Google-led App Defense Alliance joins Linux Foundation, with Meta and Microsoft joining too
The App Defense Alliance (ADA) an initiative set up by Google back in 2019 to combat malicious Android apps infiltrating the Play app store, has formally joined the Joint Development Foundation (JDF), a Linux Foundation project focused on helping organizations working on technical specifications, standards, and related efforts. The App Defense
Read moreUsing dimensional analysis to check probability calculations
Probability density functions are independent of physical units. The normal distribution, for example, works just as well when describing weights or times. But sticking in units anyway is useful. Normal distribution example Suppose you’re trying to remember the probability density function for the normal distribution. Is the correct form or
Read more10 years on, Aileen Lee explains why focusing on unicorn valuations makes sense
From which metrics she thinks it's a good idea to focus on to her favorite memorabilia, the creator of the "unicorn" moniker, Aileen Lee looks back on ten years of this very special creature. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreOzone raises $7.1M to scale its AI-powered collaborative video editor in the cloud
Ozone, the maker of an AI-powered collaborative video editor in the cloud, has raised $7.1 million in seed funding and is launching in open beta. The Y Combinator alum aims to provide content creators with AI assistance that lets them complete repetitive editing tasks in seconds, rather than in hours.
Read moreCode-generating AI platform Tabnine nabs $25M investment
Developers are ready to embrace AI tools, spurred by the dual promises of increased productivity and faster learning. According to one recent survey, 77% of devs feel favorably about using AI in their workflows and 70% claim to be using — or planning to use — AI coding tools this
Read moreNazca leads investment into Loads, out to change Latin America’s food supply chain
The company expects to market 1 million kilograms of food monthly through its platform by the first quarter of 2024. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreRandomized response and local differential privacy
Differential privacy protects user privacy by adding randomness as necessary to the results of queries to a database containing private data. Local differential privacy protects user privacy by adding randomness before the data is inserted to the database. Using the visualization from this post, differential privacy takes the left and
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Read morePATE framework for differentially private machine learning
Machine learning models can memorize fragments of their training data and return these fragments verbatim. I’ve seen instances, for example, where I believe an LLM returned phrases verbatim from this site. It’s easy to imagine how medical data might leak this way. How might you prevent this? And how might
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