EU’s Parliament Signs Off on Disastrous Internet Law: What Happens Next? - Electronic Frontier Foundation
Hackers Hijacked ASUS Software Updates to Install Backdoors on Thousands of Computers - Motherboard
A family tracking app was leaking real-time location data - TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/23/family-tracking-location-leak/
was leaking the real-time locations of more than 238,000 users for weeks
750,000 Medtronic defibrillators vulnerable to hacking - Star Tribune
Almost 150 million users impacted by new SimBad Android adware - ZDNet
https://www.zdnet.com/article/almost-150-million-users-impacted-by-new-simbad-android-adware/
SimBad adware found in 210 Android apps available on the official Google Play Store.
Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years — Krebs on Security
employees built applications that logged unencrypted password data for Facebook users and stored it in plain text on internal company servers.
Norske telefoner sendte personopplysninger til Kina - NRKBeta
https://nrkbeta.no/2019/03/21/norske-telefoner-sendte-personopplysninger-til-kina/ Nokia 7 Plus
Hver gang telefonen ble slått på, skjermen aktivert eller låst opp, gikk hans geografiske posisjon, samt SIM-kortnummer og telefonens serienummer til en server i Kina.
Nvidia’s latest AI software turns rough doodles into realistic landscapes - The Verge
Sparkesykkel-appen VOI lagret persondata om nordmenn åpent på nettet
On the Road to Full Autonomy With Elon Musk — FYI Podcast
Flawed analysis, failed oversight: How Boeing, FAA certified the suspect 737 MAX flight control system - The Seattle Times
Kjære Mark, stopp nå. Hilsen demokratiene.
https://nrkbeta.no/2019/03/18/kjaere-mark-stopp-na-hilsen-demokratiene/
du [har] muligens mer makt over demokratiers skjebne verden rundt enn noen annen enkeltperson har hatt gjennom historien.
Det gjør deg isåfall mektigere enn Djenghis Khan, Aleksander den store, Caesar, Hitler, Churchill.
DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System - Motherboard
designed with newly developed secure hardware to make the system not only impervious to certain kinds of hacking, but also allow voters to verify that their votes were recorded accurately.
Gwern’s AI-Generated Poetry - Slate Star Codex
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/14/gwerns-ai-generated-poetry/
GPT-2 is the language processing system that OpenAI announced a few weeks ago.
Gwern retrained it on the Gutenberg Poetry Corpus, a 117 MB collection of pre-1923 English poetry, to create a specialized poetry AI.
Online safety cartoons for young kids
https://www.grahamcluley.com/online-safety-cartoons-for-young-kids/
A series of cartoons are aiming to educate children as young as four about how to stay safe online.
Researchers Find Critical Backdoor in Swiss Online Voting System - Motherboard
the flaw could allow someone to swap out all of the legitimate ballots and replace them with fraudulent ones, all without detection.
Mathematically perfect rings could soundproof the world
Inside the high-stakes race to make quantum computers work - WIRED UK
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/quantum-computers-ibm-cern
Quantum computers could help explain some of the most fundamental mysteries in the universe and upend everything from finance to encryption – if only someone could get them to work