Facts · 2016
events: 10 · Timeline
- Google launches OSS-Fuzz, continuous fuzzing for open-source projects; by May 2025 it had helped find and fix more than 13,000 vulnerabilities and 50,000 other bugs in 1,000 projectsCybersecurity · Software development · AI vulnerability discovery · github.com ↗
- Douyin launches; abroad, from 2017, as TikTokMedia & information · Mind & relationships · Recommender systems · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Entering a PIN on a phone reveals a person's age in 88% of cases and gender in 83%Privacy & surveillance · Science · Behavioral biometrics · repository.essex.ac.uk ↗
- Final of the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge: automated systems with no human involvement find, fix and exploit vulnerabilities; Mayhem from ForAllSecure winsCybersecurity · Software development · AI vulnerability discovery · darpa.mil ↗
- Amodei, Olah and co-authors from Google, Stanford, Berkeley and OpenAI publish “Concrete Problems in AI Safety”: side effects, reward hacking, scalable oversight, safe exploration and distributional shiftScience · AI safety · arxiv.org ↗
- OECD economists: counting tasks rather than whole occupations, on average 9% of jobs across 21 OECD countries can be automatedWork & jobs · AI and jobs · doi.org ↗
- GDPR classes behavioural traits as biometrics only if they allow a person to be uniquely identified; fraud prevention is recognised as a company's legitimate interestPrivacy & surveillance · Laws & regulation · Behavioral biometrics · publications.europa.eu ↗
- Microsoft's chatbot Tay picks up users' insults within a day and is shut downMedia & information · Values & religion · Chatbots · en.wikipedia.org ↗
- AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 4–1Science · Culture & arts · Reinforcement learning · koreatimes.co.kr ↗
- The Shuffler system (Columbia University) reshuffles the code of a running program every 50 ms at the cost of a 14.9% slowdownCybersecurity · Science · Moving target defense · cs.columbia.edu ↗