A giant data store quietly being built in India could free vast swathes of science for computer analysis — but whether it is a legal pursuit remains unclear. From a report: Carl Malamud is on a crusade to liberate information locked up behind paywalls — and his campaigns have scored many victories. He has spent decades publishing copyrighted legal documents, from…
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What’s New on Coursera for Business – June 2019
By Kyle Clark, Enterprise Content Expert This month we are excited to announce a special release on top of 39 brand new courses: TensorFlow in Practice. This Specialization was developed in partnership with deeplearning.ai and Google Brain’s Laurence Moroney to provide learners with the expertise to write and deploy production-quality TensorFlow code. In addition to […]
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Hong Kong Protests ‘Show The Dangers of a Cashless Society’
“Allowing cash to die would be a grave mistake. A cashless society is a surveillance society,” writes Reason, adding that “The recent round of protests in Hong Kong highlights exactly what we have to lose…” schwit1 shared their report: [T]ens of thousands of Hongkongers took to the streets to protest what they saw as creeping tyranny from a powerful threat. But…
Why some insect eggs are spherical while others look like hot dogs
Analyzing a new database of insect eggs’ sizes and shapes suggests that where eggs are laid helps explain some of their diversity of forms. Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/evolution-insect-egg-size-shape-diversity-database4…
Microsoft Excel Power Query Feature Can Be Abused For Malware Distribution
Security researchers have devised a method to abuse a legitimate Microsoft Excel technology named Power Query to run malicious code on users’ systems with minimal interaction. ZDNet reports: Power Query is a data connection technology that can allow Excel files to discover, connect, combine, and manipulate data before importing it from remote sources, such as an external database, text document, another…
It’s a Match: Essential Skills Mapped to Critical Business Functions
By Kyle Clark, Enterprise Content Strategist Coursera’s Essential Skills Map identifies the skills of tomorrow for key functions, future-proofing your workforce while helping your business keep pace with digital transformation. ———- Technology is rapidly transforming the nature of jobs and skills. Partnering with over 1,900 companies globally through Coursera for Business takes us deep into […]
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Cop Awarded $585K After ‘Dozens’ Of Police Officers Accessed Their DMV Data 500 Times
Slashdot reader Iwastheone shares a story from Ars Technica about what happened after Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources sent a privacy notification to a police officer in 2013: An employee had abused his access to a government driver’s license database and snooped on thousands of people in the state, mostly women. Krekelberg learned that she was one of them. When Krekelberg…
Delta Airlines Begins Using Facial Recognition Scanners To Replace Boarding Passes
“Delta Air Lines announced it will give passengers who fly out of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport the option to use facial recognition to board their flight instead of a standard boarding pass,” reported a CBS affiliate this week. The facial scanners will be installed this week at 16 gates, with availability on all international flights through Delta beginning in July. The…
Are Medical IDs ‘The Enemy of Privacy, Liberty, and Health’?
83-year-old former U.S. Senatior Ron Paul has published a new editorial on Zero Hedge: Last week, the House of Representatives voted in favor of a Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill amendment to repeal the prohibition on the use of federal funds to create a ‘unique patient identifier.’ Unless this prohibition, which I originally sponsored in 1998, is…
Meds Prescriptions For 78,000 Patients Left In a Database With No Password
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: A MongoDB database was left open on the internet without a password, and by doing so, exposed the personal details and prescription information for more than 78,000 U.S. patients. The database contained information on 391,649 prescriptions for a drug named Vascepa; used for lowering triglycerides (fats) in adults that are on a low-fat…