Shadow Brokers re-emerge, drop large catalog of stolen NSA
exploits
The Shadow Brokers, the mysterious group linked to
exploits stolen from the National Security Agency, released a large catalog of
files Saturday that give further insight into the elite spy agency’s hacking
methods.
In a lengthy
blog post on Medium, the group reveals a password that unlocks an encrypted
folder full of files the group previously tried to sell in an online auction. The group says the motive for unlocking the
files is disappointment with the actions of President Donald Trump since he
assumed office, including missile strikes on a Syrian air base earlier this
week.
… Security
researchers have started poring over the files, with many saying on Twitter
that some date back as far as the 1990s. The catalog’s exploits look to primarily focus
on Linux.
Google will only check your facts if you “ask” them
to. President Trump probably never will.
Google's Fact Check Labeling System Goes Global
Google on Friday announced the extension of the Fact Check
feature it introduced last fall in partnership with Jigsaw. Publishers now can display a Fact Check tag in
news stories everywhere that Google News is available.
… Not all stories
will be fact checked, and not all publishers will be eligible to use the Fact
Check label. Those who want to have the
option must use the Schema.org ClaimReview markup on the specific pages where they fact
check public statements.
Or, they can use the Share the Facts widget
developed by the Duke University Reporters'
Lab and Jigsaw.
Only publishers algorithmically determined to be an
authoritative source of information will qualify for inclusion. The content must adhere to the following:
- the general policies that apply to all structured data markup;
- the Google News Publisher criteria for fact checks; and
- the standards for accuracy and transparency, readability, or proper site representation as articulated in the Google News General Guidelines.
At its discretion, Google may ignore a site's markup if it
fails to adhere to these policies.
For my entrepreneurial students.
A Small-Business Guide to Facebook Advertising (Infographic)
As a small business, you don’t need to spend loads of
money on advertising.
There are plenty of free or low-cost
tools that you can use to effectively market your company.
One of the biggest opportunities is through social media,
specifically Facebook.
Ninety-five percent of social media
marketers say that Facebook gave them the best return of investment out of all
the social platforms.
… Check out Headway Capital’s infographic below for a step-by-step
manual to effectively market your small business on Facebook.
Work for the non-robots I’m training.
This is how many U.S. jobs robots will create over the next
10 years
Close to 15 million new jobs will be created in the U.S.
over the next decade as a direct result of automation and artificial
intelligence, equivalent to 10% of the workforce, according to estimates in a
new report from Forrester Research, a market research company. Those gains, however, will not come close to
offsetting the 25 million jobs that technology will eliminate by 2027,
Forrester predicts.
… Blue collar
workers, including ones that feature routine manual labor or assembly-line
production, were expected to be hardest hit alongside people without a college
education, the economists found. Furthermore, automation was estimated to
result in no meaningful positive employment gains for any occupation, that
study concluded.
For my fellow Math instructors.
Mathematical Miscellany #11
… Chancing upon
this tweet I saw that indeed we have an exciting possibility here as Desmos
does Geometry! Early days right now and
this is still in early beta.
The bane of my existence is them little red underlines.
3 horrible ways typos (and bad spelling) could alter the
course of your life
While 8 in 10 American adults consider themselves
typo-free, 7 in 10 say they often find mistakes in written correspondence from
others, according to a recent survey of the grammar gripes of more than 2,000
adults by Dictionary.com.
Firstly, it’s bad for business. Customers are less likely to trust (and spend
money) with online retailers that misspell words, which can translate into
millions of dollars for sites with bad grammar, one U.K.-based
study found. Michele Forzley, senior
scholar at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at
Georgetown University Law Center, says that bad spelling on the packaging of
goods being sold online could also be the sign that an antique or designer
product is actually a fake.
Secondly, it can cost you a job. Nearly 50% of hiring managers will dismiss a
job application with words misspelled on a resume or cover letter, according to
jobs listing site CareerBuilder.com
And finally, spelling mistakes on social media or on
dating sites can damage your reputation and cost singletons the prospect of
meeting someone who would — bad spelling aside — otherwise be a good match. … Some
43% of online daters said bad spelling is a “major turnoff,” according to a
2013 survey of 1,700 adults by Kibin, a proofreading and editing service. In fact, one-third
actually found good grammar sexy. [Let’s not get carried away. Bob]
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