Is this unhackable?
Apple Launches Driver's License Feature on iPhone in Arizona, More States Coming Soon
Apple today announced that Arizona has become the first U.S. state to support driver's licenses and state IDs in the Wallet app on the iPhone and Apple Watch.
Starting today, Apple said Arizona residents can add their driver's license or state ID to the Wallet app, and tap their iPhone or Apple Watch to seamlessly and securely present it at select TSA security checkpoints in Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Apple said the feature is also available for use at select TSA checkpoints in select other states, with travelers advised to check TSA checkpoint signage to confirm availability.
Additional states will offer driver's licenses and state IDs in the Wallet app soon, according to Apple, including Colorado, Hawaii, Mississippi, and Ohio, as well as the territory of Puerto Rico. Apple previously announced that Georgia, Connecticut, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma, and Utah also planned to offer the feature to residents.
An option for disgruntled diplomats?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/23/fbi-russia-spy-recruiting-ukraine/
Want to talk? FBI trolls Russian Embassy for disgruntled would-be spies
Recruitment ad hits social media feeds of mobile phones located outside or inside the diplomatic compound
An acceptable surveillance technology? Do we have a definition of acceptable?
https://thenextweb.com/news/how-anti-drunk-driving-tech-will-soon-protect-us-on-the-road
How anti-drunk driving tech will soon protect us on the road
… In the US, the massive infrastructure bill passed by Congress last year mandated car manufacturers equip vehicles with advanced drink-driving prevention technology. These systems can either monitor a driver’s performance to detect if they are impaired, or test a driver’s BAC to determine if it’s above the legal limit.
The US Department of Transportation has been given latitude to choose the type of system that manufacturers use, with a requirement for it to be installed in new cars by 2027.
… systems monitor things such as steering, braking and driving trajectory, enabling the car to “infer” the driver’s alertness and activate warnings or even corrective action, such as autonomous emergency braking, where necessary.
More recent advancements in DMAS have focused on the driver specifically, using real-time video to track things such as head position, eyelid closure and eye gaze direction to detect driver impairment.
I thought they might use this technology to undermine government lies.
Ukraine uses facial recognition to identify dead Russian soldiers, minister says
Ukraine is using facial recognition software to identify the bodies of Russian soldiers killed in combat and to trace their families to inform them of their deaths, Ukraine's vice prime minister told Reuters.
Slowing the rise of AI?
https://hbr.org/2022/03/overcoming-the-c-suites-distrust-of-ai
Overcoming the C-Suite’s Distrust of AI
Data-based decisions by AI are almost always based on probabilities (probabilistic versus deterministic). Because of this, there is always a degree of uncertainty when AI delivers a decision. There has to be an associated degree of confidence or scoring on the reliability of the results. It is for this reason most systems cannot, will not, and should not be automated. Humans need to be in the decision loop for the near future.
Keeping up with the language.
https://www.bespacific.com/the-fbi-guide-to-internet-slang/
The FBI Guide to Internet Slang
Kottke.org – “In response to a Freedom of Information Act request in 2014, the FBI released their internal 83-page guide to internet slang (most of which are initialisms and acronyms). The quality of the scanned document is very poor, but it’s (just) readable. A few of my favorite phrases gleaned from skipping around the report:
BMUS
– beam me up, Scotty
EMFBI – excuse me for butting in
JC
– Jesus Christ/just curious/just chilling
MOS – mom over
shoulder
PS – photoshop/play station/post script
SMG –
sub-machine gun
TOTES FRESH – totally precious
YOYO –
you’re on your own
WYLABOCTGWTR – would you like a bowl of
cream to go with that remark?
For their annual publication that they send out to their company mailing list, Pentagram recently made a far more legible and well-designed version of the FBI’s guide featuring some of their own favorites…”
Where the Hobbits live?
https://www.bespacific.com/rarely-published-maps-and-paintings-by-j-r-r-tolkien-go-online/
Rarely Published Maps and Paintings by J.R.R. Tolkien Go Online
Smithsonian Magazine: “The Tolkien Estate recently published a trove of rare, unpublished art by the famed fantasy author on its website… In his high-fantasy novels, British author J.R.R. Tolkien combined his academic training in languages and his love of storytelling to create Middle-earth, a fictional continent populated by wizards, elves, orcs, dragons, hobbits, talking trees and other mythical creatures. But Middle-earth didn’t just live in Tolkien’s head: The Lord of the Rings author was also a skilled artist who sketched, painted and mapped the worlds that he was imagining as he wrote about them. Many of the original illustrations in the Hobbit were created by Tolkien himself. Audiences can now view a selection of Tolkien’s rarely seen Lord of the Rings artworks for free via the Tolkien Estate’s newly updated website, reports Sarah Cascone for Artnet. The portal, which debuted last month, also allows viewers to explore documents, images and audio clips related to Tolkien’s personal life and his lesser-known pursuits as a mapmaker, calligrapher and artist…”
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