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Omnisense: U.S. Intelligence-Backed Startup Claims It Can Predict Cyberattacks Days Before They Happen
March 29, 2019
Forbes - What if you could be warned about a scam email even before it arrived in your inbox? And what if you could be told exactly what it would say and what it would do to you an...
Mirror mirror on the wall, which is the best credibility assessment tool of them all?
January 17, 2019
fedscoop - What’s the best method for determining whether or not someone is trustworthy? Given the choice, should we trust a thorough background check, a polygraph, or a simple gut...
How a Trojan Can Turn an AI into a Manchurian Candidate
December 31, 2018
Government CIO - In a near-future world of self-driving cars, delivery drones and even machine-piloted passenger planes whizzing about in a tidy, efficient metropolis, it’s not har...
Intelligence agency wants software to thwart AI trojan attacks
December 10, 2018
fedscoop - The most serious attack on an artificial intelligence system may not come from malware but rather from a single sticky note. ... Officials from the Intelligence Advanced...
Proteomics Forensics in the Making
December 01, 2018
Private Investigator - DNA, the fundamental building block of all life, is also the foundation of modern forensic science....one of the most futuristic new projects in DNA investig...
The Outlook for Superconducting Computers
October 30, 2018
ACM News - Superconducting computers could extend Moore's Law beyond the limits of complementary metal oxide semiconductors (CMOS) by cutting power requirements 100-fold—down to ki...
The Feds Need Geeks to Help Them 'Forecast the Future'
September 20, 2018
PC Magazine - US national intelligence officials are looking for a few good geeks to participate in its Mercury Challenge, which is in search of machine learning tools that will in...
New head of "DARPA for spies" warns that China is attracting top research talent
August 15, 2018
CBS News - China's outsize investment in technology industries and priority research areas like synthetic biology and artificial intelligence may mean top talent that might have re...
IARPA VirtUE focuses on user roles for security
June 27, 2018
GCN - Kerry Long, program manager at Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, doesn’t pull any punches in desc...
The DNA Cops Who Make Sure the World’s Deadliest Viruses Aren’t Rebuilt
June 27, 2018
Bloomberg - Genetic engineering could help produce more resilient crops and more effective vaccines. Some fear that it could also be used to make a biological weapon.... In June 20...