City News Service reports:
Torrance Memorial Medical Center
began notifying some patients Monday that email accounts containing
“work-related reports” and personal data were breached at the hospital. The so-called phishing attack occurred on
April 18 and 19, according to medical center spokesman Ed Finn, who said
facility personnel, working with third-party forensic investigators, launched
an investigation “to determine the nature and scope of the incident.” “The investigation determined that personal
information for certain individuals was present in some impacted emails, but it
remains unclear whether emails or attachments containing the information were
accessed by an unauthorized person or persons,” Finn said.
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Breeze.
Toward a global ID card? Will this become a default ID for
everyone?
Microsoft and Accenture Unveil Global ID System for Refugees
Americans can show all sorts of documents, such as Social Security
cards and diplomas, to show who they are. But for those from countries torn apart by war
or political chaos, it's much harder to prove their identities.
That's why a new software tool, unveiled on Monday at the
United Nations, is a big deal. It will
let millions of refugees and other without documents whip out a phone to
quickly show who they are and where they came from.
The tool, developed in part by Microsoft and Accenture,
combines biometric data (like a
fingerprint or an iris scan) and a new form of record-keeping technology, known
as the blockchain, to create a
permanent identity.
In practice, this means someone arriving at a border
crossing could prove he or she had come from a refugee camp and qualify for
aid. Or a displaced person in a new
country could use the ID system to call up his or her school records. The tool doesn't have a name yet since it's at
the prototype stage but will get one soon.
A simple introduction for my students.
Facial recognition has been an important part of science
fiction for the past 50 years. In most
of those works it is painted as a means of oppression — part of a surveillance
state and a form of control.
A combination of circumstances — the low cost of
computing, improvements in machine learning, proliferation of internet
connected devices — has once again turned science fiction into reality. With facial recognition starting to be used in the mainstream for
security and safety purposes, will it eventually turn into the dystopian future
many imagined?
Will this impact Facebook’s promise to remove “terrorist”
posts?
Supreme Court strikes down state law barring sex offenders
from Facebook
The Supreme Court struck down a North Carolina
law Monday that bans registered sex offenders from accessing Facebook
and other social media.
The court ruled 8-0 that the law impermissibly restricts
lawful speech in violation of the First Amendment.
In delivering the opinion of the court, Justice Anthony
Kennedy said a fundamental principle of the First Amendment is that all persons
have access to places where they can speak and listen, and then, after
reflection, respond.
“While in the past there may have been difficulty in
identifying the most important places (in a
spatial sense) for the exchange of views, today the answer is clear,” he said. “It is cyberspace — the ‘vast
democratic forums of the Internet’ in general and social media in particular.”
(Related). Is
Google also impacted? Or, is this the
social media equivalent of shouting “Fire” in a crowded theater?
Google Steps Up Efforts to Block Extremism, Following
Facebook
Google is stepping up its efforts to block "extremist
and terrorism-related videos" over its platforms, using a combination of
technology and human monitors.
The measures announced Sunday come on the heels of similar
efforts unveiled by Facebook last week, and follow a call by the Group of Seven
leaders last month for the online giants to do more to curb online extremist
content.
Undue reliance?
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/tesla-found-not-guilty-in-fatal-may-2016-crash-says-ntsb-2017-06-20
Tesla found 'not guilty' in fatal May 2016 crash, says NTSB
Tesla was found not at fault in the May 2016 fatal crash in which
former Navy SEAL Joshua Brown collided with a truck while driving the Model S
in autopilot mode, according to a 538-page National Transportation Safety Board
report issued Monday. The cause of the
crash hasn't been determined. The luxury
electric-car maker has advised drivers to "maintain control and
responsibility" for their vehicles even when the autopilot feature is enabled.
The NTSB report found that Brown had
kept his hands off the wheel "for the vast majority of the trip," despite repeated automated warnings in the vehicle to
maintain control.
Where else could this technique be applied?
Goldman Set Out to Automate IPOs and It Has Come Far, Really
Fast
A few years ago, Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s leaders
took a hard look at how the bank carries out initial public offerings. They mapped 127 steps in every deal, then set
out to see how many could be done by computers instead of people.
The answer so far: about half.
Just 21 months after the firm disclosed its plan to
re-engineer one of Wall Street’s most lucrative businesses, the project has
found ways to eliminate thousands of hours of work long performed by humans.
Or, we could go to “self-flying” planes.
CAE Says Pilot Training Must Grow To Meet Demand
The world’s airlines will need 255,000 new airline pilots
over the next 10 years, according to Canadian company CAE, which bills itself
as the industry’s leading training organization for commercial aviation with a
market share of about 25%.
“Rapid fleet expansion and high pilot retirement rates
create a further need to develop 180,000 first officers into new airline captains,
more than in any previous decade,” it says in its first Airline Pilot Training
Demand Outlook, released today.
These numbers mean that over 50% of the pilots who will
fly the world’s commercial aircraft in 10 years have not yet started to train.
Too late for this Quarters class, but I’ll save it for the
next one.
And for my Geeks.
Since all my students have smartpjones…
For my students. (I
hope they will hire thousands!) Also,
knowing how listings are structured should make job searches more
effective.
Google’s job listings search is now open to all job search
sites & developers
It’s now official: Job listings are coming to Google’s
search results in a much more prominent way. And the company is now offering a formal path
for outsiders to add job listings to the new feature in Google search.
Google announced
this morning that they are now opening up job listings within Google search
to all developers and site owners. The
new jobs display within Google search doesn’t have a formal name. However, it’s part of the overall Google
for Jobs initiative that Google previewed last month at the Google I/O
conference.
For my students who had better be researching!
An academic search engine is a must for every student or
researcher, and now there’s an alternative to Google Scholar: Semantic Scholar, a
new academic search engine that caters to researchers.
While Google Scholar is best for deep web research, Semantic Scholar runs on a sophisticated
technology that will only improve with every year it runs: artificial
intelligence.
It’s how I stay current.
Perhaps my students could use it too.
(That’s a hint, people.)
The trick is to use RSS (no, the technology isn’t
dead). If you combine
RSS outputs with a couple of third-party tools, you can create a single
customized news feed which only contains legitimate stories you care about.
In this article, I’m going to briefly explain how RSS works, show you how to use Zapier to create
a custom RSS feed, and finally introduce you to a few alternatives.
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