A useful metaphor? Years of progress lost.
https://www.databreaches.net/ransomware-attack-sends-new-jersey-county-back-to-1977/
Ransomware attack sends New Jersey county back to 1977
Brandon Vigliarolo reports:
Somerset County, New Jersey, was hit by a ransomware attack this week that hobbled its ability to conduct business, and also cut off access to essential data.
“Services that depend on access to county databases are temporarily unavailable, such as land records, vital statistics, and probate records. Title searches are possible only on paper records dated before 1977,” the county said in a statement.
Read more at The Register.
As the percentage of self-driving cars increases, the probability that two will collide also increases. A case of AI vs. AI!
https://thenextweb.com/news/self-driving-cars-crash-responsible-courts-black-box
When self-driving cars crash, who’s responsible? Courts need to know what’s inside the ‘black box’
The first serious accident involving a self-driving car in Australia occurred in March this year. A pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries when hit by a Tesla Model 3, which the driver claims was in “autopilot” mode.
In the US, the highway safety regulator is investigating a series of accidents where Teslas on autopilot crashed into first-responder vehicles with flashing lights during traffic stops.
The decision-making processes of “self-driving” cars are often opaque and unpredictable (even to their manufacturers), so it can be hard to determine who should be held accountable for incidents such as these. However, the growing field of “explainable AI” may help provide some answers.
Is the problem Russia’s military strategy or Putin’s leadership?
https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-russias-air-war-ukraine-total-failure-new-data-show-1709388
Exclusive: Russia's Air War in Ukraine is a Total Failure, New Data Show
… Russia's dubious world record in accumulating missile strikes comes as President Zelensky announced that his country destroyed their 200th Russian airplane, an embarrassing result for an air force that is 15 times larger than that of Ukraine.
The global commentary on this milestone lauded Ukraine's defenders while noting Russia's failure to take advantage of its overwhelming numerical advantage, Moscow's misstep in not establishing air superiority in the skies over Ukraine, and Russia's dwindling supply of precision-guided weapons.
In the face of all of this, Russia retaliated on Sunday by announcing that it had destroyed 165 Ukrainian aircraft since the beginning of its "special military operation." That would be almost three times the number of flyable fighter jets that Ukraine even possesses.
… Russia's failure to follow this path has become a significant feature of the Ukraine war—one that confuses Western observers. [Certainly confused me! Bob] After 48 hours of attacks on Ukrainian air defenses in the opening salvo of the war, Moscow seemed to give up on pursuing this American war prerequisite. The Russians attacked airfields and air defense sites on the first two days but mostly didn't follow-up. Ukraine's small air force was largely grounded, but Kyiv was given an opportunity to adjust, especially in its dispersal of air defense missiles, in particular shoulder-fired ones. This created what Stringer calls "poor man's air superiority."
This could be extremely important (and valuable) since programmers hate to document and when they do, they do it poorly.
Mintlify taps AI to automatically generate documentation from code
Mintlify, a startup developing software to automate software documentation tasks…
… “We’ve worked as software engineers at companies in all stages ranging from startups to big tech and found that they all suffer from bad documentation, if it even existed at all,” Wang told TechCrunch in an email interview. “Documentation is the lifeline for junior engineers and those jumping into new codebases. It helps senior devs save time from explaining their code to others in the future. For public-facing and open-source products, documentation has a direct impact on user adoption.”
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