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Google has announced that two of its latest privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), including one that blurs objects in a video, will be provided to anyone for free via open source. The new tools are part of Google’s Protected Computing initiative designed to transform “how, when and where data is processed to technically ensure its privacy and safety,” the company said. The first is an internal project called Magritte, now out on Github, which uses machine learning to detect objects and… Source link

Google has announced that two of its latest privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), including one that blurs objects in a video, will be provided to anyone for free via open source. The new tools are part of Google’s Protected Computing initiative designed to transform “how, when and where data is processed to technically ensure its privacy and safety,” the company said. The first is an internal project called Magritte, now out on Github, which uses machine learning to detect objects and… Source link

Google has released a new free tool that allows open-source developers to more easily access vulnerability information relevant to their projects.   The Go-based tool — called OSV-Scanner — provides an automated capability to match a developer’s code and dependencies against lists of known vulnerabilities and deliver instant feedback if patches or updates are needed.   Software projects are usually built on top of a mountain of dependencies — instead of starting from zero, developers… Source link

Stocks opened mixed on a shortened day of trading on Black Friday. Near 9:35 a.m. ET, the S&P 500 was down less than 0.1%, the Dow was up 0.2%, and the Nasdaq was off by about 0.5%. The U.S. stock market will close at 1:00 p.m. ET on Friday; financial markets in the U.S. were closed on Thursday for Thanksgiving. Stocks finished with gains on Wednesday, the week’s final full trading session, after the minutes from the Fed’s latest meeting signaled a likely slowdown in the pace of rate hikes at… Source link

Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic met with the representatives of the Russian IT company Yandex, which announced the opening of the company’s development centre in Serbia, which will employ over 800 engineers who will work on the latest IT solutions, the Government of Serbia has announced. At the meeting with the Yandex delegation, led by the head of the international policy department Maksim Kozlov, it was… Source link

Cadence Bank Houston Open Houston, TexasMemorial Park Golf Course – Par 70 – 7,412 yardsField – 132 entrantsPurse – $8.4M The Preview Nearly 50 players finished in double-digit red numbers last week at Mayakoba, but 10-under-par could be close to the winning score this week in Texas as a much tougher Memorial Park Golf Course hosts the Cadence Bank Houston Open for the third time since 2020. Length is emphasized on this 7,412-yard layout that features a trio of difficult par-5s, two of which… Source link

WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) – The Biden administration is privately encouraging Ukraine’s leaders to signal an openness to negotiate with Russia and drop their public refusal to engage in peace talks unless President Vladimir Putin is removed from power, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. The paper quoted unnamed people familiar with the discussions as saying that the request by American officials was not aimed at pushing Ukraine to the negotiating table, but a calculated attempt to… Source link

Halep of Romania says the fight against this suspension is about “honor” (Danielle Parhizkaran-USA TODAY Sports). Simona Halep, former world No. 1, has been provisionally suspended by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) after testing positive for a banned substance at this year’s US Open. Halep, according to a Friday statement from the ITIA, provided a sample that contained Roxadustat. The substance is listed in the 2022 World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) prohibited list. Halep… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard left open the possibility that the central bank would raise interest rates by 75 basis points at each of its next two meetings in November and December, while saying it was too soon to make that call. Most Read from Bloomberg The Fed hiked rates by 75 basis points for the third straight meeting last month, to a target range of 3% to 3.25%. Officials projected 125 basis points of tightening for the rest of the year,… Source link

Google said today that it will open its first data center in Japan by 2023. The company noted that this data center will be located in Inzai City, Chiba, and is a part of its $730 million infrastructure fund that will continue through 2024. This is the company’s third data center in Asia after Taiwan and Singapore. The company said that this new data center will help people with “faster, more reliable access to our tools and services, support economic activity… Source link