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Switch to Texas in particular and check out the map by metro area. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=...

Obligatory xkcd: https://www.xkcd.com/936/ Prepare to never forget the phrase CORRECT HORSE BATTERY STAPLE!

What surprised me most about this article is that as far as I'm aware, Russia is so far behind the forefront on machine learning research that hearing Putin speak on this subject i…

I would bet money that North Korea will not first-strike, and the US military will not fulfill a first-strike if directed. My premises are that North Korea is a rational actor, and…

I still trust Google over anybody, including the federal government.

I thought the author's idea that it is prohibitively difficult to create exploits in a vacuum, and need to know the specific configuration of your adversary's systems in order to b…

"Operation “Nitro Zeus” illustrates this thinking. As Buchanan explains, in the early stages of the Obama Administration, U.S. hackers went on an expansive hunt for “zero-day” vuln…

Data analyst for a health insurer

And if we solve this problem, then maybe we'll still have a technological civilization in 100,000 years to solve that one.

If I had a level 5 autonomous car that was compromised by someone who wanted to kill me, they probably could. Or they could just push me down a flight of stairs. Ultimately, I am a…

Worse yet - due to the Dunning-Kruger effect, the average driver is confident that they are much better than average.

I saw it the other day when the eclipse came to Oregon, and the population suddenly increased by 25% for a few days. I'm guessing that if the number of electric cars surged by 25% …

The Justice Department is fighting for information on all of the visitors to the website disruptj20.org, as well as log files on when and from where the visitors logged onto the si…

The Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, subsequently entered into an interesting interchange with a reporter. When asked by Mark DiStefano, a reporter from ZDNET, “Won’t…

"in 2010, Assange vowed to publish documents on any institution that resisted oversight... “We don’t have targets,” Assange said at the time." But by 2016, WikiLeaks had switched c…

I don't think comparing the adoption rate of Nazi ideology in nations where it was historically successful to nations where it was historically unsuccessful is appropriate. A more …

I'm fine with that! [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Body_II:_Dark_Forest [1]: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Space/stephen-hawking-alien...