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Irish Voicemail Can be Hacked – Without a PIN

Update: this article was the subject of an interview on Today FM’s Sunday Business Show this morning. As the phone hacking trial continues in Britain, Technology.ie can exclusively reveal that voice mailboxes on at least two Irish mobile networks are vulnerable to hacking, and the hackers don’t even need to know your PIN. Last week, the […]

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Google AI Figures Things Out For Itself

Google’s image recognition “deep learning” systems have evolved to the point where the engineers working on them no longer understand how they are “thinking”. At the Machine Learning Conference in San Francisco last week, Google Engineer Quoc V Le revealed that the company’s image recognition cluster has learned how to identify items which the programmers don’t […]

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