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The Worsening State of Ransomware
Suddenly, you have people with limited ability using powerful software to discover, exfiltrate, and encrypt files. They wind up with many of the same capabilities that sophisticated cybercriminals have.
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When Hackers Were Heroes
What was exceptional about MIT was not that it had a computer or that unkempt programmers were devising impressive tricks. It was that MIT had enough computers that a couple of surplus machines could be left out for members of the community to play with.
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The SolarWinds Hack
The SolarWinds affair is simply another incident in a long pattern of intrusions.
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Deep Learning Speeds MRI Scans
Facebook, the Palo Alto, CA-based online social network, has teamed up with radiologists at New York University’s Langone Medical Center in Manhattan to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-based imaging accelerator for MRI scanners.
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Implementing Insider Defenses
Classical approaches to cyber-security—isolation, monitoring, and the like—are a good starting point for defending against attacks, regardless of perpetrator. But implementations of those approaches in hardware and/or software can invariably be circumvented by insiders, individuals who abuse privileges and access their trusted status affords.
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Everything VPN Is New Again
The growing number of end-user devices and a new layer of virtualization in datacenters has subtly but profoundly changed how the VPN abstraction fits into networking.
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Battery Day
Batteries are a part of everyday life; without them, the world would be a much different place. Your cellphone, flashlight, tablet, laptops, drones, cars, and other devices would not be portable and operational without batteries.
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Five Nonobvious Remote Work Techniques
Here are my top five favorite techniques Stack Overflow uses to make remote work successful on a social level.
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Lessons from a genocide can prepare humanity for climate apocalypse
The bad news is that our slow-motion ecological catastrophe demands new ways of thinking. The good news? We’ve faced the end of the world before.
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Software Professionals, Malpractice Law, and Codes of Ethics
Most legal scholars agree the list of professions includes medicine and law. Beyond that there is little consensus as to who else qualifies.
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WebRTC: Real-Time Communication for the Open Web Platform
Most importantly, WebRTC is growing from enabling useful experiences to being essential in allowing billions to continue their work and education, and keep vital human contact during a pandemic. The opportunities and impact that lie ahead for WebRTC are intriguing indeed.
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The dangerous appeal of technology-driven futures
Technology doesn’t rule us. We direct it, but often by inaction.
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Why prisoners like me need internet access
I haven’t been online in almost two decades. Being able to would help me prepare for life after my release.
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Why Generation Z falls for online misinformation
We can all learn from how today’s young people evaluate truth online.
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How the next generation is reshaping political discourse
The rise of social media and being always online is changing the nature of civic engagement.
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Inside the fight to reclaim AI from Big Tech’s control
For years, Big Tech has set the global AI research agenda. Now, groups like Black in AI and Queer in AI are upending the field’s power dynamics to build AI that serves people.
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Responsible AI: Bridging From Ethics to Practice
These recommendations are meant to increase reliability, safety, and trustworthiness while increasing the benefits of AI technologies.
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Better Security Through Obfuscation
Last year, three mathematicians published a viable method for hiding the inner workings of software. The paper was a culmination of close to two decades of work by multiple teams around the world to show that concept could work. The quest now is to find a way to make indistinguishability obfuscation (iO) efficient enough to become a practical reality.
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Fixing the Internet
Aftab Siddiqui, senior manager of Internet technology at the Internet Society, says the initial BGP protocol was conceived by experts at research institutions, defense organizations, and equipment vendors. “When they designed [BGP], it was based on the premise that everybody trusts each other,” Siddiqui says. “Fast-forward 30 years, I’m pretty sure we cannot claim that anymore.”
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