An excerpt from MIT Technology Review’s interview with Geoffrey Hinton: You think deep learning will be enough to replicate all of human intelligence. What makes you so sure? I do believe deep learning is going to be able to do everything, but I do think there’s going to have to be quite a few conceptual…

Patches for both the Chrome desktop and Android browser address high-severity flaws with known exploits available in the wild. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Small Brit firm pushes back against Zuckerborg sueball Mobile app developers accused by Facebook of deploying “malicious” SDKs to scrape users’ data from the social network have hit back, telling London’s High Court that nearly all their apps were “not capable” of harvesting data from Facebook itself.… …read more Source:: Register

The company’s new Mac computers powered by “Apple Silicon” are expected. …read more Source:: CNet

Passwords for GrowDiaries users were stored using the weak MD5 hashing function, putting customer accounts at risk of attacks. …read more Source:: ZDNet

MIT’s researchers have found a way to surmount GPS’s biggest challenge: water. …read more Source:: ZDNet

An anonymous reader shares a report: Less than 24 hours before a historic US presidential election day, Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president of global affairs and communications and the former United Kingdom deputy prime minister, tried to rally employees at the embattled social networking corporation. Noting that the world would be watching the results, Clegg…

Many organisations still haven’t applied security patches issued years ago, putting them at risk from common cyber attacks. …read more Source:: ZDNet

When the slicer software for a 3D printer model files into GCode, it’s essentially creating a sequential list of connected line segments, organized by layer. But when the features of the original model are dense, or when the model is representing small curves, slicers end up creating a proliferation of teeny segments to represent this…

Google Project Zero, the Google security team that finds bugs in all popular software, has disclosed what it classes a high-severity flaw on GitHub after the code-hosting site asked for a double extension on the normal 90-day disclosure deadline. From a report: The bug in GitHub’s Actions feature — a developer workflow automation tool —…