A
number of new questions. Will there be as many drones as Amazon
delivery trucks or as many as the packages in the trucks. If the
drone gets hacked mistakenly drops the package in my
yard, can I keep it?
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/amazon-set-to-launch-drone-delivery-in-california/
Amazon Set to Launch Drone Delivery in California
Amazon said Monday that it's launching a fleet of delivery drones. The retail giant will test its new Amazon Prime Air delivery system in Lockeford, California, the company said.
Amazon worked with the Federal Aviation Administration and local officials in Lockeford, a small town south of Sacramento, to gain permission for the drones to take flight.
… Once the system launches, customers in Lockeford will be able to order products through Amazon Prime Air and wait for the drone to arrive. It will fly to its destination, descend to the customer's backyard and drop the package from a safe height, before zooming away.
Once upon a time government research lead to civilian products. Clearly that has flipped.
Congressional hearings focus on AI, machine learning challenges in cybersecurity
Talent shortages and ensuring that AI and machine learning systems are trustworthy are among the biggest concerns explained to the U.S. Congress.
Congressional hearings on artificial intelligence and machine learning in cyberspace quietly took place in the U.S. Senate Armed Forces Committee’s Subcommittee on Cyber in early May 2022. The committee discussed the topic with representatives from Google, Microsoft and the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University. While work has begun in earnest within industry and government, it is clear that much still needs to be done.
The hearing chair, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), articulated the importance of AI and machine learning to the armed forces of the United States. Additionally, the committee highlighted the “shortfall of technically trained cybersecurity personnel across the country in government and industry alike.” This perspective aligns with the Solarium Commission report, which was subsequently released in early-June 2022.
… Eric Horvitz, Microsoft’s chief scientific officer, shared information from the company’s October 2021 Digital Defense Report and highlighted its efforts to engage in accordance with President Biden’s Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity executive order, EO 14028.
(Related) And the civilian side isn’t uniformly excellent either.
Moody’s Report: Cybersecurity Investment Up, But Preparedness Remains Inconsistent
A recent research report from Moody’s Investors Service observes that organizations tend to have upped their cybersecurity investments across the board, but that the additional spending is not necessarily leading to better outcomes or more thorough defensive perimeters.
Organizations are almost universally onboarding basic cybersecurity defenses and over half now hold cyber insurance, but spending on “advanced” and “robust” defensive solutions continues to lag. 93% of organizations now have a dedicated cybersecurity manager in place, but the frequency and depth of their interaction varies greatly between companies.
It’s like a casual glance held rigidly for months… It’s like a traffic camera that happens to point at your house. It’s like the neighbor’s door camera looking across the street.
Can police secretly spy on your home without a warrant? The First Circuit doesn’t know
Despite three years’ deliberation on the issue, the First Circuit failed to decide whether police may install a secret video camera outside someone’s home and record everything that happens there for eight months without a warrant.
The en banc court split 3-3 in a 129-page ruling, leaving the issue completely up in the air.
Judges Sandra Lynch, Jeffrey Howard and Gustavo Gelpí saw no reason why police need a warrant to record what anyone walking by a home can see.
… But Judges David Barron, O. Rogeriee Thompson and William Kayatta — all Obama appointees — argued that even if a casual observer walking by could see or even videotape what was happening outside the home, this case was different.
“We have not yet encountered,” they said, “the casual, accidental observer … who could take in all that occurs in a home’s curtilage over the course of eight months and recall it perfectly and at a moment’s notice.”
… As for future cases, the result is unclear. There’s a good chance the Supreme Court will take the opportunity to decide the issue, given the First Circuit’s inability to reach a result and the fact that other courts have divided over it, with the Seventh Circuit allowing such a pole camera despite the Supreme Court’s recent ruling and the Colorado Supreme Court holding otherwise.
Think of it as a self driving car bent on causing collisions, not avoiding them.
China develops AI that ‘can use deception to hunt satellites’
The team ran thousands of simulated space battles in which the hunters developed the ability to ‘trick’ their target
Researchers believe there will be no role for humans in this type of conflict, with AI being used to power both hunter and prey
A research team in China said that an anti-satellite artificial intelligence system has mastered the art of deception in a simulated space battle.
In the experiment, the AI commanded three small satellites to approach and capture a high-value target, repeating the exercise thousands of times.
Eventually the targeted satellite learned to detect the incoming threat and fired up powerful thrusters to evade the pursuit.
But it was then lured into a trap after the AI ordered the three hunters to veer off their original trajectory, as if giving up the pursuit.
One of the hunting satellites then suddenly changed course and deployed a capturing device from a distance of less than 10 metres (33 feet).
[Don’t miss this article on space junk: https://multimedia.scmp.com/news/world/article/2177933/space-debris/?src=article-launcher
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