You have entire countries trying to hack you. You must be really really important!
85% of Cyber Espionage Is State-Affiliated, Only 4% Tied To Organized Crime
Verizon’s 2020 Cyber Espionage Report, the result of a total of 14 years of research into global data breaches and threat actor activity, has come up with some illuminating observations about long-term patterns of cyber spying. Among the major highlights are that criminal organizations and disgruntled former employees play a trivial role in overall attempts, that the public sector is the preferred target of attackers and that desktops and laptops are far more likely to be breached than phones.
[The report: https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/cyber-espionage-report/
I wonder who signs off on products like these? No one saw this coming?
Amazon faces a privacy backlash for its Sidewalk feature, which turns Alexa devices into neighborhood WiFi networks that owners have to opt out of
Kevin Shalvey reports:
Amazon customers are being automatically opted in to Sidewalk, a feature set to launch later this year that the company says will connect Alexa devices to nearby WiFi networks, even those owned by someone else.
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Anticipating privacy concerns, Amazon published a research paper detailing the technology behind Sidewalk and the steps taken to keep users’ data private. The company concluded that privacy was one of the “foundational principals” of Sidewalk’s design.
“By sharing a small portion of their home network bandwidth, neighbors give a little – but get a lot in return,” the report’s authors said.
Read more on BusinessInsider.
(Related) I guess Amazon didn’t notice articles like this one.
Next Step in Government Data Tracking Is the Internet of Things
U. S. government agencies from the military to law enforcement have been buying up mobile-phone data from the private sector to use in gathering intelligence, monitoring adversaries and apprehending criminals.
Now, the U.S. Air Force is experimenting with the next step.
The Air Force Research Laboratory is testing a commercial software platform that taps mobile phones as a window onto usage of hundreds of millions of computers, routers, fitness trackers, modern automobiles and other networked devices, known collectively as the “Internet of Things.”
Year end summaries…
https://venturebeat.com/2020/11/27/ai-weekly-the-state-of-machine-learning-in-2020/
AI Weekly: The state of machine learning in 2020
… The AI Index is due out in the coming weeks, as is CB Insights’ assessment of global AI startup activity, but two reports — both called The State of AI — have already been released.
Last week, McKinsey released its global survey on the state of AI, a report now in its third year. Interviews with executives and a survey of business respondents found a potential widening of the gap between businesses that apply AI and those that do not.
… A month before McKinsey published its business survey, Air Street Capital released its State of AI report, which is now in its third year. The London-based venture capital firm found the AI industry to be strong when it comes to company funding rounds, but its report calls centralization of AI talent and compute “a huge problem.” Other serious problems Air Street Capital identified include ongoing brain drain from academia to industry and issues with reproducibility of models created by private companies.
Worth a listen?
Future Talks Powered by MVM: Neil deGrasse Tyson Leads a Supergroup of Experts on AI on 30 November
… The online talk show is free of charge and accessible for all on the organizer MVM Group's (the largest Hungarian energy company's) Facebook and YouTube channels, as well as the 'Future Talks powered by MVM' website on 30 November, at 12:00 p.m. New York and 9:00 a.m. Los Angeles.
Further information: www.mvmfuturetalks.com
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/398239114862049/
LinkedIn event: https://www.linkedin.com/events/6732691494861340672/
Promo video of the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yWRXuSXWmk&feature=youtu.be
This is cool. Going the other way will be much more difficult.
AI can turn spoken language into photorealistic sign language videos
A freebie for your virtual bookshelf. (Which I recommend you keep on Calibre https://calibre-ebook.com/ )
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Running out of things to read? From classics to pulp.
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