In his latest newsletter, the venerable Steven Levy unpacked the background for the kerfuffle surrounding Sarah Wynn-Williams’ book. While there…
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Barefoot sage on steps of the UN addresses wishful agency – holds up lantern, not smartphone
Summary press release A modern-day Diogenes on the UN steps used a lantern to challenge AI CEOs, asserting that commodified data yields no authentic man. Like Midas or a Djinn, machines mimic humanity but strip spirit, exposing alignment failures and lost authenticity. NotClosedAI’s CEO advocated a coordinated slowdown; Diogenes called it liability protection masking runaway…
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As noted by the Department of Homeland Security: October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month which is an annual campaign to raise awareness about cybersecurity. We live in a world that is more connected than ever before. The Internet touches almost all aspects of everyone’s daily life, whether we realize it or not. National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) is designed to engage and educate public and private sector partners…
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No more “big cat” names. Since October 2013, there’s been Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan, … and last week Sierra, the latest (free) upgrade to the operating system (system software) for Apple’s Mac desktop and notebook computers. Now called macOS vs Mac OS X. As noted on Wikipedia: macOS 10.12 Sierra was released on September 20, 2016. During the keynote at WWDC in 2016, Apple announced that OS X would be…
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So, the other day I helped a client setup a new Windows 10 desktop PC. She’d replaced an old Windows Vista PC. I’m confident that she’ll enjoy the Windows 10 experience (despite the increased hype of services) and find the interface somewhat similar to Vista. But here’s the gotcha — her new PC came with Windows 10 version 1511, not the latest Windows 10 version 1607, aka Windows Anniversary Update.…
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Big news this week regarding data breaches. Yahoo revealed that account information for at least 500 million users was stolen by state-sponsored hackers two years ago. PC World’s article “Here’s what you should know, and do, about the Yahoo breach” discusses the breach and reviews best security practices. An email compromise is one of the worst data breaches that a person could experience online, so here’s what you should know…
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Well, if you use an iPhone or iPad, you may have already noticed that a Software Update was released by Apple last week, namely iOS 10, a major upgrade to the operating system which runs on those devices. While every upgrade may include fixes and patches, most of the articles that I’ve been reading about iOS 10 cover new features. One of the best summaries of those features is The…