How to: protect against data and hardware loss

Losing your computer (or having it stolen) is one of those things you would rather not think about. The idea of losing all your data, and your precious toy, is just too awful. We all also know that if we plan ahead, just a little bit, we can control and limit our damage enough so that IF the unthinkable ever happens it won’t be the end of our worlds. here is my little list of tips that might help you too....

5 min · 901 words · Alexis Lewis

How To: Upgrade to iOS 4.3 right now

Surely you’ve read our roundup ofyesterday’s Apple event. If you have, you’ve likely seen the lovely new features that are to come in iOS 4.3 in the near future. But, if you’re like us, waiting isn’t what you do. Lucky for you, Apple has released the Gold Master of iOS 4.3 and it doesn’t require you to have a Developer account to use it. Now, this is not sanctioned by Apple....

2 min · 248 words · Christopher Jones

How to: Use Your Mac and iPhone to Transfer, Edit and Annotate Images in Seconds

Getting screenshots and images from your iPhone or iPad to your computer, or the reverse for that matter, is an exercise in time wasting frustration. A combination of two already great apps for your Mac and iPhone can take that process from frustration to freedom in no time flat. There are several built-in choices for getting images from your iDevice to your computer but they generally involve other web services or email and add slow, unnecessary steps....

5 min · 952 words · Javier Barnett

How transparent should your brand be?

How transparent should your brand be? What you should reveal and when. “Real” brand transparency vs transparency marketing Let’s start off with a seemingly simple question: what does brand transparencyactuallymean? The shortest answer to that is probably “being completely honest with your customers.” But in reality, brand transparency goes way beyond that. There are a lot of brands out there that are using transparency marketing in a variety of ways....

5 min · 944 words · Megan Davis

How triggerless backdoors could dupe AI models without manipulating their input data

How triggerless backdoors could dupe AI models without manipulating their input data Classic backdoors on machine learning systems Backdoors are a specialized type ofadversarial machine learning, techniques that manipulate the behavior of AI algorithms. Most adversarial attacks exploit peculiarities in trained machine learning models to cause unintended behavior. Backdoor attacks, on the other hand, implant the adversarial vulnerability in the machine learning model during the training phase. Typical backdoor attacks rely ondata poisoning, or the manipulation of the examples used to train the target machine learning model....

7 min · 1339 words · Casey Mcclain
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