We have run a few AI stories over the past months, here is another: Actors launch campaign against AI ‘show stealers’ – BBC News Star Wars has a reputation for using technology to resurrect actors such as Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin: Rogue One: Peter Cushing resurrected as Grand …
What can a hacker do? Swap your BTC address for theirs, when you copy and paste!
If you do not know what a BTC address is then this this particular demonstration of of a Python hack will not impact you. If you do use bitcoin or other cryptocurrency then have a look at this SANS blog by Xme: Multi-Cryptocurrency Clipboard Swapper – SANS Internet Storm Centre …
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Vending machines – Absolutely Fabulous
Back to the full news tomorrow – but here is a non-cyber business tech story to tide you over… A day in the life of (almost) every vending machine in the world | Business | The Guardian The photo at the top of this post, is the “Absolutely Fabulous” vending …
Crypto for the weekend
Bruce Schneier’s blog put me onto this article, which explains in some depth how with careful detective work, and open-source intelligence (OSINT) made anonymous cryptocurrency transactions not so anonymous. It is a long, but very interesting article but please note the content warning from the Wired website, and do not …
Let’s keep the AI stories coming…
There was an AI story last weekend – here is another: ‘Mind-blowing’: Ai-Da becomes first robot to paint like an artist | Robots | The Guardian Further Reading Artificial Intelligence was the subject of last years BBC Reith Lectures – delivered by Professor Stuart Russell, founder of the Centre for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence, …