Stephen Arnold: How Do You Spell Control? Maybe Google?

How Do You Spell Control? Maybe Google? The lack of a standardized format has made it difficult to manage vulnerabilities in open source software. Now, SiliconAngle reports, “Google Announces Unified Schema to Make Sharing Vulnerabilities Easier.” Writer Duncan Riley explains: “Google LLC today announced a unified schema for describing vulnerabilities precisely to make it easier …

Stephen E. Arnold: Cheap, Convenient, and Much Too Easy: Fabricated Twitter Trends

Cheap, Convenient, and Much Too Easy: Fabricated Twitter Trends Here is some news out of Turkey that perked our ears. News EPFL reports, “Mass Scale Manipulation of Twitter Trends Discovered.” Is Turkey an outlier when it comes to digital baloney? Perhaps a little, for now, but this problem recently uncovered by researchers appears to occur …

Stephen Arnold: SPACtacular Palantir Tech Gets More Attention: This Is Good?

SPACtacular Palantir Tech Gets More Attention: This Is Good? Palantir is working to expand its public-private partnership operations beyond security into the healthcare field. Some say the company has fallen short in its efforts to peddle security software to officials in Europe, so the data-rich field of government-managed healthcare is the next logical step. Apparently …

Stephen Arnold: Google and Unreliable Results: Like the Jack Benny One Liner, I Am Thinking, I Am Thinking

Google and Unreliable Results: Like the Jack Benny One Liner, I Am Thinking, I Am Thinking read a “real” news story called “Google Is Starting to Warn Users When It Doesn’t Have a Reliable Answer.”  (No, I will not ask, What’s reliable mean.) Here’s the statement which snagged my attention in the write up: “When …

Stephen E. Arnold : Smart Software: Perhaps Objective Processes Are Inherently Biased?

Smart Software: Perhaps Objective Processes Are Inherently Biased? Is prejudice innate or learned? Does language contain biases which are unnoticed by those who speak one? “The Efforts to Make Text-Based AI Less Racist and Terrible” answers these questions clearly. Smart software is going to generate remarkable distinctions. The summary of the the projects which are …