August 21, 2021
Kannan Subbiah
FCA | CISA | CGEIT | CCISO | GRC Consulting | Independent Director | Enterprise & Solution Architecture | Former Sr. VP & CTO of MF Utilities | BU Soft Tech | itTrident
To take the next step on the road to genuine intelligence, AGI needs to create its underpinnings by emulating the capabilities of a three-year-old. Take a look at how a three-year-old playing with blocks learns. Using multiple senses and interaction with objects over time, the child learns that blocks are solid and can’t move through each other, that if the blocks are stacked too high they will fall over, that round blocks roll and square blocks don’t, and so on. A three-year-old, of course, has an advantage over AI in that he or she learns everything in the context of everything else. Today’s AI has no context. Images of blocks are just different arrangements of pixels. Neither image-based AI (think facial recognition) nor word-based AI (like Alexa) has the context of a “thing†like the child’s block which exists in reality, is more-or-less permanent, and is susceptible to basic laws of physics. This kind of low-level logic and common sense in the human brain is not completely understood but human intelligence develops within the context of human goals, emotions, and instincts. Humanlike goals and instincts would not form the best basis for AGI.
First and foremost in the Android 12 privacy lineup is Google’s shiny new Privacy Dashboard. It’s essentially a streamlined command center that lets you see how different apps are accessing data on your device so you can clamp down on that access as needed. ... Next on the Android 12 privacy list is a feature you’ll occasionally see on your screen but whose message might not always be obvious. Whenever an app is accessing your phone’s camera or microphone — even if only in the background — Android 12 will place an indicator in the upper-right corner of your screen to alert you. When the indicator first appears, it shows an icon that corresponds with the exact manner of access. But that icon remains visible only for a second or so, after which point the indicator changes to a tiny green dot. So how can you know what’s being accessed and which app is responsible? The secret is in the swipe down: Anytime you see a green dot in the corner of your screen, swipe down once from the top of the display. The dot will expand back to that full icon, and you can then tap it to see exactly what’s involved.
The interdependency of your microservices-based architecture also complicates logging and makes log aggregation a vital part of a successful approach. Sarah Wells, the technical director at the Financial Times, has overseen her team’s migration of more than 150 microservices to Kubernetes. Ahead of this project, while creating an effective log aggregation system, Wells cited the need for selectively choosing metrics and named attributes that identify the event, along with all the surrounding occurrences happening as part of it. Correlating related services ensures that a system is designed to flag genuinely meaningful issues as they happen. In her recent talk at QCon, she also notes the importance of understanding rate limits when constructing your log aggregation. As she pointed out, when it comes to logs, you often don’t know if you’ve lost a record of something important until it’s too late. A great approach is to implement a process that turns any situation into a request. For instance, the next time your team finds itself looking for a piece of information it deems useful, don’t just fulfill the request, log it with your next team’s process review to see whether you can expand your reporting metrics.
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Setting the bar high enough to protect against initial entry is a laudable goal, but also adheres to the law of diminishing returns. This means the focus must shift towards improving how difficult it is for an attacker to move around your environment once they have gotten inside. This phase of the attack often requires some manual control, so identifying and disrupting command and control (C2) channels can pay significant dividends – but realize that only the least sophisticated attacker will reuse the same domains and IPs of a previous attack. So rather than looking for C2 communications via threat intel feeds, your approach needs to be to look for patterns of behavior which look like remote-access trojans (RATs) or hidden tunnels (suspicious forms of beaconing). Barriers to privilege escalation and lateral movement come down to cyber-hygiene related to patching (are there easily accessible exploits for local privilege escalation?), rights management (are accounts granted overly generous privileges?) and network segmentation (is it easy to traverse the network?). Most of the current raft of ransomware attacks have utilized the serial compromise of credentials to move from the initial point-of-entry to more useful parts of the network.
Wooldridge identifies Plato’s Republic as the origin of the concept of meritocracy, in which the Athenian philosopher imagined a society run by an intellectual elite, “who have the ability to think more deeply, see more clearly and rule more justly than anyone else.†Crucially, Plato’s ruling class was remade each generation—aristocrats were not assumed to pass on their talents—and it prized women as highly as men. Wooldridge finds meritocratic leanings in other pre-modern societies, including China, which began in the fifth century to use exams to recruit civil servants. But it was the expansion of the state in Europe in the early modern period that saw meritocracy first take root, albeit in a paradoxical way. As states expanded, demand for capable bureaucrats outgrew the ability of the aristocracy to produce them. The solution was to look downward and offer patronage to talented lowborns. Men such as French dramatist Jean Racine; London diarist Samuel Pepys; economist Adam Smith; and Henry VIII’s right-hand man, Thomas Cromwell, were all plucked from obscurity by favoritism.?
This x86 core is not only the highest performing CPU core Intel has ever built, but it also delivers a step function in CPU architecture performance that will drive the next decade of compute. It was designed as a wider, deeper and smarter architecture to expose more parallelism, increase execution parallelism, reduce latency and increase general purpose performance. It also helps support large data and large code footprint applications. Performance-core provides a Geomean improvement of about 19%, across a wide range of workloads over our current 11th Gen Intel? Core? architecture (Cypress Cove core) at the same frequency. Targeted for data center processors and for the evolving trends in machine learning, Performance-core brings dedicated hardware, including Intel's new Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX), to perform matrix multiplication operations for an order of magnitude performance – a nearly 8x increase in artificial intelligence acceleration.1 This is architected for software ease of use, leveraging the x86 programing model.