http://m.nautil.us/issue/86/energy/why-is-the-human-brain-so-efficient-rp

How massive parallelism lifts the brain’s performance above that of AI.

https://www.nrk.no/norge/korona_-kriseledelse-brukte-hjemme-pc-er-apne-for-hackerangrep-1.15038678

36 sikkerhetshull i Windows, hvorav 7 ble betegnet som «kritiske», var ikke tettet i 120 PC-er som norske helsebyråkrater i Helsedirektoratet, HELFO og Pasient- og brukerombudet hadde fått med seg når de skulle styre Norge fra hjemmekontor.

Vi reiste rundt fysisk og oppdaterte maskinene.

https://nrkbeta.no/2020/06/05/utviklerne-av-smittestopp-tester-na-teknologi-fra-apple-og-google/

Norske Simula tester Apple og Googles teknologi for kontaktsporing, men det er ikke klart om dagens app Smittestopp vil bli endret eller erstattet.

https://www.nrk.no/norge/rema-app-kan-misbrukes-til-overvaking-1.15041044

Legger du inn en annen persons kontonummer, kan du se når, hvor og hva personen handler. – Rema tar en råsjanse med noen andres risiko, mener IT-konsulent Cecilie Wian.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/after-a-breach-users-rarely-change-their-passwords-study-finds/

Only a third of users changed their password following a data breach.

Most users who changed passwords chose a weak one

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-3-drives-straight-into-overturned-truck-in-1843827507

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-possible-meteor-has-been-seen-exploding-in-the-sky-in-turkey

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dyz8nw/iphone-ios-ios13-jailbreak-uncover-unc0ver

it works by taking advantage of a vulnerability in iOS that Apple is not aware of, or a so-called zero day.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/05/qatar-covid19-contact-tracing-app-security-flaw/

If technology is to play an effective role in tackling the virus, people need to have confidence that contact tracing apps will protect their privacy and other human rights

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/2020/05/19/the-public-doesnt-understand-logarithmic-graphs-often-used-to-portray-covid-19/

the logarithmic scale graphs that the media routinely use to display this information are poorly understood by the public and affect people’s attitudes and policy preferences towards the pandemic.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/24/thai-billions-internet-records-leak/

real-time internet records on millions of Thai internet users.

“All of the data related to Internet usage patterns and did not contain personal information that could be used to identify any customer,” said the spokesperson.

But that isn’t true

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-contractors-report-on-wuhan-lab-origins-of-coronavirus-is-bogus

A military contractors’ report circulating on Capitol Hill claims to have evidence that COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese lab. It’s filled with information that’s just plain wrong.

The Daily Beast asked analysts at the award-winning open source investigative news outlet Bellingcat to review the MACE dossier and evaluate the quality of its conclusions. Within minutes of receiving the dossier, Bellingcat senior investigator Nick Waters disproved one of the MACE document’s claims: that a conference on biosafety lab management at the Wuhan lab scheduled for the first week of November was canceled. Waters found a Facebook post from a Pakistani scientist who had attended the event and taken selfies there

https://www.cyberscoop.com/norfund-hacked-wealth-fund-10-million/

Thieves spent months inside the networks of the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund before stealing $10 million in what the enterprise is describing as “a serious case of fraud.”

The Norwegian Investment Fund, more commonly known as Norfund, announced Wednesday that scammers stole £8.2 million ($10 million) by spoofing an email address, then fabricating payment information and directing cash into their own account

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/21/1002105/covid-bot-twitter-accounts-push-to-reopen-america/

amplifying medical disinformation and the push to reopen America.

Across US and foreign elections, natural disasters, and other politicized events, the level of bot involvement is normally between 10 and 20%, she says. But in a new study, the researchers have found that bots may account for between 45 and 60% of Twitter accounts discussing covid-19

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52758787

A woman must delete photographs of her grandchildren that she posted on Facebook and Pinterest without their parents’ permission

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/20/apple-google-phone-app-trace-coronavirus

Software can be used to develop apps that detect when a user has spent time near another user who later tests positive for the virus

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-canada/facebook-fined-by-canada-competition-watchdog-after-privacy-probe-idUSKBN22V2G0

The Competition Bureau said it found that Facebook’s privacy claims were not consistent with the way it shared personal data of users with some third-party developers.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sure-the-velociraptors-are-still-on-the-loose-but-thats-no-reason-not-to-reopen-jurassic-park

you’ll be pleased to know that, rather than double down on our containment efforts, we’ve decided to dissolve the velociraptor containment task force altogether, and focus instead on how we can get people back into the park as quickly as possible

https://www.nrk.no/vestland/vigilo-saka_-datatilsynet-varslar-bot-pa-3-millionar-kroner-til-bergen-kommune-1.15023978

Foreldre fekk tilgang til opplysningar om barn på hemmeleg adresse. No vil Datatilsynet gi Bergen den største data-bota til ein kommune nokon gong.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52722626

It said email addresses and travel details had been stolen and that 2,208 customers had also had their credit card details “accessed”.