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Sep 30, 2022

How MLops deployment can be easier with open-source versioning

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, security

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Modern software development typically follows a very iterative approach known as continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD). The promise of CI/CD is better software that is released quicker and it’s a promise that ClearML now intends to bring to the world of machine learning (ML).

ClearML today announced the general availability of its enterprise MLops platform that extends the capabilities of the company’s open-source edition. The ClearML Enterprise platform provides organizations with security controls and additional capabilities for rapidly iterating and deploying ML workflows.

Sep 30, 2022

Retrofitting for fusion?

Posted by in category: nuclear energy

A new study by Zap Energy will assess the feasibility of siting a Zap fusion energy pilot plant at Washington’s only remaining coal power station.

Zap Energy will study the potential benefits of transitioning a natural gas power plant to a first-of-a-kind fusion pilot plant.

Sep 30, 2022

Google Kills Stadia, Its Cloud Gaming Service, Refunding Everyone

Posted by in category: entertainment

Google is shutting down its cloud gaming storefront just a few years after it launched.

Sep 30, 2022

New alternative to LASIK growing in popularity as many ditch lenses

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A newly approved permanent contact lens is growing in popularity, it’s a new alternative for LASIK. No more fumbling with contacts or glasses, now there’s an FDA-approved lens that stays in place, and people say it’s life-changing.

This is the newest implantable contact lens, called EVO.

“It’s absolutely mind-blowing,” patient Rusell Joy said.

Sep 29, 2022

Researchers Warn of New Go-based Malware Targeting Windows and Linux Systems

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, robotics/AI

A new, multi-functional Go-based malware dubbed Chaos has been rapidly growing in volume in recent months to ensnare a wide range of Windows, Linux, small office/home office (SOHO) routers, and enterprise servers into its botnet.

“Chaos functionality includes the ability to enumerate the host environment, run remote shell commands, load additional modules, automatically propagate through stealing and brute-forcing SSH private keys, as well as launch DDoS attacks,” researchers from Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs said in a write-up shared with The Hacker News.

A majority of the bots are located in Europe, specifically Italy, with other infections reported in China and the U.S., collectively representing “hundreds of unique IP addresses” over a one-month time period from mid-June through mid-July 2022.

Sep 29, 2022

Critical WhatsApp Bugs Could Have Let Attackers Hack Devices Remotely

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, robotics/AI

WhatsApp for Android and iOS patches two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities that could have allowed attackers to remotely hack targeted de.

Sep 29, 2022

NASA is working with SpaceX to explore a private mission to extend the life of the Hubble telescope

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

SpaceX and billionaire astronaut Jared Isaacman are teaming up with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to study whether a private mission could extend the life of the famed Hubble telescope.

NASA signed an agreement with Elon Musk’s company and the Polaris Program, which Isaacman leads, to study the possibility of using a SpaceX spacecraft to dock with the telescope and change its orbit in an effort to further its lifetime, the parties announced Thursday.

NASA’s science chief Thomas Zurbuchen said during a press call that SpaceX approached NASA with the idea “a few months ago.”

Sep 29, 2022

NASA Unveils First Image of Jupiter Moon Europa After Juno Spacecraft Completes Flyby

Posted by in category: space

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration revealed on Thursday one of the closest-ever looks at an ice-covered moon orbiting Jupiter. That moon, named Europa, is widely considered the most promising place to search for life beyond Earth, according to the agency.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft buzzed by Europa, Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, on Thursday, coming within 220 miles of its surface around 5:36 a.m. ET. It is the first time the agency has glimpsed the moon that closely since its Galileo orbiter mission flew at a similar distance in 2000.

Sep 29, 2022

Illumina Aims to Push Genetics Beyond the Lab With $200 Genome

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

Illumina Inc. says it can read a person’s entire genetic code for as little as $200 with its new sequencing machine, bringing the company within reach of its long-promised goal of the $100 genome.

Sep 29, 2022

Meta’s new Make-a-Video AI can generate quick movie clips from text prompts

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI

Meta unveiled its Make-a-Scene text-to-image generation AI in July, which like Dall-E and Midjourney, utilizes machine learning algorithms (and massive databases of scraped online artwork) to create fantastical depictions of written prompts. On Thursday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed Make-a-Scene’s more animated contemporary, Make-a-Video.

As its name implies, Make-a-Video is, “a new AI system that lets people turn text prompts into brief, high-quality video clips,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Meta blog Thursday. Functionally, Video works the same way that Scene does — relying on a mix of natural language processing and generative neural networks to convert non-visual prompts into images — it’s just pulling content in a different format.

“Our intuition is simple: learn what the world looks like and how it is described from paired text-image data, and learn how the world moves from unsupervised video footage,” a team of Meta researchers wrote in a research paper published Thursday morning. Doing so enabled the team to reduce the amount of time needed to train the Video model and eliminate the need for paired text-video data, while preserving “the vastness (diversity in aesthetic, fantastical depictions, etc.) of today’s image generation models.”