In A World Run By Algorithmic Managers, Data Is Power

A newly issued manual foreshadows the coming difficult relations that may arise between companies and 'platform workers' – as ...

DeepMind’s robotic ballet: An AI for coordinating manufacturing robots

With RoboBallet, the complexity of computation also grew with the complexity of the system, but at a far slower rate. (The computations grew linearly with the growing number of tasks and obstacles, ...
Business Insider

I've reviewed hundreds of applicant-tracking systems. Here's why your résumé may never reach a hiring manager.

Applicant-tracking systems can be biased, said Rod Samra, a former Labor Department investigator. These systems can amplify biases if algorithms are poorly designed or lack oversight, he said. Samra ...
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

City of Lubbock confirms statement about computer systems sent in error, no systems offline

Editor's note: The city of Lubbock issued a retraction news release Thursday shortly after sending an initial email about its computer systems, confirming its systems ...
Arkansas Times

Effort to upgrade Arkansas child welfare computer system fails after two years

A multimillion-dollar plan to revamp Arkansas’ child welfare information system ended in failure last year, but state officials say the current system still meets their needs. The Arkansas Department ...
Bleeping Computer

VirusTotal finds hidden malware phishing campaign in SVG files

VirusTotal has discovered a phishing campaign hidden in SVG files that create convincing portals impersonating Colombia's judicial system that deliver malware. VirusTotal detected this campaign after ...
NBC Bay Area

BART service resumes after systemwide shutdown

All BART stations reopened for service late Friday morning after a computer problem shut down train service systemwide for hours, according to the transit agency. Starting at 4:30 a.m., issues arose ...
East Bay Times

Trains running again following BART system-wide service shutdown

Another chaotic day of travel for BART commuters caused by a computer equipment issue extended nearly into Friday afternoon before the transit agency resumed full service following a full-system ...
SFGate

San Francisco Bay Area commuter trains shut down for 7 hours because of computer issue

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A regional commuter rail system in the San Francisco Bay Area that shut down all its trains because of a computer issue resumed service seven hours later, forcing resident to ...
Bleeping Computer

Hackers breach fintech firm in attempted $130M bank heist

Hackers tried to steal $130 million from Evertec’s Brazilian subsidiary Sinqia S.A.after gaining unauthorized access to its environment on the central bank’s real-time payment system (Pix). Evertec is ...
IEEE

Data Compression-Based Model-Free PI Algorithm for Sparse LQT Control in Interconnected Multimachine Power Systems

Abstract: This study delves into the distributed linear quadratic tracking (LQT) problem within interconnected multimachine power systems (IMMPSs), and proposes a model-free policy iteration (PI) ...
IEEE

FI-HGR: A Robust Hand Gesture Recognition System Based on Wearable Data Glove and Multimodal Fusion Algorithm

Abstract: Hand gesture recognition (HGR) plays a crucial role in human-computer interaction systems within the Internet of Things (IoT). Recent HGR methods often rely on vision-based images or videos, ...