Mercedes-Benz app glitch exposed car owners’ information to other users
Mercedes-Benz car owners have said that the app they used to remotely locate, unlock and start their cars was displaying other people’s account and vehicle information. TechCrunch spoke to two customers who said the Mercedes-Benz’ connected car app was pulling in information from other accounts and not their own, allowing them to see other car…
HTC releases a cheaper blockchain phone
Whatever you might say about HTC (and believe me, there’s plenty to say), at least the company takes some fascinating chance. As newly minted CEO Yves Maitre admitted to me at Disrupt a couple of weeks back, the once mighty smartphone giant has lost the thread in recent years. But if nothing else, the Exodus…
Startups Weekly: The unicorn from down under, an Uber TV show and All Raise’s expansion
Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy news pertaining to startups and venture capital. Before I jump into today’s topic, let’s catch up a bit. Last week, I wrote about Revel, a recent graduate of Y Combinator that’s raised a small seed round. Remember, you can…
Apple’s China stance makes for strange political alliances, as AOC and Ted Cruz slam the company
In a rare instance of bipartisanship overcoming the rancorous discord that’s been the hallmark of the U.S. Congress, senators and sepresentatives issued a scathing rebuke to Apple for its decision to take down an app at the request of the Chinese government. Signed by Senators Ron Wyden, Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Congressional…
AI is helping scholars restore ancient Greek texts on stone tablets
Machine learning and AI may be deployed on such grand tasks as finding exoplanets and creating photorealistic people, but the same techniques also have some surprising applications in academia: DeepMind has created an AI system that helps scholars understand and recreate fragmentary ancient Greek texts on broken stone tablets. These clay, stone or metal tablets,…
ET (Don’t) Phone Home
I recently became aware of this article where a Google exec says – he’s serious – that ‘Nest owners should probably warn their guests that their conversations are being recorded’. That’s assuming the owners themselves are even aware of what these devices are doing, and the likely truth is that they do not. Like needy…
The problem with metrics is a big problem for AI
Written: 24 Sep 2019 by Rachel ThomasGoodhart’s Law states that “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” At their heart, what most current AI approaches do is to optimize metrics. The practice of optimizing metrics is not new nor unique to AI, yet AI can be particularly efficient (even…
2020 OS Migration: Project Trident
Background It’s important to reiterate that Project Trident is a distribution of an existing operating system. Project Trident has never been a stand-alone operating system. The goal of Project Trident is enhancing the usability of an operating system as a graphical workstation through all sorts of means: custom installers, automatic setup routines, graphical utilities, and…
Enable Pages access control (#5576) · Issues · GitLab.com / GitLab Infrastructure Team / infrastructure
Enable Pages access control I’m opening this to track enabling Pages access control on .com. Seems we need to to some testing and check before enabling this as discussed in https://gitlab.slack.com/archives/C1BSEQ138/p1542369390013600. it won’t be enabled by default (impossible to do so on HA installations). I guess we’ll need to do a production readiness review, etc,…
ML From Scratch, Part 1: Linear Regression
November 29, 2018 Python Statistics From Scratch Machine Learning To kick off this series, will start with something simple yet foundational: linear regression via ordinary least squares. While not exciting, linear regression finds widespread use both as a standalone learning algorithm and as a building block in more advanced learning algorithms.…
