Your money or your beer? That’s a new one!
https://www.databreaches.net/cyber-attack-causes-systems-outage-at-molson-coors/
Cyber attack causes systems outage at Molson Coors
Yesterday, WTMJ reported:
Molson Coors was the target of a cyber attack, the company confirmed to WTMJ on Wednesday. The brewery experienced a “systems outage due to a cyber-security incident,” according to Adam Collins, the company’s chief communications and corporate affairs officer.
While some outlets questioned whether the attack might be related to the Microsoft Exchange issue that has been in the news, BleepingComputer sources suggest it may be a ransomware attack.
Probably worth following, but I need to find a non-Twitter aggregation tool.
https://techbeacon.com/enterprise-it/nothing-artificial-here-30-ai-experts-follow-twitter
Nothing artificial here: 30 AI experts to follow on Twitter
… To help you get started on the learning curve, or to further increase your knowledge base, we've selected 30 people working in the AI/ML field who are talking about the topic on Twitter.
(Note: We've broken these experts down by category. There are academic researchers, practitioners, authors, tech leaders, software quality gurus, and, yes, two ethicists.)
Take-down is going to be the tough part.
INDIA: MASSIVE OVERHAUL OF DIGITAL REGULATION, WITH STRICT RULES FOR TAKE-DOWN OF ILLEGAL CONTENT AND AUTOMATED SCANNING OF ONLINE CONTENT
On February 25, the Indian Government notified and published Information Technology (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital media Ethics Code) Rules 2021. These rules mirror the Digital Services Act (DSA) proposal of the EU to some extent, since they propose a tiered approach based on the scale of the platform, they touch on intermediary liability, content moderation, take-down of illegal content from online platforms, as well as internal accountability and oversight mechanisms, but they go beyond such rules by adding a Code of Ethics for digital media, similar to the Code of Ethics classic journalistic outlets must follow, and by proposing an “online content” labelling scheme for content that is safe for children.
The Code of Ethics applies to online news publishers, as well as intermediaries that “enable the transmission of news and current affairs”. This part of the Guidelines (the Code of Ethics) has already been challenged in the Delhi High Court by news publishers this week.
Curious how any tool could be used for long without an understanding of how it worked. What would the company’s liability be if its software resulted in convictions without basis?
Powerful DNA software used in hundreds of criminal cases faces new scrutiny
… The latest practice to come under scrutiny is an obscure technique, “probabilistic genotyping,” that takes incomplete or otherwise inscrutable DNA left behind at a crime scene, often in minuscule amounts, and runs it through a software program that calculates how likely it is to have come from a particular person. One such program, TrueAllele, has been used in more than 850 criminal cases over the past 20 years. The problem? No one knows whether it works—the code, developed by a private company called Cybergenetics, is proprietary.
Government crime labs that use the software don’t get access to the program’s source code. Employees of Cybergenetics don’t get access. Even the authors of the peer-reviewed studies of TrueAllele have never had access to the code.
But now, two criminal cases—one in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania and another in the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey— may give the world a first peek into TrueAllele’s secretive algorithm. Last month, the New Jersey judge ordered prosecutors to hand over the source code for TrueAllele, and a few weeks later, the federal judge in Pennsylvania did the same.
How do I find a neutral source?
https://themarkup.org/citizen-browser/2021/03/11/split-screen?feed=biden_trump
How Different Are Americans’ Facebook Feeds?
Snapshots from the Facebook feeds of our Citizen Browser panelists illuminate how Facebook’s recommendation algorithm siloes information on the platform.
Facebook’s recommendation algorithm shows different news, groups, and hashtags to different users. But who sees what? Split Screen attempts to answer that question with real world data from paid panelists as part of The Markup's Citizen Browser project. Now showing two weeks of data collected from Friday Feb. 26 to Today.
Getting rid of students...
https://www.makeuseof.com/google-search-jobs-carousel/
Google Search Rolls Out New Tools to Help Job Seekers
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