Internet censorship by authoritarian governments prohibits free and open access to information for millions of people around the world. Attempts to evade such censorship have turned into a continually escalating race to keep up with ever-changing, increasingly sophisticated internet censorship. Censoring regimes have had the advantage in that race, because researchers must manually search for ways to circumvent censorship, a process that takes considerable time. New work led by University of Maryland computer scientists could shift the balance of the censorship race. The researchers developed a tool called Geneva (short for Genetic Evasion), which automatically learns how to circumvent censorship.

In both the case of the interlocking food containers invention and the abstract artwork, DABUS "created" without the intervention of a human being, so is DABUS the inventor?

Gartner released its 2020 technology trends last month with great – and appropriate – fanfare. Before I comment, we should all note just how volatile the technology world has become. So let me say at the outset that I appreciate Gartner's galvanizing a ton of trends into coherence. The robotic process automation (RPA) revolution is already in full swing. It's hard to find a company not looking at processes it can automate, and it's harder to find a company not keenly aware of technological leverage in the RPA mission.

New work led by University of Maryland computer scientists could shift the balance of the censorship race. The researchers developed a tool called Geneva (short for Genetic Evasion), which automatically learns how to circumvent censorship. Tested in China, India and Kazakhstan, Geneva found dozens of ways to circumvent censorship by exploiting gaps in censors' logic and finding bugs that the researchers say would have been virtually impossible for humans to find manually. The researchers will introduce Geneva during a peer-reviewed talk at the Association for Computing Machinery's 26th Conference on Computer and Communications Security in London on November 14, 2019. "With Geneva, we are, for the first time, at a major advantage in the censorship arms race," said Dave Levin, an assistant professor of computer science at UMD and senior author of the paper.

In addition to being designed particularly for the French markets of Canada, the company is trying to lure customers with enterprise-centred options such as customization, review by human translators, and cybersecurity. Kalaci says the technology, which is not affiliated with Amazon's Alexa, is hosted on Canadian servers and the text is destroyed once it is translated. There is also an option for firms to use their data to train a customised tool. Either way, he says, is an improvement over free services offered on the web. "Most web-based tools you use, have a disclosure wherein they say, 'Any content you put in here, we keep.' And that's how they keep improving their tools," says Kalaci.

In addition to being designed particularly for the French markets of Canada, the company is trying to lure customers with enterprise-centred options such as customization, review by human translators, and cybersecurity. Kalaci says the technology, which is not affiliated with Amazon's Alexa, is hosted on Canadian servers and the text is destroyed once it is translated. There is also an option for firms to use their data to train a customised tool. Either way, he says, is an improvement over free services offered on the web. "Most web-based tools you use, have a disclosure wherein they say, 'Any content you put in here, we keep.' And that's how they keep improving their tools," says Kalaci.

New South Wales courts could be flooded with tens of thousands of cases every year if the NSW government moves ahead with plans to roll out cameras that use artificial intelligence to detect drivers using their mobile phones, a parliamentary committee has warned. The state parliament is considering legislation that would allow mobile phone detection cameras to be placed around NSW to capture drivers using their mobile phones while behind the wheel. The government estimates that there were at least 158 casualties on NSW roads between 2012 and 2018 involving mobile phones. Under the plan, two cameras are used at each location, with one at an angle to capture people with phones to their ears, and a second placed to capture people using their phones in their laps. Every car passing through thelocation is snapped, and Transport for NSW says it then deploys artificial intelligence to determine which drivers were using their mobiles.

Conversations about AI often focus on technology, but we shouldn't forget that most business outcomes are linked to relationships with people, said Warren Hero, chief digital officer at Webber Wentzel, a law firm headquartered in Johannesburg Webber Wentzel – recently recognized as the African law firm of the year – aims to build a completely digital practice. Hero was speaking at AfricaCom about his experience of applying AI in the legal profession to increase both efficiency and productivity. He revealed that in the first AI experiment the company ran, it was able to decrease the time required to deliver a specific service from seven months to just three weeks. "in the process, we were able to give our clients certainty about, first of all, the quality of the outcome. And, second of all, about the cost of that outcome," Hero said.

"Banning killer robots is both politically savvy and morally necessary," said Mary Wareham, the Arms Division advocacy director at Human Rights Watch and coordinator of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. "European states should take the lead and open ban treaty negotiations if they are serious about protecting the world from this horrific development." Countries attending the annual meeting of states parties to the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) at the United Nations in Geneva will decide on November 15 whether to continue diplomatic talks on killer robots, also known as lethal autonomous weapons systems or fully autonomous weapons. Since 2014, these states have held eight meetings on lethal autonomous weapons systems under the auspices of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW), a major disarmament treaty. Over the course of those meetings, states have built a shared understanding of concern, but they have struggled to reach agreement on credible recommendations for multilateral action due to the objections of a handful of military powers, most notably Russia and the United States.

The child labor activist, who works for Indian NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan, had launched a pilot program 15 months prior to match a police database containing photos of all of India's missing children with another one comprising shots of all the minors living in the country's child care institutions. He had just found out the results. "We were able to match 10,561 missing children with those living in institutions," he told CNN. "They are currently in the process of being reunited with their families." Most of them were victims of trafficking, forced to work in the fields, in garment factories or in brothels, according to Ribhu. This momentous undertaking was made possible by facial recognition technology provided by New Delhi's police.