My car wants to kill me…
https://thenextweb.com/news/tesla-model-y-owner-files-complaint-at-nhtsa-car-took-control
Tesla Model Y owner files formal complaint: ‘The car by itself took control’
An anonymous owner of a 2021 Tesla Model Y has filed a complaint at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), reporting their vehicle crashed while the Full Self-Driving Beta was engaged.
The accident took place on November 3, somewhere in Brea, California. Fortunately, there were no injuries or fatalities, but disturbingly enough, the owner blames the FSD for causing the crash. Specifically, the car kept entering the wrong lane and didn’t respond to driver input.
Bad news, good news?
Cyber Insurance Claims Spike With Major Attacks, but Ransomware Costs Down Sharply From 2020
While ransomware remains a plague on organizations around the world, a new report from commercial insurance firm Corvus indicates that ransomware costs are being cut considerably due to better preparedness. And though cyber insurance claims spiked in early 2021 due to the Microsoft Exchange vulnerability, they have been on a steep downward trend since.
The Corvus Risk Insights Index is a new study, but one that is planned to be released quarterly. This inaugural Q4 2021 edition draws from the company’s claims database, proprietary security scanning technology and select third-party sources.
(Related)
https://threatpost.com/ransomware-response-data/176360/
The Best Ransomware Response, According to the Data
A data analysis from Fox-IT, part of NCC Group, offers some best practices for how to minimize the fallout of a ransomware attack, after creating a dataset of 700 ransomware negotiations which occurred between 2019 and 2020.
Once breached, the researchers explain the optimal response is none, but of course, that’s a luxury most victims can’t afford.
… Ransomware groups already know how much their victims can afford to pay, the data shows. Their business model depends on them knowing how potentially lucrative a target might be and how likely a company is to pay.
Blame it on Covid?
Workplace monitoring is everywhere. Here's how to stop algorithms ruling your office
The UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the Future of Work warned that the growing reliance on algorithmic surveillance and management tools is associated with "significant negative impacts on the conditions and quality of work across the country".
… The group's report, The New Frontier: Artificial Intelligence at Work, came as the European Commission's Joint Research Council published separate research on electronic monitoring and surveillance in the workplace. It too found that explosive growth of AI-based tools poses a profound risk to worker wellbeing, threatening to erode trust between employer and employees and risking further psycho-social consequences unless action is taken to regulate its use.
… The APPG makes five recommendations aimed at ensuring more fairness and transparency in the UK's AI ecosystem, particularly around the use and regulation of algorithm-based monitoring, management and decision-making tools.
A change here, a change there – soon the whole world has changed.
https://boisedev.com/news/2021/11/15/veeve-albertsons/
Albertsons launches AI-powered grocery cart in local store, aims to merge ‘online and offline’ shopping
At the Albertsons store in Eagle, shoppers are trying out a new technology that could mark a significant change to the in-store shopping experience: a high-tech cart.
… The Veeve cart, which is being trialed by Albertsons in Pleasonton, California, as well as Eagle, allows customers to scan groceries as they go and check out without even visiting a kiosk. But Siddiqui says it’s more than a self-checkout on wheels.
… He said the cart could pull up product recommendations, show coupons, display a shopping list, and more.
“When you are buying tortilla chips, you can be offered to buy salsa with it.”
It also adds possibilities that are common in online shopping but less so in the store. Siddiqui said the Veeve platform could allow shoppers to buy something for delivery that might not be on the shelf.
Perspective. (Not sure this is the future I see.)
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/393219
Singularity Is Fast Approaching, and It Will Happen First in the Metaverse
… One of the most important elements is the payments infrastructure, which will undoubtedly be one of the cornerstones of the metaverse. The ability to buy, sell and most importantly, own things in the metaverse could be the most transformative part of this new era. This will lead to a situation where decentralized ledger technologies or blockchains will actually be the most practical, if not ultimate, solution for value exchange and for storing value. The opportunities for economic growth will be unfathomable, as this is literally creating a new world where users will interact, transact, own, exchange and share economic value.
Weird perspective?
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/11/harvard-expert-considers-the-literary-merit-of-ai/
When will a robot write a novel?
Wondering is a new series in which Harvard experts give informed answers to random questions. For the first installment, we asked Krzysztof Gajos, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, to tell us when a robot will write a novel.
Tools & Techniques. If you write good it will sound good?
https://www.makeuseof.com/reedsy-indie-authors-audiobooks/
How Reedsy Can Help Indie Authors Get Started With Audiobooks
By 2020, according to Reedsy’s guide on the audiobook industry, this format outsold ebooks, making a whopping $1.2 billion.
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