Katherine Rushton reports:
If you settle down to watch
television this evening, you might want to think twice about what you say out
loud.
Samsung has warned owners of its
internet-connected ‘smart TV’ that anything they discuss while sitting near the
device may be overheard.
The popular televisions are voice
activated, so users can switch channels or ask for suggestions of what to watch
simply by giving a verbal command.
Read more on DailyMail.
Backups are so simple to implement this should never
happen.
Ryan Francis reports:
About three months ago, an
instructor at Gurnick Academy, a California-based nursing
school, had his biggest fear come alive. When he tried to access his lectures, the
files were encrypted. The teacher was
literally locked out of his classroom.
If it wasn’t for a quick acting
IT department, the entire school might have been in the same situation. They noticed the incident at the early stage
and managed to prevent the encryption from spreading by disconnecting the Infected
device from the corporate network.
Read more on CSO
Online.
Can it really be that simple?
Beware new "can you hear me" scam
… Virginia police
are now warning about the scheme, which also sparked warnings by Pennsylvania
authorities late last year. The “can you
hear me” con is actually a variation on earlier scams aimed at getting the
victim to say the word “yes” in a phone conversation. That affirmative response is recorded by the
fraudster and used to authorize unwanted charges on a phone or utility bill or
on a purloined credit card.
“You say ‘yes,’ it gets recorded and they say that you
have agreed to something,”
Gee, if Harvard says so, it must be true!
Charismatic CEOs enjoy leading and inspiring people, so
they don’t like delegating critical business decisions to smart algorithms. Who wants clever code bossing them around? But that future’s already arrived. At some of the world’s most successful
enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous
algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal.
… “You need a Chief
AI Officer,” Baidu chief scientist Andrew Ng told Fortune at January’s
Consumer Electronics Show. (He explained
why he thinks so in a recent HBR article.)
My students annoy me, so I guess I should send this to
them.
… Ninja Spinki
Challenges is available on Android and on iOS
right now. It’s free to play, but you will have to put up with ads. Rather ingeniously, watching a short video ad
after you mess up will allow you to carry on from the point where it all went
wrong.
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