Yesterday was day two of Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings, when members of the Senate Judiciary Committee got their first public chance to directly question the nominee. There were a lot of questions, but there weren’t many answers.
Safety concerns led Johnson & Johnson to pause a large clinical trial of its COVID vaccine candidate and Eli Lilly to pause trials of their antibody drug. A new study found a person in Nevada was infected twice with COVID within a period of six weeks, which is the first confirmed case of reinfection in the US.
And in headlines: the Supreme Court rules to halt the census, Trump vs. Fauci, and a tourist in Peru waits 7 months to visit Machu Picchu.
There are all kinds of powerful features baked into the Windows operating system. One of them is the Antimalware Scan Interface or AMSI. In this episode, hosts Nic Fillingham and Natalia Godyla speak with Ankit Garg and Geoff McDonald of the Microsoft Defender ATP Research Team to learn how AMSI operates, and how they’re utilizing ML to stop attacks.
Then they speak with Dr. Josh Neil, a Principal Data Science Manager at Microsoft, about his unique path from music to data security, and why his team is sniffing through weak signals to detect attack patterns.
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
How AMSI protects against threats
How machine learning makes it easier to catch attacks
The way security experts think about attack methodology
How computers can think unlike human brains to solve problems
The innovations coming to the world of data science
Some Questions We Ask:
What is AMSI?
How do you differentiate between the benign and malicious?
In this episode, hosts Nic Fillingham and Natalia Godyla speak with Arie Agranonik, a Senior Data Scientist in the Microsoft Defender ATP Research team, about building models using deep learning to protect against malicious attacks. It’s complicated work, requiring huge computing power and even larger amounts of data, and it could be the future of threat protection.
They also speak with Holly Stewart, a Principal Research Lead at Microsoft, on how building a security team with different perspectives helps to better understand and stop threats. Plus, her journey from the Peace Corps to Microsoft, and how that informs her decision-making.
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
The difference between deep learning, machine learning and AI
Why it’s so difficult to program a computer to think like a human
How adversarial models learn from each other to prevent attacks
Why the best security teams are made up of those with different perspectives
How data science can train machines to find things humans were not thinking about
Some Questions We Ask:
What is deep learning?
Does a neural network mimic the way the human brain functions?
How are behavioral observations evolving to combat sophisticated attacks?
How do AI and ML factor into solving complicated security problems?
Churches in the nation's capitol either haven’t been able to meet in person or have had extremely limited ability to do so because of COVID-19 restrictions imposed by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser. Capitol Hill Baptist Church went to court against the mayor in September, and just achieved a big win for religious freedom.
Joining the podcast to discuss is Hiram Sasser, executive general counsel for First Liberty Institute, which represented Capitol Hill Baptist.
We also cover these stories:
Senate Democrats and Republicans question Judge Amy Coney Barrett during the second day of her confirmation hearing before the Judiciary Committee.
During the hearing, Barrett says she owns a gun but that fact wouldn't interfere with her judgment in deciding Second Amendment cases.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., presses Barrett on how she would decide abortion cases.
On October 21, we’re back for a final season. With episodes that take us behind the Iron Curtain, 35,000 feet over the Vietnam War, and through two Cuban revolutions, we’ll hear brands ask the question: Is politics any of our business?
The second part of our conversation on cults. We finish up on the psychology and then talk about Q anon and Trumpism and whether or not they can fairly be called cults.
On the Gist, uniting with your would-be kidnappers?
In the interview, Mike talks to former Obama staffer Elliot Williams about his new podcast Made to Fail, a show where he explores the different ways governmental institutions across have been made intentionally dysfunctional, like the Florida unemployment system, and the impact it has on people in need of such infrastructure. All episodes of Made to Fail are available wherever you get your podcasts.
You can can have money stress and feel anxious about your financial situation, no matter how much you make. Find out the root causes of money stress and 10 strategies to reduce it so you can have a more peaceful life.
Cold open: Crazy Currency with Jack Jammer
We enter the “parliament of extrastatecraft” and discuss the actually existing world order — we're talking the techno-politics of standardization, the transnational institutions that establish the rules and structures for essentially everything, and the geopolitical struggle between the US and China over who will wield the technocratic power of standards setting.
Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl).
