Researchers at Meta FAIR and the National University of Singapore have developed a new reinforcement learning framework for self-improving AI systems. Called Self-Play In Corpus Environments (SPICE), the framework pits two AI agents against each other, creating its own challenges and gradually improving without human supervision. While currently a... Read more

The Social Gaming Leadership Alliance (SGLA) has recategorized online sweepstakes games amid controversy around the gaming sector. A blog written by SGLA Managing Director Sean Ostrow has launched “Social Plus”, a new term for online sweepstakes games. The rebranding is a clear pushback to critiques of the sector coming... Read more

YouTube TV subscribers have missed another Monday Night Football game, with no sign at all of when ABC and other Disney channels might be restored to the service. All of the Disney-owned streaming channels, including ABC, ESPN, the ACC Network and the SEC Networks, were removed from YouTube TV on Oct.... Read more

Thirty-eight years later, The Running Man is back on our screens, playing to a world that seems to have caught up with the original’s idiocy. This new one features a considerably less bulky, but no less watchable star in Glen Powell, playing runner Ben Richards. Fired from various jobs... Read more

Four arrests have been made by the Honolulu Police Department between two raids as part of an illegal gambling investigation. Honolulu officers from the city’s Narcotics/Vice Division made four arrests after carrying out search warrants on two locations. The first took place on November 4 on Wanini Street, where... Read more

Sandisk is going small – very small – with its newest flash drive. The Extreme Fit is a tiny USB-C device that comes in five storage sizes, from 64GB to 1TB, at a cost of about $15 to $110 based on current sale prices on the company’s website. That’s... Read more

Chuck Borges has had quite the year. In January, Borges started a new job as the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer, overseeing some of the most sensitive data systems in the federal government—including databases containing Social Security numbers, addresses, citizenship status, and benefits records of nearly every American.... Read more

Presented by Celonis After a year of boardroom declarations about “AI transformation,” this was the week where enterprise leaders came together to talk about what actually works. Speaking from the stage at Celosphere in Munich, Celonis co-founder and co-CEO Alexander Rinke set the tone early in his keynote: “Only... Read more

Another campaign, documented by Sekoia, targeted Windows users. The attackers behind it first compromise a hotel’s account for Booking.com or another online travel service. Using the information stored in the compromised accounts, the attackers contact people with pending reservations, an ability that builds immediate trust with many targets, who... Read more

A new bill from Assemblyman Clyde Vanel would give lawmakers the power and framework to regulate prediction markets in the state of New York. Vanel’s Bill A.B. 9251 was revealed on Friday (November 7) with the official purpose “to amend the general business law, in relation to prediction markets”.... Read more