Jeffrey J. Bloom

Jeffrey J. Bloom

New Relic is building some new artificial intelligence capabilities into its core infrastructure monitoring product that will allow operations engineers to browse a curated feed of alerts and updates deemed most worthy of their attention.

Jeffrey J. Bloom

"There’s no perfect security; there’s only degrees of insecurity," Ronald Rivest, an MIT professor. Hackers have myriad ways of attacking voting machines. "You don’t want to rest the election of the president on, 'Maybe the Wi-Fi was turned on when it shouldn’t have been.'"
http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/12/voting-machines-can-be-hacked-without-evidence-com/

Jeffrey J. Bloom

A flustered Phil Schiller struggled to unlock the device while demonstrating how Face ID works, when it failed to unlock, he told the audience: “Let’s try that again.” He was then prompted to enter his passcode, but finally managed to get into the device using a backup method.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/09/12/apple-suffers-embarrassing-demo-faceid-fail-iphone-x-launch/

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"We're devoting extraordinary resources to make sure this kind of incident doesn’t happen again. [Making] changes & [strengthening] defenses against cybercrimes. We will make sure every consumer who wants protection has a full package of services," Equifax discovered the breach on July 29, 2017, but it didn't publically disclose the information until Sept. 7, 2017. "Understandably, many people are questioning why it took six weeks to report the incident to the public," Smith wrote, "At the time, we thought the intrusion was limited."
http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/09/12/equifax-ceo-delivers-mea-culpa-as-cyber-hacking-scandal-intensifies.html

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The best way to avoid capture, three Chicago men have learned, does not include running into a police station.

One man was caught in the parking lot. The other two? They ran into the building & hid behind a vending machine in the police station’s lobby.

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"I don’t think vehicles of today will disappear from the market, but there is a demand in the market for alternative technology like robo cars," Andree Hohm, Continental’s self-driving car project. "So I think we are well prepared," noting Continental is trying to stay agile in a changing market. "We have everything for the battery system, except the cells...we're trying to keep our options open for the future."
http://wardsauto.com/technology/conti-sees-huge-growth-automated-driving-unveils-mobility-tech

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Already benefiting from many open-source tools in big data--such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, ElasticSearch & Cassandra--the government stands to gain significantly from open-source AI, which conveys the advantages of flexibility vs. vendor lock-in, a permissive license, transparent & customizable code & strong quality assurance.
https://www.fedscoop.com/government-needs-open-source-deep-learning/

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All of this goes to show the war between North Korea and South Korea is beginning to include Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. With these currencies largely unregulated by both nations, there are no official repercussions for stealing customer funds. It also provides the state-sponsored hackers with a powerful financial tool to fund future operations. It will be interesting to see how this situation unfolds over the coming months and years.

Jeffrey J. Bloom

Caltech researchers have created nanoscale quantum memory chips that store qubits (1, 0 or both simultaneously) in individual photons. Using optical cavities made from crystals doped with rare-earth ions, the modules measure 700nm x 15μm--the size of red blood cells.
https://youtu.be/JhHMJCUmq28

Full article here: https://futurism.com/a-new-computer-chip-can-store-quantum-information-in-the-form-of-light/

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The wireless cards and antennas will officially end shipping on December 29, but the technology hasn't been completely eliminated from Intel's plans. The chip giant will pivot WiGig towards VR headsets, as its speeds and low latency may find a more suitable niche cutting wires in virtual reality hardware. Intel has already demonstrated WiGig in an HTC Vive headset at Computex a few months ago, and competitors are testing similar wireless technologies on rival headsets.

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BlueBorne exploits BT tethering functionality, acts as a trusted network, spreads to other detected devices & enabling MitM attacks. Armis Labs Researchers discovered the exploit & were able to create botnets & install ransomware, estimating ~5.3 of 8.2 billion BT devices—worldwide--are vulnerable.
http://www.androidauthority.com/new-bluetooth-exploit-blueborne-800005/

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Without context AI doesn't come alive & doesn't create value. Simply put: AI + domain + data = value. Without domain & data, there is no value.

AI really becomes amazing ONLY if it can be applied within the context of a business & the domain of that problem in industry, with enough data to create needed intelligence.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/practical-ai-for-the-enterprise-getting-past-vendors-blowing-smoke/

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NSA's Groundbreaker program dates back to their 2001 effort to outsource IT ops, allowing them to "refocus assets on the agency’s core missions of providing foreign signals intelligence & protecting U.S. national security-related information systems.."
http://www.nextgov.com/cloud-computing/2017/09/nsa-quietly-awarded-classified-24-billion-tech-contract-more-come/140919/

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Starting today, we're launching an original series called Dear Future. We kick it off with a fascinating piece on the future of brain-controlled computers and will continue throughout the fall with pieces that shine a light on major innovations shaping the world around us, including space travel, internet freedom, the ethics of genome editing, the future of transportation, the wild frontiers of virtual reality, robotics and artificial intelligence and, just maybe, some inside information on how humans will speak to aliens.

Jeffrey J. Bloom

Using a brain-computer interface (BCI), researchers successfully enabled participants to compose musical scores using only the power of thought.

"20 years ago, the idea of composing a piece of music using the power of the mind was unimaginable," said Gernot Müller-Putz,a BCI expert who led the study for TU Graz's Institute of Neural Engineering.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4874522/Brain-computer-composes-music-reading-people-s-minds.html

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Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson has said the U.S. Navy did not find evidence that cyber attacks caused the separate collisions of two guided-missile destroyers in the Pacific over the past three months, Military.com reported Thursday.

Richardson said in a Facebook live-stream call that the Navy has investigated the cyber warfare aspect of the collisions involving USS John McCain on Aug. 21 and USS Fitzgerald on June 17.

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The Human Longevity study used machine learning algorithms to create a sketch of a person's face from whole-genome sequence data.

In a BioRxiv paper, Erlich said that with 10 minutes' work he could also match individuals to their genomes with similar success rates as reported in the PNAS study, using easily accessible demographic information
https://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/human-longevity-study-sparks-questions-about-face-prediction-claims-data-sharing-role

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The release, consisting of four documents, details micro-controller units which exchange data and signals over encrypted and authenticated channels, used on-board Pratt & Whitney aircraft equipped with missile launch systems.

Jeffrey J. Bloom

The OPR - led by Whaley - opened the investigation into Stentsen after Wardman called the DEA office in 2013 alleging that she and Stentsen had sex in the office. Wardman said she reported the affair after she "became angry" with Stentsen after he dismissed her when she told him she was pregnant with his child.

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“I have had made the assumption for many, many years that our forward deployed forces in Japan were the most proficient, well-trained, most experienced force we have because they were operating all the time,” Moran told a Thursday joint hearing before the House Armed Services readiness and seapower and projection forces subcommittees.
“It was the wrong assumption.”

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Facebook’s "expressive bot" learned how to react like a human, using an AI algorithm that analyzed hundreds of Skype video conversations. In tests, it successfully passed as human-like.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2146294-facebook-ai-learns-human-reactions-after-watching-hours-of-skype/

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Former SecDef cyber policy deputy asst, Kate Charlet, discusses several important/serious implications of putting CYBERCOM on an even playing field with the rest of the DoD's combatant commands.
https://federalnewsradio.com/federal-drive/2017/09/kate-charlet-implications-of-changes-to-cybercom-status/

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VERY informative podcast about: USS Fitzgerald DDG-62 & USS John S. McCain DDG-56 collisions (costing lives of 17 US Sailors); South Korea & Japan; touring the 38th Parallel DMZ; North Korean aggression & their missile launches; the state of US Navy readiness & shipbuilding; and much more!
https://bearingdrift.com/2017/09/04/vpod-15-17-rep-rob-wittman-va-1/

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Wal-Mart is teaming up with Google to offer hundreds of thousands of items on its voice-controlled Google Assistant platform from late September. Stated Wal-mart's Head of e-commerce, Marc Lore, in early July. Lore joined the world’s largest retailer after it bought his e-commerce company Jet.com.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-walmart-tech-google/wal-mart-to-enter-voice-shopping-market-via-google-platform-idUSKCN1B30A6

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First Google and now NVIDIA? Bezos is busy!
Wal-Mart's cloud ramp-up will happen over the next 6 months & will be "incrementally positive" to NVIDIA's GPU business. Rumors come after reports in June that Walmart asked some of its tech customers to move off Amazon's Web Service (AWS).

NVIDIA already powers Amazon, Google & Facebook's deep-learning cloud businesses & the company expects deep learning to become an even bigger part of its GPU sales in the coming years..
http://host.madison.com/business/investment/markets-and-stocks/nvidia-s-processors-may-soon-power-wal-mart-s-deep/article_5d514d68-25a7-5f15-b496-c3970178692a.html

Jeffrey J. Bloom

The “fix” is simply a ~3 minute firmware update and carries a “very low risk of update malfunction." Vulnerabilities include improper authentication, allowing compromised or bypassed access allowing a nearby attacker drain the battery and/or access sensitive unencrypted patient information.
http://www.csoonline.com/article/3222068/security/465-000-pacemakers-vulnerable-to-hacking-need-a-firmware-fix.html

Jeffrey J. Bloom

Wearable electronics are limited by battery capacity, ongoing research seeks to develop hybrid energy scavenging & storing units to prolong power for wearable electronics.

Anyone have more info about following article?

Summerization of "recent advances in self-healing materials developed for energy harvesting & storage devices (e.g., nanogenerators, solar cells, supercapacitors & lithium-ion batteries) over the past decade." Introduces self-healing mechanisms among insulators--electrical conductors, semiconductors & ionic conductors---and basic concepts, fabrication techniques, & performances of self-healing energy harvesting (nanogenerators & solar cells) & storage (supercapacitors & lithium-ion batteries)..
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.201700890/full

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"Within the next two years, hackers will use AI to avoid detection," said Ferguson of Trend Micro, "Ransomware attacks are getting stronger & more sophisticated by automatically distributing themselves." Ransomware varieties have increased 748%, from 29 families in 2015 to 246 in 2016.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/news/1317883/analyst-warns-of-ai-rise-in-cyberattacks

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By subtly altering street signs, using standard color printing or stickers, researchers were able to completely alter how an AI interpreted them. For example, a Stop sign altered with "natural weathering" was consistently seen by the neural network as a 45 mph speed limit sign. In another test, four carefully-placed rectangular stickers caused a Stop sign to be seen as a speed limit sign.
https://youtu.be/joEhUmYE2S8

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Hackers claim to have compromised six million accounts & set up a website called "Doxagram," which allegedly offers access to 1,000 Instagram accounts, including phone numbers & email addresses, for $10