Denmark appointed him to approach Silicon Valley as if it were a global superpower. His challenges show how smaller countries struggle to influence giant corporations.
Amazing and scary all at the same time.
The threats of cyberattack and hypersonic missiles are two examples of easily foreseeable challenges to our national security posed by rapidly developing technology. It is by no means certain that we will be able to cope with those two threats, let alone the even more complicated and unknown challenges presented by the general onrush of technology — the digital revolution or so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution — that will be our future for the next few decades.
A frank telling from the chief lawyer of the N.S.A.
If our privacy extends only as far as we expect it to, then as soon as we begin expecting companies to collect lots of data about us, we stand to lose our Fourth Amendment protections for that data.
Democracy is hard work. And as society's "elites" — experts and public figures who help those around them navigate the heavy responsibilities that come with self-rule — have increasingly been sidelined, citizens have proved ill equipped cognitively and emotionally to run a well-functioning democracy. As a consequence, the center has collapsed and millions of frustrated and angst-filled voters have turned in desperation to right-wing populists.
[Rosenburg's] prediction? "In well-established democracies like the United States, democratic governance will continue its inexorable decline and will eventually fail."
I'm all for protecting the wilderness, but preventing the installation of seismic sensors? Come on.
ElectionGuard, a new project by Microsoft, [...] is an open code standard, that anyone can audit, freely use, and plug into, to create secure digital voting machines that remove many of the barriers of voting.
Don't miss the interview with Dr. Josh Benaloh on the homomorphic encryption and cryptography behind the project in addition to the pretty pictures of the actual machine design.
I can't wait until this disaster of a real estate business collapses under its own pretentiousness. This sounds like a disaster of corporate governance with a pretty sheen of wellness.
There is a conservative way to embrace pluralism and diversity. It's to point out that there is a deep strain of pessimism in progressive multiculturalism: blacks and whites will never really understand each other; racism is endemic; the American project is fatally flawed; American structures are so oppressive, the only option is to burn them down.
A better multiculturalism would be optimistic: We can communicate across difference; the American creed is the right recipe for a thick and respectful pluralism; American structures are basically sound and can be realistically reformed.
This is what I believe, but the Republican party's willingness to weaken institutions in the pursuit of power and failure to embrace a thoughtful, principled - and yes - conservative approach to multiculturalism in the public square bolster the argument that the institutions should be swept aside. The Republicans must define themselves as something other than a party against their opponents, as for something rather than against.
The hacking campaign, known as "Cloud Hopper," was the subject of a U.S. indictment in December that accused two Chinese nationals of identity theft and fraud. Prosecutors described an elaborate operation that victimized multiple Western companies but stopped short of naming them. A Reuters report at the time identified two: Hewlett Packard Enterprise and IBM.
Yet the campaign ensnared at least six more major technology firms, touching five of the world's 10 biggest tech service providers.Also compromised by Cloud Hopper, Reuters has found: Fujitsu, Tata Consultancy Services, NTT Data, Dimension Data, Computer Sciences Corporation and DXC Technology.
Rising concerns about housing affordability, racial inequality and climate change are causing cities nationwide to re-examine their attachment to the detached house.