
The Compelling Case For Working Less - Slashdot

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YouTube Says Computers Helped It Pull Down Millions of Objectionable Videos Last Quarter - Slashdot
news.slashdot.org - YouTube says it has successfully trained computers to flag objectionable videos. In the last quarter of 2017, the company reportedly pulled down more than six million of these videos before any users saw them. The news comes from a brief aside in Google CEO Sundar Pichai's scripted remarks during...
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Algorithm Automatically Spots 'Face Swaps' In Videos - Slashdot
tech.slashdot.org - yagoda shares a report from MIT Technology Review: Andreas Rossler at the Technical University of Munich in Germany and colleagues have developed a deep-learning system that can automatically spot face-swap videos. The new technique could help identify forged videos as they are posted to the web....
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Surface Phone Speculation Spurred By New Phone APIs In Windows - Slashdot
mobile.slashdot.org - Microsoft has been rumored to be working on a "Surface Phone" for years now, with little concrete evidence that such a device actually exists. "But the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview has given new fuel for the speculative fire, it has a set of new APIs for cellular phones," reports Ars Technic...
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No phishing! Keep your data safe
braidwoodtimes.com.au - There has been a lot of talk lately in the media about phishing scams. Phishing is a way that criminals steal confidential information such as online banking logins, credit card details, business logins and passwords. Messages pretend to be from large organisations you can trust and are sent vi...
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US Government Weighing Sanctions Against Kaspersky Lab - Slashdot
yro.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from CyberScoop: The U.S. government is considering sanctions against Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab as part of a wider round of action carried out against the Russian government, according to U.S. intelligence officials familiar with the matter. T...