[LINK] Keeping up with COVIDSafe

2020-05-12 Thread Bernard Robertson-Dunn
/politics/federal/dump-amazon-web-services-for-covidsafe-app-labor-mp-20200512-p54s8c The number fits the Conversation curve in that the current download rate is about 100,000/day although there may be an uptick to maybe 150,000/day because of the government's mass media campaign. In the case of the virus

Re: [LINK] Hackathon Friday to Secure Defence Supply Chain Against Pandemics

2020-05-12 Thread Roger Clarke
On 13/5/20 11:59 am, Tom Worthington wrote: Senator Linda Reynolds, the Australian Minister for Defence, announced today the Australian and New Zealand Defence Forces will host a joint hackathon to strengthen supply chains.

[LINK] RIPE opposes China's internet protocols upgrade plan

2020-05-12 Thread Kim Holburn
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ripe-opposes-chinas-internet-protocols-upgrade-plan/ > RIPE speaks out against China and Huawei's "New IP" internet upgrade plan, > says internet standards should be left to the IETF, not the UN. > > Catalin Cimpanu > > By Catalin Cimpanu for Zero Day | April 23,

[LINK] Hackathon Friday to Secure Defence Supply Chain Against Pandemics

2020-05-12 Thread Tom Worthington
Senator Linda Reynolds, the Australian Minister for Defence, announced today the Australian and New Zealand Defence Forces will host a joint hackathon to strengthen supply chains.

Re: [LINK] Company Pays Up after Robot Breaches First Law

2020-05-12 Thread Bernard Robertson-Dunn
On 12/05/2020 11:52 am, Roger Clarke wrote: > [I've no idea what a 'robotic cell' is, nor why a worker was in it] https://blog.robotiq.com/what-is-robot-cell-deployment-and-what-it-isnt To call it a robot and invoke the mystical First Law of Robotics is the usual vendor exaggeration. It's

Re: [LINK] Company Pays Up after Robot Breaches First Law

2020-05-12 Thread Kim Holburn
Some robots can move almost faster than the human eye can see and certainly faster than humans can get out of the way. You put them in a marked out space or a closed off space and make sure humans aren't there and if humans get in there the robot shuts off (you hope). It's not new. I remember

[LINK] Out-of-date, insecure open-source software is everywhere

2020-05-12 Thread Kim Holburn
https://www.zdnet.com/article/out-of-date-insecure-open-source-software-is-everywhere/ > Synopsys has found that 99% of commercial software programs include at least > one open-source component. But 91% of those included out of date or abandoned > open-source code. > > By Steven J.

[LINK] Our weird behavior during the pandemic is screwing with AI models

2020-05-12 Thread Bernard Robertson-Dunn
[AI likes things to stay the same or change only slowly. [After all, AI is really only curve fitting with a sexy name. [Beware of AI when things change suddenly Our weird behavior during the pandemic is screwing with AI models Machine-learning models trained on normal behavior are showing