An article worth reading. Social engineering at the wholesale level?
Let’s define “good.”
Top US
Intelligence Official Sue Gordon Wants Silicon Valley on Her Side
… On a recent trip to Silicon Valley, Gordon
sat down with WIRED to talk about how much government needs Silicon
Valley to join the fight to keep the US safe. She was in town to
speak at conference at Stanford, but also to convince tech industry
leaders industry that despite increasing
employee concerns, the government and tech have a lot of shared
goals.
“I had a meeting with Google where my opening
bid was: ‘We're in the
same business’. And they're like ‘What?’ And I
said: ‘Using information
for good,’” Gordon says.
That’s a hard sell in Silicon Valley, especially
in the
post-Snowden years. After Snowden’s leaks, tech companies and
tech workers didn’t want to be seen as complicit with a government
that spied on its own people—a fact Gordon disputes, saying that
any collection of citizen’s information was incidental and purged
by their systems. This led to a much-publicized disconnect between
the two power centers, one that has only grown more entrenched and
public in 2018, as Silicon Valley has undergone something of an
ethical awakening.
… Artificial intelligence, she says, presents
a huge opportunity for the government and the private sector, but the
risks of its being abused, biased, or deployed by foreign
adversaries is so real that the government and tech companies should
be collaborate to secure it.
Perspective.
Alibaba
sets new Singles Day record with more than $30.8 billion in sales in
24 hours
… Gross merchandise value (GMV), a figure that
shows sales across the Chinese e-commerce giant's various shopping
platforms, surpassed last year's $25.3 billion record at around 5:34
p.m. SIN/HK (4:34 a.m. ET) on Sunday, and kept marching higher
through the rest of the day.
Perspective. Younger than most of my Grad
students.
MIT CSAIL
25 years ago today the first major web browser was
released: Mosaic 1.0.
An extremely accurate inertial navigation system,
for when the hackers take down the GPS system.
Brit
boffins build quantum compass, say goodbye to GPS
… The compass is a quantum accelerometer that
is capable of measuring tiny shifts in supercooled atoms and so
calculate how far and how fast the device has moved. Stuck on a
boat, it would mean that the captain knows exactly where his ship was
without having to rely on orbiting satellites.
… The system could be of particular benefit to
the UK's military after Europe made it clear that following Brexit,
the UK would no longer gain secure access to Europe's new Galileo GPS
system despite years of assisting in the system's development and
deployment.
But this is not something you're going to find in
your smartphone: the prototype system shown off this week in London
is about three-feet wide and high and it is incredibly expensive.
Because: Kulture!
52,438
High-Definition Images of Artworks Into the Public Domain
Kottke: “The Art Institute of Chicago has placed
high-definition
images of 52,438 public-domain artworks onto its website (with
magnification tools) under a CC0
license (no rights reserved), including The
Great Wave, A
Sunday on La Grand Jette (unfortunately not magnifiable to
this extent), Nighthawks,
Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait,
Warhol’s Mao,
and Two
Sisters on the Terrace…”
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