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European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, July 2021. ShutterstockSince the Digital Services Act (DSA) came into force for all online platforms across the European Union (EU) on February 17, I’ve been frequently refreshing the European Commission’s page to see the list of trusted flaggers.According to Article 22 of the DSA, a trusted flagger is an entity recognised for its expertise in flagging illegal content and its independence from platforms, and “should be awarded by the Digital Services Coordinator of the Member State in which the applicant is based and recognised by all online platform providers within the scope of the…

US intelligence agencies will be deploying generative artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze sensitive data. Announced last week, Microsoft’s generative AI models for intelligence agencies will be “air-gapped” into cloud-based environments to address security issues with large language models (LLMs), which are typically internet-facing. It will be the first major law school to be disconnected from the internet, but still retain most of its computing power. Generative AI can analyze vast amounts of data and recognize patterns much faster than humans. The CIA began using generative AI tools for unclassified purposes last year, but more sensitive national security information must be…

Shruti Sharma is a Fellow in the Carnegie India Technology and Society Program, where she is currently working on exploring the challenges and opportunities of leveraging biotechnology to improve India’s public health capacity.Sharma is working closely with stakeholders across the scientific and academic communities, as well as representatives from the private sector and government, on a paper that will discuss the challenges faced by each community during the pandemic and the role of governments and the private sector in establishing a robust and sustainable research ecosystem.Prior to this, Ms. Sharma worked on India’s view on biotechnology security risks. As part…

What you need to knowAnalysts at IDC reported in a Bloomberg newsletter that Sony’s smartphone business saw sales fall 40% last year. The decline is expected to continue as Sony’s Xperia brand struggles to compete with the likes of Apple and Google. Sony is teasing the launch of new Xperia smartphones in an announcement on May 15, which are rumored to be targeted at a more mainstream customer base. Sony is just days away from the launch of its new Xperia smartphone, and the announcement is likely to have a major impact on the company’s future mobile product rollout. Rumors…

Editor’s note: Quantum and space technologies have several things in common. First, the rapid convergence of deep technologies. We are publishing a growing number of articles featuring both quantum and space technologies, such as quantum communications and quantum sensing. These technologies also share an ecosystem complexity that is transforming an industry once associated with science fiction into science fact. For these two reasons, Space Impulse Editor-in-Chief Alyssa Lafleur is now sharing how the Space Impulse Market Intelligence Platform can help you better understand and navigate the complex, valuable, and rapidly evolving space industry. The space technology market is undergoing fundamental…

Millions of IoT devices in sectors including financial services, communications, healthcare and automotive are at risk of being compromised due to multiple vulnerabilities in the cellular modem technology that devices use to communicate with each other and with central servers.The vulnerabilities in Telit’s Cinterion modems include remote code execution flaws, some of which require an attacker to have local access to the affected machine to exploit, the most severe of which is a memory heap overflow vulnerability (CVE-2023-47610) that could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on affected devices via SMS.Seven Critical VulnerabilitiesKaspersky researchers discovered the vulnerabilities in…

Berlin Transport now has seamless 4G/LTE mobile coverage across its entire subway system, revolutionizing connectivity for daily commuters and visitors. In a major development for Berlin’s subway system, passengers can now enjoy seamless connectivity underground thanks to a powerful 4G/LTE mobile network spanning the entire Berlin Transport Authority (BVG) network. A joint effort between BVG and O2 Telefónica, the initiative ensures high-speed internet access for all subway passengers, regardless of their mobile provider. “Having good mobile phone reception in the subway and being able to access the Internet and send e-mails are part of a modern metropolis for Berliners and…

Thursday, May 9, 2024 • Katherine Egan Bennett: Contact Kelsey Beavers, who is researching coral reef disease Kelsey Beavers’ love for the ocean began at a young age. Born into a family of avid scuba divers, she became a certified junior diver at age 11. “It was a different world,” Beavers said. “I loved everything about the ocean.” After graduating from high school, Beavers, a native of Austin, moved to Fort Worth to study environmental science at Texas Christian University, where one of her professors knew Laura Midlers, a biology professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, who encouraged…

How to use Exploratory Data Analysis to drive information from time series data and enhance feature engineering using PythonPhoto by Ales Krivec on UnsplashTime series analysis certainly represents one of the most widespread topics in the field of data science and machine learning: whether predicting financial events, energy consumption, product sales or stock market trends, this field has always been of great interest to businesses.Obviously, the great increase in data availability, combined with the constant progress in machine learning models, has made this topic even more interesting today. Alongside traditional forecasting methods derived from statistics (e.g. regressive models, ARIMA models,…

Australians help identify mobile phone black spots. Photo: Shutterstock While next-generation 5G mobile network coverage is expanding, customers still rely heavily on 4G and soon-to-be-disconnected 3G networks to fill coverage gaps outside local highways and regional centres, according to provisional figures from a nationwide mobile coverage audit. The three-month pilot of a national mobile coverage audit, with $20 million allocated as part of the Government’s $1.1 billion Connectivity Improvement Plan for regional and rural Australia in Budget 2022, will use specialised equipment to measure coverage of Telstra, Optus and TPG’s 5G, 4G and 3G mobile networks where available, until 30…