The information security community has a model to assess and respond to threats, at least as a starting point. It breaks information security into three essential components: confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Of these, integrity is the least understood and most nebulous. And what many people don't realize is it's the greatest threat to businesses and governments today.
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
— Sir Francis Bacon
They are never alone who are accompanied with noble thoughts.
— Sir Philip Sidney
In a closed-doors match last October, AlphaGo won by 5 games to 0. It was the first time a computer program has ever beaten a professional Go player.
Quite a feat for artificial intelligence.
A team of researchers from Microsoft and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has developed a new system that allows researchers to more quickly and effectively use the powerful gene editing tool CRISPR.
In this case, the machine learning system is being used to predict which part of a gene to target when a scientist wants to knockout – or shut off – a gene. Machine learning enables the model to make predictions for any gene of interest, including those not seen in the experimental training data.
To woo these iconic companies — among them P&G, Estée Lauder, and Macy's — Alibaba is pitching itself as a shortcut to the world's most populous market. Alibaba is helping foreign companies with marketing, data analytics, and shipping. And more recently it has sweetened the pot with a newer service, Tmall Global, that lets U.S. brands sidestep many of the taxes, regulatory hurdles, and logistics hassles that trip up foreign companies in China.
In pulling back the curtains, Amazon, one of the most private public companies in the world, revealed how it is racing to piece together an immensely complex puzzle—much of which it is having to build from scratch, at giant expense and with painstaking attention to the minutiae, as it tosses out assumptions that American customers have taken for granted for decades. In doing so, the company, an upstart here, has thrown itself into a knife fight with two privately owned and much more established Indian competitors [...] as well as a clutch of smaller Indian startups that are nipping at all of their heels.
"It's the major scenario we've all been concerned about for so long."
Inequality, an issue politicians talked about hesitantly, if at all, a decade ago, is now a central focus of candidates in both parties. The terms of the debate, however, are about individuals and classes: the elite versus the middle, the 1 percent versus the 99 percent. That's fair enough. But the language currently used to describe inequality doesn't capture the way it is manifesting geographically. Growing inequality between and among regions and metro areas is obvious. But it is almost completely absent from the current political conversation.