The idea of ​​introducing a tax on meat was put forward by Dmitry Peskov, Special Representative of the President of Russia for Digital and Technological Development. In his opinion, this could help contain climate change. “In a few years, we will at first be loudly indignant, and then we will be forced, for example, to adopt a tax on meat” - Peskov admitted.

A member of the Federation Council Alexei Mayorov liked this idea. “We can support this, but as a given in response to the challenges that we currently face in the field of environmental protection. Livestock has a significant impact on the greenhouse effect” - he said. At the same time, the senator added that such fees in the future may affect other products.

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Researchers from Israel have developed a neural network capable of generating ‘master’ faces – facial images that are each capable of impersonating multiple IDs. The work suggests that it’s possible to generate such ‘master keys’ for more than 40% of the population using only 9 faces synthesized by the StyleGAN Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), via three leading face recognition systems.

The paper is a collaboration between the Blavatnik School of Computer Science and the school of Electrical Engineering, both at Tel Aviv.

Testing the system, the researchers found that a single generated face could unlock 20% of all identities in the University of Massachusetts’ Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) open source database, a common repository used for development and testing of facial ID systems, and the benchmark database for the Israeli system.

StyleGAN is initially used in this approach under a black box optimization method focusing (unsurprisingly) on high dimensional data, since it’s important to find the broadest and most generalized facial features that will satisfy an authentication system.

This process is then repeated iteratively to encompass identities that were not encoded in the initial pass. In varying test conditions, the researchers found that it was possible to obtain authentication for 40-60% with only nine generated images.

The system uses an evolutionary algorithm coupled with a neural predictor that estimates the likelihood of the current ‘candidate’ to generalize better than the p-percentile of candidates generated in previous passes.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.01077.pdf

https://www.unite.ai/master-faces-that-can-bypass-over-40-of-facial-id-authentication-systems/

Windows Defender Antivirus, which comes with the Windows 10 software platform, will block the installation of Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUA) by default. According to the available data, this innovation will appear along with the update, which will be released this month. PUA protection will be automatically activated on Windows 10 from August 2021.

Microsoft claims that the installation of potentially unwanted software results in reduced performance and performance, increased advertising content, and in some cases, downloads of dangerous software. The developers note that potentially unwanted applications are not malicious, but they are products that do not need to be installed. These include ad clients, torrent clients, miners, OS optimizers, or just software that has a bad reputation.

Chinese antitrust authority SAMR this week announced an investigation into local auto semiconductor manufacturers and distributors suspected of price collusion and price manipulation. China is the largest automotive market, where the production of cars of most popular brands is localized, and its own industry is actively developing. Even an insignificant change in prices for semiconductor components can have a significant impact on the PRC market as a whole, therefore, the situation with the supply of chips at inflated prices quite rightly raised questions from the regulatory body.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-regulator-investigate-auto-chip-distributors-suspicion-price-gouging-2021-08-03/