As most have heard by now, Facebook is off the air. As best anyone can tell, the problem is a routing issue: the BGP announcements for how to reach Facebook—that is, the Internet equivalent of a map—have been withdrawn, so no one can reach them. What happened?
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CyberBattleSim investigates how autonomous agents operate in a simulated enterprise environment. It uses the Python-based OpenAI Gym interface to allow training of automated agents using reinforcement learning algorithms.
We are open sourcing the Python source code of a research toolkit we call CyberBattleSim, an experimental research project that explores the applications of autonomous systems and reinforcement learning to security. https://t.co/f5EF31S3iz
Introducing a new #ReinforcementLearning algorithm for teaching agents how to solve tasks by providing only examples of success, avoiding the need for hand-crafted reward functions while outperforming prior imitation learning approaches. Read more →https://t.co/gK3nJV8JIf
That frustrating thing you do when you think ahead and put something in a super safe place and forget the super safe place so turns out it’s not actually super useful.
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A new @CyLab study is a Best Paper Award finalist at this week's @ACM Internet Measurement Conference 🏅 The study seeks to improve issues in #DataSharing with generative adversarial networks. Read all about it 👇 https://t.co/AHy7EILvtj
TLDR: After working on this for 10+ years we've got a pretty good idea of what a usable and secure password policy is: min length+min strength is what you want. Min strength can be enforced server-side *or* client-side -- see work on lightweight NN pwd guessers.
Very proud that 15 of the top 20 US universities according to US News now accept the @DuolingoENTest as proof of English proficiency. Now, students from all over the world can apply without having to take an expensive test and without having to travel to a distant testing center.
Breaking: The government has agreed to rescind DHS and ICE rules barring international students attending online universities from staying in the U.S., per a hearing this afternoon in Harvard and MIT's lawsuit against the agencies.