Artists For Our Pre-Internet Brains

“The part of our brain that regulates our time perception has been overloaded and exhausted, causing our sense of past, present and future to melt together.” – The Guardian

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CYBERSECURITY: WhatsApp hacked to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies.

Sources familiar with WhatsApp’s internal investigation into the breach said a “significant” portion of the known victims are high-profile government and military officials spread across at least 20 countries on five continents

Bell plans to use artificial intelligence to combat scam phone calls
Bell is exploring a new call-blocking system that would use artificial intelligence to screen for potential phone scammers. The new system would block known fraudulent numbers across the network and incorporate AI and machine learning to identify suspicious activity.
The increase in fraud calls over the last year, which the RCMP said garnered 4000 victims who lost $15 million, has attracted the attention of regulators such as the CRTC.
While Bell aims to use AI to combat scam calls, scammers are also beginning to use the technology. In a recent case in Europe, scammers used AI to replicate the voice of a company executive, and then called an employee demanding a quarter of a million dollars be sent to a secret account in Hungary.
The Globe and Mail, Bell plans to use artificial intelligence to combat spam phone calls

Criminal artificial intelligence may be coming for your money: Don Pittis 

Breaking Down the Barriers to Innovation BEANS - behavior enablers, artifacts, and nudges 




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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 26, 2019 – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – 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 technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: Equifax Allegedly Made It Super Easy to Hack Customer Data; New App Helps Prevent Fraud at the Gas Pump; The Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now is New and Improved; and Trading in your phone may pose a risk to your data, one expert warns


How the Rich Are Different: Hierarchical Power as the Basis of Income Size and Class Blair Fix, SocArXiv



“There is such a thing as return on creativity, there’s an X factor that creativity can provide,” says PwC’s Russel Howcroft.
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Advertising guru calls for creative leadership in government

What one bent procurement official can do: public servant helped mate win $2.6m worth of work

CORRUPTION: And the government wants to make it easier for local businesses to tender for “technology services” contracts.


Resources for Measuring Cybersecurity
R Street – Kathryn Waldron, Resident Fellow, National Security & Cybersecurity – Resources for Measuring Cybersecurity – A Partial Annotated Bibliography – PDFIn the field of cybersecurity, there is no well-defined system that is capable of measuring cybersecurity in an objective, quantifiable, and comparative manner.In light of this, the R Street Institute National Security and Cybersecurity Program has launched an initiative intended to fill this gap and create a system that is widely-accepted and easily accessible to decision-makers with limited resources.This partial bibliography compiles a baseline of existing disparate measurement efforts. The document both summarizes the existing field and characterizes it.This bibliography is neither comprehensive nor overtly technical in nature. Rather, it’s goal is to provide a systematic overview of the field that is both technically literate and of use to decision-makers in the public and private sectors.Without accurate, standardized methods to measure cybersecurity, detecting and deterring cyber threats will continue to be more art than science. This partial attempt will shed light on some of the most pervasive and exciting work that has been and is currently being done

Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2020

“Hyperautomation, blockchain, AI security, distributed cloud and autonomous things drive disruption and create opportunities in this year’s strategic technology trends. Human augmentation conjures up visions of futuristic cyborgs, but humans have been augmenting parts of the body for hundreds of years. Glasses, hearing aids and prosthetics evolved into cochlear implants and wearables. Even laser eye surgery has become commonplace. But what if scientists could augment the brain to increase memory storage, or implant a chip to decode neural patterns? What if exoskeletons became a standard uniform for autoworkers, enabling them to lift superhuman weights? What if doctors could implant sensors to track how drugs travel inside a body? Technology is now on the cusp of moving beyond augmentation that replaces a human capability and into augmentation that creates superhuman capabilities. How these changes will impact the world and business makes human augmentation one of Gartner’s top 10 strategic technology trends that will drive significant disruption and opportunity over the next five to 10 years…”

Heading into the network’s 50th anniversary, Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center asked hundreds of technology experts, including Kleinrock and fellow internet pioneers, how individuals’ lives might be affected by the evolution of the internet over the next 50 years. Overall, 530 technology pioneers, innovators, developers, business and policy leaders, researchers and activists in the nonscientific canvassing responded to this query: The year 2019 will mark the 50th anniversary of the first host-to-host internet connection. Please think about the next 50 years. Where will the internet and digital life be a half century from now? Please tell us how you think connected technology, platforms and applications will be integrated into people’s lives. You can tackle any dimension of this question that matters to you. You might consider focusing on questions like this: What changes do you expect to see in the digital world’s platform companies? What changes do you expect to see in the apps and features that will ride on the internet? How will digital tools be integrated into everyday life? What will be entirely new? What will evolve and be recognizable from today’s internet? What new rules, laws or innovations in its engineering over the intervening years will change the character of today’s internet? Considering what you just wrote about your expectations for the next 50 years, how will individuals’ lives be affected by the changes you foresee?”  Read the report here.