Yahoo discloses #hack of 1 billion accounts
http://social.techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/yahoo-discloses-hack-of-1-billion-accounts/ Seems the scale of this affects a large fraction of all Internet users
How to empty the ketchup…every time
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21711015-and-improve-power-plants-too-how-empty-ketchup-bottle-every-time super slippery surfaces might enable #microfluidics by thermocapillary motion
Worried About…#Privacy? Download Signal http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/technology/personaltech/worried-about-the-privacy-of-your-messages-download-signal.html V. strong endorsement from @NYTimes. Perhaps useful for protecting sources
America’s Top Spy James Clapper
https://www.wired.com/2016/11/james-clapper-us-intelligence/ He drives around DC in a black, armored SUV w/ its own satellite dish. Wow!
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Clapper’s life is a whirl of video teleconferences and nondescript spaces—subterranean briefing rooms, flatscreen-lined command centers, and eavesdropping-proof chambers called sensitive compartmented information facilities, or SCIFs (pronounced “skiffs” in spookspeak). His armored, antenna-topped black SUV—more tank than car—even has a satellite dish to keep Clapper in secure contact wherever he’s driving around DC. When he travels, a special team converts a hotel room into a secure communications suite. His digital hearing aids are regularly checked by security to ensure that no foreign adversary is listening, and his counterintelligence team dumbs down the iPads he uses to brief the president in the Oval Office so that they can’t transmit or eavesdrop.
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The Great AI Awakening
http://www.NYTimes.com/2016/12/14/magazine/the-great-ai-awakening.html Quick history of #DeepLearning & its dramatic success in translation. Is med. diagnosis next?
Now flattered to have had 2 Hinton alumni in my lab…!
Can You Tell if These…Are…Rendered?
https://www.Wired.com/2016/12/skrekkogle-still-life/ @Skrekkogle makes the real appear simulated. Implications for photo evidence
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“The Norwegian design studio Skrekkogle played this game with Still File, a series of photos that look like renderings but aren’t. Instead of manipulating pixels on a screen, studio founders Lars Marcus Vedeler and Theo Zamudio-Tveterås created and photographed sets that look like scenes made with 3-D rendering software. “It’s a weirdly elaborate process,” Vedeler says.
In particularly cool photo, they 3-D printed three wildly distorted teapots, gave them a flat finish, and glued them to the background before photographing them as a surrealist scene. In another, they placed a marble, a plastic cone, and a wood-lined cube atop checkered paper lacquered with acrylic. The camera’s flash reflected the checkerboard pattern onto the objects, creating a false sense of depth.”
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What If $AAPL Is Wrong?
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601145/what-if-apple-is-wrong/ The risks of too much #privacy (ie of too strongly locking down our phones)
Atlas Recall..a photographic memory for your computing life, by @Pogue http://finance.Yahoo.com/news/david-pogue-review-of-atlas-recall-160114345.html Captures all your screens. Pot. privacy issue
[]tags privacy,gadgets,x57s,pogue]
The new MacBook Pro is…great for hackers
https://medium.com/@ageitgey/the-new-macbook-pro-is-kind-of-great-for-hackers-64c1c577a4d2#.o160nwo05 All open ports (#USBc) w. great potential for tricky charging combos