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Microsoft’s SoftNER AI uses unsupervised learning to help triage cloud service outages
Microsoft is using unsupervised learning techniques to extract knowledge about disruptions to cloud services. In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, researchers at the company detail SoftNER, a framework that has been deployed internally at Microsoft to collate information…
In the news | Medium | Machine Learning
HOMER: Provable Exploration in Reinforcement Learning
At ICML 2020, Mikael Henaff, Akshay Krishnamurthy, John Langford and Dipendra Misra published a paper presenting a new reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm called HOMER that addresses three main problems in real-world RL problem: (i) exploration, (ii) decoding latent dynamics, and (iii) optimizing…
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Microsoft’s Project Freta aims to eliminate Linux malware
Last week, Microsoft unveiled Project Freta, a cloud-based malware detection service (via Bleeping Computer). The project aims to detect malware that previously went undetected on Linux cloud VM images. It's a free service from Microsoft Research that can detect OS…
In the news | The Lancet
Machine learning for COVID-19—asking the right questions
COVID-19, caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has put health-care systems worldwide into crisis.1 The speed with which health-care resources have been consumed has in some countries exceeded supply of personal protective equipment and ventilators,…
Defending DRAM for data safety and security in the cloud with Dr. Stefan Saroiu
Dynamic random-access memory – or DRAM – is the most popular form of volatile computer memory in the world but it’s particularly susceptible to Rowhammer, an adversarial attack that can cause data loss and security exploits in everything from smart…
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Fret not, Linux fans, Microsoft’s Project Freta is here to peer deep into your memory… to spot malware
Boffins in Microsoft Research has pulled the covers off Project Freta, a free service aimed at spotting memory malfeasance. A technology demonstration named for the street in Warsaw, Poland where Marie Curie was born, Freta comes from the NExT Security…
In the news | BleepingComputer
First look: Microsoft’s Project Freta detects Linux malware for free
Microsoft Research has announced a cloud-based malware detection service called Project Freta to detect rootkits, cryptominers, and previously undetected malware strains lurking in your Linux cloud VM images.
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Microsoft’s Free Cloud Rootkit Sweeper is Hitting Some Sweet Spots
“What would happen if a commercial cloud could guarantee the capture of malware, no matter how expensive or exotic, in volatile memory?” Microsoft has built an absolute behemoth of a cloud virtual machine (VM) security tool from scratch in Rust*…
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ACL 2020 Announces Best Paper & Test-Of-Time Awards
Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Senior Researcher, was awarded the ACL 2020 Best Overall Paper Award for Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with CheckList paper with co-authors Tongshuang Wu, University of Washington, Carlos Guestrin and Sameer Singh, University of California…