Unsupervised Learning: No. 178

Trump has semi-banned the use of foreign telecom gear, which is really a direct shot at Huawei and China. more Baltimore’s IT systems are still being held hostage after 2 weeks. Of all the cities in the world that I could imagine this happening to, Baltimore is towards the top of the list. If you don’t have good schools or a good police force, I don’t expect you’d have good IT security hygiene either. more Crime is so bad in Mexico that people buy fake mobile phones so they can give them to muggers instead of their real one. I have to assume this is also happening in Brazil. more This is a stunning audio Deepfake of Joe Rogan doing a few different routines. It sounds exactly like him. Not a little bit. Exactly. Now imagine that for politicians and celebrities, where there is plenty of source material to train from. We’re about to move to a world where you can only trust authenticated voices and personalities, using sources and clients that are trusted to serve you their actual content. Expect a massive industry around serving authentic content and detecting fakes. more Salesforce had to disable access to millions while the fixed an access control issue that allowed open reading of tons of customer data. more Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.