It’s obvious, but still bears
repeating.
Seven
Reasons For Cybercrime's Meteoric Growth
As good a
forecast as any.
A
Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence Forecast for 2020
… We’re
going to keep our forecast in the realm of cybersecurity and AI this
year, looking at both the threat landscape and the emergence of
innovative defenses. Here are five trends we see developing in the
new year.
Cybercrime
will focus on ransomware and cryptojacking
Malware-as-a-Service
becomes increasingly sophisticated
First
malware using AI-Models to evade sandboxes will be born in 2020
The
rollout of 5G networks will bring new attack vectors
Privacy
regulations drive more spending in cybersecurity
Perhaps
we need an App to keep the innocent from wandering into a political
event?
Opinion
| How Your Phone Betrays Democracy
In
footage from drones hovering above, the nighttime streets of Hong
Kong look almost incandescent, a constellation of tens of thousands
of cellphone flashlights, swaying in unison. Each twinkle is a
marker of attendance and a plea for freedom. The demonstrators, some
clad
in masks to
thwart the government’s network of facial recognition cameras, find
safety in numbers.
But
in addition to the bright lights, each phone is also emitting another
beacon in the darkness — one that’s invisible to the human eye.
This signal is captured and collected, sometimes many times per
minute, not by a drone but by smartphone apps. The signal keeps
broadcasting, long after the protesters turn off their camera lights,
head to their homes and take off their masks.
In
the United States, and across the world, any protester who brings a
phone to a public demonstration is tracked and that person’s
presence at the event is duly recorded in commercial datasets. At
the same time, political parties are beginning to collect and
purchase phone location for voter persuasion.
First for the
rich, then for everyone? A model for other industries?
Technology
Is About to Radically Redefine the Luxury Car. Here’s How.
For as long as
anyone could remember, a car was a car was a car.
And then, one
day, it wasn’t.
Which is to
say the notion of an automobile going back a hundred years—a
multi-box design on four tires, with a wheel and pedals, aimed by
people and powered by orderly little explosions—has been upended by
a maelstrom of globalization, technological revolution, environmental
reckoning and a wholesale assault on the ownership model. Such
extreme disruption has unleashed a rapid evolution of the automotive
species, with strange creatures now roaming the roads: Rolls-Royce
SUVs and silent, battery-powered Croatian hyper-cars; Cybertrucks and
fin-shaped hatchbacks with gullwings and brains big enough to take
the wheel for a spell.
Take a look.
There moght be something new or something you had not considered
before.
The
best free software for your PC
PC
World –
“Start
off right with solid security tools, productivity software, and other
programs that every PC needs…”
Books to get
me thinking again,
7
Classic Books To Deepen Your Understanding of (Artificial)
Intelligence
… Below is
a selection of seven classic books about intelligence: what it is,
how we might build machines that have it, and what that would mean
for society. These books have played a formative role in the
development of the field of AI; their influence continues to be felt
today. For anyone seeking a deep understanding of AI's complexities,
challenges, and possibilities, they are essential reading.
Perspective.
The
2010s were supposed to bring the ebook revolution
Vox
– It never quite came.
“Publishing spent the 2010s fighting tooth and nail against
ebooks. There were unintended consequences…at the other end of the
decade, ebook sales seem to have stabilized at around 20 percent of
total book sales, with print sales making up the remaining 80
percent. “Five or 10 years ago,” says Andrew Albanese, a senior
writer at trade magazine Publishers Weekly and the author of The
Battle of $9.99,
“you would have thought those numbers would have been reversed.”
And in part, Albanese tells Vox in a phone interview, that’s
because the digital natives of Gen Z and the millennial generation
have very little interest in buying ebooks. “They’re glued to
their phones, they love social media, but when it comes to reading a
book, they want John Green in print,” he says. The people who are
actually buying ebooks? Mostly boomers. “Older readers are glued
to their e-readers,” says Albanese. “They
don’t have to go to the bookstore. They can make the font bigger.
It’s convenient.”…
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