IBM’s Watson beats human champions on Jeopardy!
16 Feb 2011
IBM’s Watson computer defeated Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, a landmark for natural language AI.
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IBM’s Watson computer defeated Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, a landmark for natural language AI.
A group called Gnosis breached Gawker Media and published around 1.3 million user account records, exposing weak password practices.
Anonymous supporters launched denial-of-service attacks on Mastercard, Visa, and PayPal after they stopped processing donations to WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks and five newspapers began publishing US State Department cables from a cache of more than 250,000, causing a diplomatic storm.
The UK Information Commissioner issued its first monetary penalties: £100,000 to Hertfordshire County Council and £60,000 to A4e.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found popular Facebook apps, including FarmVille, were sending users’ identifying IDs to advertising and tracking firms.
London police arrested 19 people suspected of using the Zeus trojan to steal around £6m from UK bank accounts in three months.
Researchers uncovered Stuxnet, a highly sophisticated worm built to sabotage Siemens industrial control systems, with most infections in Iran.
A weakness in an AT&T website exposed the email addresses of around 114,000 early iPad 3G owners, including senior officials and executives.
Google admitted its Street View cars had mistakenly collected data sent over open Wi-Fi networks, triggering investigations worldwide.
Google disclosed a targeted attack originating in China that stole intellectual property and targeted activists’ Gmail accounts.