The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked In total, hackers have stolen nearly $2 billion worth of cryptocurrency since the beginning of 2017, mostly from exchanges, and that’s just what has been revealed publicly.
Open standards can disrupt Facebook’s messaging monopoly Facebook’s messaging services . . . run on closed standards and don’t play nice with platforms created by third parties. Is there a way out? Pranesh Prakash – a Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society, as well as a Fellow at the New America think tank …
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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 …
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‘There’s no place to hide’: Shocking study reveals how Twitter and Facebook learn private information about you – even if you DON’T have an account Researchers looked at publicly available Twitter posts from almost 14,000 users Algorithms accurately predicted 64% of the time what they were going to say If the user didn’t have an …
Gobal AI experts sound the alarm Leading researchers co-author unique report warning of the malicious use of AI in the coming decade AI predictions for 2019 that you can’t afford to ignore List only, and comment, below the fold.
Congressional Oversight of Intelligence: Background and Selected Options for Further Reform The usual suspects: joint committee, consolidated authorization & appropriation, dedicated HPSCI intelligence staff, abolish term limits for HPSCI Members.
Most do not understand that the EU’s new regulations are not really about privacy and copyright, they are about killing #GoogleGestapo and particularly Google, Instagram, and YouTube. Any image, any video, that displays any brand leads to an “all stop” that requires checking and approval by the brand owner before publishing. This could be interpreted …
