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5 things about AI you may have missed today: US orders Nvidia to stop AI chip export, AI data poisoning tool, more
25Oct By adminNo Comments
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5 things about AI you may have missed today: US orders Nvidia to stop AI chip export, AI data poisoning tool, more

[ad_1] Today, October 25, was an important day in the artificial intelligence space, especially when it comes to AI chips. In the first incident, tech giant Nvidia says that the US government has ordered it to immediately stop exporting some of its advanced AI chips to China. Earlier, this decision was supposed to come into effect 30 days after October 17. In other news, Qualcomm has unveiled a new AI-powered chip for Microsoft Windows-based laptops and claims that its performance may even surpass that of Apple's Mac computers. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.US stops Nvidia from exporting AI chips to ChinaNvidia has revealed that, due to regulatory changes, the US government has told it to immediately cease exporting certain top-tier artificial intelligen...
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Tens of millions still use Instagram in Iran despite crackdown: Meta
24Feb By adminNo Comments
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Tens of millions still use Instagram in Iran despite crackdown: Meta

[ad_1] Meta on Thursday said that tens of millions of people in Iran are using Instagram despite government efforts to block the service due to months-long protests. Iran has been rocked by citizen outrage since the September 16 death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini following her arrest for an alleged breach of dress rules for women. "Instagram has been widely used by Iranians to shed light on the protests and the brutal response to them," Meta president of global affairs Nick Clegg said during a briefing. "People have also shared Instagram footage of the protests with international media outlets, many of whom can't report directly from Iran." Protests triggered by Amini's death resulted in authorities clamping down on speech and freedom of assembly, and limiting the use ...
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Ukraine war moves ‘Doomsday Clock’ to 90 seconds to midnight
25Jan By adminNo Comments
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Ukraine war moves ‘Doomsday Clock’ to 90 seconds to midnight

[ad_1] With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the specter of nuclear weapon use, Earth crept its closest to Armageddon, a science-oriented advocacy group said, moving its famous “Doomsday Clock” up to just 90 seconds before midnight. With Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the specter of nuclear weapon use, Earth crept its closest to Armageddon, a science-oriented advocacy group said, moving its famous “Doomsday Clock” up to just 90 seconds before midnight. “We are really closer to that doomsday,” former Mongolian president Elbegdorj Tsakhia said Tuesday at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists annual announcement rating how close humanity is from doing itself in. He and former Ireland President Mary Robinson joined scientists to underscore what they consider a gathering of several existe...
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Cyberattack hits Iran’s Fars news agency
26Nov By adminNo Comments
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Cyberattack hits Iran’s Fars news agency

[ad_1] Iran has been rocked by protests since Amini's death in custody on September 16, after her arrest for an alleged breach of the country's dress code for women. Hackers have disrupted the work of Iran's Fars news agency, one of the main sources of news disseminated by the state during protests over Mahsa Amini's death, the agency said. Iran has been rocked by protests since Amini's death in custody on September 16, after her arrest for an alleged breach of the country's dress code for women. Fars said its website had been disrupted late Friday by a "complex hacking and cyberattack operation". "Removing possible bugs... may cause problems for some agency services for a few days," it said in a statement posted Saturday on its Telegram channel. "Cyberattacks against Fars new...
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Iran hypersonic missile claim raises nuclear watchdog concern
12Nov By adminNo Comments
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Iran hypersonic missile claim raises nuclear watchdog concern

[ad_1] An Iranian general claimed Thursday that the Islamic republic had developed a hypersonic missile capable of penetrating all defence systems, raising concerns from the UN nuclear watchdog. An Iranian general claimed Thursday that the Islamic republic had developed a hypersonic missile capable of penetrating all defence systems, raising concerns from the UN nuclear watchdog.Hypersonic missiles, which like traditional ballistic missiles can deliver nuclear weapons, can fly at more than five times the speed of sound. "This hypersonic ballistic missile was developed to counter air defence shields," General Amirali Hajizadeh, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps aerospace unit, was quoted as saying by Fars news agency. "It will be able to breach all the systems of a...
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Iran says it has built hypersonic ballistic missile -Tasnim
10Nov By adminNo Comments
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Iran says it has built hypersonic ballistic missile -Tasnim

[ad_1] Iran has built a hypersonic ballistic missile, the semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted the Revolutionary Guards' aerospace commander as saying. Iran has built a hypersonic ballistic missile, the semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted the Revolutionary Guards' aerospace commander as saying, in remarks likely to heighten concerns about Iranian missile capabilities."This missile has a high speed and can manoeuvre in and out of the atmosphere. It will target the enemy's advanced anti-missile systems and is a big generational leap in the field of missiles," commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh was quoted as saying. Hypersonic missiles can fly at least five times faster than the speed of sound and on a complex trajectory, which makes them difficult to intercept. However, there have been...
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Iran says it successfully tested satellite launch rocket
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Iran says it successfully tested satellite launch rocket

[ad_1] Iran announced the successful test flight of a rocket capable of propelling satellites into space, three months after launching a satellite with the help of Russia. Iran announced Saturday the successful test flight of a rocket capable of propelling satellites into space, three months after launching a satellite with the help of Russia. The United States has repeatedly voiced concern that such launches could boost Iran's ballistic missile technology, extending to the potential delivery of nuclear warheads. But Iran insists it is not seeking nuclear weapons and that its satellite and rocket launches are for civil or defensive purposes only. State television reported the "successful suborbital launch of the satellite launcher named Ghaem-100". "The flight test of this lau...
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Binance says crypto moved through platform from Iran
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Binance says crypto moved through platform from Iran

[ad_1] Funds belonging to or intended for Iranians have flowed through the world's largest cryptocurrency platform, Binance, the company said Friday, risking that it may run afoul of US-imposed sanctions. "Earlier in the week, we discovered that Binance interacted" with "bad actors" using Iranian cryptocurrency exchanges, said Chagri Poyraz, head of sanctions at Binance. Some of these users "attempted to move crypto through Binance's exchange," he wrote on the blog on the company's website. "As soon as we discovered this, we moved to freeze transfers (and) block accounts." When asked by AFP about the number of these accounts and the amounts involved, Binance declined comment. According to Reuters, some $7.8 billion has passed through Binance in connection with accounts domicile...
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US Sees More Aggressive Cybersecurity Threats, Warns About Russia, China, Iran
19Oct By adminNo Comments
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US Sees More Aggressive Cybersecurity Threats, Warns About Russia, China, Iran

[ad_1] Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said the US has observed growing cybersecurity threats. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said the US has observed growing cybersecurity threats both at home and throughout Asia, and is warning against activity coming from Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. “Malicious activity from the PRC is a real and present threat, not just for the United States, but for other countries as well and that's why I've traveled such a distance here,” he told Bloomberg Television's Haslinda Amin on Wednesday during a trip to Singapore. His remarks come amid heightened tensions between the US and China over a host of issues from trade to human rights and the status of Taiwan. The US government has long alleged that China runs...
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What are ‘kamikaze’ drones that struck Ukraine’s capital Kyiv | Explained
18Oct By adminNo Comments
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What are ‘kamikaze’ drones that struck Ukraine’s capital Kyiv | Explained

[ad_1] Waves of explosive-laden suicide drones reportedly struck Ukraine's capital Kyiv with "Kamikaze" drones. Waves of explosive-laden suicide drones reportedly struck Ukraine's capital Kyiv with "Kamikaze" drones or Iranian-made loitering munitions on Monday. Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, while in conversation with ANI, explained what these drones are and if this will further escalate and intensify the Russia-Ukraine conflict. "They are not a new type of weaponry. The technology has been around for the last 15 years, at least. It is an evolution of different weapon systems, essentially just a cruise missile." Before explaining what Kamikaze drones are the expert described the functionality of a cruise missile to help unde...
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