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A bug in Google's Sitelinks algorithm is causing links to unhelpful pages to be displayed in the search results ...
Could bug bounties help find biased algorithms? This competition put the idea to the test Bogdan Kulynych won the top spot in a world-first algorithmic bias bounty challenge.
The bug, identified in Monero’s decoy selection algorithm, occurs when a user spends their funds received in a transaction before roughly 20 minutes has passed. There is a “good probability” the ...
When it comes to detecting bias in algorithms, researchers are trying to learn from the information security field – and particularly, from the bug bounty-hunting hackers who comb through ...
Update, December 5: Valve has issued a statement regarding the Steam store traffic bug. Earlier this week, a number of indie developers noted that a change to Steam's discoverability algorithm has ...
A new version of the Petya disc-encrypting ransomware has been released that fixes a bug in its encryption algorithm. This bug used to be exploited, but with the implementation fixed, it may ...
Twitter's approach to tackling algorithmic bias -- asking outside experts and observers to study its code and results -- innovates on bug bounties, which have historically been used for reporting ...
Bitcoin Price Flash Crash on Binance.US Attributed to Trader Algorithm Bug It all happened in a blip, and an exchange official says the institutional trading customer has since fixed the issue.
Decentralized data network Bluzelle (BLZ) discovered a bug in the Tendermint consensus algorithm used by the Cosmos (ATOM) interchain protocol. According to a Bluzelle announcement shared with ...