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Doing good by fighting fraud: Ethical anti-fraud systems for mobile payments

Din, Zainul Abi, Venugopalan, Hari, Lin, Henry, Wushensky, Adam, Liu, Steven, King, Samuel T.

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

App builders commonly use security challenges, a form of step-up authentication, to add security to their apps. However, the ethical implications of this type of architecture has not been studied previously. In this paper, we present a large-scale measurement study of running an existing anti-fraud security challenge, Boxer, in real apps running on mobile devices. We find that although Boxer does work well overall, it is unable to scan effectively on devices that run its machine learning models at less than one frame per second (FPS), blocking users who use inexpensive devices. With the insights from our study, we design Daredevil, anew anti-fraud system for scanning payment cards that work swell across the broad range of performance characteristics and hardware configurations found on modern mobile devices. Daredevil reduces the number of devices that run at less than one FPS by an order of magnitude compared to Boxer, providing a more equitable system for fighting fraud. In total, we collect data from 5,085,444 real devices spread across 496 real apps running production software and interacting with real users.


Netflix price increase for monthly subscription to hit 58 million users across US

The Independent - Tech

Netflix is raising its subscription prices for all 58 million of its US users, marking the first increase since 2017. It marks the biggest price increase for monthly subscriptions since launching its streaming service in 2007, and the first since 2017. All new Netflix subscribers will be subject to the increased prices, while existing subscribers will see their subscriptions go up over the next three months. Netflix has made a major effort in recent years to produce original content in order to keep subscribers loyal to its platform and not switch to rivals like Amazon Prime. A cartoon about a talking horse, starring the goofy older brother from Arrested Development… on paper little about BoJack Horseman screams "must watch". Yet the series almost immediately transcended its format to deliver a moving and very funny rumination on depression and middle-age malaise. Will Arnett plays BoJack – one time star of Nineties hit sitcom Horsin' Around – as a lost soul whose turbo-charged narcissism prevents him getting his life together. Almost as good are a support cast including Alison Brie (Glow, Mad Men), Aaron Paul, of Breaking Bad, and Amy Sedaris as a pampered Persian cat who is also BoJack's agent.


'The Punisher' Will Feature Less Supernatural Elements, More 'Basic Human Emotions'

International Business Times

Netflix's next Marvel TV show is going to be a little different. While The Defenders all have super powers, Frank Castle is a little more ordinary. That means that many parts of the other Marvel shows will not crossover into "The Punisher." "We are stripping down every supernatural element," star Jon Bernthal told Entertainment Weekly. Frank is a character rooted in the most basic human emotions… He's a comic-book character, but he doesn't fly, he doesn't have X-ray vision.


From shapeshifting to magnetic sense: Animal superpowers

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Evolution has been occurring for billions of years, producing organisms that are perfectly adapted to their environments. And this includes abilities that we would normally consider superpowers if humans were to have them. But these powers really do exist in the animal kingdom. In the superhero world, Matt Murdock, who was blinded by radioactive waste as a child, developed a superhuman ability to sense using sound waves and became the superhero Daredevil. In the superhero world, Matt Murdock, who was blinded by radioactive waste as a child, developed a superhuman ability to sense using sound waves and became the superhero Daredevil.