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Patch Tuesday, June 2024 “Recall” Edition

Krebs on Security

Security experts roundly trashed Recall as a fancy keylogger, noting that it would be a gold mine of information for attackers if the user’s PC was compromised with malware. Copilot+ ships with a feature nobody asked for that Redmond has aptly dubbed Recall , which constantly takes screenshots of what the user is doing on their PC.

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SHARED INTEL: A foolproof consumer’s guide to creating and managing bulletproof passwords

The Last Watchdog

I’ve had a password manager in place since 2004. Most people say “what if the password manager gets hacked” while this might be a valid concern, it’s not a concern of mine. Thankfully, there is an easy solution: use a password manager. At this point I probably have close to 700 different online accounts.

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Eli Manning and the power of AI in ESPN fantasy football

IBM Big Data Hub

So we’re also using the natural language processing capability of Watson Discovery to mine insights from millions of blogs, articles and podcasts produced by media experts (see here to learn more ). Last year alone Watson served up more 34 billion AI-powered insights to ESPN fantasy players. Which brings me back to Eli.

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Should businesses use collective intelligence and the wisdom of the crowds?

ChiefTech

Professor Michael Luca and his co-authors analysed the top 100 reviews from 40 media outlets, including the New York Times, and the Washington Post, between 2004 and 2007 for their paper. Earlier in the year, a report was published of researchers who looked at mining Twitter to predict the success of movies. via guardian.co.uk.

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Recommended reading for Next Generation KM, Collaboration and Intranet 2.0

ChiefTech

This following is a combined list of recommended reading ( in addition to mine own work !) Knowledge Management Tools and Techniques , Elsevier, 2004, London. Surowiecki, J, 2004, The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations , Double Day.

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Google's "Opinion" Sparks Interesting Dialog On Tying of Services to Search

John Battelle's Searchblog

So let me pivot from Matt's opinion to mine. In late 2004, for example, Google announced they would be incorporating millions of library texts into its index, but made no announcements about the role the company might play in selling those texts. And quite often, those inputs are based on human contributions in some way.".

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Digital sobriety

Everteam

It was the GreenIT association, created in 2004, that first mentioned “digital sobriety” in 2008. However, it is now common knowledge that their production, especially in Africa, destroys the soil in open-pit mines, where all ecological considerations are absent, and which favors exploitation of local poverty. Well, not really.