Month: March 2019

    • A profile of AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, a co-recipient of the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, who says he supports regulating AI, including a ban on "killer robots" (Dan Bilefsky/New York Times)

    Dan Bilefsky / New York Times: A profile of AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, a co-recipient of the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, who says he supports regulating AI, including a ban on “killer robots”  —  MONTREAL — Yoshua Bengio is worried that innovations in artificial intelligence that he helped pioneer could lead to a dark future

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    Bidirectional IP with New Packet Radio

    There are a few options if you want to network computers on amateur radio. There are WiFi hacks of sort, and of course there’s always packet radio. New Packet Radio, a project from [f4hdk] that’s now on hackaday.io, is unlike anything we’ve seen before. It’s a modem that’s ready to go, uses standard 433 ISM

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    • A look at Pinterest's efforts to position itself as the platform at the top of the purchasing funnel, challenges with the "buy button", ads, and visual search (Anna Hensel/Digiday)

    Anna Hensel / Digiday: A look at Pinterest’s efforts to position itself as the platform at the top of the purchasing funnel, challenges with the “buy button”, ads, and visual search  —  Pinterest’s imminent IPO raises new questions about how big of a role the platform will play in the future of social commerce. A

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    DNA Computers are in the Lab Now

    Although it isn’t very real-world practical, researchers at Cal Tech have produced a DNA-based programmable computer. Spectrum reports that the system executes programs using a set of instructions written in DNA using six bits. Like any programmable computer, this one can execute many programs, but so far they run 21 different programs. Using DNA for

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    Bezos’s Security Consultant Accuses Saudis of Hacking the Amazon C.E.O.’s Phone

    The accusations by Gavin de Becker, Mr. Bezos’s longtime security consultant, are the latest twist in a bizarre situation that has also pulled in the largest U.S. tabloid publisher and The Washington Post. Bezos’s Security Consultant Accuses Saudis of Hacking the Amazon C.E.O.’s Phone Source: NY Times Tech

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    • Jeff Bezos' security chief says his investigation concluded with high confidence that Saudi Arabia "had access to Bezos' phone, and gained private information" (Gavin De Becker/The Daily Beast)

    Gavin De Becker / The Daily Beast: Jeff Bezos’ security chief says his investigation concluded with high confidence that Saudi Arabia “had access to Bezos’ phone, and gained private information”  —  The National Enquirer’s lawyer tried to get me to say there was no hacking.  —  For 40 years, I’ve advised … Jeff Bezos’ security

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    Grab an Image From Your O-scope The Easy Way

    The Rigol DS1054Zed is the oscilloscope you want. If you don’t have an oscilloscope, this is the scope that has the power and features you need, it’s cheap, and the people who do hardware hacks already have one. That means there’s a wealth of hardware hacks for this oscilloscope. One small problem with the ‘Zed

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    • Line names founder Shin Jungho as co-CEO to drive the Asian chat app's expansion from ads into payments, banking, and other fintech businesses (Kana Inagaki/Financial Times)

    Kana Inagaki / Financial Times: Line names founder Shin Jungho as co-CEO to drive the Asian chat app’s expansion from ads into payments, banking, and other fintech businesses  —  Mark Zuckerberg recently outlined a strategy that would see the future of Facebook in private messaging.  Shin Jungho, the reclusive founder … Line names founder Shin

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    Hash and Roll Your Way To Secure Passwords

    In the electronic battlefield that is 2019, the realm of password security is fraught with dangers. Websites from companies big and small leak like sieves, storing user data in completely unsecure ways. Just about the worst thing you can do is use the same password across several services, meaning that an attack on one gives

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    • Mark Zuckerberg calls for global regulations in four areas: policing harmful content, election integrity, a GDPR-like privacy framework, and data portability (Mark Zuckerberg/Washington Post)

    Mark Zuckerberg / Washington Post: Mark Zuckerberg calls for global regulations in four areas: policing harmful content, election integrity, a GDPR-like privacy framework, and data portability  —  Mark Zuckerberg is founder and chief executive of Facebook.  —  Technology is a major part of our lives, and companies such as Facebook have immense responsibilities. Mark Zuckerberg

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    • How a 119-word local crime brief amassed more than 800K Facebook shares, nearly twice as many as any other piece of English-language content this year so far (Will Oremus/Slate)

    Will Oremus / Slate: How a 119-word local crime brief amassed more than 800K Facebook shares, nearly twice as many as any other piece of English-language content this year so far  —  A tale of accidental virality in the age of algorithms.  —  On an otherwise ordinary Sunday in late January … How a 119-word

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    • Why it’s so hard to detect dangerous asteroids before they hit Earth

    Earth is often in the firing line of fragments of asteroids and comets, most of which burn up tens of kilometers above our heads. But occasionally, something larger gets through. That’s what happened off Russia’s east coast on December 18 last year. A giant explosion occurred above the Bering Sea when an asteroid some ten

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    A Pet Robot, Just Like Boston Dynamics Makes

    Every few months or so, a new video from Boston Dynamics will make the rounds on the Internet. This is their advertising, because unless the military starts buying mechanical mules, Boston Dynamics is going to be out of business pretty soon. You’ll see robots being kicked down the stairs, robots walking through doors, and robots

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    • Sheryl Sandberg says Facebook is exploring restrictions on who can go Live depending on factors such as prior Community Standard violations after Christchurch (Andrew Liptak/The Verge)

    Andrew Liptak / The Verge: Sheryl Sandberg says Facebook is exploring restrictions on who can go Live depending on factors such as prior Community Standard violations after Christchurch  —  Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg outlined three steps that the company is taking Sheryl Sandberg says Facebook is exploring restrictions on who can go Live

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