Month: June 2021

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The Best One Yet - 🥰 “FaceTime for all” — Fastly’s mess-up. Bitcoin’s last straw. Apple’s FaceTime hero.

Did your internet go down yesterday? It probably did, and the company to blame was Fastly… yet its stock jumped 11%. Apple’s major conference has 1 critical Takeaway for ya: FaceTime is its new hero product. And Bitcoin fell yesterday because of that 3-legged stool of crypto. $FSLY $BTC $AAPL Got a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @JackKramer @NickOfNewYork Want a shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9 Got a SnackFact for the pod? We got a form for that too: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe64VKtvMNDPGSncHDRF07W34cPMDO3N8Y4DpmNP_kweC58tw/viewform Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Does NYC Want a Cop for a Mayor?

In the last year, New York City has experienced a surge in violent crime, reflecting a trend across major cities nationwide. In a heated race to be the city’s next mayor, one candidate, former New York police captain Eric Adams, is using the issue of public safety to his advantage. 

 

Guest: Eric Lach, staff writer at The New Yorker.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - How Clarence Birdseye Created the Frozen Food Aisle

For thousands of years, food storage was one of humanity’s biggest problems. Even if you could grow or hunt sufficient calories when food was abundant, it was very difficult to store those calories for when food was scarce. One man made a huge advancement in our ability to store foods, which now allows us to enjoy fresh produce all year round. Learn more about Clarence Birdseye, and the invention of frozen foods, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Third wave fears, smart motorways and bra sizes

Covid cases are rising again in the UK ? should we be worried about a third wave? Tim Harford speaks to David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of Risk at the University of Cambridge.

How safe are smart motorways? Many listeners have concerns that they seem more dangerous than conventional motorways. We take a look at the numbers.

What proportion of adults in England have been vaccinated? Listeners have spotted a potential discrepancy in the public data online.

Are 80% of women wearing the wrong size bra? This frequently repeated statistic has been around for decades ? could it possibly be true?

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NBN Book of the Day - George Klosko, “Why Should We Obey the Law?” (Polity Press, 2018)

In his new book Why Should We Obey the Law? (Polity Press, 2018), George Klosko, the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, has provided an introduction to the competing theories behind why people should obey the law. What Klosko refers to as “political obligations” exist in all societies, but he seeks to reveal the different justifications for such obligations in modern liberal democracies and republics. He reviews the reasons behind theories such as consent, consequentialism, and fairness, all of which have specific inadequacies for justifying broad, society-wide political obligations. Klosko also reviews his own preferred theory: multiple-principle theory, which he describes as a common-sensical approach to why we should obey the law.

Ian J. Drake is Associate Professor of Jurisprudence, Montclair State University.

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Security Unlocked - Red-teaming AI with CounterFit

It’s an all out offensive on today’s episode while we talk about how the best defense is a good offense. But before we plan our attack, we need to know our vulnerabilities, and that’s where our guest comes in.  

On this episode, hosts Nic Fillingham and Natalia Godyla are joined by Will Pearce, who discusses his role as AI Red Team Lead from the Azure Trustworthy ML Group and how he works to find weaknesses in security infrastructure to better develop ways to prevent against attacks.  


In This Episode You Will Learn:  

  • The three main functions of counterfeit  
  • Why the best defense is a good offense 
  • Why Will and his team aren’t worried about showing their hand by releasing this software as open source  


Some Questions We Ask:  

  • What previously developed infrastructure was the counterfeit tool built upon? 
  • How AI red teaming differs from traditional specops red teaming 
  • How did the counterfeit project evolve from conception to release? 


Resources:  

Will Pearce’s LinkedIn

AI security risk assessment using Counterfit 

Microsoft Security Blog

Nic’s LinkedIn

Natalia’s LinkedIn

  

Related:

Listen to: Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson

Listen to: Security Unlocked: CISO Series with Bret Arsenault 

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What A Day - The Legend Of Delta Variant

A more infectious coronavirus variant called the Delta variant is becoming the dominant strain in the UK, accounting for more than 60 percent of new infections there. We discuss what we know and don't know about the variant, which has yet to take hold in a major way in the U.S.

International law enforcement agencies arrested more than 800 people in a sting operation that had criminals sending messages through an app they believed was secure...but was actually created and overseen by the FBI.

And in headlines: activists protest a pipeline's construction in Minnesota, U.S. billionaires pay little in federal taxes, and Sir Richard Branson could try to race Jeff Bezos to space.


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The NewsWorthy - FBI Crime Sting, Billionaire Tax Records & Internet Outage- Wednesday, June 9th, 2021

The news to know for Wednesday, June 9th, 2021!

We'll tell you about an intricate FBI sting that targeted organized crime all around the globe and ended with hundreds of suspects in custody.

Also, how much America's billionaires are paying in taxes: a new report breaks down IRS files that have never been made public before now.

Plus, new incentives companies are using to attract workers, what was behind a massive internet outage, and how farmers helped scientists uncover one of the world's largest dinosaurs. 

Those stories and more in about 10 minutes! 

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com/shownotes for sources and to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

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The Daily Signal - What Happened to Parler Could Happen to You, Former CEO Mark Meckler Warns

Mark Meckler stepped in as Parler’s interim CEO after Amazon, Google, and Apple essentially canceled the social media platform. 

Meckler says he didn't intend to become CEO of Parler when he called the company in January to ask if he could help, but recognized the gravity of the situation and wanted to do all he could to defend free speech. 

“Parler was the point of the spear,” says Meckler, a former leader of Tea Party Patriots who is also president of Citizens for Self-Governance. “And if we allowed Big Tech and the Big Tech oligarchs to take Parler offline and leave it offline permanently, [these tech companies were drawing] a line in the sand that we might never be able to cross again.” 

Conservatives must be prepared to respond to opposition from Big Tech companies, he says, because “any conservative, whether you're a conservative business person or you're running a nonprofit organization,” is susceptible to what happened to Parler.

Meckler joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss his stint as Parler’s CEO and how the platform ultimately was restored. 

We also cover these stories:

  • Vice President Kamala Harris defends the fact that she has not yet visited the southern border amid the ongoing border crisis. 
  • A bipartisan group of senators announces release of the first congressional report detailing security failures that led to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
  • Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee ask Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate an Antifa attack on journalist Andy Ngo.

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