Now this is how a smart intelligence service would operate. IF I had to guess, I’d say GCHQ.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/eset-discovers-a-rare-apt-that-stayed-undetected-for-nine-years/?&web_view=true

ESET discovers a rare APT that stayed undetected for nine years

Active since 2011 but only discovered this year, the XDSpy hacker group targeted government and private companies in Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine.

Slovak cyber-security firm ESET has discovered a new state-sponsored hacking group (also known as an APT). Named XDSpy, the group is a rarity in the cyber-security landscape as it managed to remain undetected for nearly nine years before its hacking spree was discovered earlier this year.

The group's operations have been detailed for the first time today by ESET researchers in a talk at the Virus Bulletin 2020 security conference.

ESET says the group's primary focus has been reconnaissance and document theft. Its targets have been government agencies and private companies in Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

From each according to his revenue, to each according to his hacking ability.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ransomware-gangs-are-shifting-targets-and-upping-their-ransom-demands/?&web_view=true

Ransomware: Gangs are shifting targets and upping their ransom demands

Gangs are also getting smarter, factoring in companies' revenues when setting the ransom they try to collect.

… The number of ransomware attacks IBM's Security X-Force Incident Response team were called in to deal with tripled in the second quarter of this year compared to the previous quarter, and accounted for a third of all security incidents it responded to between April and June 2020. "Ransomware incidents appeared to explode in June 2020," said a report by the company's security analysts.

No answer yet?

https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/govern-artificial-intelligence/95468/

How do we govern artificial intelligence and act ethically?

Gaurav Kapoor, Chief Operating Officer at MetricStream, discusses how to govern artificial intelligence in the contemporary age

For our next trick, perpetual motion!

https://phys.org/news/2020-10-physicists-circuit-limitless-power-graphene.html

Physicists build circuit that generates clean, limitless power from graphene

… The findings, published in the journal Physical Review E, are proof of a theory the physicists developed at the U of A three years ago that freestanding graphene—a single layer of carbon atoms—ripples and buckles in a way that holds promise for energy harvesting.

The idea of harvesting energy from graphene is controversial because it refutes physicist Richard Feynman's well-known assertion that the thermal motion of atoms, known as Brownian motion, cannot do work. Thibado's team found that at room temperature the thermal motion of graphene does in fact induce an alternating current (AC) in a circuit, an achievement thought to be impossible.

A remote teaching tool.

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/10/how-to-record-video-presentation-in.html

How to Record a Video Presentation in Canva

For years Canva has been my go-to tool for making things like infographics, video cover images, and social media posts. Increasingly, I'm using it to design slideshows. A relatively new feature in Canva is the option to record a video of the presentations that you create in Canva. It's kind of like making a narrated screencast of your slides. The difference is that you can do all of the recording right in Canva and you can see your speaker notes to help you through the recording but the speaker notes don't get included in the final video. Take a look at my new video that is embedded below to see how Canva's built-in presentation recording tool works.