Facebook is working on automatically flagging offensive material in live video streams, building on a growing effort to use artificial intelligence to monitor content, said Joaquin Candela, the company's director of applied machine learning. The social media company has been embroiled in a number of content moderation controversies this year, from facing international outcry after removing an iconic Vietnam War photo due to nudity, to allowing the spread of fake news on its site. Facebook has historically relied mostly on users to report offensive posts, which are then checked by Facebook employees against company "community standards." Decisions on especially thorny content issues that might require policy changes are made by top executives at the company. Candela told reporters that Facebook increasingly was using artificial intelligence to find offensive material.

The footage reveals a glimpse of North Korea's capital city, Pyongyang in May 2016 Numerous landmarks can be seen, including the Kim Il-Sung Stadium and Kumsusan Palace of the Sun Groups of people walking around the city, and cars driving on the streets can be seen in the footage The footage reveals a glimpse of North Korea's capital city, Pyongyang in May 2016 The video, taken by the Iris camera on May 30, provides a distant look at life behind the city walls, with sparse traffic and even pedestrians visible in the clips. How fusion reactors could change the world: Experts explain... Global warming scarred the surface of Mars: Deep canyons and... Why atheists appear so angry: Study finds their... Google's humanoid robot goes off road (and this time,... How fusion reactors could change the world: Experts explain... Global warming scarred the surface of Mars: Deep canyons and... Why atheists appear so angry: Study finds their... Google's humanoid robot goes off road (and this time,... The Kumsusan Palace of the Sun can be seen in the footage as well. 'The world doesn't get many peeks behind North Korea's walls, nor at its capital city, Pyongyang,' Theras A. Gordon Wood wrote in a UrtheCast blog post. Footage captured from the International Space Station has revealed a rare glimpse at North Korea's capital city, Pyongyang.

Facebook Inc (FB.O) is working on automatically flagging offensive material in live video streams, building on a growing effort to use artificial intelligence to monitor content, said Joaquin Candela, the company's director of applied machine learning. The social media company has been embroiled in a number of content moderation controversies this year, from facing international outcry after removing an iconic Vietnam War photo due to nudity, to allowing the spread of fake news on its site. Facebook has historically relied mostly on users to report offensive posts, which are then checked by Facebook employees against company "community standards." Decisions on especially thorny content issues that might require policy changes are made by top executives at the company. Candela told reporters that Facebook increasingly was using artificial intelligence to find offensive material.

The Tokyo-based National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) is taking bids for a new supercomputer that will deliver more than 130 single precision petaflops when completed in late 2017. The system, known as the AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure (ABCI), is mainly being built for artificial intelligence developers and providers, and will be made available as a cloud resource to researchers and commercial organizations. The ostensible goal is to "rapidly accelerate the deployment of AI into real businesses and society" – that according to a one-page fact sheet presented at the recent SC16 conference in Salt Lake City. But as is apparent from that document, the supercomputer will also support more traditional users of HPC and advanced analytics applications. The cloud aspect of the system will make it possible for outside entities to use its resources.

Autonomous systems can be used to search for sparse signals in a large space; e.g., aerial robots can be deployed to localize threats, detect gas leaks, or respond to distress calls. Intuitively, search algorithms may increase efficiency by collecting aggregate measurements summarizing large contiguous regions. However, most existing search methods either ignore the possibility of such region observations (e.g., Bayesian optimization and multi-armed bandits) or make strong assumptions about the sensing mechanism that allow each measurement to arbitrarily encode all signals in the entire environment (e.g., compressive sensing). We propose an algorithm that actively collects data to search for sparse signals using only noisy measurements of the average values on rectangular regions (including single points), based on the greedy maximization of information gain. We analyze our algorithm in 1d and show that it requires $\tilde{O}(\frac{n}{\mu^2}+k^2)$ measurements to recover all of $k$ signal locations with small Bayes error, where $\mu$ and $n$ are the signal strength and the size of the search space, respectively. We also show that active designs can be fundamentally more efficient than passive designs with region sensing, contrasting with the results of Arias-Castro, Candes, and Davenport (2013). We demonstrate the empirical performance of our algorithm on a search problem using satellite image data and in high dimensions.

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Facebook Develops Censorship Software in Bid to Re-Enter Chinese MarketThe company has traditionally relied on users to report offensive posts, but is hoping to automate its censorship. Joaquin Candela, the company's director of applied machine learning, said during a news conference that the company has been increasingly using artificial intelligence to moderate offensive content. The algorithm that they are using, according to Candela, currently "detects nudity, violence, or any of the things that are not according to our policies." In June, Facebook began using automation to flag and remove uploaded extremist video content, but there are currently no algorithms to detect the content in live video feeds. Social media platforms have been under tremendous pressure from governments to quickly remove violent propaganda from organizations such as Daesh.

It certainly has been another long week in cybersecurity. First, news that a third party hacked a group allegedly connected to the NSA and made off with secret "hacking tools" rocked the industry. It was shortly followed by news of cyber attacks in the form of smart email "bombs" raining down upon the mailboxes of .gov News of new ransomware-as-a-service platforms added to the headache, as did news of two big PoS hacks where credit card information may have been stolen from retailers, hotels and restaurants. As summer wanes and stretches towards Labor Day, it will also be hard to forget the hack of the servers at the Democratic National Committee.

The mainstream media is trying to make it look like Donald Trump has no chance of beating Hillary Clinton on Election Day in two weeks. That's why it came as a massive shock to many when an artificial intelligence (AI) system that correctly predicted the last three elections puts Trump ahead of Clinton in the race. According to The Gateway Pundit, the system found that enthusiasm for Trump is higher than the numbers Barack Obama had in 2008. Trump has overtaken Obama's popularity that year by a whopping 25%. CNBC reported that the system is called MogIA, and it was founded by Sanjiv Rai, the founder of Indian start-up Genic.ai.