Poor
precedent. Perhaps it will lead to better backups going forward?
California
University Paid $1.14 Million After Ransomware Attack
The
University
of California,
San Francisco paid criminal hackers $1.14 million this month to
resolve a ransomware attack.
The
hackers encrypted data on servers inside the school of medicine, the
university said Friday. While researchers at UCSF
are
among those leading coronavirus-related antibody testing, the attack
didn’t impede its Covid-19 work, it said. The university is
working with a team of cybersecurity contractors to restore the
hampered servers “soon.”
“The
data that was encrypted is important to some of the academic work we
pursue as a university serving the public good,” it said in the
statement.
“We therefore made the difficult decision to pay some portion of
the ransom.”
Are
all predictions evil? There must be some value to knowing where
police will be needed. Have we tossed the baby out with the bath
water?
California
city bans predictive policing in U.S. first
As
officials mull steps to tackle police brutality and racism,
California’s Santa Cruz has become the first U.S. city to ban
predictive policing, which digital rights experts said could spark
similar moves across the country.
“Understanding
how predictive policing and facial recognition can be disportionately
biased against people of color, we officially banned the use of these
technologies in the city of Santa Cruz,” Mayor Justin Cummings said
on Wednesday.
Can’t
hurt?
AI
gatekeepers are taking baby steps toward raising ethical standards
… The
Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems will
require
a
“broader impact statement” addressing the
effect a piece of research might have on society.
The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
will begin rejecting
papers on ethical grounds.
Others have emphasized
their
voluntary
guidelines.
The
new standards follow the publication of several ethically dubious
papers. Microsoft collaborated with researchers at Beihang
University to algorithmically generate
fake comments on
news stories. Harrisburg University researchers developed a tool to
predict
the likelihood someone will commit a crime based
on their face. Researchers clashed
on
Twitter
over
the wisdom
of
publishing
these
and
other papers.
Podcast.
Global
competition for AI talent grows each day
You
may have heard the United States is in a worldwide competition for
talent in artificial intelligence. So it makes sense to understand
the career motivations of these people.
That’s what Remco Zwetsloot, a research fellow, and Catherine
Aiken, a research survey specialist, have done. They are both from
Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging
Technology, and joined Federal
Drive with Tom Temin to
talk more.
…
We
have about 58% of them who are actually US citizens who studied here
for their Ph.D. and 43% who are not US natives who came here to study
and complete their Ph.D. here.
Tools
for teachers and others I suppose.
How
to Make a Free Temporary Website Within Seconds
… Create
a Temporary Web Page Using Just Email
Field
trips for shut-ins.
50
National Geographic 360 Videos
Watching
360 degree videos is probably my favorite thing to do with my Google
Cardboard viewer. A lot of people don't realize that a Cardboard
viewer can be used for more than just Google Expeditions. For
example, National Geographic's YouTube channel contains fifty
360 videos featuring
things like Mount Everest, glaciers in Iceland, elephants, sea
turtles, lions, sharks, and polar expeditions.
You
don't need to have a Google Cardboard viewer or any virtual reality
headset.
You can can just view them in your web browser then click and drag
to experience the full 360 degree imagery. Of course, it's more fun
to do it in a VR viewer.
YouTube's
search tools include a filter to help you identify 360 degree videos.
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