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Cell Phone Location Privacy
We all know that our cell phones constantly give our location away to our mobile network operators; that’s how they work. A group…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connecting Cows and More to the Web
Powerful direction for much more connections yet. Implications for the use of data and what is forecast. Tiny Satellites Will Connect Cows, Cars, Shipping Containers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Remaking the Web
We need a remake. With caution to include freedom of communication. He Created the Web. Now He's Out to Remake the Digital World.The New York Times, Steve Lohr...
From Schneier on Security
Finding the Location of Telegram Users
Security researcher Ahmed Hassan has shown that spoofing the Android’s “People Nearby” feature allows him to pinpoint the physical location of Telegram users: Using...
From Schneier on Security
On US Capitol Security — By Someone Who Manages Arena-Rock-Concert Security
Smart commentary: …I was floored on Wednesday when, glued to my television, I saw police in some areas of the U.S. Capitol using little more than those same mobile...
From Schneier on Security
Cloning Google Titan 2FA keys
This is a clever side-channel attack: The cloning works by using a hot air gun and a scalpel to remove the plastic key casing and expose the NXP A700X chip, which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
OpenProject
Introduced to OpenProject. An open source project management system. Nicely done, their introductory blog is here, Which attaches to many component descriptions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung's Home AI Offers to Nag and do General Chores
CES is virtual this year but is putting out some interesting things, with the usual warning that they are concepts rather than imminent realities. Looks likeSamsung's...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Early Registration Open for the CSTA Annual Conference
Just registered for the 2021 CSTA Annual Conference Early discounted registration for CSTA+ members is now open https://web.cvent.com/event/354be991-0b98-48e0-b4d3...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CIOs Have Expanded Role
Quite expected. But it is just more work, or a truly expanded role?CIOs Enter 2021 with Expanded RoleThe Wall Street Journal, By Angus LotenInformation technology...
From insideHPC
Workload Portability Enabled by a Modern Storage Platform
In this sponsored post, Shailesh Manjrekar, Head of AI and Strategic Alliances, WekaIO, explors what is meant by “data portability,” and why it’s important. Looking...
From Computational Complexity
The ACM History Committee call for proposals looks wrong
In November I (and prob everyone in the ACM) got an email that was a call for proposal from the ACM History committee. Here is a pointer to it. One of the passages...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Launches on-device Facial Recognition
So could most any device recognize us? Bias considerations depend on usage modes. Intel launches RealSense ID for on-device facial recognition By Kyle Wiggers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Europe Bets on China’s ‘Unhackable’ Tech for Encryption
China and its secure communication broadbandEurope Bets on China’s ‘Unhackable’ Tech to Win Space Race By Helene Fouquet Jan 05 2021 (Bloomberg) -- Europe’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning Algorithms You Should Know
A nice piece which covers the basic concepts of the most used data science algorithms. Not enough to know how to use them, but good for knowing when and why. All...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Picture Pile Platform to Crowdsource Data for Image Classification
Towards more classification examples for AI models.Crowdsourced Image Classification Will Train AI Models By International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technologie links (January 9th 2021)
The Earth is spinning faster and faster: The 28 fastest days on record (since 1960) all occurred in 2020, with Earth completing its revolutions around its axisContinue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trends this Year
Irving Wladawsky-Berger does a good job of looking at trends likely to continue this year. With lots of useful links. Below the intro: Trends That Will Likely...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM towards Secure Enterprise Data
Hyperledger towards business goals with sharing secure enterprise data How IBM is using blockchain to transform the potential of enterprise dataChris O'Brien @obrien...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rental Fees
Wow, now here is something, have quite a bit of retail equipment. Thinking this ... It’s Finally Illegal for ISPs to Charge Rental Fees for Equipment You OwnBy...
From The Eponymous Pickle