Researchers from MIT's Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the machine-learning startup PatternEx have demonstrated an artificial intelligence platform that predicts cyber-attacks with 85% accuracy. Named as AI2, this artificial intelligence platform is roughly three times better than present security systems, and also reduces the number of false positives by a factor of 5. The present security systems are either Human or Machine-centric. The human based Security systems rely on the existing rules created by living experts and therefore miss any attacks that don't match the rules. Similarly, the machine reliant systems rely on "anomaly detection," which tends to trigger false positives that both create distrust of the system and end up having to be investigated by humans, anyway.

Driving into Johannesburg, the skyline is often encased in a dome of smog. As Africa urbanises and industrialises, its economic growth is powered by coal, its vehicles by dirty fuels, and many still cook over paraffin and three-stone fires, burning their rubbish in the street. Researchers believe that more than 700,000 Africans die each year as a result of air pollution – and the number continues to grow. Few African cities even measure air pollution, but those that do routinely rank among the dirtiest on the planet. Nigeria is home to four of the worst, including Onitsha, which holds the dubious distinction of the Earth's most toxic air.

Publishing data on Kaggle is a way organizations can reach a diverse audience of data scientists with an enthusiasm for learning, knowledge, and collaboration. For Dr. Erin Miller of START, the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, making her organization's Global Terrorism Database available for analysis by Kaggle users has brought new awareness to their cause. In this Open Data Spotlight, Erin discusses how setting aside agendas and focusing on understanding this unparalleled dataset of over 150,000 attack events allows users to undertake constructive analyses that may defy common conceptions about terrorism. Read on to learn more about the Global Terrorism Database project and the ways users of open data can make valuable contributions to the organizations that make them possible. My role started out (more than 12 years ago) as a graduate assistant cleaning raw data, and now I manage the project team, workflow, resources, and interaction with end users and related research projects.

Driverless cars could be dangerous because of the time it takes for drivers to retake control if something goes wrong, scientists have warned. A new study found it could take 25 seconds for drivers to take the wheel in a non-emergency situation. It is feared this lag could cause driverless cars to swerve, make sudden lane changes or brake harshly if people do react fast enough. Research by the University of Southampton found drivers took up to 25.7 seconds when distracted to respond to a command to take over from the car's computer. Professor Neville Stanton, lead author, shown in Southampton's driving simulator But initial models are not expected to drive themselves for a full journey.

To modernize cybersecurity for Livingston County, Mich., officials turned to a machine learning tool that can find anomalies in behaviors without previous knowledge of what to look for. Darktrace's Enterprise Immune System is powered by unsupervised machine learning, meaning county officials didn't have to tell it what to watch out for using rules or signatures. Instead, they plugged it in and let it run for three weeks so that it could learn about the network's typical behavior, establishing what's called a "pattern of life." Then when the system detects something out of the ordinary, an alert is issued in real time. "A tool like this works best when it's placed where it can see the traffic we're most interested in," county Deputy Chief Information Security Officer Paul Curylo said. "We placed it such that we can see traffic of interest traversing through our core as well as traffic traversing out to the internet."

Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) received a major boost to its development of self-driving cars when the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Department of Investigation closed its review of a fatal accident of a Tesla Model S while it was on autopilot. The investigation concluded that there was no problem with Autosteer, the key part of Tesla's Autopilot, and confirmed Tesla's claims that when used properly the system reduced crash rates by almost 40%. The investigation found that Tesla vehicle crash rates dropped from 1.3 accidents per million miles driven to 0.8 after the introduction of Autosteer. This is important news for the company and gives its efforts towards building a self-driving Tesla car sharing program a major boost. Last year, the company announced the second master plan for the company.

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Security remains one of the top unresolved challenges for businesses. Billions of dollars have been spent on security technology over the last 30 years, yet hackers seem to be more successful than ever. Every organization is now under extreme threat, all the time. Today, hacking is a much more complex art than it used to be: It no longer only involves just scanning and penetrating the network via a vulnerability. Yet the traditional security tools used by most companies are often inadequate because they still focus on this, ignoring what is now a very complex post-compromise chain of events.

Last year, the first season of HBO's Westworld concluded as most stories about robots do: with the machine eliminating its maker. This shouldn't have been surprising. Across Hollywood, from Terminator to Ex Machina, the first thing artificially intelligent robots seem to do once they gain consciousness is go rogue. It makes for a cool ending, but if the writers of Westworld's season 2 want to aim for more science and less fiction, they might consider having their "hosts" not eliminate humans, but help them to prevent cyberattacks or improve cancer treatments. And what if the show's humans didn't live in fear of robots, but instead set some ground rules for how AI technology can be used meaningfully, for the benefit of all?

Part two of our series "A day in the life of a city" looks at the ways in which offices are changing and how cities are coping with the ever-growing problem of pollution. The morning rush hour is over and, if you live in a city in the developed world, you are likely to be settling down at your desk for the next eight or so hours. However, the office block and skyscraper, which have been part of our urban landscape since the end of the 19th Century, may also soon become surplus to requirements. Urban architect Anthony Townsend thinks cities need more creative approaches to how we work and is keen to reclaim the streets by creating pop-up workspaces in the parks and plazas of the financial district in New York. "Before the New York Stock Exchange, traders met under a tree on Wall Street to buy and sell shares. It is only in the last 50 years that we have taken that creative energy and sucked it up into office buildings and separated it from public space," he said.