road case
AFP, Published on 02/07/2015
» WASHINGTON - A former federal agent pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing Bitcoins while working undercover on a US government investigation of Silk Road, and to soliciting payment from the online black market's operator.
Silk Road website mastermind faces lengthy jail term
AFP, Published on 29/05/2015
» NEW YORK - The American convicted of masterminding criminal website Silk Road, which sold $200 million worth of drugs to customers all over the world using digital currency Bitcoin, will be jailed Friday.