Wednesday, April 28, 2021

More articulate than I am. Was South Texas the Court closest to Washington willing to authorize this?

https://thenextweb.com/news/are-we-safer-with-the-fbi-accessing-our-computers-without-consent-syndication?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheNextWeb+%28The+Next+Web+All+Stories%29

Are we safer with the FBI accessing our computers without consent?

The FBI has the authority right now to access privately owned computers without their owners’ knowledge or consent, and to delete software. It’s part of a government effort to contain the continuing attacks on corporate networks running Microsoft Exchange software, and it’s an unprecedented intrusion that’s raising legal questions about just how far the government can go.

On April 9, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas approved a search warrant allowing the U.S. Department of Justice to carry out the operation.





A question for my Security students.

https://www.databreaches.net/is-it-ethical-to-buy-breached-data/

Is It Ethical To Buy Breached Data?

Gary Stevens writes:

Research that’s done on malicious breaches of data presents a unique conundrum for the security professionals who are doing the investigating: should access to sets of breached raw data become available to public users and, if so, how?
In light of the pandemic, the acceleration toward location-distributed work has the potential to raise similar questions about the cybersecurity posture of companies and the ethics behind commercial sources of stolen data that inadvertently become available after breaches. In this day and age when nearly 70% of consumers outright distrust companies who claim to ethically sell personal data, these questions are more important to answer than ever before.

Read more on Security Boulevard.





Probably more than I ever wanted to know.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/04/artificial-intelligence-misreading-human-emotion/618696/

Artificial Intelligence Is Misreading Human Emotion

There is no good evidence that facial expressions reveal a person’s feelings. But big tech companies want you to believe otherwise.





Clearly the future. A Rumba-like device that cuts my lawn and zaps dandelions and crabgrass.

https://interestingengineering.com/new-farming-robot-uses-ai-to-kill-100000-weeds-per-hour

New Farming Robot Uses AI to Kill 100,000 Weeds per Hour





We’re a long way from this, but it is interesting that people are thinking along these lines. Overpaid CEOs should always be replaced.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/overpaid-ceos-replaced-artificial-intelligence

SHOULD OVERPAID CEOS BE REPLACED WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?





Games for geeks.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/27/amazon-announces-its-open-sourcing-deep-racer-device-software/

Amazon announces it’s open sourcing DeepRacer device software

When Amazon debuted AWS DeepRacer in 2018, it was meant as a fun way to help developers learn machine learning. While it has evolved since and incorporated DeepRacer competitions, today the company announced it was adding a new wrinkle. It’s open sourcing the software the company created to run these miniature cars.

At its core, the DeepRacer car is a mini computer running Ubuntu Linux and Robot Operating System (ROS), both open source components. The company believes that by opening up the device software to developers, it will encourage more creative uses of the car by enabling them to change the car’s default behavior.



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