This Web-based Tool Checks if Your Network Is Exposed to
Mirai
… The IoT Defense scanner was written using a
combination of Python, Node JS and Jade frameworks and scans for nearly a dozen
ports that botnets can exploit. Accessing
and using the scanner is free and little instructions are needed, as it does
all with a simple click of a button.
And Pew Research just told us that lots of youngsters can’t
tell the difference.
Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during
election, experts say
The flood of “fake news” this election season got support from a sophisticated
Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online
with the goal of punishing Democrat Hillary Clinton, helping Republican Donald
Trump and undermining faith in American democracy, say independent researchers
who tracked the operation.
I bet their stick just went up!
Cyrus Farivar reports:
A federal appeals court ruled against
a criminal defendant who challenged the warrantless use of a stingray that was
used to locate him.
The Wednesday decision marks the first
time that questions regarding the proper use of stingrays, also known as
cell-site simulators, have reached the federal appellate level.
Read more on Ars
Technica.
Significant?
Drew Crawford of King & Spalding writes:
On November 3, 2016, the State of
Qatar announced the passage of a new national privacy law. The law, which requires companies and
organizations to protect the personal information they gather from individuals,
is the first national-level legal regime governing data protection to be signed
into law by a Gulf Cooperation Council (“GCC”) member state.
Read more on JDSupra.
No worries! AI
classes will now be taught by AI.
Universities’ AI Talent Poached by Tech Giants
Alphabet Inc.’s
Google division last week hired the director of Stanford University’s
artificial intelligence lab to lead a new AI unit, the latest in a long line of
academic stars in artificial intelligence lured away by tech giants.
Fei-Fei Li, a respected computer scientist, wrote in a Facebook post that she joined Google partly
to “democratize AI.” She joined several
other top professors who have left academia in recent years for tech industry
posts.
It’s not a big deal unless the computers are talking about
me behind my back. Are they?
Don't Freak But Google Researchers Discovered Their AI
Translation Tool Invented Its Own Secret Language
… Google’s NMT developers first
translated from English to Korean and vice versa, and then from English to
Japanese and vice versa. They were
curious to see if the machine could then translate Korean to Japanese without
using English as a go between. The
answer was yes it in fact could translate directly.
It's how the Google AI achieves this that is a bit of a
mystery. It appears that the NMT has
created its own internal language or "interlingua." It examines concepts and sentence structures
instead of word equivalents. As a
result, the NMT has created translations that are more accurate and natural. Google’s NMT creators, however, are unsure how
the neural networks work or what exact concepts the NMT has learned translate
languages directly. In short, Google's AI has created its own secret
language we humans do not fully understand. A white paper that details the researchers'
work, including some detail on the mystery "interlingua," can be found here
(PDF).
A site worth bookmarking!
The Data Visualisation Catalogue
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Nov 24, 2016
“The Data Visualisation Catalogue is an
on-going project developed by Severino Ribecca. Originally, this project was a way for me to
develop my own knowledge of data visualisation and create a reference tool for
me to use in the future for my own work. However, I felt it would also be useful to
both designers and also anyone in a field that requires the use of data
visualisation regularly. Although there
have been a few attempts in the past to catalogue some of the established data
visualisation methods, there is no website that is really comprehensive,
detailed or helps you decide the right method for your needs. I will be adding in new visualisation methods,
bit-by-bit, as I research each method to find the best way to explain how it
works and what it is best suited for. Most of the data visualised in the website’s
example images is dummy data….”
Politics 101. Republicans
should avoid making suggestions at all costs. If Trump does well, they can claim him as one of
their own. If Trump fulfills Hillary
Clinton’s predictions, they can claim they had nothing to do with his choices.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/24/us/politics/donald-trump-mitt-romney-rudy-giuliani-state.html?_r=0
Republicans Divided Between Romney and Giuliani for Secretary
of State
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