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|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Editas Medicine and Allergan announce a more acceptable form of gene editing, one that would change genetic defects in cells that don’t get passed onto the next generation.
|| Future of Work || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A study of 300 people flooks at the psychological consequences people felt when they condiered being replaced by a human versus a robot.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
How Russian hackers are exploiting the internet of things (IoT) to infiltrate corporate networks, particularly through printers, cameras, and decoders.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
An advanced phishing scam appearing to be from the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying targeted three US companies successfully. The email had the correct domain and logo, and the malware was delivered through macros in a Word document.
|| Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Hackers breached CaptialOne through a weakness in the cloud computing firm's firewall, underscoring the delicate balance the cloud computing platforms have struck between security and efficiency.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
The Department of Homeland Security issued a security alert Tuesday for small planes, warning that modern flight systems are vulnerable to hacking if someone manages to gain physical access to the aircraft.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Swedish research firm Berg Insight says 63 million American homes will qualify as “smart” by 2022, but what will thee techologies look like, do, and how secure will they be?
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Startup companies, government agencies and academics are racing to combat deepfakes, amid fears that doctored videos and photographs will be used to sow discord ahead of the U.S. presidential election.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
The potential inaccuracies have broad implications for the growing body of scientific research that relies on these wearables, and it begs asking and whether implicit prejudices are shaping their development.
|| Transportation Applications || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Ford and other companies say the industry overestimated the arrival of autonomous vehicles, which still struggle to anticipate what other drivers and pedestrians will do.
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Elon Musk announces his visions for Neuralink, a way to merge one's brains with their computers. These include minimally invasive implant procedures, allowing those with paralysis to gain naturalistic control of their technology.
|| Future of Work || Video || Long (10+ min)
Elon Musk's Neuralink presentation at a July 2019 press conference.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Superhuman, an email productivity software company, is caught spying on its customers through its default read-receipts feature with no way to opt out, giving way for malicious actors to potentially abuse the feature to harm users.
|| Future of Work || Report || Long (10+ min)
The Neuralink whitepaper released in 2019.
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
European watchdogs are looking to reclassify facial recognition data as "biometric data," which under the GDPR is considered "sensitive data" and requires explicit consent from the person whose data is being collected as well as other stricter privacy prote
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Brief highlight of the reasons why we ought to be concerned about both sides of the political aisle coming together over federal facial recognition regulation.
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Though Rekognition has had a seemingly high success rate, it frequently misgenders trans, queer, and non-binary faces, showing how bias can be baked into facial recognition systems.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Hackers launched a cyber attack on the government of Lake City, Florida, disabling the city's computer systems for several days. After working with the FBI they reluctantly paid the ransom. This is just one of a series of ransomware attacks in Florida.
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article
Discusses the complexity behind "reasonable expectation of privacy" after Duke, Stanford, and Yale universities were discovered to be creating databases off surveillance footage of students outdoors, without their knowledge, and made part of a permanent dataset.