57% of Democrats believe Trump is guilty of treason
Among all voters, 33% believe the president is guilty of treason while 45% disagree.
https://scottrasmussen.com/57-of-democrats-believe-president-trump-guilty-of-treason/
AI-created video looks jaw-droppingly real
What the video depicts is a collection of humans that an AI-generated algorithm — courtesy of DataGrid, a startup based at Japan’s Kyoto University — designed. The poses, the clothes, the different hairstyles, stances, everything — the AI just came up with it all, in a stunning bit of understanding about the humans who occupy the world around it.
According to a translation of the text that accompanies the video, the researchers used what’s called a Generative Adversarial Network, or GAN, to generate the high-resolution (1024×1024) images of nonexistent humans. It goes on to suggest that this kind of thing could be useful in a variety of ways, such as by creating virtual models for industries like advertising and fashion.
The GAN involves one artificial neural network essentially trying to keep “fooling” another one, until the second one can no longer distinguish between (in this case) real human images versus computer-generated ones. Seeing this kind of thing for yourself, it’s a reminder that we’re definitely in for some strange times as deepfakes and the like begin to proliferate, with a video like this underscoring how adept AI is becoming at creating images of fake humans.
https://bgr.com/2019/05/04/artificial-intelligence-video-fake-humans/
Attempt to hack email server stunned Clinton aide, FBI files show
"omg."
That was the three-letter response from top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin – familiar Internet shorthand for "Oh my God!" – when Justin Cooper, the technology pro overseeing Clinton's private home-based email servers, told her shortly after midnight on Jan. 9, 2011, that "someone was trying to hack us."
The revelation was contained in a trove of newly released, partially redacted FBI documents from the agency's investigation into whether Clinton mishandled classified information – a probe known as the "Midyear Exam." The document release reveals numerous episodes in which the Clinton team either suspected it had been hacked or seemingly acknowledged that security measures had come up short.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/attempt-to-hack-email-server-stunned-clinton-aide-fbi-files-show
1995, by NYT-
Crowning the Comeback King
Though there are still 4 years to go in the 90s, business & government leaders in New York honored Donald J. Trump yesterday for pulling off what they called “the Comeback of the Decade”
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/25/nyregion/crowning-the-comeback-king.html
Stolen NSA hacking tools were used in the wild 14 months before Shadow Brokers leak
One of the most significant events in computer security happened in April 2017, when a still-unidentified group calling itself the Shadow Brokers published a trove of the National Security Agency’s most coveted hacking tools. The leak and the subsequent repurposing of the exploits in the WannaCry and NotPetya worms that shut down computers worldwide made the theft arguably one of the NSA’s biggest operational mistakes ever.
On Monday, security firm Symantec reported that two of those advanced hacking tools were used against a host of targets starting in March 2016, fourteen months prior to the Shadow Brokers leak. An advanced persistent threat hacking group that Symantec has been tracking since 2010 somehow got access to a variant of the NSA-developed "DoublePulsar" backdoor and one of the Windows exploits the NSA used to remotely install it on targeted computers.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/stolen-nsa-hacking-tools-were-used-in-the-wild-14-months-before-shadow-brokers-leak/