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Chinese National Accused of Stealing AI Secrets From Google

Chinese National Accused of Stealing AI Secrets From Google

A Chinese citizen who recently quit his job as a software engineer for Google in California has been charged with trying to transfer artificial intelligence technology to a Beijing-based company that paid him secretly, according to a federal indictment unsealed on Wednesday. Prosecutors accused Linwei Ding, who was part of the team that designs and maintains Google’s vast A.I. supercomputer data system, of stealing information about the “architecture and functionality” of the system,… Source link

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Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI trade secrets while working with Chinese companies

Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI trade secrets while working with Chinese companies

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets from the company while secretly working with two companies based in China, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Linwei Ding, a Chinese national, was arrested in Newark, California, on four counts of federal trade secret theft, each punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The case against Ding was announced at an American Bar… Source link

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What all that stealing says about America

What all that stealing says about America

I recently went to my neighborhood drug store in New York City to buy some Tylenol and saw it was locked up on a plastic shelf—as was much of the store’s stock. We’re used to seeing expensive jewelry secured behind glass or a few items behind convenience store counters, but lately the amount of seemingly ordinary items—soap, ice cream, detergent—locked up in stores—CVS, Best Buy, Home Depot, etc—is increasing. If you don’t see this where you live yet, you might soon. Or you… Source link

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Google Meet is stealing Zoom’s trick to easily unmute

Google Meet is stealing Zoom’s trick to easily unmute

As Google carries out the needlessly complex process of combining both the Meet and Duo apps, now it’s throwing a feature copied from Zoom in the mix. In an update on the Google Workspace blog, the company announced that Google Meet will soon give you the ability to unmute yourself by holding down the spacebar and to mute yourself again by releasing it. If you frequently use Zoom, this feature might sound a lot like its push-to-talk feature — and that’s because it’s essentially… Source link

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Engineer Who Fled Charges of Stealing Chip Technology in US Now Thrives in China

Engineer Who Fled Charges of Stealing Chip Technology in US Now Thrives in China

(Bloomberg) — Few companies are better positioned to benefit from the crippling shortage of computer chips than ASML Holding NV, a Dutch manufacturer whose equipment plays an integral role in making the world’s most advanced semiconductors. Most Read from Bloomberg But four lines tucked halfway into an otherwise upbeat, 281-page annual report from February hinted at a potentially incendiary problem. ASML accused a Beijing-based firm, regarded by Chinese officials as one of the country’s… Source link

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Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson takes suborbital space trip, stealing the spotlight from Jeff Bezos

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, VSS Unity, fires up its hybrid rocket motor to head spaceward. (Virgin Galactic via YouTube) Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson rode his company’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane into the skies over New Mexico today and did something that no billionaire has done before. In the company of five crewmates, Branson became the first billionaire to take a rocket-powered ride on his own company’s spaceship, rising above the 50-mile mark that the… Source link

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Apple’s iPhone SE Is Stealing Android Users, Google Needs To Launch Pixel 4a Quickly

Apple’s iPhone SE is causing problems for Android. Apple This post was originally published on July 21st and updated on July 22nd. Update below. It was clear from launch that Apple’s iPhone SE would be popular and, for those paying attention, particularly so at the expense of Android.  Outside of the general popularity that surrounds any Apple product, the iPhone SE was also a perfectly timed cheap device that arrived whilst people’s pay packets… Source link

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