SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A sophisticated form of mobile malware dubbed "GoldPickaxe" has been uncovered, which collects facial recognition data to produce deepfake videos, enabling hackers to bypass biometric authentication protections on banking apps. The hackers rely heavily on social engineering tactics to distribute the malware.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Perhaps you need an engine to power your IT shop Image Credit: Jorge Quinteros. Since your budget won’t growing enough to do all of this, perhaps it’s time that you went engine shopping. Lessons From The World Of Video Games. What they came to realize is that there was a great deal of overlap in their video games.

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Venture Beast

JULY 30, 2020

Xsolla is a video game powerhouse, but chances are you haven't heard of it. That's because the company does its work behind the scenes. Read More.

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TechSpot

MARCH 21, 2022

The confirmation came on day one of the Game Developers Conference. The Polish video game company said the new title would be developed using Unreal Engine 5 rather than its in-house engine, sparking a multi-year strategic partnership with Epic Games.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 1, 2024

OpenAI’s Voice Engine has been introduced as a new text-to-speech technology, capable of generating a synthetic voice from just a 15-second audio sample of an individual’s voice. How good is Voice Engine by OpenAI? OpenAI has indicated that initially, this technology will be accessible to roughly 10 developers.

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GeekWire

JULY 27, 2023

(Augmend Photo) A new artificial intelligence startup wants to help software development teams capture, store, and query their company data and knowledge. Founded earlier this year, the 5-person startup is led by CEO Diamond Bishop , a former engineering leader at Meta that led teams on the open-source machine learning project PyTorch.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And one of the most successful and increasingly prevalent ways of attack has come from social engineering, which is when criminals manipulate humans directly to gain access to confidential information. Social engineering is more sophisticated than ever, and its most advanced iteration is the topic of today's discussion: deepfakes.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Fortnite creator Epic Games is partnering with carmakers, starting with General Motors, to use its Unreal Engine game development platform to build in-car software in what Epic is calling its “human-machine interface” (HMI) initiative. Epic says it’s already enabling some pretty impressive advancements.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

An Emmy-winning visual effects artist has joined an industry colleague and a veteran video game producer to found a new video game development studio in Vancouver, B.C. It plans to work with the forthcoming Unreal Engine 5 , and plans to create new video games that will feature “player-driven content.”

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GeekWire

JANUARY 27, 2021

Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine lights up for a full-thrust test firing in Texas. If you’re hanging out in West Texas during a pandemic, there are few fireworks shows more thrilling than a test firing of your very own rocket engine. Jeff Bezos via Instagram). View this post on Instagram. Vulcan is on the move!

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Vox

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

These are among a series of demo videos of OpenAI’s Sora, revealed last week, which can turn a short text prompt into up to a minute of video. The artificial intelligence model is not yet open to the public, but OpenAI has released the videos, along with the prompts that generated them. It’s not there yet.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2023

(Seattle Indies Image) Every fall in Washington state, hobby designers, garage developers, and eccentric tinkerers get together to show off their independently-produced video games at a two-part event, the Seattle Indies Expo. Rosen, its sole designer, is a Seattle-based software engineer, and Abbot’s Gambol is his first project.

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CTOvision

MARCH 3, 2014

By Bob Gourley The Defense Intelligence Agency issued a press release highlighting Mark Mueller, the chief engineer for the Directorate of Science and Technology at DIA. The Defense Intelligence Agency may not call to mind images of engineers, but they are an integral part of the agency’s innovative culture. The release is below.

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Venture Beast

JULY 7, 2021

Our Machinery has launched its game engine, dubbed The Machinery. It is targeted at developers who prefer a plugin-based model. Read More.

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Venture Beast

APRIL 5, 2022

Epic Games is releasing Unreal Engine 5 so developers can build next-generation games, digital films, and the metaverse. Read More.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A student team working on tech to extract information from videos took home the 15 th annual Madrona Prize Tuesday at the 2022 Annual Research Showcase at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. This team is developing tech to suspend and manipulate objects at the millimeter-scale using ultrasound levitation.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rivian , the electric vehicle maker that has attracted major backing from Amazon, is trying to attract more engineers in the Seattle region based on job openings posted on the company’s website. RELATED: Track engineering centers in the Seattle area. Irvine, Calif.-based

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GeekWire

APRIL 19, 2024

One major aim is to not only discover new therapeutic proteins but to shorten their clinical development through “quality by design,” said Stuart. Institute for Protein Design Video) Panelists also talked about how new ways to generate, standardize and collate biological data would make AI models more powerful.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Tencent is adding to its already large roster of video game studios by acquiring Slamfire , the parent company of Back 4 Blood developer Turtle Rock Studios. Tencent is acquiring Turtle Rock Studios. Image: Turtle Rock Studios. We can now ensure that the ‘Back 4 Blood’ franchise is here to stay”.

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Hacker Earth

AUGUST 11, 2023

Business organizations are constantly trying to keep up-to-date with current trends, and this includes adopting the latest technology to assist with learning and development. How is technology used in training and development? This can be in the form of discussion forums, chat features, and video conferencing tools.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Schulte worked as a software developer for the CIA's cyber operations division from 2012 to 2016, where he built hacking tools for intelligence gathering. And all the while, Schulte collected thousands upon thousands of videos and images of children being subjected to sickening abuse for his own personal gratification.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2021

Its latest work is a collaboration with academics from Michigan State University (MSU), with the combined team creating a method to reverse-engineer deepfakes : analyzing AI-generated imagery to reveal identifying characteristics of the machine learning model that created it. percent of the time.

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GeekWire

APRIL 28, 2023

(NetEase Photo) Chinese technology company NetEase announced this week that it plans to open a new game development studio in Seattle called Anchor Point Studios. Its studio head and CEO, Paul Ehreth , is a veteran game developer who worked at Microsoft and 343 Industries on games like Halo 4 and 2007’s Shadowrun.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

Clubhouse has hired Justin Uberti, creator of the WebRTC standard and the Google Duo video chat app. He leaves Google after nearly 15 years at the company, where he was most recently the engineering lead for Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service and led the team that made the Stadia iOS web app.

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Venture Beast

JULY 6, 2021

Amazon is contributing its Lumberyard game engine to open source, and it will be known as the Open 3D Engine. Read More.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

UW Video). The approach is showcased in a new study Friday led by UW professor of computer science and engineering Shyamnath Gollakota. Detecting blood clots with a smart phone: how it works. (UW The researchers put a pinprick of blood in a tiny cup along with a small copper particle.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

An indie developer has accused a game on Steam of being an exact copy of a demo he released for free earlier this year. The sellers responded with claims of their own and a copyright strike against the developer's YouTube video showcasing the demo.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The former CEO of Ada Developers Academy said she will focus on Conduit’s health and performance vertical. Randa Sbeity was hired by Seattle startup Humanly as senior engineering manager. She previously served as senior engineering manager at BetterUp, which sells virtual professional coaching services to enterprises.

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GeekWire

JULY 29, 2020

Founded in 2015 by veterans of Bungie, Polyarc is the developer behind Moss , a popular virtual reality game that debuted two years ago. Previously: Ex-Bungie engineers aim to steal your heart through a sword-wielding VR mouse called Quill. He also worked on the engineering team that developed Halo: Reach.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

YouTube let you search and play videos. So why is it that many product owners over engineer their minimally viable product with too many "must have' features, data integrations, user interfaces with an oversupply of bells. Google was a search box. Yahoo was a directory.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Lego has paired with game engine maker Unity for a Lego Microgame , where you can snap together virtual bricks to build the environment of your own custom game world. The Microgame is free and requires no prior knowledge of video game programming. Image: Unity. All you have to do to get started is follow a Unity tutorial.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

The Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, the electrical engineering and computer science division of the esteemed German research organization, on Tuesday announced VVC , a new video codec standard that promises to bring around 50 percent efficiency gains in streaming video compression. 264/Advanced Video Coding (AVC) and H.265/High

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Vox

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The future of video games is about more than just fun. Still, the idea is that through all these challenges, Frigidus’s frosty terrain can give you something other video games don’t: medical treatment. For all the “I’m not like other video games” energy, playing EndeavorRx does feel familiar. Courtesy of Akili.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 9, 2024

The Unity engine powers many PC/console games and the vast majority of mobile games available on the market today. Unity Technologies, based in San Francisco, is best known for its eponymous game engine Unity, which has been used to build hundreds of video games over the course of the last decade.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2020

AlphaFold was put to the test in a global competition called Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction, or CASP, which DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis calls the “Olympics of protein folding” in a video. Neural networks like AlphaFold could help speed up biological research and drug development in the future.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 14, 2020

T-Mobile is investing in DRL through its T-Mobile Ventures fund and the plan is to help the league develop high-speed 5G drones which would be able to stream 3D racing action in real time and provide immersive experiences to fans of the sport. Professional drone pilots in the Drone Racing League. Joe Lemke Photo).

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Amazon’s incoming CEO, Andy Jassy, says he’s committed to Amazon’s video game development efforts, in response to a damning report from Bloomberg last week about the problems facing the team. The message comes at a critical time for Amazon Game Studios, the e-commerce giant’s video game development arm.

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