It probably isn’t a viable hack… Darn.
Apple
comments on erroneous reports of iPhone brute force passcode hack
… Right now, as far as I can tell, no one has
been able to reproduce it, internally or externally, but we'll have
to wait and see what the actual facts are when everything has been
tested and all the infosec dust has settled.
We’ve been saying this would happen.
Thermostats,
Locks and Lights: Digital Tools of Domestic Abuse
The people who called into the help hotlines and
domestic violence shelters said they felt as if they were going
crazy.
One woman had turned on her air-conditioner, but
said it then switched off without her touching it. Another said the
code numbers of the digital lock at her front door changed every day
and she could not figure out why. Still another told an abuse help
line that she kept hearing the doorbell ring, but no one was there.
Their stories are part of a new pattern of
behavior in domestic abuse cases tied to the rise of smart home
technology. Internet-connected locks, speakers, thermostats, lights
and cameras that have been marketed as the newest conveniences are
now also being used as a means for harassment, monitoring,
revenge and control.
A forensic tool we need. Hurry up. Adobe.
Adobe is
using machine learning to make it easier to spot Photoshopped images
Experts around the world are
getting increasingly worried about new AI tools that make it easier
than ever to edit images and videos — especially with social
media’s power to share shocking content quickly and without
fact-checking. Some of those tools are being developed
by Adobe, but the company is also working on an antidote of sorts
by researching how machine learning can be used to automatically
spot edited pictures.
The company’s latest work,
showcased this month at the CVPR computer vision conference,
demonstrates how digital forensics done by humans can be automated by
machines in much less time. The research
paper does not represent a breakthrough in the field, and it’s
not yet available as a commercial product, but it’s interesting to
see Adobe — a name synonymous with image editing — take an
interest in this line of work.
The robots are coming, tra-la, tra-la…
Brookings
survey finds 52 percent believe robots will perform most human
activities in 30 years
Fifty-two percent of adult internet users believe
within 30 years, robots will have advanced to the point where they
can perform most of the activities currently done by humans,
according to a survey undertaken by researchers at the Brookings
Institution. The poll also found people divided 32 to 29 percent
regarding whether the U.S. government should set up a Federal
Robotics Commission to regulate robot development and usage.
… We asked about the kinds of robots that
would interest them. Twenty percent were interested in robots that
would help them clean house, 17 percent wanted robots that would
provide home security, and only 9 percent were interested in a robot
that helps to care for a child or aging relative.
Oooh! I want one! Just the thing for Colorado
where a nice day in the mountains can become a drive through a
blizzard.
DARPA
Literally Reinvented The Wheel
… As part of the Ground
X-Vehicle Technologies (GXV-T) program to boot the survivability
and mobility of Army combat vehicles, DARPA researchers whipped up
high-tech Reconfigurable
Wheel-Track (RWT) upgrades that “transition from a round wheel
to a triangular track and back again while the vehicle is on the
move” — in short, allowing Humvees to transform into tracked
vehicles on the fly.
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