Ping Identity, the leader in Identity Defined Security, announced that it has made several significant updates to PingIntelligence for APIs, its AI-powered API cybersecurity solution. These latest enhancements include an AI-based cloud trial, the ability to detect new types of attacks, support for Splunk environments, and additional integration with API gateways. "As evidenced by the new advancements to our PingIntelligence for APIs solution, we're committed to delivering even more leading-edge technology to protect our customers' API infrastructures against these emerging threats." The lack of visibility into how APIs are consumed is becoming commonplace in today's enterprise environment. In fact, a recent Ping Identity survey conducted among security and IT professionals reveals that 45% of respondents aren't confident in their organization's ability to detect whether a bad actor is accessing their APIs.

Sheep showed they were not as silly as people think after managing to pick Barack Obama out of a line-up. But when it comes to recognising faces, they may still only have a woolly sense of what people look like. Sadly for those excited by sheep being able to recognise former president Obama, actress Emma Watson and newsreader Fiona Bruce, the animals' intelligence may not have been quite what it seemed. Sheep were able to identify Barack Obama, Emma Watson (pictured) and Fiona Bruce from a line-up. Psychologists now say sheep are not as good as humans at recognising people, and the evidence is that they don't seem to know their own handlers Psychologists now say sheep are not as good as humans at recognising people, and the evidence is that they don't seem to know their own handlers.

Flights at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport were disrupted Tuesday evening after sightings of a drone flying nearby. "At approximately 5pm (22:00 GMT), we received two reports from incoming flights into Newark that a drone was sighted at about 3,500 feet (1,066 metres) above Teterboro, New Jersey," said a spokesman from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). A pilot told air traffic controllers that the drone came within nine metres of his aircraft. Flights in and out of Newark were briefly halted. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey operates both Newark airport and Teterboro which caters mainly to smaller private and corporate jets.

Back in the 1980s, Artificial Intelligence (AI) just had to look good in the movies and be able to power fancy talking cars, zappy spaceships and various forms of fantastical cyborgs who would one day roam the planet and possibly destroy the human race. Fast-forward to 2019 and we find ourselves deep in the AI renaissance (or perhaps first'real' birth of AI, rather than any form of rebirth) as we now have the processing power, memory capacity, cloud network breadth and sophisticated algorithmic intelligence to actually apply AI to our lives. But there's a problem -- we (the humans) who build the AI brains need to be able to construct them with a pure enough form of digital DNA such that they stay clean of any form of discriminatory bias. Major cloud networks have already been criticized for employing software that discriminates against women; a well-known search engine has been accused of featuring ethnic bias in results when looking for'unprofessional hairstyles'; an equally well-known social network has been criticized for showing certain job ads only to men; and the list goes on. The question the tech industry must now face is: how to we rid AI of bias in all its forms and ensure fair play for all in the age of computer-driven decision making? One set of answers comes from Women Leading in AI (WLinAI), a network of leaders working in tech, science, politics, business and think tanks – the group is demanding that the UK government takes back control of technology.

This article first appeared in Data Sheet, Fortune's daily newsletter on the top tech news. To get it delivered daily to your in-box, sign up here. The World Economic Forum annual meeting convenes this week in Davos, Switzerland. One of the biggest topics on the 2019 agenda, as it was last year, is artificial intelligence. That's because A.I. is at once an irrefutably important technological trend sweeping the business world and the subject of a commensurate amount of hype. After all, an immutable law of technology and business is that any complicated development brings with it self-proclaimed priests of said subject intent on frightening the less-informed into buying their goods and services.

An Alaska company that makes a parachute system for drones came to Rome to conduct federal validation tests for its product. Indemnis sent a team to the New York Unmanned Aerial Systems Test Site at Griffiss International Airport in Rome in December to demonstrate its Nexus parachute system, according to a news release issued Wednesday by DJI, the Shenzhen, China-based maker of a line of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, and NUAIR. DJI has lines of drones for use in photography, film making, law enforcement, construction, agriculture and consumers. The companies began working together two years ago to develop a system that can deploy instantly if a drone gets into trouble. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration prohibits most drone operations over people, but operators can get a waiver if they show they have safety measures.

A year ago, I picked seven technologies that would play significant roles in 2018. Some of my predictions were correct, and some of them reappear on this list -- 5G hasn't quite happened yet, but we're getting closer. As George Saville, the 17th-century English statesman and essayist, once wrote, "The best qualification of a prophet is to have a good memory." It's a fancy way of saying the past is prologue, and no vision for the near-future is possible without analyzing past trends. That's what I've done to concoct these informed guesses about the state of tech in 2019.

Just a month after reports of drone activity repeatedly closed Gatwick airport in the UK, Newark Liberty International Airport temporarily halted arrivals on Tuesday. In a tweet after it reopened, Newark said there were reports of drone activity "to the north" earlier. Reuters reports on an FAA statement saying that two drones were sighted at about 3,500 feet above Teterboro Airport, which along with Newark is operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. In the UK, EasyJet said that the Gatwick closings grounded 1,000 flights, caused 400 flight cancellations and cost it 15 million pounds in passenger compensation, calling the incident a "wake up call" for the industry. Gatwick and Heathrow purchased anti-drone systems after incidents, although police still have not identified anyone behind them after arresting and releasing two people.

Federal leaders on Friday announced the 15 tech experts who will serve on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. The commission, created by the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, will advise government on the national security implications of artificial intelligence and how to maintain U.S. dominance in the tech's increasingly competitive market. The group is eligible for up to $10 million in funding through fiscal 2020. Former Alphabet Chief Executive Eric Schmidt will head the group, and former Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work will serve as vice chairman. This won't be Schmidt's first foray in advisory jobs--he already leads the Defense Innovation Board, which the Pentagon consults on a variety of tech issues.

Many in tech industry are optimists and believe in technology's potential to create positive change. And technology's integration in society has promoted exciting innovations in the last few decades. However, recent news events have served as reminders that we need to have companies reaffirm their commitment to nurture and support a fair and inclusive society. From a business perspective, companies see the benefits of such advancements and may skew toward positive outcomes. And while technological innovation certainly has the potential for safer, more personalized and intelligent experiences, progress is always a trade-off.