Researchers Say Russia Is Using AI to Predict Terrorism at Paris Olympics

Researchers Say Russia Is Using AI to Predict Terrorism at Paris Olympics

Russia is kicking its disinformation machine into high gear ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games — and according to Microsoft cybersecurity researchers, it's using AI to do it.The Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC) released a report yesterday outlining Russia's sophisticated use of generative AI tools to spawn content designed to disparage the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and "create the expectation of violence breaking out in Paris during the 2024 Summer Olympic Games."According to the report, these disinformation attacks kicked off in June 2023, when a Russia-affiliated "influence actor" dubbed Storm-1679 posted a fabricated Netflix documentary titled "Olympics Has Fallen"…
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The 5 Best Udemy Courses That Are Worth Taking in 2024

The 5 Best Udemy Courses That Are Worth Taking in 2024

Udemy is an online course platform where professionals and aspiring workers can find training on a wide variety of subjects. Here are five of the best Udemy courses for workers in the tech field who want to start new careers or add new skills to their existing job. These are beginner or beginner-to-advanced courses, but Udemy offers a wide variety of jumping-on points for all skill levels. I chose these courses based on their potential to result in practical applications at work, user reviews and popularity based on Udemy’s Bestselling leaderboard. Best Udemy courses: Comparison table The Complete Python Developer…
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Conspiracy theory-fueled newspaper Epoch Times grew revenue 4x thanks to CFO’s crypto crime proceeds, feds say

Conspiracy theory-fueled newspaper Epoch Times grew revenue 4x thanks to CFO’s crypto crime proceeds, feds say

The Epoch Times, a US media company linked to Chinese dissidents that seemingly shot to success by embracing Donald Trump and conspiracy theories, significantly funded its growth with proceeds of cybercrime, according to federal prosecutors.The Justice Department said the company's CFO, Weidong "Bill" Guan, was arrested on June 2 and charged with money laundering in New York. The DOJ indictment claims that he and others "used cryptocurrency to knowingly purchase tens of millions of dollars in crime proceeds" and plowed it into the Epoch Times starting in 2020.The Epoch Times wasn't named in court records, and the Justice Department said…
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Russia targets Paris Olympics with deepfake Tom Cruise video

Russia targets Paris Olympics with deepfake Tom Cruise video

Russia is targeting the Paris Olympics with a disinformation campaign that includes deploying a deepfake Tom Cruise to narrate a documentary criticising the organisation behind the games, according to a new report from Microsoft.Microsoft said a network of Russia-affiliated groups are running “malign influence campaigns” against France, Emmanuel Macron, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Paris Games with the event less than 80 days away. Russia has been banned from the 2024 Olympics, although a small number of Russian athletes may compete as neutrals.The fake Cruise video, which appeared on the Telegram messaging platform last year, is called Olympics…
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The Uncanny Rise of the World’s First AI Beauty Pageant

The Uncanny Rise of the World’s First AI Beauty Pageant

What makes an AI pageant different, Friedman asserts, is that Fanvue’s contestants are products of their creators. “They’re drawing on all these stereotypes that we have about what a ‘beautiful woman’ is,” she says, “and people who tend to use AI might have a different idea of what an attractive woman might be. She might have pink hair, but she’ll still be within the realm of traditional beauty, with a thin body or not a lot of moles on her face.”The creators of AI model Aitana Lopez (above) are serving as judges for the World AI Creator Awards beauty pageant.…
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Enhancing Performance for Highly Imbalanced Medical Data via Data Regularization in a Federated Learning Setting

Enhancing Performance for Highly Imbalanced Medical Data via Data Regularization in a Federated Learning Setting

[Submitted on 30 May 2024] View a PDF of the paper titled Enhancing Performance for Highly Imbalanced Medical Data via Data Regularization in a Federated Learning Setting, by Georgios Tsoumplekas and 4 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:The increased availability of medical data has significantly impacted healthcare by enabling the application of machine / deep learning approaches in various instances. However, medical datasets are usually small and scattered across multiple providers, suffer from high class-imbalance, and are subject to stringent data privacy constraints. In this paper, the application of a data regularization algorithm, suitable for learning under high class-imbalance,…
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Samsung sues Oura to block Oura from suing Samsung over the Galaxy Ring

Samsung sues Oura to block Oura from suing Samsung over the Galaxy Ring

Samsung has filed a lawsuit against Oura to try to head off intellectual property disputes as the Galaxy Ring launch draws near. The suit notes that Oura has used its patent portfolio to sue smaller wearable tech competitors and has hinted it may do the same against the much larger Samsung. Welcome to the weird modern world of mega-corporations suing startups to prevent them from filing suits of their own.“Oura’s actions and public statements demonstrate that Oura will continue asserting patent infringement against other entrants into the U.S. smart ring market, including Samsung,” the lawsuit, first reported on by The…
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OpenAI forms safety and security committee to oversee AI projects as it trains next model – SiliconANGLE

OpenAI forms safety and security committee to oversee AI projects as it trains next model – SiliconANGLE

OpenAI today announced the formation of a committee that will be tasked with ensuring its machine learning research is carried out safely. The Safety and Security Committee, as the panel is called, comprises nine members. It will be led by OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and three other directors, including board Chair Bret Taylor. The committee’s five other members are OpenAI engineering executives Aleksander Madry, Lilian Weng, John Schulman, Matt Knight and Jakub Pachocki. The panel’s formation comes a few days after word emerged that the GPT-4 developer had disbanded an internal team dedicated to AI safety. The Superalignment…
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Physically Compatible 3D Object Modeling from a Single Image

Physically Compatible 3D Object Modeling from a Single Image

arXiv:2405.20510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a computational framework that transforms single images into 3D physical objects. The visual geometry of a physical object in an image is determined by three orthogonal attributes: mechanical properties, external forces, and rest-shape geometry. Existing single-view 3D reconstruction methods often overlook this underlying composition, presuming rigidity or neglecting external forces. Consequently, the reconstructed objects fail to withstand real-world physical forces, resulting in instability or undesirable deformation -- diverging from their intended designs as depicted in the image. Our optimization framework addresses this by embedding physical compatibility into the reconstruction process. We explicitly decompose…
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