A local incident.
SamSam
ransomware infects Colorado Department of Transportation
SamSam ransomware is back and the Colorado
Department of Transportation is its most recent victim. More than
2,000 agency computers had to be shut down on Feb 21 to prevent the
ransomware from spreading across the entire infrastructure.
According
to CBS local news, the critical systems used to manage road traffic
and alerts were not affected. The attackers encrypted some files and
requested bitcoin in exchange for the decryption key.
A video comment worth watching.
Weekly
Update 75
03:52 - Australia's
Notifiable Data Breach Scheme
Good question?
Ars Farivar reports:
Last November, a 74-year-old rancher and attorney was walking around his ranch just south of Encinal, Texas, when he happened upon a small portable camera strapped approximately eight feet high onto a mesquite tree near his son’s home. The camera was encased in green plastic and had a transmitting antenna.
Not knowing what it was or how it got there, Ricardo Palacios removed it.
Soon after, Palacios received phone calls from Customs and Border Protection officials and the Texas Rangers. Each agency claimed the camera as its own and demanded that it be returned. Palacios refused, and they threatened him with arrest.
Read more on Ars
Technica.
Can the government just come onto your private
property without your knowledge or consent and install surveillance
equipment to surveill others? And if they can, is the notion of
“private property” all but dead?
...and another good question.
Why Can
Everyone Spot Fake News But The Tech Companies?
… Among those who pay close attention to big
technology platforms and misinformation, the frustration over the
platforms’ repeated failures to do something that any remotely
savvy news consumer can do with minimal effort is palpable: Despite
countless articles, emails with links to violating content, and viral
tweets, nothing changes. The tactics of YouTube shock jocks and
Facebook conspiracy theorists hardly differ from those of their
analog predecessors; crisis actor posts and videos have, for example,
been a staple of peddled misinformation for years.
This isn't some new phenomenon. Still, the
platforms are proving themselves incompetent when it comes to
addressing them — over and over and over again. In many cases,
they appear to be surprised by that such content sits on their
websites. And even their public relations responses seem to suggest
they've been caught off guard with no plan in place for messaging
when they slip up.
A
little encouragement for my student entrepreneurs.
Snap chief
earns $638 million in 2017, third-highest CEO payout ever
Snap Inc
(SNAP.N)
Chief Executive Evan Spiegel received $637.8 million as total
compensation last year after the company went public, the
third-highest annual payout ever received by a company’s CEO.
I wasn’t sure how “Inclusion” and AI were
related. Looks like I learned something new.
New Website
Draws on International Perspectives to Highlight Issues related to
Inclusion and Artificial Intelligence
“The Berkman Klein Center for Internet &
Society is pleased to share a newly-published interactive webpage,
www.aiandinclusion.org,
which highlights salient topics and offers a broad range of resources
related to issues of AI and inclusion. The materials contribute to
the Diversity and Inclusion track of the broader Ethics
and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative. Launched
in Spring 2017, the initiative is anchored by the Berkman Klein
Center and the MIT Media Lab, who have been working in conjunction
over the past year to conduct evidence-based research, bolster AI for
the social good, and construct a collective knowledge base on the
ethics and governance of AI. The site reflects lessons learned from
a wide-ranging international effort, and includes a number of
resources produced from the Global
Symposium on AI and Inclusion, which convened 170 participants
from over 40 countries in Rio de Janeiro last November on behalf of
the Global
Network of Centers to discuss the impact of AI and related
technologies on marginalized populations and the
risks of amplifying digital inequalities across the world.
Some of the primary resources available on the webpage include
foundational materials that address overarching themes, key research
questions, the initial framing of a research roadmap, and an overview
of some of the most relevant opportunities and challenges identified
pertaining to AI, inclusion, and governance. The research, findings,
and ideas presented throughout the page both illuminate lessons
learned from the past year, and lay the groundwork for the
initiative’s continued work on issues of inclusion, acknowledging
that the resources found here are only a starting point for this
important conversation…”
A free and simple tool.
It can’t hurt to have some tools for this.
Common
Craft Explains Flipped Classrooms
The flipped classroom concept, in the right
setting, can be an effective way to maximize classroom time. Perhaps
you've tried it yourself and have been looking for a way to explain
it to parents or colleagues. Common Craft recently released a
good video that could help you do just that.
Flipped
Classroom Explained by Common Craft teaches the fundamental ideas
behind the flipped classroom model. Thankfully, the video also
addresses why the flipped classroom model is not appropriate for all
students.
TESTeach
(formerly known as Blendspace) makes it easy for teachers to organize
and share educational materials in a visually pleasing format.
EDPuzzle
is a popular tool for adding your voice and text questions to
educational videos.
MoocNote
is a free tool for adding timestamped comments, questions, and links
to videos.
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