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“Light Blue Touchpaper” is the blog of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and is written by researchers in the Security Group. Read here brief and timely essays on recent developments and topics related to computer security.
Light Blue Touchpaper Read More
October is CyberSecurity Awareness Month, a time to focus on why cybersecurity is important and what we can do to protect our personal and business information.
National CyberSecurity Awareness Month – October 2020 Read More
It is now normal for each Summer to in one way or another be hotter than the one prior. As a result there will be remarkable occurrences a few of which I’m cataloguing here.
Summer Heat 2020 Read More
Mural Fest celebrates urban beautification and artistic talent using the powerful tool of public art. The visual impact of bold, creative designs embodies the energy of the innovative businesses and creative communities in the Creative Industries Zone.
Street Art from Mural Fest in South Salt Lake, Utah Read More
A large number of fires were started by lightning strikes in California over the weekend of August 15-16, 2020. They resulted from a storm system that moved along the coast of California and produced copious amounts of dry lightning through primarily northern California around the greater San Fransisco Bay area. I’m including a number of articles, imagery and videos to document the resulting series of fires and the impact the resulting smoke has had on the upper western United States.
California Fires – Late August, 2020 Read More
Everything you need to create a secure work-from-home environment during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
SANS Security Awareness Work-from-Home Deployment Kit Read More
We picked a hard goal. In our case, it was the replication of reality. And now things look so realistic that I often can’t tell in films, and I have a pretty good eye.”
Attaining The Third Dimension Read More
When Ed Catmull earned his Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 1974, with a thesis on three-dimensional (3D) computer graphics, he applied for jobs in academia. He did not get a single one. His academic interests eventually led him to co-found Pixar Animation Studios, create the breakthrough 1995 animated film Toy Story, and receive the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2019 A.M. Turing Award, along with his colleague Pat Hanrahan.
An Animating Spirit Read More
Edward Snowden touched off a global debate in 2013 when he gave Barton Gellman, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald each a vast and explosive archive of highly classified files revealing the extent of the American government’s access to our every communication. They shared the Pulitzer Prize that year for public service. For Gellman, who never stopped reporting, that was only the beginning.
Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State Read More
The actor’s new project, A Starting Point, aims to give all Americans the TL;DR on WTF is going on in politics. It’s harder than punching Nazis on the big screen.
Chris Evans Goes to Washington Read More
How Washington went to war against the Chinese smartphone giant, and how the runaway conflict could spell the end of a single, global internet.
Inside the Feds’ Battle Against Huawei Read More
Sixty years ago, a sharecropper’s son invented a technology to identify faces. Then the record of his role all but vanished. Who was Woody Bledsoe, and who was he working for?
The Secret History of Facial Recognition Read More
How edge AI will provide devices with just enough smarts to get the job done without spilling all your secrets to the mothership.
Worried About Privacy at Home? There’s an AI for That Read More
And better ones won’t save it. To get past misinformation and tribal rancor online, we need to face why people really want misinformation and rancor.
Bad Algorithms Didn’t Break Democracy Read More
At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story.
The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet Read More
Administrators say installing listening devices like Alexa in student bedrooms and hallways could help lower dropout rates. Not everyone agrees.
Should colleges really be putting smart speakers in dorms? Read More
As past identities become stickier for those entering adulthood, it’s not just individuals who will suffer. Society will too.
Why an internet that never forgets is especially bad for young people Read More
…memes, bits of cultural DNA that encoded society’s shared experiences while also constantly evolving.
The WIRED Guide to Memes Read More
Without their phones, most of my students initially felt lost, but after just two weeks the majority began to think that their cell phones were in fact limiting their relationships with other people.
I asked my students to turn in their cell phones and write about living without them Read More
Social media allows young people to explore how they express themselves, says Taylor Fang of Logan, Utah, the winner of our youth essay contest.
We asked teenagers what adults are missing about technology. This was the best response. Read More