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Researchers discover lock- screen exploit in iOS 13 just a week before software is to be released
A final beta version of Apple's iOS 13 was found sporting some pretty major flaws just a week before the operating system is set to be released on devices everywhere. As reported by The Verge, researcher Jose Rodriguez discovered a flaw that enables one to access a phone's list of contacts by initiating a FaceTime call. Once a call is placed, Rodriguez shows how, using the voice-over accessibility feature through the iPhones virtual assistant, Siri, all of the contacts in the phone can be accessed, revealing email addresses, phone numbers, names, and any other information stored in the phone's contact list. The flaw, which Rodriguez reported to Apple in July after examining public betas of iOS 13, is similar to one found by the researcher in the operating system's predecessor, iOS 12.1. Though iOS 13 has yet to be released, betas of the new operating system have been available for months, meaning anyone who downloaded the preliminary versions has been unknowingly walking around with the glitch in their device.
r/MachineLearning - [D] Does anyone know of an example of model for translating acronyms?
I have a huge corpus of documents that are filled with acronyms. It is mostly government stuff. Currently we use regex to translates, but the regex performs poorly and requires a lot of manual fixing. I haven't been able to google this question (it just brings up lists of machine learning/deep learning acronyms).
r/MachineLearning - [D] Quantum search applicability to machine learning
I was just reading about a hypothesis that quantum search might be common in nature. If it is leveraged in the brain, perhaps that might increase the biological plausibility of Hinton's capsules. In particular I'm wondering if EM routing between capsules might be implemented as quantum search. Another possibility is a quantum search encompassing multiple layers of neurons to find weights that minimize the cost function, without the need for back-propagation. But unless nature has some secret for maintaining quantum coherence over large structures, it seems more likely that quantum search would operate more locally.
r/MachineLearning - [D] Do people use meta learning in production?
I would think of meta-learning as broad class of algorithms where feedback is explicitly considered as part of the training data. This is useful for few-shot classification but may not be necessary. The finetuning approach actually has much better results on few-shot classification benchmarks at the moment. If you want an example of a use of meta-learning which is distinct from few-shot classification, check out the spicy new paper "MetaMixUp" which uses meta learning to control the mixing rate for mixup training.
WATCH: This virtual reality sex toy takes AI to the next level IOL
It sounds like something from an episode of Netflix series "Black Mirror" but the prospect of a virtual reality lover could be closer than you think. San Francisco-based tech company Virtual Mate has launched its VirtualMate system - the world's first virtual intimacy system. "VirtualMate is real-time interaction with a life-like virtual character," Jeff Dillon, the company's CEO and co-founder told British Newspaper Metro. "Real-time is the key here as all other attempts at this market are with pre-recorded content or a live cam model," said Dillon. "With the advancements in AI our system will know the user's name, habits, likes and dislikes."