Tuesday, December 24, 2019


It’s obvious, but still bears repeating.
Seven Reasons For Cybercrime's Meteoric Growth




As good a forecast as any.
A Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence Forecast for 2020
We’re going to keep our forecast in the realm of cybersecurity and AI this year, looking at both the threat landscape and the emergence of innovative defenses. Here are five trends we see developing in the new year.
Cybercrime will focus on ransomware and cryptojacking
Malware-as-a-Service becomes increasingly sophisticated
First malware using AI-Models to evade sandboxes will be born in 2020
The rollout of 5G networks will bring new attack vectors
Privacy regulations drive more spending in cybersecurity




Perhaps we need an App to keep the innocent from wandering into a political event?
Opinion | How Your Phone Betrays Democracy
In footage from drones hovering above, the nighttime streets of Hong Kong look almost incandescent, a constellation of tens of thousands of cellphone flashlights, swaying in unison. Each twinkle is a marker of attendance and a plea for freedom. The demonstrators, some clad in masks to thwart the government’s network of facial recognition cameras, find safety in numbers.
But in addition to the bright lights, each phone is also emitting another beacon in the darkness — one that’s invisible to the human eye. This signal is captured and collected, sometimes many times per minute, not by a drone but by smartphone apps. The signal keeps broadcasting, long after the protesters turn off their camera lights, head to their homes and take off their masks.
In the United States, and across the world, any protester who brings a phone to a public demonstration is tracked and that person’s presence at the event is duly recorded in commercial datasets. At the same time, political parties are beginning to collect and purchase phone location for voter persuasion.




First for the rich, then for everyone? A model for other industries?
Technology Is About to Radically Redefine the Luxury Car. Here’s How.
For as long as anyone could remember, a car was a car was a car.
And then, one day, it wasn’t.
Which is to say the notion of an automobile going back a hundred years—a multi-box design on four tires, with a wheel and pedals, aimed by people and powered by orderly little explosions—has been upended by a maelstrom of globalization, technological revolution, environmental reckoning and a wholesale assault on the ownership model. Such extreme disruption has unleashed a rapid evolution of the automotive species, with strange creatures now roaming the roads: Rolls-Royce SUVs and silent, battery-powered Croatian hyper-cars; Cybertrucks and fin-shaped hatchbacks with gullwings and brains big enough to take the wheel for a spell.




Take a look. There moght be something new or something you had not considered before.
The best free software for your PC
PC World – “Start off right with solid security tools, productivity software, and other programs that every PC needs…”




Books to get me thinking again,
7 Classic Books To Deepen Your Understanding of (Artificial) Intelligence
Below is a selection of seven classic books about intelligence: what it is, how we might build machines that have it, and what that would mean for society. These books have played a formative role in the development of the field of AI; their influence continues to be felt today. For anyone seeking a deep understanding of AI's complexities, challenges, and possibilities, they are essential reading.




Perspective.
The 2010s were supposed to bring the ebook revolution
Vox – It never quite came. “Publishing spent the 2010s fighting tooth and nail against ebooks. There were unintended consequences…at the other end of the decade, ebook sales seem to have stabilized at around 20 percent of total book sales, with print sales making up the remaining 80 percent. “Five or 10 years ago,” says Andrew Albanese, a senior writer at trade magazine Publishers Weekly and the author of The Battle of $9.99, “you would have thought those numbers would have been reversed.” And in part, Albanese tells Vox in a phone interview, that’s because the digital natives of Gen Z and the millennial generation have very little interest in buying ebooks. “They’re glued to their phones, they love social media, but when it comes to reading a book, they want John Green in print,” he says. The people who are actually buying ebooks? Mostly boomers. “Older readers are glued to their e-readers,” says Albanese. “They don’t have to go to the bookstore. They can make the font bigger. It’s convenient.”…



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