The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Encryption Flaw Allows the NSA to Break HTTPS and VPN Traffic
A theory that fits all the other clues more than others
A group of 14 researchers have presented a paper at the 22nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS) in Denver on Wednesday, October 14, a paper on which they base a theory of how the NSA can break most of the Web's HTTP and VPN traffic due to a flaw in the implementation of the Diffie-Hellman algorithm used to encrypt Web traffic.
Good ying, no yang….
Unique computer system developed at MIT aims to get the humans out of data analysis
A new system developed by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) can surpass the smartest people in the world. It aims to exclude the human element out of the data analysis, said its makers. The new system has been named ‘Data Science Machine’, which could be considered as a breakthrough in the field of artificial intelligence. The new system of AI aims to take humans out of data analysis.
Continue reading “Yoda: MIT Hypes Artificial Intelligence — All Ying, No Yang”
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Publishers Straddle the Apple-Google, App-Web Divide
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple wants mobile devices to be filled with apps. Google supports a world where people browse the web for most things.
Continue reading “Yoda: Neither Apple Apps nor Google Shallows — Enter Oracle and the Convergence”
Using experts ‘inexpertly' leads to policy failure, warn researchers
The accuracy and reliability of expert advice is often compromised by “cognitive frailties”, and needs to be interrogated with the same tenacity as research data to avoid weak and ill-informed policy, warn two leading risk analysis and conservation researchers in the journal Nature today. Sutherland and Burgman have created a framework of eight key ways to improve the advice of experts. These include using groups – not individuals – with diverse, carefully selected members well within their expertise areas.
Alphabet Google: Dreams of a Churning Welchian
Summary: Ad revenue under pressure; massive legal problems around the world; losing primacy in search and held in disdain.
The deception that lurks in our data-driven world
Add it all up, and you have a significant problem in the way our society produces knowledge.
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The hidden underpinnings of the world were revealed only when they were gone.
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We’ve deceived ourselves into thinking data is a camera, but it’s really an engine. Capturing data about something changes the way that something works. Even the mere collection of stats is not a neutral act, but a way of reshaping the thing itself.
