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https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-paper-write-cheating-lawsuit-massachusetts-help-rcna175669

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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:00:57 -0700
From: "Jim" <jgeissman@socal.rr.com>
Subject: Dynamic pricing unpopular (BBC)

Oasis ditch dynamic ticket pricing for U.S. gigs https://bbc.com/news/articles/cj04y6y0316o

A risk is eventually profit maximizing comes to be viewed as fleecing.

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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:54:17 -0700
From: geoff goodfellow <geoff@iconia.com>
Subject: Earth has overshot key planetary bounda, scientists warn
(Hastings Tribune)

Human activity is imperiling eight of the planet's critical life-support systems, and seven of them have already passed into a danger zone, according
to a massive review of Earth science conducted jointly by more than 60 researchers and published Wednesday in The Lancet Planetary Health.

Looking at necessities of a livable Earth -- including the climate,
freshwater systems, biodiversity and soil nutrients -- the researchers find almost all have crossed crucial thresholds. The only global system yet to breach safe limits is aerosols, even as small-particle air pollution contributes to 8 million deaths a year.

The new paper updates a scientific project that began in 2009 to assess planetary boundaries (since renamed Earth-system boundaries) and how transgressing them will pose risks to human society and nature around the world.

Researchers assessed each of these systems on two factors. One was safety,
or how long until the system may no longer perform in the way people have relied on it to. The other was justice, or ``the risk of significant harm.''
to people alive today and those not yet born. [...] https://www.hastingstribune.com/earth-has-overshot-key-planetary-boundaries-scientists-warn/article_8b152ff4-70ac-11ef-9393-e7e4904ed367.html

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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 11:12:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: ACM TechNews <technews-editor@acm.org>
Subject: China Is Writing World's Technology Rules (The Economist)

The Economist, 10 Oct 2024

China has been increasingly assertive in the technology standard-setting process. Last month for example, the International Telecommunication Union approved three new technical standards that will be embedded in sixth-generation (6G) mobile technology, all developed by the Chinese
Academy of Sciences and China Telecom. Unlike the West, which has tended to defer to private companies and industry associations in the standard-setting process, China's approach is led by its government.

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From: Ted Bridis <tbridis@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 21:45:08 -0400
Subject: Mystery Drones Swarmed a U.S. Military Base for 17 Days. The
Pentagon Is Stumped. (WSJ)

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/drones-military-pentagon-defense-331871f4

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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 10:58:49 -0700
From: Steve Bacher <sebmb1@verizon.net>
Subject: Spotify criticized for letting fake albums appear on real artist
pages (ArsTechnica)

Real bands struggle to remove fake albums from their Spotify pages.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/spotify-criticized-for-letting-fake-albums-appear-on-real-artist-pages/

(I know fraud is nothing new under the sun, but this qualifies as a RISK because the article says "generative AI makes streaming music fraud easier
than ever.")

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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 11:55:48 +0000 (UTC)
From: Pivot 5 <daily@pivot5.ai>
Subject: *The New York Times* tells *Perplexity* to stop using its
content (Pivot5)

http://pivot5.ai

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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 05:14:22 -0700
From: Rob Slade <rslade@gmail.com>
Subject: Complete, free CISSP review seminar

OK, it's all done. As of 20241016, all of the CISSP review seminar
materials are recorded and posted. It's kind of bizarre to think that it
has taken more than a year and a half, and roughly 450 individual video
clips (probably comprising approximately sixty total hours of video). As
the CISSP is a very decent overview of the entire field, it is also a good introduction to information security, whether you intend to get certified or not.

The complete set is available on any or all of:
https://youtube.com/@TheRslade
https://youtube.com/user/TheRslade
(playlist at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUuvftvRsRv7D5PiHIULhhd9M032ej4_i ) https://www.tiktok.com/@robertmslade/
https://www.facebook.com/rslade/
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/rslade and
https://www.instagram.com/robertmslade/

Details, references, and pointers to sample questions are posted at https://fibrecookery.blogspot.com/2023/02/cissp-seminar-free.html
This completion notice is at https://fibrecookery.blogspot.com/2024/10/complete-free-cissp-review-seminar.html

I have to say that, as a social media experiment, so far it has indicated
that social media is the absolutely *worst* platform for education, at least from the instructor's viewpoint. I have, in more than a year and a half,
had precisely *one* question about any of the material. Either I have delivered everything perfectly (a consummation devoutly to be wished, but unlikely in the *extreme*), or social media users are massively passive, and can't be bothered thinking about what they are consuming (given what I've
seen in my forty-plus years on the net, much *MUCH* more probable).

I hope it is of use to you or your colleagues. It is now available, for
free, as instruction or reference, so long as any of the five platforms
above continue to exist and provide content. It is my sincerest wish that
it is helpful to those genuinely wishing to join our information security profession, and support the productive use of technology as a whole.

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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 06:54:01 -0700
From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
Subject: DoJ vs. Google: Users have the most to lose

Despite my ongoing concerns over various of the directions that
current management has been taking Google over recent years, I must
state that I agree with Google that the kinds of radical antitrust
"remedies" -- and "radical" is the appropriate word -- apparently
being contemplated by DoJ, would almost certainly be a disaster for
ordinary users' privacy, security, and overall ability to interact
with many aspects of related technologies that they depend on every
day.

These systems are difficult enough to keep reasonably user friendly and
secure as it is -- and they certainly should continue to be improved in
those areas. But what DOJ is reportedly considering would be an enormous
step backwards and consumers would be the ultimate victims of such an
approach.

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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 07:36:00 -0700
From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
Subject: Kremlin refutes Trump denial on sending Putin COVID tests

These were rare COVID test machines, not the little test kits! -L https://www.axios.com/2024/10/09/trump-putin-covid-testing-equipment-kremlin

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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 07:57:43 -0700
From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
Subject: NBC's former marketing chief: We Created a Monster:
Trump Was a TV Fantasy Invented for 'The Apprentice' (USNews)

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2024-10-16/we-created-a-tv-illusion-for-the-apprentice-but-the-real-trump-threatens-america

Too little, too late, John. -L

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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 13:20:43 -0700
From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
Subject: Suspect arrested after reports of threats toward FEMA operations in
North Carolina (CNN)

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/14/us/fema-helene-north-carolina-reported-threats/index.html

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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:28:28 -0700
From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
Subject: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large
Language Models (arxiv)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229

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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 16:22:05 -0700
From: "Jim" <jgeissman@socal.rr.com>
Subject: Why Restoring Power After Helene Is Complicated
(Brad Plumer)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/01/climate/helene-hurricane-power-carolinas. html

Damage went beyond downed power lines. Hundreds of substations went out
after the storm. Getting them back online is difficult.

[The California Crestline snowstorm earlier this year had a broken gas
meter that was broken off when a balcony collapsed from the weight.
Restoring power before fixing that was just one more such risk. PGN]

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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 11:28:33 -0700
From: Rob Slade <rslade@gmail.com>
Subject: Rob's usual disaster season call for emergency management
training

I have been remiss. Generally, whenever there is a disaster, I remind all
of you, my colleagues, to sign up with your local emergency management and disaster relief organizations as volunteers.

Here in BC, it's easy. You go to the municipal government, ask who is the local director of emergency support services, and sign up. You get put
through four online courses from the Justice Institute, and you're part of
the crew. Most of the rest of Canada is going to be similar.

In other countries, you are possibly going to have to chase down local
offices of the Red Cross, St. John Ambulance, or Salvation Army. There may
be other groups as well. All of them have training (and it counts for CPEs under BCP).

Get trained, become better at BCP, and, when disaster hits, be part of the solution (rather than part of the problem).

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Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 17:38:12 -0700
From: Rik Farrow <rik@rikfarrow.com>
Subject: Re: More than 1,000 people, including Hezbollah members, wounded in
Lebanon after pagers detonate (CBC, RISKS-34.46)

*The Washington Post* has an article describing how the pagers and walkie-talkies were designed by Mossad, and assembled in Israel with
explosives included in their batteries:

As it turned out, the actual production of the devices was outsourced and
the marketing official had no knowledge of the operation and was unaware
that the pagers were physically assembled in Israel under Mossad oversight, officials said. Mossad's pagers, each weighing less than three ounces, included a unique feature: a battery pack that concealed a tiny amount of a powerful explosive, according to the officials familiar with the plot.

In a feat of engineering, the bomb component was so carefully hidden as to
be virtually undetectable, even if the device was taken apart, the
officials said. Israeli officials believe that Hezbollah did disassemble
some of the pagers and may have even X-rayed them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/05/israel-mossad-hezbollah-pagers-nasrallah/

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