ValidMind, a regulatory compliance platform for AI risk management at banks, raises $8.1 million in seed funding to automate model validation and documentation.
Generative Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are prone to generate plausible-sounding textual answers that, however, are not always grounded in the input image. We investigate this phenomenon, usually referred to as “hallucination” and show that it stems from an excessive reliance on the language…
DARPA and NASA Ames Research Center today said they are soliciting abstracts, papers, topics and members for discussion panels, to be part of the 100 Year Starship Study Symposium to be held in Orlando, Fla., from Sept. 30 through Oct. 2.
U.S. government spending on cybersecurity will grow at a compound rate of 8.1 percent a year between 2009 and 2014, outpacing general IT spending, according to the government analyst firm Input.
Microsoft continues to tinker with Windows 8 even as it finalizes its beta version, acting on suggestions it received from users who have experimented with the Windows 8 Developer Preview.
As the global economy struggles in recession, lenders across industry verticals should closely track and validate their scoring models. During economic times of rapid expansion and contraction, scoring models can degrade in their ability to make optimal loan recommendations. Sound population and scorecard tracking and validation practices are part of a robust enterprise risk management program.
U.S. government IT spending is projected to grow to US$90 billion in 2014, up from $76 billion in 2009, with cloud computing and cybersecurity being high-growth areas, according to Input, an analysis and consulting firm focused on government contracting.
The American Society for Quality commissioned Harris Interactive to conduct an online youth survey to learn about kids' interest level in engineering careers and parents input on the topic.
A mysterious software bug in 17 lottery machines used by the D.C. Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board in Washington left several dozen winning instant ticket holders unable to immediately cash their prize tickets last week.
Microsoft has rebranded its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation system in Windows 7, likely an attempt to shed the controversial image of the antipiracy program.
Web bloggers and the general news media have been buzzing for the last couple of weeks about “private user data” being collected by Skype, fearing a breach of personal privacy. Specifically, Skype software was reportedly reading users’ personal computer BIOS data and motherboard serial numbers and reporting the information back to Skype servers. BIOS is an acronym for Basic Input/Output System and BIOS is used by Windows IBM compatible systems to help boot the PC at start-up.
Forget that spam e-mail urging you to visit a special Web site to input your personal data and verify your bank account. That is so last-year when it comes to phish attempts. Today's phishers are getting more sophisticated, using man-in-the-middle tactics that are virtually undetectable by either the user or the legitimate Web site, until it's too late.
Today, more reader input, this time on my newsletter regarding multi-core systems. Several readers wrote to tell me that, yes, the move to multi-core platforms obviously is inevitable, but there remain several wrinkles. Those include issues about reliability, security and I/O throughput with more workloads being put onto single boxes.
When Microsoft last week announced it has slipped in a new password policy management measure into Longhorn, vendors playing in the password management space took it as a validation of their own efforts to push more secure, complex passwords for operating system, network and application access alike.
Google has closed a security hole in a recently released Chinese-input software tool that lies at the heart of a dispute with Chinese Internet company Sohu.com.
Intel last week at the Intel Developers Forum in Taipei opened up part of its Input/Output Acceleration Technology, which speeds network traffic handling, to outside companies.
Microsoft Research showed off a small slice of its futuristic work Tuesday that included user input sensing technology, and graphics technology that morphs still pictures, video and audio into a single display.
In the Jan. 19 issue of this newsletter, we addressed the issue of fair telecoms and broadband pricing, and on Feb. 7, we shared some input from BellSouth's perspective.
Steve recently made a shift from "residential DSL" to "business DSL" service, and that discussion will be followed up in another newsletter. But for today, we're taking a step back into the history of telecommunications. Why? Because, being a typical "bleeding edge" adopter of new technology, Steve had to decommission his old DSL modem. And this happened to be a model that supported a user input of either Ethernet or ATM-25.
In a recent newsletter we discussed Cisco's stated intention to continually add more intelligence into the network. We also asked for your input as to whether or not you saw limits as to how much intelligence belongs in the network.
Role-based management and role-based access control are never far away from a prominent place in this newsletter. From the comments I receive, many of you seem to be really interested in RBAC. I've often thought of trying to better solicit your input on the subject but hadn't gotten around to finding a method. Eurekify founder Ron Rymon evidently thought about it during the Chanukah holidays, though, because he's now posted an online survey to gather your thoughts about role-based management.
Global memory chip makers are hurrying DDR3 (double data rate, third generation) DRAM (dynamic RAM) into Intel validation labs in hopes the processor giant's Centrino 2 laptop chips will spur DRAM demand amid a market glut.
In recent newsletters, we've discussed some of the issues associated with data center consolidation. In particular, we noted that as companies consolidate their data centers they tend to place a higher value on providing data center access that is speedier and more reliable. We also sought your input into the general topic of providing WAN access into data centers. Today, we begin the first in a series of newsletters that will summarize the input that we received from industry analysts, service providers a
Although not originally designed for telephones or tablets, the Linux kernel is now getting more contributions than ever from mobile and portable device vendors, whose input is driving a heretofore unseen rate of development for the open source project.