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Engineers with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have taken the wraps off two newly developed creations: Water Cannon Robot and Hose Extension Robot. The two machines are designed to play an active role in helping extinguish fires that may be too hazardous for human firefighters, including fires that may form at chemical plants. The company conducted an open demonstration of the technology … Continue reading

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued orders to seven major broadband providers on Tuesday seeking wide-ranging information about how the companies collect and profit from the personal information of their American customers.

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The drive-thru accounts for a significant chunk of sales at McDonald’s restaurants across the globe and the company is now turning to artificial intelligence in order to drive those numbers up even further. It has acquired machine learning startup Dynamic Yield reportedly for $300 million. The technology it gets will enable it to use AI to optimize drive-thru menus.

What this means is that McDonald’s drive-thru menus will not be static in the future as they are today. The artificial intelligence technology will take into account various factors including local events, time, weather, traffic levels at the restaurant, and even what the customer is ordering to optimize the menu.

For example, if you’re ordering a sandwich, the drive-thru menu might proactively recommend fries or other side items even if you were not actively looking for them. The same tech may also promote iced coffees or the McFlurry on hot days and hot beverages when it’s cold out. If there’s a lot of traffic in the restaurant, it may suggest simpler items that are faster for employees to prepare.

McDonald’s has tested the technology at several locations in 2018 and the results have been promising so much so that it’s now going to roll out this technology to more than 1,000 locations in the next three months. The AI will ultimately be rolled out to all 14,000 U.S. locations in addition to overseas locations.

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It was reported yesterday how hackers had managed to infiltrate countless ASUS systems by distributing a backdoored software update tool from the company’s own servers. The hackers digitally signed the ASUS Live Update Tool with one of the company’s own code-signing certificates before sending it to ASUS’ download servers where the backdoored tool was hosted for several months in 2018. The company today confirmed that it has rolled out a fix for the malware attack.

Hackers used the backdoor in the software update tool to send malware to users’ computers through a command and control server. It’s believed that the hackers were able to get access to the company’s own code-signing certificates through the supply chain.

ASUS said today that it has released an update to thwart this malware attack which security researchers estimate targeted more than a million Asus users. The company said that only “a small number of devices’ had been implanted with malware through this attack.

The company has also said that it’s putting in place “multiple security verification mechanisms” to ensure that something like this does not happen in the future. It has also started using an “enhanced end-to-end encryption mechanism” for this purpose and has made behind-the-scenes server system improvements to thwart similar attacks in the future. One has to wonder why ASUS never did all of this in the first place.

ASUS Releases Fix For Update Tool Malware Attack , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.