https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/1/22463621/jbs-cyberattack-russia-largest-meat-supplier
the attack has the potential to disrupt global availability of beef and pork if not resolved quickly
One in 10 US police departments can now access videos from millions of privately owned home security cameras without a warrant
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57050690
The US government issued emergency legislation on Sunday after the largest fuel pipeline in the US was hit by a ransomware cyber-attack.
The Colonial Pipeline carries 2.5 million barrels a day – 45% of the East Coast’s supply of diesel, gasoline and jet fuel.
It was completely knocked offline by a cyber-criminal gang on Friday and work to restore service is continuing.
The emergency status relaxes rules on fuel being transported by road.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/7/22424592/tesla-elon-musk-autopilot-dmv-fsd-exaggeration
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been overstating the capabilities of the company’s advanced driver assist system, the company’s director of Autopilot software told the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
Tesla is at Level 2 currently.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/04/online-games-ai-emotion-recognition-emojify
“The claim of the people who are developing this technology is that it is reading emotion,” said Hagerty. But, she added, in reality the system was reading facial movement and then combining that with the assumption that those movements are linked to emotions – for example a smile means someone is happy.
“There is lots of really solid science that says that is too simple; it doesn’t work quite like that,” said Hagerty, adding that even just human experience showed it was possible to fake a smile. “That is what that game was: to show you didn’t change your inner state of feeling rapidly six times, you just changed the way you looked on your face,” she said.
https://teknologiradet.no/publication/kommersiell-sporing-i-offentlig-sektor/
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