DARPA, The Implantation Instantiation →
News, via the IEEE's Spectrum Magazine (and reported by Eliza Strickland) of a challenge from DARPA's Neural Engineering Systems Design; in this case, the need for a recording brain implant has been identified. Indeed.
Seams, Minimum Number of →
via the notion of Universal Origami comes a Guarantee of a Minimum Number of Seams. An outstanding achievement that will yield enormous returns in the coming years.
Fast Lightweight Autonomy →
IAM, The Yin and Yang →
Interesting IAM posting by Steve Mowll and Chris Williams, targeting IAM and AD integration with a Yin-Yang view... Read it and you may find some truth beyond vendor fiction.
'Point: Effective identity management strategies are business-based, and should rise above technical limitations. - Steve Mowll, Identity Architect, RSA'
Brain Meet Internet →
Superlative study (funded by the Department of Defense - Army Research Office) - via Duke University's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Durham, Nort Carolina and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies - Integrative Biology Laboratory in La Jolla, California - targeting the apparent similarities between artifical and biologic network implementations. Today's must read!
“The founders of the Internet spent a lot of time considering how to make information flow efficiently,” says Salk Assistant Professor Saket Navlakha, coauthor of the new study that appears online in Neural Computation on February 9, 2017. “Finding that an engineered system and an evolved biological one arise at a similar solution to a problem is really interesting.”
Le Quanta des Jumeaux Chinois →
Roland Pease - writing for the BBC Radio Science Unit, has crafted this well-reported piece, targeting the PRC's Micius satellite, engineered to provision the fundamentals of an ostensibly 'unbreakable' crypto-mehodology, i.e., quantum entanglement (in this case, wierding twins)...
"Chinese scientists have pulled off a major feat with one of the sub-atomic world's weirdest phenomena: photons that behave like twins and experience the same things simultaneously, even over great distances." - via Phys.org
Gadi Evron, 'The First Internet War in Estonia' →
via Gadi Evron, Founder and CEO at Cymmetria comes this unique retrospective view of the world's first internet-based war fought within Estonia, now, a decade removed. An outstanding historical view and well-crafted thought piece - well worth your time to read. Most Certainly, Todays' Must Read
XKCD, State Word Map →
Another sarcastically superb analytics mapping bit of tomfoolery? No, it's the real deal - well, maybe... via the superlative talent of Randall Munroe at XKCD.
Clouding Up →
via Gizmodo investigative reporter Dell Cameron, comes the astounding news of the systemic incompetence in properly handling secret documents and other artifiacts stored within the cloud (in this case, AWS S3 Buckets) by a well established contractor to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Certainly, a first-rate example of an Expanding Cloud of Lethal Stupidity (ECOLS).
Where does the organization in question fall within the Noel Burch Hierarchy of Competence model?. Should the culprits in this scenario be prosecuted? You be the judge. Truly astounding, indeed.
"A cache of more than 60,000 files was discovered last week on a publicly accessible Amazon server, including passwords to a US government system containing sensitive information, and the security credentials of a lead senior engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the nation’s top intelligence and defense contractors. What’s more, the roughly 28GB of data contained at least a half dozen unencrypted passwords belonging to government contractors with Top Secret Facility Clearance." - via Gizmodo reporter Dell Cameron
Stockpiled →
via the eponymous Iain Thomson, whilst plying his trade at El Reg, comes this astonishing tale of the profoundly stupifying incompetence at Microsoft Corporation (NasdaqGS: MSFT) in regards to the Redmond, Washington software leveiathan's askew morality... This time, focused on the company's complaints targeting the National Security Agency's stockpiling of exploitation bits, yet also, dancing the stockpile two-step... Simply astounding.
"Most crucially, it's more than a little grating for Microsoft, its executives, and its PR machine, to be so shrill about the NSA stockpiling zero-day exploits when the software giant is itself nesting on a pile of fixes – critical fixes it's keeping secret unless you pay it top dollar. Suddenly, it's looking more like the robber baron we all know, and less like the white knight in cyber armor" - via Iain Thomson writing at El Reg