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 …
Software vulnerabilities, patches and updates are an important part of a “defence in depth” cyber security plan
US federal alert warns of the discovery of malicious cyber tools | US national security | The Guardian I use the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, (CISA) a lot. Many of the blog posts I run here, start there. However there is a vast amount of information on the CISA …
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, …
“…smartphones aren’t really about making our lives easier; they’re about allowing private companies to profit from areas of our lives that were previously closed to them.” Max Fletcher, The Guardian
The article from which I have taken the quote is further down the page – but please read the rest of the article first, it is relevant. I ran a post about a talk given by Matt Brittin, from Google, about their vision of privacy by design: Privacy by Design …
The Triumphs of Artificial Intelligence
The advancement of AI is one of the threats to our current cyber security and one of the enhancements we can look forward to. This piece from The Guardian has nothing to do with either of those points – just that it beat a human at a game! It is …