We are in the midst of one of the biggest meltdowns in tech history. The crowdstrike situation is already showing the institutional failure that happens when your incentives are growth at all costs with no regard for organisational memory and stability
GLOBAL OUTAGES - Major banks, media, airports and airlines affected by major IT outage - Payment systems impacted in different parts of the world, including Australia and the UK. - Australia's government calls for emergency meeting - Significant disruption to some Microsoft services - 911 services disrupted in several US states including Alaska, Arizona, Indiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Ohio. - Services at London Stock Exchange disrupted - Sky News is off air - Reports the issue relates to problem at global cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike
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Not Everyone Has an Inner Voice Streaming Through Their Head
Scientific American [unpaywalled]: “Most of us have an “inner voice,” and we tend to assume everybody does, but recent evidence suggests that people vary widely in the extent to which they experience inner speech, from an almost constant patter to a virtual absence of self-talk. “Until you start asking the right questions you don’t know there’s even variation,” says Gary Lupyan, a cognitive scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
“People are really surprised because they’d assumed everyone is like them.” A new study, from Lupyan and his colleague Johanne Nedergaard, a cognitive scientist at the University of Copenhagen, shows that not only are these differences real but they also have consequences for our cognition. Participants with weak inner voices did worse at psychological tasks that measure, say, verbal memory than did those with strong inner voices.
The researchers have even proposed calling a lack of inner speech “anendophasia” and hope that naming it will help facilitate further research. The study adds to growing evidence that our inner mental worlds can be profoundly different. “It speaks to the surprising diversity of our subjective experiences,” Lupyan says. Psychologists think we use inner speech to assist in various mental functions.
“Past research suggests inner speech is key in self-regulation and executive functioning, like task-switching, memory and decision-making,” says Famira Racy, an independent scholar who co-founded the Inner Speech Research Lab at Mount Royal University in Calgary. “Some researchers have even suggested that not having an inner voice may impact these and other areas important for a sense of self, although this is not a certainty.”
Source – Not Everyone Has an Inner Voice: Behavioral Consequences of Anendophasia – It is commonly assumed that inner speech – the experience of thought as occurring in a natural language – is both universal and ubiquitous. Recent evidence, however, suggests that similar to other phenomenal experiences like visual imagery, the experience of inner speech varies between people, ranging from constant to non-existent. We propose a name for a lack of the experience of inner speech – anendophasia – and report four studies examining some of its behavioral consequences.
We found that people who report low levels of inner speech have lower performance on a verbal working memory task and have more difficulty performing rhyme judgments based on images. Task switching performance, previously linked to endogenous verbal cueing, was unaffected by differences in inner speech. Studies of anendophasia, together with aphantasia, synesthesia, and differences in autobiographical memory are providing glimpses into what may be a large space of hitherto unexplored differences in people’s phenomenal experience.”
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GoogleDark Web Monitoring
Gizmodo: “The Mountain View company will integrate Dark Web monitoring with Google’s Results About You page sometime toward the end of the month. That feature notifies users if their personal information, their name, address, or phone number, appears in search results. Google has previously stated its goal to scrub personal information from results, though it can’t actively remove your information from those third-party web pages.
Anybody with a Google Account will have access to both Results about you and Dark web monitoring features, whether they’re paying customers or not. Previously, non-paying account holders could perform a one-off dark web sweep of just their email address. The new integration will allow users to monitor for other pertinent information and receive regular updates when Google finds dark websites harboring your personal data.
That’s not to say that dark web monitoring will be able to do much once any of your personal information is found to have been stolen via data breaches. It will notify users if it finds their name, address, social security number, or password. Still, it can’t delete that information. It’s up to the individual user to go ahead and change their passwords or freeze their credit once they discover an issue.”
Every Phone Can ID Your Router – Here’s How to Stop It
PC Mag: “Your smartphone constantly checks available Wi-Fi nodes, looking to reconnect with any that you’ve used before. You can see it happening, and it’s very convenient (though vulnerable to spoofing and “evil twin” attacks).
What you don’t see is that your smartphone also uploads identifying details about your router to giant databases maintained by Apple, Google, and others. These databases benefit you (and everyone else) by fine-tuning your device’s GPS location skills. We’re here to explain why you might not want to participate and show you how to opt out.”
