Let’s hear it from Google’s Machine Learning (sic!) Glossary what they say an artificial intelligence (AI) is:
I am saying that AI is just a fancy marketing term for machine learning (ML), but others may have different characterizations.
Let’s look at how the Glossary defines machine learning:
Continue readingGateway Pundit has an article, that is quite interesting for those interested in Cyber Security. Unfortunately, the article is not very well written, but thankfully, the videos contain much better description of what the issue is with these voting machines in question.
A cyber security expert tested the ‘software image’ used on Voting Machines. He used his notebook to install the image – the Software is based on Microsoft Windows, uses Microsoft SQL Server (SQLS) and a visual database administration software called Microsoft SQL Management Server (SMSS).
On that notebook, the cyber security expert was able to start SMSS log in to the SQLS and change the vote counts using a few mouse clicks.
Later, the cyber security expert showed, how to change vote counts with an SQL Script on an USB stick.
The French cloud provider OVH, one of the largest in Europe, experienced a fire in one of its data-centers in Strassbourg, France. As a consequence of this fire, the sites SBG2 has been destroyed, SBG-1 partially destroyed and SBG-3 and SBG-4 have been shut-down for now. Status per travaux.ovh.net on Morning March 11 was as follows:
The reason for the fire has not been established yet. OVH Cloud has released a statement yesterday describing the incident and the aftermath:
What does that mean for OVH customers? It likely depends on what kind of service they pay for and whether they have your own backups or not. At the very least it means some service interruption for a client.
In any case, if you don’t have a backup/disaster recovery strategy – this should be a reminder to you that you really need one.