...but they missed Russian meddling, so what are
they concentrating on?
… Law enforcement officials arrested 74 people
for allegedly carrying out business email compromise (BEC) schemes,
or “cyber-enabled financial fraud" as part of Operation Wire
Wire, according to a DOJ
press release.
Hackers execute BEC scams by impersonating
employees or business executives after gaining access to their email
accounts. These types of attacks use social engineering tactics to
trick unsuspecting employees and business executives into making wire
transfers to bank accounts that are controlled by the criminals. The
elderly are particularly targeted in BEC schemes.
The Justice Department coordinated with the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Treasury Department and
the U.S. Postal Inspection Service to track the suspected cyber
crooks, which ultimately resulted in the arrest of 42 alleged
fraudsters in the United States and 29 in Nigeria.
Has management lost the ability to learn from the
mistakes of others? Do they even look outside their own narrow
focus? Does the US have anything set up to review software? AI
software might be more of a concern than emission controlling
software.
German
ministry says 774,000 Mercedes cars contain unauthorized software
Germany's
Transport Ministry on Monday said 774,000 Mercedes-Benz vehicles were
found to contain unauthorized software defeat devices in Europe and
ordered Daimler
to recall 238,000 cars in Germany.
… Daimler confirmed the recall to CNBC and
said "open legal questions will be clarified" during
discussions with the German Ministry of Transport.
Daimler is not the first German automaker to be
investigated for the use of devices meant to defeat diesel emissions
tests. Volkswagen
was slapped with roughly $30 billion in fines over an emissions
cheating scandal that began in 2015, after it was revealed the
automaker had outfitted defeat devices on millions of vehicles
worldwide.
Since the best stories are always the horror
stories, I doubt this will change anything.
Federal
Aviation Administration drone rules 'overly strict,' new report says
The Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA)
is taking an "overly conservative" approach to integrating
drones
into the national airspace, according to a report
requested by Congress and released Monday by the National Academy of
Sciences, Engineering, and Math (NASEM).
The agency "tends to overestimate the
severity and likelihood" of potential dangers associated with
drones, NASEM said and maintains a "near-zero tolerance for
risk" despite the life-saving potential of drones.
Since I train disrupters, this is a must read.
Three
Signals Your Industry Is About to Be Disrupted
Legacy companies are falling like dominoes to
disruptors. Together, emerging technology and new business models
have created new ways of serving customers. The same way Airbnb,
Uber, and LinkedIn fundamentally changed the lodging, taxi, and
recruiting industries, titans such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook
are now poised to disrupt every industry as wide-ranging as health
insurers to grocers. It’s safe to say that no industry will be
left untouched — but is yours next?
A number of industries seem to be “safe” from
disruption, but often the markets most at risk do not see it coming.
Who would have predicted, for example, that Amazon would follow its
acquisition of Whole Foods Market with a jump
into health care? We have looked at common patterns among more
recent business model innovations and determined three major signals
that your industry could be on the precipice of major change.
Sign # 1: Your Industry Has Significant Regulatory Burdens
Sign # 2: Your Customers Have to Work at Managing Their Costs
Sign # 3: Your Customers’ Experience Isn’t Positive — or Even
Neutral
Because with the Quarter over, what else do my
students have to do?
Here are
454 pages of Facebook’s written follow-up answers to Congress
Facebook
finished its homework. In a pair of newly
uploaded letters, the two Senate committees that grilled
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in April have published the
social media giant’s written answers to their considerable body of
questions.
(Related) Expect lots of articles like this as
everyone pours over the Responses.
https://www.bespacific.com/here-are-18-things-you-might-not-have-realized-facebook-tracks-about-you/
Here Are 18
Things You Might Not Have Realized Facebook Tracks About You
BuzzFeed:
“When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified
before Congress in April in the aftermath of the Cambridge
Analytica scandal, he said he’d have his team follow up on
questions he couldn’t answer in full during the hearing. On
Monday, Congress released a
massive document with written answers to those questions. These
responses were a good reminder that Facebook records
a ton of information about you, including:
-
mouse movements on your computer
-
information about “nearby Wi-Fi access points, beacons, and cell towers”
-
“purchases [users] make” on off-Facebook websites
-
import their contact information”…”
Perhaps Colorado could sell advertising rights to
potholes they repair?
This feels like something from a William Gibson
cyberpunk dystopia novel, where the government has become so weak and
useless, private corporations have been taking over the basic upkeep
of the nation. But it’s not a William Gibson novel, there’s no
plucky protagonist with some sort of cybernetic implant, it’s just
America in 2018, with crumbling roads that Domino’s
has decided to fix. For the sake of the pizzas.
Domino’s is tired of their innocent
pizzas, who only
wish to serve humankind, being beaten all to hell by
poorly-maintained roads. They even have
a website that shows, in graphic, pizza-box-cam detail, what
brutal hell pizzas are put through when their delivery vehicle
impacts a pothole.
… To remedy this, Domino’s has been hiring
work crews to repair potholes in a number of cities, including
Burbank, CA (five holes fixed), Bartonville, TX (eight holes), an
impressive 40 holes fixed in Milford, DE, and an astounding 150
potholes filled in Athens, GA.
It’s not entirely altruistic, of course.
Domino’s tags every filled pothole with their logo and the tagline
“OH YES WE DID.”
For the next time I teach Math.
Three Good
PowerPoint Add-ins for Math Teachers
PowerPoint has many
features that students and teachers often overlook. That's bound
to happen with any program that has been around as long as PowerPoint
has and includes as many features as PowerPoint does. One of those
overlooked features is found in the Add-ins available for PowerPoint.
Browse through the gallery of Add-ins and you'll find some excellent
tools for math teachers and students.
The GeoGebra
PowerPoint Add-in lets you access GeoGebra materials directly
from your PowerPoint slides. You can also use the Add-in to create
graphs, shapes, and spreadsheets within your slides. The GeoGebra
PowerPoint Add-in works in the desktop and online versions of
PowerPoint.
Khan Academy's math videos and math practice
exercises are available in a PowerPoint Add-in. The Khan
Academy PowerPoint Add-in lets you find videos and exercises to
insert directly into slides. The exercises that you insert into your
slides are fully functional which means that you could use them for
live demonstrations without having to leave your slides.
PhET provides free interactive math and science
simulations covering topics in physics, chemistry, biology, earth
science, and mathematics. In the PhET library you'll find
simulations appropriate for elementary, middle, high school, and
university students. More than 50 of the PhET simulations are
available to insert into PowerPoint presentations through the use of
PhET's
free PowerPoint Add-in. With the Add-in installed you can browse
the available simulations and insert them into your slides. The
simulations work in your slide just as they do on the PhET website.
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