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SHUTTERSTOCK PARTNERS WITH OPENAI AND LEADS THE WAY TO BRING AI-GENERATED CONTENT TO ALL

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Media Release by Shuttershock

Shutterstock, Inc., the leading global creative platform for transformative brands and media companies, today unveiled its action plan to launch its AI-generated content capabilities in a manner that is responsible and transparent for its customers and contributors. In expanding its partnership with OpenAI, launching a fund to compensate artists for their contributions, and focusing its R&D machine on gathering and publishing insights related to AI-generated content, Shutterstock positions itself at the forefront of emerging technology — supercharging ethical, creative storytelling for all.

“The mediums to express creativity are constantly evolving and expanding. We recognize that it is our great responsibility to embrace this evolution and to ensure that the generative technology that drives innovation is grounded in ethical practices,” said Paul Hennessy, Chief Executive Officer at Shutterstock. “We have a long history of integrating AI into every part of our business. This expert-level competency makes Shutterstock the ideal partner to help our creative community navigate this new technology. And we’re committed to developing best practices and experiences to deliver on our purpose, which is to empower the world to create with confidence.”

Shutterstock + OpenAI: Creativity at the Speed of Your Imagination
This collaboration introduces OpenAI’s seamless image generation capabilities to Shutterstock audiences worldwide — offering customers the ability to instantly generate images based upon the criteria they type in. That’s what Shutterstock calls Creativity at the Speed of Your Imagination.

This agreement further deepens the strategic partnership between Shutterstock and OpenAI, which began in 2021.

“The data we licensed from Shutterstock was critical to the training of DALL-E,” said Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO. “We’re excited for Shutterstock to offer DALL-E images to its customers as one of the first deployments through our API, and we look forward to future collaborations as artificial intelligence becomes an integral part of artists’ creative workflows.”

When this integration launches on Shutterstock.com in the coming months, customers will receive direct access to these AI image generation capabilities improving their creative workflows. In turn, Shutterstock contributors will be compensated for the role their content played in the development of this technology.

Shutterstock.AI Unlocks New Revenue Streams for Contributors
Shutterstock believes that AI-generated content is the cumulative effort of its contributing artists. In an effort to create a new industry standard and unlock new revenue streams for the Company’s artist community, Shutterstock has also created the framework to provide additional compensation for artists whose works have contributed to develop the AI models. The Company also aims to compensate its contributors in the form of royalties when their intellectual property is used.

Establishing an Ethical and Equitable AI Framework
To promote an ethical and inclusive framework for content and AI, Shutterstock is a proud sponsor and participant in the World Ethical Data Foundation’s 2022 global conference. With a strong focus on the importance of inclusivity in technology, from hiring to reducing bias in systems and building checks and balances to help ensure ethical and inclusive data use, Shutterstock continues to drive advancements in both tech innovation and DEI across the creative industries.

And in an important effort to protect the IP rights of its artists, photographers, and creators, Shutterstock continues to lead in developing policy and procedures, and employs methods to ensure that usage rights and proper licenses are secured for all featured content — including AI-generated content.

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IBM Grants a Total of $5 Million in-kind to Bolster Schools’ Cybersecurity Preparedness

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As schools become more dependent on technology, ransomware attacks against schools are increasing. To help schools worldwide proactively prepare for and respond to cyberattacks, IBM today announced the first eight recipients of the 2022 IBM Education Security Preparedness Grants, totaling $5 million in in-kind services. Each grant will sponsor IBM Service Corps volunteers to address the selected school districts’ cybersecurity resiliency.

As the FBI, DHS CISA, and MS-ISCA anticipate an increase in cyberattacks against schools during the 2022/2023 academic year, schools are bracing for potential attacks and the significant costs that follow. With cybercriminals continuing to view schools as compelling targets, IBM’s 2022 Cost of a Data Breach Report* revealed that the cost of a data breach averages $3.86 million for education institutions. While the report found that 49% of data breaches the industry experienced were caused by a malicious attack, nearly 30% occurred due to human error, emphasizing the need for proper cybersecurity training and education in schools.

The IBM Education Security Preparedness Grants program, now in its second year, received more than 120 applications from schools across the U.S. and will award six school districts with grants. This year the program is also expanding overseas with grant recipients in Ireland and UAE being announced today, and with recipients in Costa Rica and Brazil to be announced at a later date.

The 2022 IBM Education Security Preparedness Grant recipients are:

  • City of Dublin Educational Training Board – Ireland
  • Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence – UAE
  • Cupertino Union School District – Sunnyvale, CA
  • Rossville Cons. School District – Rossville, IN
  • East China School District – East China, MI
  • Newburgh Enlarged City School District – Newburgh, NY
  • Goffstown School District – Goffstown, NH
  • Prince William County Public Schools – Manassas, VA

“Ransomware operators are increasingly setting their sights on schools, putting more pressure on these institutions to prioritize their cybersecurity. Cyberattacks on schools do not only impact the schools themselves, as the aftermath cascades down to students and their families, creating a very palpable effect on their communities,” said Charles Henderson, Global Managing Partner, and Head of IBM Security X-Force. “We’re proud to be able to support schools through this initiative, now in its second year, by helping to address critical gaps in security resources and planning and preparedness.”

The grant applications that IBM received shed light on the schools’ levels of cybersecurity awareness, preparedness, and training, confirming that there is always a growing need for improved security education and skills across industries and around the world.

Key findings from applications included:

  • Targets of Cyberattacks – One in four applicants has experienced a cybersecurity breach or ransomware attack, indicating that cybercriminals are taking advantage of the sector’s security constraints.
  • Absence of Readiness – The majority of school districts say they do not have a cybersecurity plan in place and have not received any cybersecurity training, increasing the security risk posed by human error.
  • Lack of Resources – Just 20% of districts have personnel dedicated to cybersecurity.

Now in its second year, this program has already benefited schools across the country. Barrett Puschus, Director of Information Technology at Brevard Public Schools, and one of the six recipients of the 2021 Education Security Preparedness grant, said “Before this grant, we were completely lacking in confidence in our cybersecurity. The IBM team came in and showed us how to create a cybersecurity strategy and plan for emergencies based on our needs. We feel optimistic about our cybersecurity posture today thanks to IBM’s help. The IBM team was populated with top-tier experts and our team benefited greatly from all their knowledge and experience. If you have data and systems worth protecting, as all schools do, this program is extremely worthwhile.”

IBM Service Corps volunteers are expected to be working with the schools to help them proactively prepare for and respond to cyber threats. Depending on each school’s needs, the engagements may include the creation of incident response plans, ransomware playbooks, updating technology, cybersecurity training for school communities, and more.

“We’re excited to be launching this program for the second year in a row as part of IBM’s Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives to help schools strengthen their security postures in response to the growing threats in the education space,” said Patrice Key-Rhone, Global Director of Employee Giving & Volunteerism at IBM. “At IBM we’re committed to supporting schools around the globe via our education and volunteer programs in order to help create equitable impact.” 

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DeltaTrak, Ericsson IoT combat food waste with real-time cold chain traceability

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Ericsson‘s Internet of Things (IoT) business and DeltaTrak announced a partnership – via Deutsche Telekom – to promote cold chain traceability advances enabled by the Ericsson IoT Accelerator platform.

In a statement, Ericsson said the partnership would improve food chain visibility, promote food and drug safety, and hence minimise waste while enabling sustainability and environmental awareness in transit operations by delivering real-time tracking data for perishable food and biopharmaceutical items in transit.

Deutsche Telekom, a major integrated telecommunications company and an Ericsson IoT partner, delivers the dependable and secure worldwide connectivity required for real-time data transmission.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, food loss and waste in the United States alone result in 170 million metric tonnes of CO2 emissions per year, excluding emissions from discarded food sent to landfills, emphasising the need to work towards waste elimination.

In the midst of global logistics disruptions, widespread food shortages, and environmental disasters, DeltaTrak and Ericsson IoT are collaborating to reduce food waste and, as a result, have a positive sustainability impact. According to the United Nations, the number of undernourished persons in the globe increased by around 150 million between 2019 and 2022. And, while many people labour to get food to those in need, much of it is at risk of rotting in transportation.

DeltaTrak, as a Deutsche Telekom customer, will leverage the power of Ericsson’s IoT Accelerator platform to obtain real-time tracking data for perishable items throughout the transit process, realising the benefits of IoT in food and pharmaceutical logistics by increasing safety and reducing waste. Approximately one-third of all food produced in the world is lost or wasted, emphasising the significance of having comprehensive and real-time data on food in transit to guarantee proper environmental parameters such as humidity and temperature are maintained.

Apart from food spoiling during transport, another issue is that 5-10 per cent of shipping containers are routinely quarantined upon arrival at port, pending temperature verification. When these containers are opened, the contents are vulnerable to loss and waste. DeltaTrak tracking devices put inside containers may give essential environmental condition data without breaching the product’s seal by leveraging Ericsson IoT’s connectivity management platform via Deutsche Telekom IoT SIM cards and connectivity.

“Representing the latest innovations from DeltaTrak, the cellular IoT enhancements enable our patented ecosystem offerings to deliver end-to-end chain of custody capabilities. Actionable data visibility from real-time FlashTrak Chain of Custody eCosystem can improve product shelf-life, reduce spoilage, food waste, and CO2 emissions,” DeltaTrak Founder and CEO Frederick Wu said.

Ericsson IoT General Manager Kyle Okamoto stated improving cold chain tracking technology improves the food logistics business, but the benefits go beyond that.

“By boosting real-time traceability of location and environmental conditions through Ericsson’s IoT Accelerator platform and Deutsche Telekom connectivity, we will significantly promote supply chain transparency by eliminating blind spots and allowing goods to be monitored from origin to destination. This in turn will also help the environment and contribute to a more sustainable future,” said Kyle Okamoto, General Manager of Ericsson IoT,” Okamoto added.

DeltaTrak now has reliable and secure global connectivity thanks to the collaboration of Ericsson IoT and Deutsche Telekom, which is crucial for monitoring and reporting transport conditions to stakeholders along the cold chain, according to Ericsson. 

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New airport checkpoint cuts queues and improves passenger security

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Media Release by Monash University

A revolutionary security checkpoint design by Monash University’s Design Health Collab may soon mitigate long airport wait times.

Monash University’s Design Health Collab has partnered with Australian tech company Micro-X to streamline and improve crucial airport security checkpoint processes across the United States, and increase aviation passenger safety.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded a contract to Micro-X to create and test a compact self-screening concept which streamlines the security processing into a single step.

The integrated system allows the scanning of passengers and their possessions to be conducted simultaneously, while meeting the strict safeguards of travel security.

The design also utilises a much smaller CT scanning system than those currently used in airports, allowing more checkpoints to operate, reducing queues and frustrating bottlenecks.

Monash lead design researcher Dr Nyein Chan Aung said the implementation of the new imaging technologies could transform the airport security experience for both travellers and staff.

“This new system design reconsiders every element to serve the user, including the industrial design, floor plan layout, lighting, ergonomics, materials and user interfaces,” he said.

“The checkpoint aims to maintain effective security while improving the throughput and passenger and operator experience.”

The new design will also offer a ‘pre-warning’ prompt that will alert passengers of forgotten objects in their pockets so they can avoid nuisance alarms when the on-person screening is conducted.

Dr Aung says the Monash Design Health Collab team is working to connect technology and the passengers’ experience, which is vital to the design’s success in the “real world.”

“Undertaking a user-centred design approach is critical to the success of new technologies and ensuring that the workflows allow for optimal system performance while maintaining ease-of-use, convenience and dignity for passengers from all walks of life,” he said.

Dr Brian Gonzales, Chief Scientist of Micro-X and the CEO of the company’s US subsidiary, agrees. He says world-class scanning technology needs to be combined with great design to be effective.

“The interface between the checkpoint system and the person is what makes the technology work for humans. People need to have a good experience and the design needs to consider people’s wellbeing, movement and flow.”

Design Health Collab is collaborating with other Monash University labs on this project, harnessing the research of the XYX Lab, leaders in gender-sensitive design, and the Mobility Design Lab, whose focus is on improving the physical, environmental and experiential aspects of mobility.

The Design Health Collab is part of Monash Art, Design and Architecture. It uses a people-centred design approach to understand and activate significant, high-impact healthcare services and products in the world. Our research takes place at the centre of the complex ecosystem of health services.

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Enhancing the LIVE community experience with new features, updates, and policies

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Media Release by TikTok

TikTok is home to a diverse global ecosystem of people and culture – creators, communities, and trends – all driving entertaining content and building connections. TikTok LIVE brings people together through content that entertains and inspires, providing creators an opportunity to show up as their most authentic selves as they forge meaningful connections and share a window into their lives with a global community – all in real-time.

Whether just getting started, or looking to try out a new feature, we want to ensure creators feel excited and ready to go LIVE with a few best practices and tips, along with our latest product and policy updates.

Go LIVE together with Multi-Guest:

To make way for more meaningful connections with audiences, we’ve recently upgraded our Multi-Guest feature. Through Multi-Guest, hosts can now go LIVE with up to 5 guests using a grid or panel layout, keeping audiences engaged as they respond to questions, host how-to videos, or simply share a moment together with the community.

And once LIVE, creators can tap the three dots to change a variety of settings. This includes the ability to flip the camera, add effects and stickers, filter comments, and add moderators if they haven’t already been assigned.

Our ongoing work to help keep our community safe

The foundation of TikTok is built on community trust and safety. To protect our users and creators and support their well-being, we constantly work to evolve the safeguards we put in place. Today, we’re making additional changes and improvements to help our community have the best experience possible when they use LIVE.

Currently, people must be aged 16 or over to host a LIVE. From November 23, the minimum age will increase from 16 to 18. As we consider the breadth of our global audience, we already take a graduated approach to the features that our community can access based on their age; younger teens need to be aged 16 or older to access Direct Messaging and 18 or older to send virtual gifts or access monetization features.

In addition, in the coming weeks, we plan to introduce a new way for creators to choose if they’d prefer to only reach an adult audience in their LIVE. For instance, perhaps a comedy routine is better suited for people over age 18. Or, a host may plan to talk about a difficult life experience and they would feel more comfortable knowing the conversation is limited to adults. We want our community to make the most of the opportunities LIVE can bring without compromising on safety. We believe these industry-leading updates can further protect the younger members of our community as they start and build their online presence.

Introducing safety reminders for LIVE creators

To help creators focus on entertaining and engaging their viewers, LIVE creators can already use our keyword filtering tool to limit comments they feel aren’t appropriate. In the coming weeks, we’re rolling out an updated version of this feature that will send a reminder to people and suggest new keywords they may want to consider adding to their filter list. To do this, the tool looks at the content a creator most commonly removes from their LIVE, spotting similar words in these comments and then suggesting the host may want to add these words to their filter list. When we tested this feature, we found that it nearly doubled those using keyword filtering when looking at the most popular LIVE creators.

As always, we have a suite of safety features to help people stay in control throughout their live streaming and troubleshoot problems as they come up. We have a vibrant and inspiring community on TikTok, and it’s important that our platform remains a safe, supportive, and joyful place for our community.

More information on TikTok LIVE safety tools can be found here, and visit the TikTok Safety Center for additional information on our safety policies and tools.

A word from some of our creators about how they use LIVE safety features

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Mastercard to bring crypto trading capabilities to banks

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Media Release by Mastercard

Mastercard today introduces Crypto SourceTM, a new program to enable financial institutions to bring secure crypto trading capabilities and services to their customers.

The 2022 Mastercard New Payments Index reported that 29% of respondents globally hold cryptocurrency as an investment, with another 65% indicating a preference for crypto-related services to be provided by their current trusted financial institution.*

In partnership with regulated and licensed crypto custody providers, Mastercard’s financial institution partners will gain access to a comprehensive suite of buy, hold and sell services for select crypto assets, augmented with proven identity, cyber, security and advisory services. This Crypto Source offering is complemented by Mastercard Crypto SecureTM to bring additional security to the crypto ecosystem and support card issuers in their compliance with complex regulations.

Now, Mastercard’s suite of crypto-related offerings for banks and fintechs includes:

  • Technology and partnership support to enable buy, hold and sell of select crypto assets
  • Security management including Mastercard’s identity solutions, crypto analytics, transaction monitoring, anti-money laundering, ‘Know Your Business’ and lifecycle stages, cybersecurity, and biometrics
  • Crypto spend and cash out capabilities offered through a range of products, including crypto cards, open banking and cross border services. Financial institutions would also be able to offer additional functionality using Mastercard’s technology such as digital receipts and loyalty solutions
  • Crypto program management including program design, product development and technology implementation, as well as go-to-market optimization and marketing consultancy services, providing end-to-end support for banks, fintechs and issuers to offer crypto programs at scale

“At Mastercard, trust is our business. What we are announcing today is a connected approach to services that will help bring users safely and securely into the crypto ecosystem. Our recent investments in this space, such as the acquisition of CipherTrace and Ekata, are providing us with a unique set of capabilities to help provide our customers and consumers with the most technically advanced solutions available in the market,” said Ajay Bhalla, President, Cyber & Intelligence at Mastercard.

To support this program, Mastercard is expanding its partnership and work with Paxos Trust Company, a leading regulated blockchain infrastructure platform. The partnership aims for Paxos to provide crypto-asset trading and custody services on behalf of the banks, while Mastercard will leverage its technology to integrate those capabilities into banks’ interfaces, resulting in a seamless experience for the consumer.

“Our commitment is simple – to explore crypto and the underlying digital assets technology to support consumer choice in payments. Today is an exciting step in our crypto journey that draws on the strengths of our global businesses, from open banking and identity verification to analytics and fraud monitoring to settlement solutions. We’re excited to build on our long-term partnership with Paxos – co-innovating to bring safe and secure technology to financial institutions. Our crypto product innovations will provide choice at scale and continue to bring one-of-a-kind opportunities to financial institutions as they seek to offer new, advanced services to their customers,” said Jorn Lambert, Chief Digital Officer at Mastercard.

“Mastercard has a powerful network of financial institutions around the world. This exciting offering developed by Paxos and Mastercard will give FIs the fastest and most trusted way to offer safe, reliable crypto access for their consumers globally. We’re thrilled to partner with Mastercard to further accelerate the mainstream adoption of digital assets,” said Walter Hessert, Head of Strategy at Paxos.

Over the past few years, Mastercard has been working alongside its customers and partners to bring new services and capabilities that help make crypto more accessible, safe and secure. These efforts have been complemented with the addition of new technologies through Finicity, Ekata, RiskRecon and CipherTrace. This unique combination of services provides eligible financial institutions the opportunity to directly manage crypto asset investments for consumers. Mastercard also continues to support banks, governments and others through its Crypto & Digital Currencies Consulting Services.

Mastercard Crypto Source is currently being prepared for pilot programs. Additional details on broader availability will be made available at a later date.

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Aetina unveiled end-to-end AI management solution powered by NVIDIA AI at GTC

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Aetina presented its complete AI management solution during an on-demand NVIDIA GTC session.

The solution enables Aetina’s worldwide AI partners and clients to successfully implement edge AI through NVIDIA AI development and deployment tools and Aetina’s NVIDIA AI-powered training and inference platforms.

Jeremy Pan, AI Solutions Product Manager at Aetina, led the session and discussed a compelling use case of AI-powered automatic optical inspection (AOI) in a client’s plant in Yilan, Taiwan.

Challenges of Edge AI Adoption

System integrators and developers must train and deploy AI models on edge devices to implement edge AI. The AI model training process requires vast amounts of data to be collected and labelled utilising high-performance computing platforms, which can result in significant training costs. These factors make system integrators and developers’ training difficult and time-consuming.

AI model deployment might be tricky when system integrators and developers have several distant edge devices in different locations. AI model deployment concerns include optimising models for inference to operate quickly on edge devices, long deployment processes, difficulty with team communication and collaboration, high follow-up monitoring expenses due to many AI models, security risks, and expensive costs.

End-to-End AI Management Solution

Aetina offers a complete solution to assist its partners and clients in developing and deploying AI applications at the edge. Aetina’s NVIDIA-Certified edge computing platforms and NVIDIA’s AI model creation and deployment tools comprise the solution. Among these products are NVIDIA Fleet CommandTM and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite, which provides enterprise support for the NVIDIA TAO toolkit and NVIDIA Triton Inference ServerTM.

Aetina’s NVIDIA-Certified edge computing platforms and other NVIDIA tools enable partners and clients to implement edge AI more quickly by streamlining the AI training and deployment process.

Ongoing application case in smart factory

One of Aetina’s clients, a global producer of industrial embedded flash and DRAM solutions, intended to improve efficiency by installing AI-powered AOI devices in its plant. Aetina’s client manufactures flash and DRAM products, which are small and complex electronic components designed for harsh environments and applications; the manufacturer of these components required an AOI system capable of processing high-resolution image recognition tasks at a high processing speed. Aetina worked with the customer to create a prototype of the AI-powered AOI system.

On Aetina’s AI training platform—SuperEdge AIP-D422—an Aetina solution team first trained an AI model capable of detecting defective goods in factory production lines for the AOI system with NVIDIA TAO, and then uploaded the model to NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC). The solution team remotely installed the model on Aetina’s AI inference platform—MegaEdge AIP-FQ47—in the factory of Aetina’s customer from NGC using NVIDIA Fleet CommandTM, successfully producing the AOI system prototype.

With AOI cameras, the system prototype can now substantially accelerate the inspection work of discovering DRAM goods with erroneously positioned corporate stickers with high precision in less than one second, compared to a human inspector who takes roughly 10 seconds to accomplish the same operation. When the AI-powered AOI system is finished, it will be put in Aetina’s client’s facility to execute inspection jobs across several production lines.

Furthermore, NVIDIA Fleet CommandTM enables the Aetina solution team to swiftly update the AI model on edge devices in Aetina’s client’s factory production lines, enabling effective remote AI management—a critical component of successful edge AI deployment.

The end-to-end AI management solution is a component of Aetina’s Pro-AI Service, which enables worldwide partners and clients to adopt AI for vertical applications other than AOI in factories, using Aetina’s edge AI hardware and software.

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Singapore and Germany Sign Mutual Recognition Arrangement on Cybersecurity Labels for Consumer Smart Products

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Media Release by Cyber Security Agency of Singapore

The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) and Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) will sign a Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) on the cybersecurity labels to be issued by both countries today.

CSA’s Cybersecurity Labelling Scheme (CLS) is the first multi-level labelling scheme in the Asia Pacific region.  Under the scheme, smart devices will be rated according to their levels of cybersecurity provisions, from Level 1 to Level 4. Under the MRA, smart consumer products issued with Germany’s IT Security Label and Singapore’s Cybersecurity Label will be mutually recognised in either country. Products issued with BSI’s label will be recognised by CSA to have fulfilled CLS Level 2 requirements, while products with CLS Levels 2 and above will be recognised by BSI.

The mutual recognition of cybersecurity labels will apply to devices intended for use by consumers such as smart cameras, smart televisions, smart speakers, smart toys, smart garden and household robots, gateways and hubs for home automation, health trackers, smart lighting, smart plug (smart power socket) and smart thermostats.

For a start, the MRA will not cover some products such as Smart Door Locks, Fire/Gas/Water detectors, and general computing devices such as computers, smartphones or tablets, which are designed to run any applications without a predefined purpose. CSA and BSI will progressively work towards recognising more product categories under the scope of the MRA.

Germany is the second country after Finland to formalise the mutual recognition of national cybersecurity labels with Singapore. At SICW 2021, CSA signed its first Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) with the Transport and Communications Agency of Finland (Traficom). Consumer IoT products with Finland’s Cybersecurity Label will be recognised as having met CLS Level 3 requirements, and vice versa.

Manufacturers of smart consumer devices will benefit from these agreements as they save costs and time on duplicated testing and gain improved access to new markets. Companies that have benefited from the Singapore-Finland’s MOU include Signify, Polar and ASUS.  The first CLS Level 3 labels under the MoU were awarded to eight products from Signify’s smart lighting system and Polar Electro’s multi-sport watches. The first Traficom’s cybersecurity labels under the MoU were awarded to seven products from ASUS’s Wi-Fi 6 routers.

As of October 2022, more than 200 products – ranging from routers to smart lighting to smart cameras – have been awarded the CLS label.

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Updates to How We Protect People on Instagram From Abuse

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Media Release by Meta

Making Blocking Better

We want to make it as hard as possible for someone you’ve blocked on Instagram to contact you again. Now when you block someone, you’ll also have the option to block other accounts they may have or create, making it more difficult for them to interact with you.

Last year, we updated how blocking works on Instagram to give you the ability to not only block a single account, but also any new accounts someone may create. This update allows you to also block existing accounts that person may already have. Based on initial test results from this new change, we expect that four million fewer accounts will need to be blocked every week since these accounts will now be blocked automatically.

New Updates to Hidden Words

Since launching Hidden Words last year, more than one in five people with more than 10,000 followers have turned on the feature, giving them a powerful tool to automatically filter harmful content from their comments and message requests. We’ve seen that Hidden Words has been effective at keeping people safe. When people with more than 10,000 followers turn on Hidden Words for comments, on average, they see 40% fewer comments that might be offensive.

We want to help more creators benefit from this protection, so we’re starting to test automatically turning on Hidden Words for Creator accounts. Everyone will continue to be able to turn these settings on or off at any time and build a custom list with additional words, phrases and emojis they may want to hide.

We’re also continuing to improve Hidden Words to offer more protections, including: 

  • Expanding the feature to cover Story replies, so offensive replies from people you don’t follow will be sent to your Hidden Requests folder and you never have to see them.
  • Supporting new languages including Farsi, Turkish, Russian, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu and Tamil.
  • Improving our filtering to spot and hide more intentional misspellings of offensive terms, for instance, if someone uses a “1” instead of an “i.” 
  • Adding new terms to filter message requests that might contain scams or spam. We’ll start doing this in English in certain countries, with more languages and countries coming soon.

Nudging People to Be Respectful in Comments and DMs

We’ve learned that there are cases where people mean well but may misjudge how their words could negatively impact others — especially when they’re interacting online.  

We’ve seen that nudges can reduce the amount of hurtful remarks on Instagram, which is why we’re introducing more of them. Now, a new notification will encourage people to pause and consider how they want to respond before replying to a comment that our systems tell us could be offensive. These nudges are live now for people whose apps are set to English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Chinese or Arabic.

We’ve also started reminding people to be respectful in DMs when sending a message request to a creator. This nudge helps people remember that there’s a real person on the other side of their DM request, and encourages more respectful outreach to people they may not know. We’re rolling out this reminder globally in the coming weeks.

We’ll continue to work on more ways to protect people from abuse on Instagram, while encouraging supportive and respectful conversations.

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New ThinkReality VRX to support Snapdragon Spaces

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Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is partnering with Lenovo on their newest product, the ThinkReality VRX.

In a statement, Qualcomm said ThinkReality VRX is a joint effort between Lenovo and the cutting-edge Snapdragon® XR2+ Gen 1 platform to advance the expansion and implementation of the enterprise metaverse and virtual workspaces. It is built with high-resolution pass-through capabilities for mixed reality (MR) applications.

Lenovo’s latest product is the world’s first VR headset that supports Snapdragon Spaces. This implies that developers will be able to create experiences on virtual reality (VR) headsets that are much more like augmented reality (AR) on optical see-through devices like the ThinkReality A3 AR glasses. 

This will allow developers to migrate experiences between AR, MR, and VR, regardless of the device form factor. Lenovo ThinkReality VRX is designed to be the go-to VR solution for immersive 3D training and collaboration. The six-degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) all-in-one VR device is purpose-built and performs exceptionally well.

ThinkReality VRX, which will be sold globally beginning in 2023, joins a long list of Lenovo enterprise XR devices powered by Snapdragon, including the ThinkReality A6, ThinkReality A3, and now the ThinkReality VRX.

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