Newsletter 16 – October 11, 2018

Some interesting stuff that I found online:

 

SECURITY:

Hackers targeting cyber security providers – https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA18-276B

Industry’s retaliation on Bloomberg’s big hack story from last week – https://9to5mac.com/2018/10/05/chinese-spy-chip/

Bloomberg again on the “New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom” – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-09/new-evidence-of-hacked-supermicro-hardware-found-in-u-s-telecom

Google with a different approach on handling data breaches – https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/08/google-plus-security-breach-wall-street-journal

Python the world’s most popular coding language, for developers but also for hackers – https://www.imperva.com/blog/2018/09/the-worlds-most-popular-coding-language-happens-to-be-most-hackers-weapon-of-choice/

 

SOCIAL:

An ethical framework for AI – https://www.information-age.com/ethics-artificial-intelligence-123475134/

 

BUSINESS:

WEF on 3 lessons Europe can learn from China’s flourishing start-ups – https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/09/3-lessons-europe-can-learn-from-china-flourishing-start-up-ecosystem

 

TECHNOLOGY:

BrainNet – the beginning of a brain to brain “social network” – https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612212/the-first-social-network-of-brains-lets-three-people-transmit-thoughts-to-each-others-heads

Huawei launches chips designed for AI – https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612254/huawei-announces-two-ai-chips-as-china-continues-its-move-away-from-us-silicon

 

Now you can find my stories also on medium.com. Check them at https://medium.com/@tofandan

 

Quote of the day: “I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” –Herbert Bayard Swope, American editor and journalist, and first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize

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