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Gemma 3n Introduces Novel Techniques for Enhanced Mobile AI Inference
Launched in early preview last May, Gemma 3n is now officially available. It targets mobile-first, on-device AI applications, using new techniques designed to increase efficiency and improve performance, such as per-layer embeddings and transformer nesting.
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Google Enhances Data Privacy with Confidential Federated Analytics
Google has announced Confidential Federated Analytics (CFA), a technique designed to increase transparency in data processing while maintaining privacy. Building on federated analytics, CFA leverages confidential computing to ensure that only predefined and inspectable computations are performed on user data without exposing raw data to servers or engineers.
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Major LLMs Have the Capability to Pursue Hidden Goals, Researchers Find
Researchers at AI safety firm Apollo Research found that AI agents may covertly pursue misaligned goals and hide their true objectives. Known as in-context scheming, this behavior does not seem to be accidental as LLMs explicitly reason about deceptive strategies and consider them a viable strategy.
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Apple WWDC: iOS18 and Apple Intelligence Announcements
At WWDC 2024 Apple unveiled "Apple Intelligence," a suite of AI features coming to iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia. Apple’s aim with Apple Intelligence is to seamlessly integrate AI into the core of the iPhone, iPad, and Mac experience.
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Rachael Greaves at QCon London: Ethical AI Can Decrease the Impact of Data Breaches
At QCon London, Rachael Greaves, chief executive officer at Castlepoint Systems, presented both the obligations and benefits of data minimisation as a mechanism to decrease the impact of data breaches. AI autoclassification and automatic decision-making tools help with the ever-increasing data volumes as long as ethical principles are considered, allowing decisions to be challenged.
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Privacy Engineering at Scale: DoorDash’s Journey in Geomasking and Data Protection
DoorDash recently published how it proactively embeds privacy into its products. It explains the importance of Privacy Engineering, an often overlooked software architecture practice, and provides an example of geomasking users' address data to protect their privacy better.
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Unraveling Techno-Solutionism: How I Fell out of Love with “Ethical” Machine Learning
At the recent QCon San Francisco conference, Katherine Jarmul gave a talk on unravelling techno-solutionism, in which she explored the inherent bias in AI training datasets, the bias that assumes there will be a technical solution to almost any problem and that those technical solutions will be beneficial for mankind. She posed questions for technologists to consider when building products.
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Ant Group Open Sources Privacy-Preserving Computation Framework
Alibaba financial arm Ant Group has open sourced SecretFlow, its privacy-preserving framework, with a specific focus on data analysis and machine learning.
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Android 13 Final Beta Improves Security and Privacy, and More
The latest beta of Android 13 is a final update that allows developers to make sure their apps are ready for the new Android release when it becomes available in a few weeks, says Google.
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How Meta Uses Privacy-Friendly Credentials in De-Identified Authentication
Meta uses authentication to protect its service’s endpoints against abusive usage. Post-processing access data to remove personally identifiable information is an approach they found too resource-intensive. An article was published recently explaining how Meta leveraged de-identified authentication to protect their services and their user’s privacy at the same time.
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Github Removes All Non-Essential Cookies
GitHub recently announced having removed all banners from GitHub. GitHub additionally commits to only use in the future cookies that are essential to serving GitHub.com.
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Apple Rejects NFC, Bluetooth and 14 More Web APIs, Citing Privacy Reasons
In the frame of its tracking prevention policy, Apple recently communicated its current refusal to implement 16 web APIs, citing privacy concerns. Apple emphasized that the decision could be reconsidered if the proposals evolve to reduce the fingerprinting attack surface.
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Safari Blocks Third-Party Cookies by Default
Safari joins privacy-focused web browsers like Tor and Brave in blocking third-party cookies by default in a move aimed at taking a step forward in web privacy. Google will not support third-party cookie blocking by default for all Chrome users until 2022. Third-party cookie blocking by default may disable login fingerprinting, and some cross-site request forgery attacks.
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Brave 1.0 Released to Improve Web Privacy
The Chromium-based Brave web browser recently announced its 1.0 release. Brave strives to improve performance, security, and privacy by blocking ads and other web trackers. Brave rewards its users when they opt into privacy-respecting ads and share ad revenue with website publishers.
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Chrome 76 Shipped With PWA Installation, Stealthier Incognito Mode, Extension Tracking
Google recently released Google Chrome 76. Chrome 76 makes it easier to install Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) on the desktop, disables a commonly used Incognito Mode detection technique, and allows users to track extension activities.