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• A new decentralised VPN aims to patch a gaping security hole

  02-11-2023 18:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  VPNs have become popular means of protecting personal data, but there’s a big vulnerability in their defences: the service provider. These companies can technically gain access to all your unencrypted traffic. Consequently, they can see all the data on your browsing habits.  This frailty has sparked interest in decentralised VPNs. Instead of funnelling all user data through a single server, they disperse the traffic across a network run by multiple users. In theory, this makes the sh
  
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• This AI can tell if your home is wasting energy — just by looking at it

  02-11-2023 17:09 via thenextweb.com
  
  Two researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a deep-learning algorithm that could make it easier, faster, and cheaper to identify energy-wasting homes — a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions.  Trained on open-source data including energy performance certificates and satellite images, the AI was able to classify so-called ‘hard to decarbonise’ houses with 90% accuracy, according to the study. These homes are hard to electrify or retrofit for a
  
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• World-first AI safety deal exposes agenda set in Silicon Valley, critics say

  02-11-2023 14:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  A world-first declaration on AI that was agreed on Wednesday will have no real impact and has been manipulated by big tech, critics say. The statement was signed by 28 countries — and the EU — who collectively cover six continents. They unveiled their pact at the UK’s AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park, where codebreakers cracked Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine during World War Two. The new agreement takes its name from the site. Known as the “Bletchley Declarat
  
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• UK invests £225M to create one of world’s most powerful AI supercomputers

  02-11-2023 11:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  The UK government is investing £225mn to build one of the world’s fastest supercomputers, as it looks to “lead the world” in AI systems.  The supercomputer — named Isambard-AI, after the famous 19th-century British engineer Isambard Brunel — will be ten times faster than the country’s quickest machine once it switches on in about six months’ time. It will be hosted at Bristol University in a “self-cooled, self-contained data centre,&rdq
  
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