Looks like they need to improve that security they just got done “improving.”

https://www.pcmag.com/news/356736/equifax-website-hacked-again?source=google-editors-picks&google_editors_picks=true

Equifax Website Hacked Again

Credit reporting agency Equifax already earned its place in the history books for a "cybersecurity incident" that impacted more than half of all adult Americans. Names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and driver's license numbers were all exposed through the company's website.

Equifax responded to the breach with "supreme arrogance," but it seems the company failed to learn anything from its security failings. Proof of that appeared yesterday when the Equifax website was compromised yet again.

As Arstechnica reports, for several hours yesterday, October 11, anyone visiting the Equifax website may have been presented with a Flash Player update prompt. It was fake, and opting to install the update saw your PC infected with adware (specifically Adware.Eorezo).

I haven’t reported on this industry that uses a variety of cutting edge technology in some time. Clearly they are staying up with (if not ahead of) the crowd.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/214270/20171012/pornhub-now-uses-machine-learning-to-make-searching-for-porn-easier-but-there-s-a-big-problem.htm

Pornhub Now Uses Machine Learning To Make Searching For Porn Easier, But There’s A Big Problem

Porn is going to get a lot smarter. Well, not porn exactly, but ID-ing it and identifying the performers in it, all for better and improved indexing so searching for specific types and categories of porn will be easier.

Pornhub is at the forefront of this porn searching evolution, announcing on Wednesday, Oct. 11, that it's using machine learning to automatically catalog its huge library of adult videos.

… Pornhub plans to scan all 5 million videos "within the next year" and then shift toward more complex methods of identification, like determining where videos should be categorized in, tagging them as "public" or "blonde," for instance. This is presumably more complicated because Pornhub's machine learning technology has to actually figure out what the context is apart from who the performers starring in a video are.

Corey Price, Pronhub's VP, said in a press statement that the company is jumping on the artificial intelligence bandwagon to "expedite antiquated processes."

(Related). There are more similarities than you might guess.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/11/ross-intelligence-lands-8-7m-series-a-to-speed-up-legal-research-with-ai/

ROSS Intelligence lands $8.7M Series A to speed up legal research with AI

Armed with an understanding of machine learning, ROSS Intelligence is going after LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters for ownership of legal research.

… At its core, ROSS is a platform that helps legal teams sort through case law to find details relevant to new cases. This process takes days and even weeks with standard keyword search, so ROSS is augmenting keyword search with machine learning to simultaneously speed up the research process and improve relevancy of items found.

“Bluehill benchmarks Lexis’s tech and they are finding 30 percent more relevant info with ROSS in less time,” Andrew Arruda, co-founder and CEO of ROSS, explained to me in an interview.

Another vision of the future.

https://www.bespacific.com/deloitte-the-legal-department-of-the-future/

Deloitte – The legal department of the future

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Oct 11, 2017

The legal department of the future – How disruptive trends are creating a new business model for in-house legal – “Over the past 10 years, unprecedented disruptions—including the deregulation of the practice of law and advancements in technology—have been changing the face of the legal sector. Rigid silos are being replaced by more fluid structures. And in-house lawyers are becoming business partners, embedded and able to work across units and specializations. So what will corporate legal look like over the next 10 years? Consider the following potential scenarios in technology, service delivery, and operations…”

https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/us/Documents/finance/us-advisory-legal-department-of-the-future.pdf

Perspective.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-ireland/irish-court-gives-1-billion-apple-data-center-green-light-idUSKBN1CH1EC?feedType=RSS&feedName=newsOne&google_editors_picks=true

Irish court gives $1 billion Apple data center green light

Apple may proceed to build a 850 million euro ($1 billion) data center in Ireland, the High Court ruled on Thursday, bringing relief for the government after a two-year planning delay which it feared could hurt its reputation with investors.

Interesting idea. Not much in Denver yet.

Find Places to Eat Based on Where Locals Like to Go

Taste ranks the top restaurants in a bunch of categories: coffee, burgers, drinks, pizza, sushi, breakfast, dinner, dessert, and lunch, with more categories coming soon.

The app relies on its users to determine what locations will be listed. Each Taste user can cast just one vote for their favorite restaurant for each category.

Looks like they need to improve that security they just got done “improving.”

https://www.pcmag.com/news/356736/equifax-website-hacked-again?source=google-editors-picks&google_editors_picks=true

Equifax Website Hacked Again

Credit reporting agency Equifax already earned its place in the history books for a "cybersecurity incident" that impacted more than half of all adult Americans. Names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and driver's license numbers were all exposed through the company's website.

Equifax responded to the breach with "supreme arrogance," but it seems the company failed to learn anything from its security failings. Proof of that appeared yesterday when the Equifax website was compromised yet again.

As Arstechnica reports, for several hours yesterday, October 11, anyone visiting the Equifax website may have been presented with a Flash Player update prompt. It was fake, and opting to install the update saw your PC infected with adware (specifically Adware.Eorezo).

I haven’t reported on this industry that uses a variety of cutting edge technology in some time. Clearly they are staying up with (if not ahead of) the crowd.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/214270/20171012/pornhub-now-uses-machine-learning-to-make-searching-for-porn-easier-but-there-s-a-big-problem.htm

Pornhub Now Uses Machine Learning To Make Searching For Porn Easier, But There’s A Big Problem

Porn is going to get a lot smarter. Well, not porn exactly, but ID-ing it and identifying the performers in it, all for better and improved indexing so searching for specific types and categories of porn will be easier.

Pornhub is at the forefront of this porn searching evolution, announcing on Wednesday, Oct. 11, that it's using machine learning to automatically catalog its huge library of adult videos.

… Pornhub plans to scan all 5 million videos "within the next year" and then shift toward more complex methods of identification, like determining where videos should be categorized in, tagging them as "public" or "blonde," for instance. This is presumably more complicated because Pornhub's machine learning technology has to actually figure out what the context is apart from who the performers starring in a video are.

Corey Price, Pronhub's VP, said in a press statement that the company is jumping on the artificial intelligence bandwagon to "expedite antiquated processes."

(Related). There are more similarities than you might guess.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/11/ross-intelligence-lands-8-7m-series-a-to-speed-up-legal-research-with-ai/

ROSS Intelligence lands $8.7M Series A to speed up legal research with AI

Armed with an understanding of machine learning, ROSS Intelligence is going after LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters for ownership of legal research.

… At its core, ROSS is a platform that helps legal teams sort through case law to find details relevant to new cases. This process takes days and even weeks with standard keyword search, so ROSS is augmenting keyword search with machine learning to simultaneously speed up the research process and improve relevancy of items found.

“Bluehill benchmarks Lexis’s tech and they are finding 30 percent more relevant info with ROSS in less time,” Andrew Arruda, co-founder and CEO of ROSS, explained to me in an interview.

Another vision of the future.

https://www.bespacific.com/deloitte-the-legal-department-of-the-future/

Deloitte – The legal department of the future

by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Oct 11, 2017

The legal department of the future – How disruptive trends are creating a new business model for in-house legal – “Over the past 10 years, unprecedented disruptions—including the deregulation of the practice of law and advancements in technology—have been changing the face of the legal sector. Rigid silos are being replaced by more fluid structures. And in-house lawyers are becoming business partners, embedded and able to work across units and specializations. So what will corporate legal look like over the next 10 years? Consider the following potential scenarios in technology, service delivery, and operations…”

https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/us/Documents/finance/us-advisory-legal-department-of-the-future.pdf

Perspective.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-ireland/irish-court-gives-1-billion-apple-data-center-green-light-idUSKBN1CH1EC?feedType=RSS&feedName=newsOne&google_editors_picks=true

Irish court gives $1 billion Apple data center green light

Apple may proceed to build a 850 million euro ($1 billion) data center in Ireland, the High Court ruled on Thursday, bringing relief for the government after a two-year planning delay which it feared could hurt its reputation with investors.

Interesting idea. Not much in Denver yet.

Find Places to Eat Based on Where Locals Like to Go

Taste ranks the top restaurants in a bunch of categories: coffee, burgers, drinks, pizza, sushi, breakfast, dinner, dessert, and lunch, with more categories coming soon.

The app relies on its users to determine what locations will be listed. Each Taste user can cast just one vote for their favorite restaurant for each category.