The New York TimesMany databases of facial images are compiled by companies and researchers without the knowledge of the owners of those faces. Privacy advocates have observed that repositories of facial images assembled by Microsoft, Stanford University, and others hold millions of images. Facebook and Google, likely to have amassed the largest facial datasets, purportedly do not distribute their image troves, but academics, activists, and public papers demonstrate that other organizations […]

Associated PressSchools that have adopted education technology increasingly are falling prey to the types of cyberattacks once reserved for banks and other institutions holding sensitive data. The resulting disruptions have pushed some districts to halt the use of smart boards, student laptops, and other Internet-connected tools. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says schools are being targeted for the sensitive data they hold, and because they provide critical public services. North […]

MIT NewsResearchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed an automated system that can design and print in three dimensions complex robotic parts optimized according to a large number of specifications—a task that would be staggeringly difficult for humans to do manually. The researchers demonstrated the system by fabricating actuators that show different monochrome images at different angles. For example, one actuator portrays a Vincent Van Gogh portrait when […]

CNBCGroupe PSA, the auto giant behind the Peugeot, Opel, and Citroen brands, has joined forces with the Automotive Technology Centre of Galicia (CTAG) to "advance the development of autonomous driving" with tests focusing on vehicle-to-infrastructure-communications. The tests in Vigo, Spain, aim to determine how vehicles can communicate with "surrounding infrastructure in a complex urban environment," with a focus on such areas as automated valet parking, autonomous driving in urban areas, and […]

CSO AustraliaMicrosoft is encouraging developers to adopt Mozilla's "safe" Rust programming language, in an effort to address the memory corruption bugs in C and C++ code that are the main source of modern software vulnerabilities. In a blog post, researchers at the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) outlined the case for developers using "memory-safe languages," highlighting Rust as a solution to help developers focus on feature development, rather than dealing with bugs they introduce […]