My
Computer Security class was discussing hacking options in our last
class. This one is so subtle “humans” may not even notice the
change.
Tesla
Autopilot gets tricked into accelerating from 35 to 85 mph with
modified speed limit sign
A
group of hackers has managed to trick Tesla’s first-generation
Autopilot into accelerating from 35 to 85 mph with a modified speed
limit sign that humans would be able to read correctly.
For our ongoing discussion…
Here Are
All the Ways People Have Found to Hack Voting Machines
Free
ebook.
Fighting
Disinformation Online
RAND
Corporation – Kavanagh, Jennifer, Samantha Cherney, Hilary
Reininger, and Norah Griffin, Fighting
Disinformation Online: Building the Database of Web Tools.
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International
License, 2020.
“Today’s
information ecosystem brings access to seemingly infinite amounts of
information instantaneously. It also contributes to the rapid spread
of misinformation and disinformation to millions of people. In
response to this challenge and as part of the RAND Corporation’s
Truth Decay initiative, RAND researchers worked to identify and
characterize the universe of online tools targeted at online
disinformation, focusing on those tools created by nonprofit or civil
society organizations. This report summarizes the data collected by
the RAND team in 2018 and 2019 and serves as a companion to the
already published web database. The report includes information on
our inclusion and exclusion criteria, a discussion of methodology, a
list of domains or characteristics that we coded for every tool
(e.g., tool type, delivery platform), a summary of descriptive
statistics that provides multiple different snapshots of both
available tools and those in development, and a series of deep dives
that describe each of the types of tools in the database and how each
works to counter the disinformation challenge.”
Apparently
it take years to recognize (or admit) your error.
Algorithms
Were Supposed to Fix the Bail System. They Haven't
If
you are booked into jail in New Jersey, a judge will decide whether
to hold you until trial or set you free. One factor the judge must
weigh: the result from an algorithm called PSA that estimates how
likely you are to skip court or commit another crime.
New
Jersey adopted
algorithmic risk assessment in 2014 at
the urging, in part, of the nonprofit Pretrial Justice Institute.
The influential Baltimore organization has for years advocated use of
algorithms in place of cash bail, helping them spread to most states
in the nation.
Then,
earlier this month, PJI suddenly reversed itself. In a statement
posted
online, the group said risk-assessment tools like those it previously
promoted have no place in pretrial justice because they perpetuate
racial inequities.
Influential.
Gartner’s
2020 Magic Quadrant For Data Science And Machine Learning Platforms
Has Many Surprises
… Gartner
recently published its magic
quadrant report on
data science and machine learning (DSML) platforms. The market
landscape for DS, ML and AI is extremely fragmented, competitive, and
complex to understand. Gartner attempted to stack rank the vendors
based on a well-defined criterion. Refer to the inclusion and
exclusion criterion for details on the parameters considered by
Gartner.
A
trend or freakishly unique?
Can
Wyoming regulate the internet? Its Legislature is trying.
… This
week, members in both chambers of the Wyoming Legislature voted to
take on three distinct pieces of legislation that could extend a
number of laws typically seen in the real world into the digital
realm, part of an increasing trend in state legislatures across the
country to apply real-world legislation to the digital world.
One
bill,
which passed second reading in the Senate on Monday, would permit
judges to issue warrants for digital records stored on out-of-state
servers. Another would essentially extend
First Amendment protections to
coders or app developers to spare them from prosecution if their
products are used in criminal activity, granting what essentially
amounts to a “shield law” for computer programmers.
Most
ambitious of all was Teton County Democrat Mike Yin’s House
Bill 101,
which — if passed — would have held all internet service
providers accountable for protecting the personal information of
their users.
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