These little devices are really useful to the law abiding – then there are the criminals: Police Records Show Women Are Being Stalked With Apple AirTags Across the Country (vice.com) The report is from the US, but if it happens over there, then it is also happening here.
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, …
Android apps found with hidden malicious functions
The ability to sideload apps on an Android device, bypassing any curation in the Google Play Store and the apparent regularity that that app store misses malicious content in Android apps, is an constant cyber security issue for anyone using Android. Here are two recent examples: Android apps with 45 …
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Ronin Network bailed out – FOLLOW UP
Last month we covered the $625m theft from Ronin, using a web3/smart contract, exploit against the decentralised finance service (DeFi). Now the company (and it’s clients) have been bailed out by cash investment by cryptocurrency giant Binance. Ronin Network bailed out by crypto giant Binance after hack – BBC News
Because It’s Friday – A Time Travel Story
I am pretty sure my love of good time travel stories started when I saw Rod Taylor in HG Wells’ The Time Machine – some time in the 1960s. It’s a classic, it looks good, and it kept to HG’s story. Then there are the Weeping Angels in Blink. An …
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