In this edition, the top news starts with:
In an irrelevant discussion over converting farts to electricity for Tesla car’s some artist is throwing a fit over musks unreferenced doodle…
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/27/elon-musk-farting-unicorn-mug-cartoon-tom-edwards
Shining star’s at Exactis exposed 340 million records of people online showing their deep concern for security…
https://www.pcmag.com/news/362143/marketing-firm-accidentally-exposes-340-million-records-onli
despite all the drama by the SEC and China etc targeted at killing crypto’s due to the threat, they are to government control they still remain valid platform startups and other firms to raise capital and act as a medium of exchange.
Rumors of Facebook secretly listening in and working on technology to target ad’s based on secret conversations you have that your phone can detect…
The Toyko institute of technology is looking at using AI to understand volcanic eruptions from tiny ash samples.
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-artificial-intelligence-volcanic-eruptions-tiny.html
Microsoft has limited investment into deep learning potentially opening doors to a fall from grace if other AI technologies take off.
Darpa is working on advancing deep learning as part of its initiative to replace humanity and Harold in the coming machine overlords…
https://gcn.com/articles/2018/06/27/darpa-machine-learning.aspx?s=gcntech_280618
Researchers Tricked AI Into Doing Free Computations It Wasn’t Trained to Do
Google researchers demonstrated that a neural network could be tricked into performing free computations for an attacker. They worry that this could one day be used to turn our smartphones into botnets by exposing them to images.
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