andreamm

andreamm, 13 days ago to random

"Carl Hunter was driving his Tesla Model S home on a highway northeast of Seattle last month. The Autopilot system was turned on and he was looking at his phone, Hunter later told police. He heard a bang as the vehicle lurched forward, ramming into a motorbike...Police took Hunter, the Tesla driver into custody, jailing him on a vehicular homicide charge under existing distracted driving laws." https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2024/05/04/tesla-autopilot-recall-crashes-deaths-nhtsa/

andreamm, 15 days ago to random

"The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority last week shared its concerns about the alliances between Big Tech and AI start-ups. The CMA fears that the established companies may be taking advantage of AI companies’ insatiable need for computing power to train large language models, by luring cash-strapped start-ups to their cloud services in exchange for a stake that could give them outsized influence in the fledgling businesses." https://www.ft.com/content/bb77db74-2e60-4d1c-933f-98f0c558474d

andreamm, 25 days ago to random

Built to last + remote updates FTW: "When the mission flight team heard back from the spacecraft...they saw that the modification worked: For the first time in five months, they have been able to check the health and status of the spacecraft....Launched over 46 years ago, the twin Voyager spacecraft are the longest-running and most distant spacecraft in history." https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

andreamm, 1 month ago to random

What are you doing Thursday and Friday, April 4 and 5?

Join Penn State PILOT lab and Monash Law virtually for a conference on AI safety and human thriving.

Human Futures: Thriving in the Age of AI

Zoom registration is still open (IRL registration is now closed): https://www.pilotlab2.org/humanfutures

andreamm, 1 month ago to random

Thank you to ONCD for inviting me to participate in a workshop on software liability earlier this week. The read out is here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/oncd/briefing-room/2024/03/27/readout-software-liability-symposium/

A view of the Eisenhower Executive Offices building, taken from the restricted walkway between that building and the White House on a rainy March day with cherry blossoms in bloom.

histoftech, 1 month ago to random

Ready for his quest✨✨

andreamm, 1 month ago to random

"Some of the so-called “obituary pirates” are turning to AI to create death announcements padded with key words for Google searches, spreading alarm and misinformation, experts said...Clickbait obituaries...are a sophisticated twist fueled by the popularity and proliferation of low-quality, AI-generated content" https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/19/us/fake-obituary-scams-ai-cec/index.html

andreamm, 1 month ago to random

"One incident occurred when hackers backed by...Iran disabled operations gear used in water facilities that still used a publicly known default administrator password....The second threat...[CISA] said [is] that a hacking group backed by the Chinese government and tracked under the name Volt Typhoon was maintaining a foothold inside the networks of multiple critical infrastructure organizations, ...pre-positioning themselves inside IT environments to enable disruption" https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/critical-us-water-systems-face-disabling-cyberattacks-white-house-warns/

andreamm, 2 months ago to random

First the beer, now THE COFFEE!? What's next? Critical frites, chocolate, and waffle infrastructure? https://therecord.media/koffie-beyers-cyberattack-coffee-roaster-duvel-belgium

andreamm, 3 months ago to random

Happy Groundhog Day! Some proposals from me on tech safety (and on returning kidnapped groundhogs) in Lawfare. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/it-s-morning-again-in-pennsylvania-rebooting-computer-security-through-a-bureau-of-technology-safety Audio version: https://www.andreamm.com/lawfarebots

andreamm, 8 months ago to random

“...'Are you interested in security?'

'Yeah,' she said tentatively, in the voice of somebody who had never considered pursuing a career as unglamorous – as unsparkly! – as security. "

<-- and there's the rub re: (personnel shortages and) 20+ years of corporate self-governance failures in security - security is UNSPARKLY.

https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/05/15/you-studied-computer-science-but-big-tech-no-longer-wants-you-now-what

histoftech, 8 months ago to random

After more than a decade in Chicago I’m leaving for greener professional pastures: as of this fall I am a tenured associate professor in the new data science school at UVA. I’ll still be doing the same critical and historical work, just under a different disciplinary umbrella. I look forward to making connections with folks in multiple departments at UVA, particularly history, STS, & gender studies. If you’re there, hmu!

andreamm, 9 months ago to random

A technology I have high hopes for: sustainable 3D printing of buildings.
"Organizers of the project say a long-term goal is importing several printers and incorporating the rubble of destroyed buildings into the toothpaste-like concrete used for printing.

The 3D-printed section of the Lviv building is due to be completed by early June, while the school is scheduled to be fully completed by late 2023." https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-3d-printed-school-project-reconstruction/32427370.html

andreamm, 9 months ago to random

"At least three agencies — the State Department, the Justice Department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — have tried out or are now testing machine-learning models and algorithms to help search for information in repositories holding billions of government records" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-agencies-testing-ai-foia-concerns-rcna97313

andreamm, 10 months ago to random

"Bloomberg used Stable Diffusion to generate thousands of images related to job titles...Women made up a tiny fraction of the images generated for the keyword “judge” — about 3% — when in reality 34% of US judges are women...Because it simultaneously amplifies both gender and racial stereotypes, Stable Diffusion tends to produce its most skewed representations of reality when it comes to women with darker skin" https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-generative-ai-bias/?sref=xuVirdpv&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business

andreamm, 10 months ago to random

"Weeks after Chew testified to a House committee that “American data has always been stored in Virginia and Singapore,” a Forbes investigation found that TikTok has stored the financial information of its biggest American and European stars—including those in the TikTok Creator Fund—on servers in China." https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/06/21/tiktok-confirms-data-china-bytedance-security-cfius/