IT Lab

Google | January 28, 2020

MediaPipe could previously be deployed to desktop, mobile devices running Android and iOS, and edge devices like Google’s Coral hardware family, but it’s increasingly making its way to the web courtesy WebAssembly, a portable binary code format for executable programs, and XNNPack ML Inference Library, an optimized collection of floating-point AI inference operators. MediaPipe could previously be deployed to desktop, mobile devices running Android and iOS, and edge devices like Googl...

Microsoft | January 13, 2020

The security team at npm (Node Package Manager), the de-facto package manager for the JavaScript ecosystem, has taken down today a malicious package that was caught stealing sensitive information from UNIX systems. The malicious package is named 1337qq-js and was uploaded on the npm repository on December 30, 2019. The package was downloaded at least 32 times, before it was spotted and today by Microsoft's Vulnerability Research team. According to an analysis by the np...

VentureBeat | March 12, 2020

For the second year running, lawmakers in the state of Washington again failed to pass sweeping data privacy legislation. The Washington Privacy Act or SB 6281 akin to GPDR in the European Union or CCPA in California would have allowed individuals to request companies delete their data. Washington state House and Senate lawmakers did succeed in passing SB 6280 today for public and private facial recognition use. The bill requires testing facial recognition for bias, training, mandates local and ...

General AI

PR Newswire | October 06, 2023

Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) expands its Dell Generative AI Solutions portfolio, helping businesses transform how they work along every step of their generative AI (GenAI) journeys. To maximize AI efforts and support workloads across public clouds, on-premises environments and at the edge, companies need a robust data foundation with the right infrastructure, software and services, said Jeff Boudreau, chief AI officer, Dell Technologies. That's what we are ...