[...] The Office and Management and Budget (OMB) released a memo: "Moving the U.S. Government Towards Zero Trust Cybersecurity Principles". The memo is a reaction to 2020's SolarWinds incident and 2021's Colonial Pipeline rasomware attack, and advises the Federal Government on what steps each agency must take to improve its cybersecurity.
Many of the items in the memo go well-beyond even what the top enterprises and tech startups are doing today. It looks like the government is planning to position itself as a cybersecurity leader (rather than a laggard), while also pushing the private sector into a more robust cybersecurity posture.
Good recommendations all-around.
This blogpost chronicles the recent CVEs investigation, our findings, and how we are helping secure Salt now and in the Quantum future.
Cool infrastructure security research from CloudFlare.
As part of DeepMind's mission to solve intelligence, we created a system called AlphaCode that writes computer programs at a competitive level. AlphaCode achieved an estimated rank within the top 54% of participants in programming competitions by solving new problems that require a combination of critical thinking, logic, algorithms, coding, and natural language understanding.
Between AlphaCode and GitHub's Copilot, it's sure an interesting time to be a programmer.
I know used car sales are crazy right now, but that's wild.
[A] chance message launched [Renée] DiResta and her colleague Josh Goldstein at the Stanford Internet Observatory on an investigation that uncovered more than 1,000 LinkedIn profiles using what appear to be faces created by artificial intelligence.
The secret's out - Teams will support the US government's Secret classified workloads.
Absolutely heart-wrenching story of technology facilitating child abuse and one effort to stop it, in the process shredding the myth of Bitcoin's anonymity.
[W]e can never return to the way things were in the pre-digital age. The norms, institutions, and forms of political participation that developed during the long era of mass communication are not going to work well now that technology has made everything so much faster and more multidirectional, and when bypassing professional gatekeepers is so easy. And yet American democracy is now operating outside the bounds of sustainability. If we do not make major changes soon, then our institutions, our political system, and our society may collapse during the next major war, pandemic, financial meltdown, or constitutional crisis.
Too often true of my work; busyness often looks like productivity.