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Artificial Intelligence & evolving Data Centres

Adoption of Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models and autonomous systems has changed the basic blueprint of Data Centres. GPU data Centres have been in the limelight by virtue of their significant contribution to Artificial Intelligence. In fact the strong correlation makes GPU Data Centres and Artificial Intelligence go hand in hand, to the extent that their survival is inter-dependent on each other. Adoption of Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models and autonomous systems has changed the basic blueprint of Data Centres. As of now, major Cloud providers are investing heavily into AI centric Data Centres, as AI workloads are pushing data centre growth.

A day after Christmas in 2020, a 28-year-old Chinese man lifted his sleeping ex-girlfriend’s eyelids, scan

He went to her home and then allegedly tricked her into sleep, then he used his ex’s fingerprint to unlock her phone, then lifted her iris to unlock her Alipay account and transferred around $24,000 from her digital wallet. ADVERTISEMENT The bizarre case of stealing happened in Nanning, a city in southern China near the Vietnam border. According to Nanning Evening News, the man, surnamed Huang, visited his former girlfriend, surnamed Dong, on December 26, 2020, to discuss a long-overdue repayment. (Image: iStock) ADVERTISEMENT Huang transferred 154,147 yuan, approximately $24,000, from her Alipay balance, credit services, and bank accounts. It also noted that the original Nanning Evening News report, published on December 12, 2021, did not describe him lifting her eyelids or even mention facial recognition.

Hybrid AI Turns Network Traffic Into Images to Catch Cyberattacks

The approach, which the authors say has never before been applied to intrusion detection, transforms raw network traffic data into grayscale images and then analyzes those images the way a vision model would analyze a photograph. The core insight behind the work is that network intrusion data, despite arriving as tables of numbers, contains patterns that can be made visible. Network traffic is notoriously lopsided: in a typical dataset, normal connections vastly outnumber malicious ones, which can bias classifiers toward simply labeling everything as safe. The experimental evidence spans three benchmarks that have anchored intrusion detection research for years. All three datasets, while canonical, are laboratory benchmarks; real network traffic is noisier, more diverse, and subject to distribution drift as new services and protocols appear.

Coupang Eats to Use AI Image Checks to Catch Misdeliveries

Coupang Eats has begun developing technology that automatically reads unit numbers and product details in "delivery completed" photos and cross-checks them against delivery drivers' location data to determine whether an order was misdelivered. According to reporting by The Seoul Economic Daily on the 11th, Coupang Eats is developing and moving to commercialize technology that uses delivery completion photos together with drivers' location data to identify misdeliveries. Combined with the driver's GPS location data, the system confirms whether the actual delivery location matches the order address. Coupang Eats has also added a safeguard at the photo-taking stage. Coupang Eats believes the cross-verification of delivery completion will also make it easier to assign responsibility in cases such as misdeliveries.

New webcam-based AI system reads and responds to human facial expressions

Rather than assigning a label to one photograph, the system treats facial behavior as an exchange unfolding over time. Dig deeper into facial expressions and human–AI interaction These resources examine facial analysis tools, emotional interpretation and the ethical limits of expression-based AI. Py-Feat: Python Facial Expression Analysis Toolbox: Introduces an open-source toolkit for detecting, analyzing and visualizing facial-expression data. (Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 2019) OpenFace 2.0: Facial Behavior Analysis Toolkit: Describes software for analyzing facial landmarks, action units, head pose and gaze. The original story "New webcam-based AI system reads and responds to human facial expressions" is published in The Brighter Side of News.

Caldwell Plans To End Its Contract With Flock — But There’s A Catch

The City of Caldwell intends to terminate its contract with Flock Safety, but not the use of Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs). The Caldwell City Council voted in October to switch from Flock to Axon, approving a 10-year contract totaling $6.7 million, according to KTVB. The City of Caldwell, in September, confirmed to Idaho Freedom Foundation (IFF) that it would be ending its contract with Flock Safety. The portal also includes documents regarding its agreements with Flock Safety, as well as a map of Flock cameras in Caldwell. The Wilder City Council shot down a proposal targeting Flock cameras on Sept. 1, with Mayor Justin Devenberg casting the deciding vote.

East Midlands Airport First To Use Facial Recognition Technology

East Midlands Airport (EMA) in Leicestershire is the first in the United Kingdom to introduce facial recognition technology, a new contactless system that will allow passengers to pass through electronic passport gates (eGates) without needing to present their passport. Nationwide rollout The UK’s Home Office plans to extend the technology to all 13 UK airports with eGates by early 2027. The contactless system is already in use in countries such as Dubai and Australia. The government estimates that the new contactless system is up to 25% faster than the current process of physically scanning a passport. East Midlands airport EMA’s Managing Director, Steve Griffiths said: “We’re delighted to be the first UK airport to have contactless eGates introduced by Border Force.

Richa Chadha shares makeup tutorial to evade facial recognition amid anti-CEC protests at Jantar Mantar

Actress Richa Chadha has stepped into the buzz around the anti-CEC protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. She shared a makeup tutorial on her social media about evading facial recognition and urged Delhi residents to join the demonstration in large numbers. Richa Chadha shares makeup tutorial to evade facial recognition amid anti-CEC protests at Jantar Mantar The video was posted from her X (Twitter earlier) account on October 9, 2026, with the caption “So many restrictions on the border and locomotives etc, means baahar wale people can’t come into the central part. CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke had warned that “cockroaches from across India” would march to Jantar Mantar today, saying that wherever police stopped them would become “our Jantar Mantar.” Richa Chadha was among the film personalities who backed the CJP’s earlier Jantar Mantar protest in June.

61 Blog Posts To Learn About Efficiency

Let's learn about Efficiency via these 61 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Efficiency is the ability to achieve maximum productivity with minimal wasted effort, time, or resources. In technology, it is paramount for optimizing system performance, reducing operational costs, and delivering faster, more reliable solutions. 1. What does the time complexity O(log n) actually mean? Knowing the complexity of algorithms beforehand is one thing, and other thing is knowing the reason behind it being like that. 2. XOR - The magical bitwise operator Understanding bit manipulation provide new approaches you never knew existed to solve a particular problem. Let us do what’s necessary to start developing this bit-wise approach. 3. 🚀 Boost Your Productivity as a Software Engineer 🚀 Unique tips & tricks on boosting your productivity as a Software Engineer. 4. Reducing Meeting Fatigue With 25-minute Meetings Discover the transformative power of concise meetings in software engineering, optimizing productivity and focus for efficient collaboration. 5. The Feynman Learning Technique: How to Learn Anything Well It is 1941 and you have a problem. While you haven’t yet gotten around to defining quantum electrodynamics, or even started your work helping design the atomic bomb, you are nearing the end of your second year of graduate school. This means you have an exam soon. 6. The AI Energy Crisis & A Newfound Push for Efficiency While Microsoft and Google spend billions, startups craft new, nimble, environmentally-friendly AI models. 7. The Only Productivity Method You'll Ever Need Is 'Getting Things Done' Over the years I’ve tried different methods or adapted existing ones to make the most of my working time, but each new technique reminds me of the GTD method. 8.

Rangers Prospect Earns Recognition After Breakout 2026 Season

The Texas Rangers have another promising pitching prospect progressing through their farm system, as left-hander Dalton Pence earned recognition from MLB Pipeline following an impressive 2026 campaign. 10 among Rangers prospects, established himself as one of the Minor Leagues' most effective pitchers while advancing through three levels during the season. The left-hander's success also extended to Triple-A, the highest level of the minor leagues. Advancing through the minor leagues requires pitchers to adjust to increasingly experienced hitters, making consistency an important part of the development process. A prospect to watch in Texas' farm system Pence's 2026 performance strengthens his position among the Rangers' pitching prospects.

Remote Worker With Lupus Says AI Webcam Surveillance Cost Her Her Job

Every three minutes, according to a lawsuit filed in New Jersey, a camera was alleged to capture Glennis Von Sander-Timinski’s face. What the Lawsuit Alleges The complaint describes more than a decade of remote work before an AI monitoring requirement upended her employment. Webcam surveillance can capture where they are, what they look like, and what surrounds them inside their home. No court has determined that the monitoring caused Von Sander-Timinski’s medical symptoms or that Sentinel AI violated any law. What Comes Next How courts and legislatures resolve this tension could reshape the terms of remote work for years to come.

Former EPS civilian member acquitted in case involving alleged sexual assault of teen

The alleged assault Court heard the complainant is a boy who was living in a group home at the time of the alleged assault. The boy testified that he recorded a video of the sexual encounter and sent it to the man through Snapchat. One Snapchat account had a username that was similar to an email address found on Cetin’s phone. The judge found no evidence connecting Cetin to that account, which was central to the Crown’s case. But the judge found the location evidence did not establish that Cetin was the man the boy met.

India’s criminal codes say nothing about facial recognition tools. 3 amendments can fix this

For an electronic record, Sec 63(4) requires a certificate. The Identification Act says nothing about faces Facial recognition needs a database of faces. And because the Act covers anyone arrested, the database can include people who were accused and never convicted. The amendments below protect that work by turning assurances the police have already given the Supreme Court into law. The algorithm testifies through whichever officer relays it, and that officer must answer for a model he did not build.

Backlash to Flock Cameras Is a Trust Issue, Not a Tech Issue | Blogs | Oct 9, 2026

Instead, amid growing opposition to AI and federal law enforcement, Flock cameras have suffered from being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Flock cameras do not perform facial recognition to identify who is inside a vehicle, nor does the company’s network of ALPRs continuously track vehicles. Around the same time, Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered all state agencies to pause funding for Flock cameras. Flock cameras have been on the market since the company’s founding in 2017, with adoption growing steadily over the years. Even better, state lawmakers should govern all law enforcement data collection and use with technologically neutral regulations that impose reasonable guardrails across the board.

This ‘Mind-Reading’ AI Is a Wiz at Figuring Out What You See

Israeli scientists have devised an AI model that can reconstruct and even predict what people are seeing with startling accuracy, likening the results to mind reading. The AI model, called Brain-IT, was developed by professor Michal Irani and fellow researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. More from CNET Brain-IT takes advantage of the thing that AI is best at, which is pattern recognition. According to Irani, other AI models can translate brain activity into images and preserve the general vibe of an image. How does the Brain-IT AI model work?

PhotoPrism AI-Powered Photos App Gets Better Image Recognition, NVIDIA GPU Support

The biggest change is a reworked image classification system based on a new ONNX model. Unlike before, it considers more of the entire picture, improving recognition accuracy, especially for wide photos where important objects are not centered. For users with 360-degree cameras, the release expands support for Insta360 X4 and X5 videos, proxy files, and brackets. File stacking is improved to better handle related Insta360 files indexed at different times, and rescanning no longer restores previously archived Insta360 pictures. Lastly, one important upgrade consideration is that image classification and NSFW detection now use ONNX models.

LightOn releases LightOnOCR-3, a world-leading model family for document intelligence.

Press release Paris, 08 October 2026 LightOn releases LightOnOCR-3, a world-leading model family for document intelligence LightOn introduces LightOnOCR-3, a family of AI models that delivers world-leading benchmark results, ahead of competing US and Chinese models, with state-of-the-art performance on French-language documents and handwriting. Building on LightOnOCR-2, it goes beyond text recognition to describe images, extract data from charts and preserve document structure. World-leading performance on document recognition benchmarks Building on the success of LightOnOCR-2, which sees 240,000 monthly downloads on Hugging Face, LightOn today introduces LightOnOCR-3, a new generation that extends its document intelligence capabilities. When document processing captures only text, some of that information is lost, limiting what AI applications can retrieve and use. With their compact size, LightOnOCR-3 models are among the fastest on the market: they can process documents up to twice as fast as LightOnOCR-2.

Council has more than 100 cameras with facial recognition capability

Council has more than 100 cameras with facial recognition capability Preston City Council has more than 100 CCTV cameras with facial recognition technology enabled, according to information disclosed through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by Liberty Investigates. The council said that, of its 130 cameras, a facial recognition watchlist is used on just one, inside its One Stop Shop at Preston Town Hall. Ten Lancashire councils said they do not use facial recognition technology or have it enabled on their cameras. A council spokesperson said: "Preston City Council's CCTV system has the capability to use facial recognition technology. "The council currently operates a facial recognition watchlist on a single camera located within the One Stop Shop.