This Image of a White Barack Obama Is AI’s Racial Bias Problem In a Nutshell

A pixelated image of Barack Obama upsampled to the image of a white man has sparked another discussion on racial bias in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Read More

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Hacker Lexicon: What Is a Side Channel Attack?

MODERN CYBERSECURITY DEPENDS on machines keeping secrets. But computers, like poker-playing humans, have tells. They flit their eyes when they’ve got a good hand, or raise an eyebrow when they’re bluffing—or at least, the digital equivalent. And a hacker who learns to read those unintended signals can extract the secrets they contain, in what’s known as a “side channel attack.” Read More

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