Ineptitude – Page 17 – Public Intelligence Blog

If you are in the media or intelligence business, you undoubtedly already know about the potential of deep fakes or “deepfake” videos. Clips that utilize AI technology to create realistic and completely fake videos using existing footage. The catch is that they are getting more and more convincing…and that’s not good, as we discovered in a recent Phys.org article, “Misinformation Woes Could Multiply with Deepfake Videos.”

According to the story:

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2019/01/282019/01/25

Berto Jongman: Think Tanks Facing 3 Challenges

Corruption, Ineptitude, Non-Governmental

The world's think tank dilemma

Yoichi Funabashi in Japan Times

In fact, traditional think tanks are confronting three major challenges that have put them in a uniquely difficult situation. Not only are they facing increased competition from for-profit think tanks such as the McKinsey Global Institute and the Eurasia Group; they also must negotiate rising geopolitical tensions, especially between the United States and China. And complicating matters further, many citizens, goaded by populist harangues, have become dismissive of “experts” and the fact-based analyses that think tanks produce (or at least should produce).

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2019/01/202019/01/18

Robert Parry: Bases, Bases, Everywhere … Except in the Pentagon’s Report

Corruption, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Military, Peace Intelligence

Bases, Bases, Everywhere … Except in the Pentagon’s Report

These installations exist somewhere between light and shadow, writes Nick Turse. While acknowledged as foreign military outposts, they are excluded from the official inventory.

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2018/12/302018/12/31

Berto Jongman: Social Media This and That

Commerce, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Impotency

Visualizing the Social Media Universe in 2018

How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.

2018/12/302018/12/31

Stephen E. Arnold: Google’s $350 Billion Haircut

Commerce, Corruption, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Impotency

By Rick Webb at Medium.

Google’s $350 Billion Haircut

The math’s not pretty on digital advertising’s future revenues. That could mean a massive devaluation for both Google and Facebook.

2018/12/272018/12/23

DefDog: Blow to morale: Afghan forces worry about US withdrawal – Bullshit (should not have been there, never understood how to train, equip, and organize Afghans)

08 Wild Cards, Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, Military

Blow to morale: Afghan forces worry about US withdrawal

Several high ranking Afghan military officials, who spoke on condition they not be identified because they were not authorised to speak to the media, said the morale of Afghanistan’s under-trained and poorly
equipped security forces was already at a dangerously low ebb.

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2018/12/262018/12/23

Berto Jongman: Future IoT Needs Privacy & Security by Design

Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency

IoT Future Needs Privacy, Security by Design

“A significant number of smart devices, including smart CCTV cameras, thermostats or smart TVs, are insecure by design,” said Petrus. “It’s not even possible to make some of them more secure as they’ve been made with hard-coded account names and passwords that can’t be changed.”

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