Stephen E. Arnold: MIT Technology Review on Amazon Ubber Alles — The New Deep State?

Meet America’s newest military giant: Amazon The Pentagon’s controversial $10bn JEDI cloud computing deal is one of the most lucrative defense contracts ever. Amazon’s in pole position to win—and its move into the military has been a long time coming. Stephen E. Arnold, a specialist in intelligence and law enforcement software, has used a series …

Stephen E. Arnold: Lies Everywhere, Is the Truth Dead?

Unusual Source, Useful Information I want to give a thumbs up to Cool Smart Phone and its write up “Lies Everywhere. The Truth Is Dead.” The article does a very good job of explaining the basic mechanism for planting misinformation in online channels. Plus the article contains a number of examples. DarkCyber noted this statement …

Stephen E. Arnold: Fake News = Fake Memories = Fake Everything Including Fake Politicians Winning Fake Elections

Thinking about Real News Now that AI has gotten reasonably good at generating fake news, we have a study that emphasizes how dangerous such false articles can be. The Association for Psychological Science reports, “Fake News Can Lead to False Memories.” While the study, from the University College Cork, was performed on Irish citizens ahead …