I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.
– Zinedine Zidane ZZ of Amens
Could A.I. Redistribute Wealth For Us?
Wealth inequality is one of the great moral issues of our time. In an era when the world has more money than ever before, billions still live on less than $3 a day. The disparity becomes more striking in the light of studies that show most income inequality comes down to luck, with people of average talent able to shoot to the top of the ladder by being in the right place at the right time
Subject: China’s ZTE was built to spy and bribe, court documents allege
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
https://www.smh.com.au/
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
https://www.smh.com.au/
“China’s Ministry of Aerospace founded ZTE as a front to send officers abroad under non-diplomatic covers such as scientists, businessmen and executives for the purpose of collecting intelligence,” the documents filed in the 191st District Court of Dallas reveal.
The claims go much further than a 2012 report on ZTE by the US House Intelligence Committee and have not been refuted as part of the court proceedings by the company. The allegations feed into long-held security concerns around ZTE, which is partly state-owned, and is banned from selling products to US government departments or the military.
Text as Data – Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford; Bryan T. Kelly, Yale and AQR Capital Management; Matt Taddy, Chicago Booth: “An ever increasing share of human interaction, communication, and culture is recorded as digital text. We provide an introduction to the use of text as an input to economic research. We discuss the features that make text different from other forms of data, offer a practical overview of relevant statistical methods, and survey a variety of applications.”
Artificial Intelligence: Emerging Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications for Policy and Research; GAO-18-644T: Published: Jun 26, 2018. Publicly Released: Jun 26, 2018. “Artificial intelligence (AI) could improve human life and economic competitiveness—but it also poses new risks. The Comptroller General convened a Forum on AI to consider the policy and research implications of AI’s use in 4 areas with the potential to significantly affect daily life:
- cybersecurity,
- automated vehicles,
- criminal justice, and
- financial services.
The Biggest Digital Heist in History Isn’t Over Yet - Bloomberg: Carbanak’s suspected ringleader is under arrest, but $1.2 billion remains missing, and his malware attacks live on.
“Since late 2013, this band of cybercriminals has
penetrated the digital inner sanctums of more than 100 banks in 40 nations,
including Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and the U.S., and stolen about $1.2
billion, according to Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency. The
string of thefts, collectively dubbed Carbanak—a mashup of a hacking program
and the word “bank”—is believed to be the biggest digital bank heist ever. In a
series of exclusive interviews with Bloomberg
Businessweek, law enforcement officials and computer-crime experts
provided revelations about their three-year pursuit of the gang and the
mechanics of a caper that’s become the stuff of legend in the digital
underworld. Besides forcing ATMs to cough up money, the thieves inflated
account balances and shuttled millions of dollars around the globe. Deploying
the same espionage methods used by intelligence agencies, they appropriated the
identities of network administrators and executives and plumbed files for
sensitive information about security and account management practices. The gang
operated through remotely accessed computers and hid their tracks in a sea of
internet addresses. “Carbanak is the first time we saw such novel methods used
to penetrate big financial institutions and their networks,” says James
Chappell, co-founder and chief innovation officer of Digital Shadows Ltd., a London intelligence firm
that works with the Bank of England and other lending institutions. “It’s the
breadth of the attacks, that’s what’s truly different about this one.”…
Business rescue is a legitimate use of the corporate form and we will work with those in this category to provide education and advice.
5 Reasons Horrible Dictators Always Catch Us Off Guard Cracked
KPMG won BBVA audit with stolen data about rival’s inspections Francine McKenna, MarketWatch
Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society(excerpt) Thomas Frank, American Empire Project. Selected essays. This, from 2006 in the Times (when Frank, then a guest columnist, was still publishable in the United States)appears to be the title essay.How Student Debt Is Worsening Gender And Racial Injustice Current Affairs“Jobbymoons” For The Rest of Us Ted Rall
Feeding the gods: Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital Science
Where’s the “Gig Economy?” Kim Moody, Jacobin. I’m reading Moody’s new book, On New Terrain. So far, it’s really good.Extreme Inequality Creates Global Disorder James Galbraith, The NationEviction tactics squeeze renters: AJC analysis shows landlords increasingly use filings to collect late rent Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Intolerable Opinions in an Intolerant Time Counterpunch
Why personal agency matters more than personal data Project VRM
Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health/medical, to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways our privacy and security is diminished, often without our situational awareness.
Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health/medical, to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways our privacy and security is diminished, often without our situational awareness.