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Researchers: Government shouldn’t use AI if it can’t explain decisions

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“Government institutions are already blindly following the direction the algorithms give. A report by ProPublica found that an algorithmic system for criminal sentencing was biased against black people—not by understanding the color of their skin but by using flawed data correlated with race. Teachers in Texas recently won a case where their job performance was being evaluated by an algorithm—a circuit court found that the unexplainable software violated the teachers’ 14th amendment rights to due process.”

Read more: https://qz.com/1109438/google-and-microsoft-ai-researchers-say-us-government-shouldnt-use-artificial-intelligence-if-it-cant-explain-decisions/

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Wrong Facebook translation gets man arrested for posting ‘good morning’

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“Facebook has apologized after a Palestinian man was arrested by Israeli police for a post saying ‘good morning’ that its automatic-translation service erroneously translated as ‘attack them’ in Hebrew and ‘hurt them’ in English.”

Read more: https://www.theverge.com/us-world/2017/10/24/16533496/facebook-apology-wrong-translation-palestinian-arrested-post-good-morning

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Your Own Pacemaker Can Now Testify Against You In Court

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“It may seem unnerving that information contained inside the body — as opposed to kept in the home or worn on the wrist — could be used in a criminal investigation. But courts have yet to distinguish between data interior to the body and data stored on the outside. Data isn’t considered more protected or more private by virtue of its personal nature or where it is stored.”

Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/your-own-pacemaker-can-now-testify-against-you-in-court/

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FAA begins granting drone overflight waivers to large corporations

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“CNN has won an interesting waiver regarding its commercial drone operating license with the FAA – an exemption that allows it to fly its Vantage Robotics Snap drone over open-air crowds of people at altitudes of up to 150 feet. This is a new precedent in this kind of waiver: Previous exemptions allowed flight of drones over people in closed set operations (like for filmmaking purposes) and only when tethered, with a max height of 21 feet.  The new waiver granted to CNN, as secured through its legal counsel Hogan Lovells, allows for flight of the Vantage UAV (which is quite small and light) above crowds regardless of population density.”

Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/18/cnn-gets-a-first-of-its-kind-waiver-to-fly-drones-over-crowds/

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FAA Proposes Worldwide Laptop Ban For Checked Bags On Int’l Flights

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“The proposal, which will no doubt upset some frequent travelers, will be considered by the United Nations in the coming weeks.  The FAA is concerned about the lithium-ion batteries that are common in electronic devices like laptops. Tests conducted by the agency have concluded that when large electronics overheat in luggage they run the risk of combustion when packed with aerosol canisters like hairspray and dry shampoo.”

Read more: https://gizmodo.com/faa-proposes-worldwide-laptop-ban-for-checked-bags-on-i-1819706608

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Some startups find the American dream in China

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“Wang is part of a group of Chinese nationals known as haigui or sea turtles, who return to the country after gaining knowledge and skills abroad. Last year, 432,500 Chinese who studied abroad returned to China, an increase of 58 percent compared with 2012, according to the country’s Ministry of Education.  The boomerang effect is aided by the strength of China’s economy and the promise of its homegrown tech industry, including social networking giant Tencent, e-commerce firm Alibaba and search engine Baidu. Local governments provide incentives to startups that open offices.”

Read more: http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Some-startups-find-the-American-dream-in-China-12222087.php

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A 27-year old is offering LSD microdosing tutorials over Skype

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“Many people say it improves their concentration or creativity; others say they use it to help treat symptoms of mental illnesses like depression and anxiety.  Yet not a single published scientific study on microdosing exists.”

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/man-giving-how-to-microdose-lsd-psychedelic-drugs-online-tutorial-2017-10

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Dentists Find Tooth Root Pulp Can Become an Alternative Source of Stem Cells

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“A team of dentists and scientists from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas has found a rich new source of stem cells. Tooth root pulps, they discovered, were home to both pluripotent and multipotent cells. The team also developed a way to extract them without damaging the cells.”

Read more: https://futurism.com/dentists-find-tooth-root-pulp-can-become-an-alternative-source-of-stem-cells/

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Millions of high-security crypto keys crippled by newly discovered flaw

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“A crippling flaw in a widely used code library has fatally undermined the security of millions of encryption keys used in some of the highest-stakes settings, including national identity cards, software- and application-signing, and trusted platform modules protecting government and corporate computers.”

Read more: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/crypto-failure-cripples-millions-of-high-security-keys-750k-estonian-ids/

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Severe flaw in WPA2 protocol leaves Wi-Fi traffic open to eavesdropping

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“It affects the core WPA2 protocol itself and is effective against devices running the Android, Linux, Apple, Windows, and OpenBSD operating systems, as well as MediaTek Linksys, and other types of devices. The site warned attackers can exploit it to decrypt a wealth of sensitive data that’s normally encrypted by the nearly ubiquitous Wi-Fi encryption protocol.”

Read more: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/severe-flaw-in-wpa2-protocol-leaves-wi-fi-traffic-open-to-eavesdropping/

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