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20 October, 2017
19 October, 2017
The extent of the Krack fallout remains to be seen. Security analysts say it’s a tricky vulnerability to take advantage of, and major platforms like iOS, macOS, and Windows are either unaffected or have already been patched. But given the millions of routers and other IoT devices that will likely never see a fix, the true cost of Krack could play out for years.
Labels:
Cybersafety,
Sustainability
Pharmacy retailer Chemist Warehouse and Mexican food outlet Guzman y Gomez are the first retailers used to test Google parent Alphabet’s new drone delivery system being trialled this week in Australia. Alphabet’s research arm X (formerly Google X) says it is testing its drone delivery technology with households at Royalla in NSW, near the border with the ACT.
Labels:
ICT Capability,
Robotics
17 October, 2017
A newly-discovered security flaw affects virtually every Wi-Fi device, and could render your home network as readable to hackers as the free Wi-Fi at a coffee shop. Belgian Researcher Mathy Vanhoef has detailed a method of breaking WPA2, the security protocol used by the large majority of routers and devices to secure internet connections. By utilising the flaw, which Mr Vanhoef is calling KRACK (for Key Reinstallation Attack), malicious actors could potentially eavesdrop on the traffic of any access point they were physically near.
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Cybersafety
GitHub, which builds a product that rivals Australian golden child start-up Atlassian's Bitbucket software development platform, unveiled a suite of new features that will make the internet safer and software developers' lives less stressful at its GitHub Universe 2017 conference. Called the "dependency graph", it ensures that developers whose code is dependant on other, open source projects are given the chance to update their work immediately whenever a security breach, bug or performance issue is uncovered.
Labels:
Cybersafety,
ICT Capability,
Sustainability
Robots that battle inside the virtual world of RoboSumo are controlled by machine-learning software, not humans. Unlike computer characters in typical videogames, they weren’t pre-programmed to wrestle; instead they had to “learn” the sport by trial and error. The game was created by nonprofit research lab OpenAI, cofounded by Elon Musk, to show how forcing AI systems to compete can spur them to become more intelligent
Labels:
Artificial Intelligence,
Game,
research
The sight of Mr Zuckerberg using VR to survey the devastation of an island still struggling to recover from Hurricane Maria may have been meant to convey Facebook's empathy with the victims. The fact that he was there in the form of a cartoon seemed to many the perfect visual metaphor for the gulf in understanding between Silicon Valley and the real world.
Team KAIST from South Korea emerged as the winner of the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) in Pomona, Calif., after its robot, an adaptable humanoid called DRC-HUBO, beat out 22 other robots from five different countries, winning the US $2 million grand prize. The robot’s “transformer” ability to switch back and forth from a walking biped to a wheeled machine proved key to its victory.
Labels:
Robotics
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