Facts · 2014
events: 10 · Timeline
- Google reports that AI solves the hardest variant of distorted text with 99.8% accuracy, so such text is “no longer a dependable test”, and switches reCAPTCHA to the “I'm not a robot” checkbox with behaviour analysisCybersecurity · Internet & infrastructure · Death of CAPTCHA · security.googleblog.com ↗
- Amazon Echo and the Alexa voice assistantHome & family · Privacy & surveillance · Voice assistants · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- The first ACM academic workshop on moving target defense (MTD 2014) takes place in ScottsdaleCybersecurity · Science · Moving target defense · csis.gmu.edu ↗
- Jeff Atwood and co-authors release a unified “Standard Markdown” spec; after John Gruber objects, the project is renamed the next day and is now CommonMarkSoftware development · Markdown · blog.codinghorror.com ↗
- The attention mechanism in neural machine translation (Bahdanau et al.)Science · Natural language processing · arxiv.org ↗
- Ian Goodfellow: generative adversarial networks (GANs)Science · Media & information · Generative AI · arxiv.org ↗
- Linux 3.14 adds randomization of the kernel's own addresses (KASLR)Cybersecurity · Software development · Moving target defense · kernelnewbies.org ↗
- MIT Lincoln Laboratory researchers write that no memory randomization technique survives a leak of an arbitrary region of memory, and that 16 bits of randomness on an automatically restarted server are guessed within minutesCybersecurity · Science · Moving target defense · ll.mit.edu ↗
- Google buys DeepMindBusiness & markets · Deep learning · thedomains.com ↗
- Shape Security comes out of stealth with ShapeShifter, an appliance that rewrites a web page's code every time it is served, producing “an unending stream of randomized code variations” against botsCybersecurity · Internet & infrastructure · Moving target defense · siliconangle.com ↗