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The unforeseen trouble AI is now causing

Jun17
by on June 17, 2019 at 8:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Podium


AI has come a long way in recent years — but as many who work with this technology can attest, it is still prone to surprising errors that wouldn’t be made by a human observer. While these errors can sometimes be the result of the required learning curve for artificial intelligence, it is becoming apparent that a far more serious problem is posing an increasing risk: adversarial data. For the uninitiated, adversarial data describes a situation in which human users intentionally supply an algorithm with corrupted information. The corrupted data throws off the machine learning process, tricking the algorithm into…

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Scientists discover infinite decay and rebirth in quantum particles

Jun17
by on June 17, 2019 at 7:44 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


A team of scientists recently determined certain quantum particles can regenerate after they’ve decayed. This has grand implications for the future of humanity, quantum computing, and intergalactic graffiti. Theoretical physicists from the Technical University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute conducted simulation experiments to determine that certain quasiparticles are essentially immortal. Per the second law of thermodynamics nothing lasts forever, but these quantum particle fields can reassemble themselves after decaying – just like the phoenix from Greek mythology. Ruben Verresen, lead author on the research, said: The result of the elaborate simulation: admittedly, quasiparticles do decay, however new, identical…

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Netflix fixes potentially devastating Linux SACK vulnerability

Jun17
by on June 17, 2019 at 7:36 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


Eagle-eyed researchers from streaming titan Netflix have uncovered several troubling security vulnerabilities within the TCP implementations on Linux and FreeBSD kernels. The most severe specimen, called SACK Panic, could permit an attacker to remotely induce a kernel panic within recent Linux operating systems. A kernel panic is a kind of vulnerability where an operating system cannot easily recover – or, indeed, cannot recover at all. This could force a restart of a targeted host, causing a temporary shutdown in services. Given Linux powers a variety of systems, from web servers to high-performance computing clusters, this is obviously really concerning. In…

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A Super Mario battle royale should not be this addictive

Jun17
by on June 17, 2019 at 7:21 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


It’s finally happened… our beloved Mario has finally made his way into a battle royale game, just like everything and its shadow. My first reaction was, “What madness hath we wrought?” My second was, “I’ve played sixteen games already, what the heck?” “Mario Royale” is a browser-based game that can be played on keyboard or controller. The game was created by YouTuber Inferno Plus, and uses shortened version of worlds from the original NES Super Mario Bros as the battleground, of sorts. You play against up to 99 other players, racing to see who can get to the end stage…

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‘Crypto Twitter’ anxiously awaits white paper for Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency

Jun17
by on June 17, 2019 at 4:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Tomorrow, Facebook is expected to release full details of its new “cryptocurrency” project Libra — as always, Twitter has lots to say. Few concrete facts about Facebook‘s Libra (formally known as GlobalCoin) have been made public so far. Reports indicate the likes of Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, and PayPal have already paid a $10 million fee to become validators on the network, which allows untapped access to related data. Facebook‘s rumored goal is to attract 100 companies to join the Libra Association, which would see Zuckerberg and co. net a cool $1 billion right off the bat. Libra Coin: A peer-to-peer we’ll do whatever we want…

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