Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

Julie Owono is a member of the Facebook Oversight Board, which today announced it's leaving Donald Trump's indefinite suspension in place. Owono joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the decision, the board's deliberations, and what comes next for Facebook and Trump.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Sphinx Themes Gallery update
• Mongita - Like SQLite but for MongoDB
• World Plone Day 2021 - Over 50 Videos from 16 Countries
• The social contract of open source: view every commit as a gift
• PyPI in a box
• Film simulations from scratch using Python
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/232

Remember the good ole days when we spent youthful hours playing hide and seek with our friends in the park? Well it turns out that game of hide and seek isn’t just for humans anymore. Researchers have begun putting A.I. to the test by having it play this favorite childhood game over and over and having the software optimize its strategies through automated reinforcement training.  

In today’s episode, hosts Nic Fillingham and Natalia Godyla speak with Christian Seifert and Joshua Neil about their blog post Gamifying machine learning for stronger security and AI models, and how Microsoft is releasing this new open-sourced code to help it learn and grow.  

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• What is Microsoft’s CyberBattleSim? 
• What reinforcement learning is and how it is used in training A.I. 
• How the OpenAI Gym allowed for AI to be trained and rewarded for learning  

Some Questions We Ask:

• Is an A.I. threat actor science fiction or an incoming reality? 
• What are the next steps in training the A.I.? 
• Who was the CyberBattleSim created for? 

Resources:

OpenAI Plays Hide and Seek…and Breaks The Game! 🤖 

Gamifying Machine Learning for Stronger Security and AI Models 

Christian Seifert’s LinkedIn

Joshua Neil’s LinkedIn

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 

Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at microsoft.com/podcasts

Security Unlocked is produced by Microsoft and distributed as part of The CyberWire Network. 

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Lior Sion has been doing tech for 30 years, since he was in High School. He is married with 2 amazing and a dog (a Vizsla to be specific), and is in his mid 40s. He is passionate about ultra running, which is anything larger than a marathon... which can equate to 5-6 hours of running. Yep, you heard that right. He loves the contrast between being outdoors and computers, and typically runs the trails and rivers around where he lives.

Around 8 or 9 years ago, Amazon was a losing company - as in, they are losing money. At the time, Lior was CTO of a ride hailing company in Europe, where he gained great understanding around logistics in this industry. He realized that though companies like Amazon and Uber could create connected and seamless service for their customers, the rest of the world would have difficult building platforms around logistics, customer ownership, and visibility. Lior and his co-founders decided to create an operating system, enabling these types of players to achieve this out of the box.

This is the creation story of Bringg.

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You can check out the badge Github gave to folks for helping with the Mars flight here. You can learn more about F´, NASA’s open source flight software and embedded system framework, here.

Paul tells the story of a shady financial operator who offered to take his blog public during the dot com boom. Yes, Ftrain.com was once an IPO candidate.

Who copies and pastes from Stack Overflow? We dig into some of the data from our April Fools joke to get a sense of the scale and collaboration happening across our community.

Paul takes a tutorial on coding with Ethereum but decides decarbonizing is the real future for software.

Today's lifeboat badge winner is Scott M., who answered the question: How to remove one line from a txt file?

 

Stevan Bernard, former Chief Security Officer at Sony Pictures Entertainment joins the show to take us behind the scenes of the infamous nation-state attack perpetrated by North Korea in 2014. We also discuss the pervasiveness of ransomware attacks in the public sector, ways governments can mitigate future attacks, and what the cyber battlefield looks like in the post-SolarWinds era.

Links from the show:

• PHP comes to Cloud Functions | Google Cloud Blog
• Composer Command Injection Vulnerability
• Bref - Serverless PHP made simple
• SQL Server LIMIT / OFFSET SQL Injection · Advisory · laravel/framework
• The Gray Market: How a Brazen Hack of That $69 Million Beeple Revealed the True Vulnerability of the NFT Market (and Other Insights)
• 2,809 Free Paintings - Free Paintings | OpenSea
• Five things I learned from Rasmus Lerdorf
• Crypto miners are killing free CI
• Changes at Basecamp

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You can check out Frontend Mentor here. Try a few challenges or join their Slack, where thousands of students are chatting about how they are approaching the projects.

You can follow Matt on Twitter here. If you want to read about how he made the jump from personal trainer to web developer, he did a nice interview with Indie London.

Our lifeboat of the week goes to Banex for answering the question: why do we use NULL in strtok()?