Category: Shorts

Train a bipedal robot to teach agile football skills with deep reinforcement learning The goal of this tutorial is to demonstrate how machine learning can be used to solve real-world problems using a simple training scheme called OP3 Soccer. The training scheme uses deep RL to synthesis dynamic and agile context-adaptive movement skills that are…

MSI Data Breach: Keys for Private Code Signing Leaked on the Dark Web The threat actors behind the MSI ransomware attack have leaked the company’s private code signing keys on their dark website. The leaked data includes firmware image signing keys associated with 57 PCs and private signing keys for Intel Boot Guard used on…

What Drove Geoffrey Hinton to Become an AI Skeptic Geoffrey Hinton, perhaps the most important person in the recent history of artificial intelligence, recently sent me a video of Snoop Dogg. And I’m like, “Is we in a fucking movie right now or what?” Because, you know, technology is advancing more quickly than he and…

Hackers Steal Customer Data from Western Digital in March Breach Western Digital has confirmed that an unauthorized third party gained access to its storage systems and stole personal information belonging to the company’s online store customers. This information included customer names, billing and shipping addresses, email addresses, and telephone numbers. In addition, the database contained,…

SideCopy and AllaKore RATs Used to Infiltrate Indian Organizations This is the third time that Team Cymru has noticed SideCopy’s use of DRDO-related decoys for malware distribution. The other two times they’ve seen this tactic used by the company, in March 2023 and again last month. Interestingly, both attacks chains have been observed to load…

Join our webinar on how to defeat ransomware with identity-focused protection. During this webinar, Yiftach will share his insights on how real-time MFA and service account protection can defeat ransomware attacks, and why identity-focused protection is the only way to stop lateral movement and ransomware spread. The blind spots in MFA and SAC protection that…

It’s time for Google to update the Nest Hub Nest Hubs are smart displays that come with two touchscreen screens: the Nest Hub and the second-gen Nest Hub. In order to set up meaningful parental controls , Google introduced parental controls in November 2022, more than three years after I got my Nest Hub Max…

How to Set Up a Threat Hunting and Intelligence Program Threat Hunting Is Needed To Fill In The Gaps Between Detection Solutions Threat Hunting required? This enables threat hunting to eliminate existing gaps between detection solutions. Considerations for Your Threat Intelligence ProgramSetting up a threat intelligence program is an important process, which is not to…

Google AMP: how Google tried to improve the web by taking it over In 2015, Google hatched a plan to save the mobile web by effectively taking it over. They called it Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP) a new format for designing mobile-first webpages. Before it was called AMP, Google’s nascent web standard was known…

What to do when Google doesn’t have the answer? 25 years later, Google Search is everywhere all the time. Yet, 25 years on, search faces an existential threat to Google itself. That threat is artificial intelligence. And yet, most people don’t realize it. It’s time to talk about what 25 years of search have done…