Many IoT devices have this same
flaw.
Smart
lock security flaw could leave your door wide open
Consultants
at the cybersecurity firm F-Secure
have
discovered an exploitable design flaw in one brand of smart lock that
can allow an attacker to easily pick the device.
Since
the smart
lock itself
is unable to receive new firmware updates, the manufacturer can't
patch the device
to mitigate the flaw leaving users at risk unless they decide to
physically uninstall their smart lock.
I
predict failure. How significant remains unpredictable.
How
New Voting Machines Could Hack Our Democracy
The
United States has a disturbing habit of investing in unvetted new
touchscreen voting machines that later prove disastrous. As we
barrel toward what is set to be the most important election in a
generation, Congress appears poised to fund another generation of
risky touchscreen voting machines called universal use Ballot Marking
Devices (or BMDs), which function as electronic pens, marking your
selections on paper on your behalf. Although vendors, election
officials, and others often refer to this paper as a “paper
ballot,” it differs from a traditional hand-marked paper ballot in
that it is marked by a machine, which can be hacked without detection
in a manual recount or audit.
People held
accountable? Inconceivable!
People
should be held accountable for AI and algorithm errors, rights
commissioner says
People
need to be held accountable for the mistakes AI and algorithms make
on their behalf, such as that seen in the government’s robodebt
scandal, according to Australian human rights commissioner Ed Santow.
The
proposal comes in a new discussion paper on the impact of new
technologies on human rights in Australia, released by the commission
on Tuesday.
After
the Australian government backed
down on the use of automatic debt notices based
on income averaging, and had legislation
for its facial recognition system rejected by a government-dominated
parliamentary committee,
Santow said it was time to set some rules to govern how these new
technologies are used.
You
can download the Human
Rights and Technology Discussion Paper and
make a submission at tech.humanrights.gov.au
Perspective.
(One caught my eye.)
8
biggest AI trends of 2020, according to experts
Automated
AI development
“In 2020, expect to see significant new innovations in the area of what IBM calls ‘AI for AI’: using AI to help automate the steps and processes involved in the life cycle of creating, deploying, managing, and operating AI models to help scale AI more widely into the enterprise,” said Sriram Raghavan, VP of IBM Research AI.
Perspective.
AI
is outpacing Moore’s Law
AI
performance is doubling nearly every 3 months, a new report shows.
According
to a new report produced by Stanford University, AI computational
power is accelerating at a much higher rate than the development of
processor chips.
“Prior to 2012, AI results closely tracked Moore’s Law, with compute doubling every two years,” the authors of the report wrote. “Post-2012, compute has been doubling every 3.4 months.”
Perspective.
Facebook is number one, and number two and number three and number
four…
A
Look Back At the Top Apps & Games of the Decade
Looking
at the most downloaded apps of the decade, Facebook has dominated the
mobile space representing the four most downloaded apps of the decade
with Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram
I am not going
to speculate on the jobs my students seem destined for…
Robot
career guidance: AI may soon be able to analyse your tweets to match
you to a job
Our
study
published today in
the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science found different
professions attract people with very different psychological
characteristics.
When
looking for a new career, you might visit a career adviser and answer
a set of questions to identify your interests and strengths. These
results are used to match you with a set of potential occupations.
However,
this method relies on long surveys, and doesn’t account for the
fact that many occupations are changing or disappearing as technology
transforms the employment landscape.
We
wondered if we could develop a data-driven approach to matching a
person with a suitable profession, based on psychological traces they
reveal online.
Studies
have shown people leave traces of themselves through the
language they post online and
their
online behaviours.
Also
for my students.
For the
student toolkit?
How
to Use Zotero and Scrivener for Research-Driven Writing
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