Beta Edition, via the National Security Archive – “The Cyber Library contains all primary-source materials gathered by the Project across the full range of cyber security issues. New materials will be added on a regular basis. The [content] isting is chronological. To search for specific items, use [the search engine provided]. Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: October 2016
Open Culture – Master List of 1,200 Free Courses From Top Universities
A Master List of 1,200 Free Courses From Top Universities: 40,000 Hours of Audio/Video Lectures “For the past ten years, we’ve been busy rummaging around the internet and adding courses to an ever-growing list of Free Online Courses, which now features 1,200+ courses from top universities. Let’s give you the quick overview: The list lets you download… Continue Reading
Political TV Ad Archive
Via Internet Archive – “The Political TV Ad Archive collects political ads in the 2016 election. In addition to tracking airings across key primary states, the collection includes ads that may air elsewhere or exclusively on social media.” Searchable by sponsor, keyword or candidate. See also Internet Archive data fuels journalists’ analyses of how TV… Continue Reading
Paper – Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs
Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs. Florian Tramèr, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL); Fan Zhang, Cornell University; Ari Juels, Cornell Tech; Michael K. Reiter, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Thomas Ristenpart, Cornell Tech. This paper is included in the Proceedings of the 25th USENIX Security Symposium August 10–12, 2016. Austin,… Continue Reading
GAO – Agencies Need to Improve Their Application Inventories to Achieve Additional Savings
Information Technology: Agencies Need to Improve Their Application Inventories to Achieve Additional Savings, GAO-16-511: Published: Sep 29, 2016. Publicly Released: Sep 29, 2016. “Most of the 24 Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act of 1990 agencies in the review fully met at least three of the four practices GAO identified to determine if agencies had complete… Continue Reading
GAO Report – Actions Are Needed to Help Ensure the Completeness of Political Conversion Data
Office of Personnel Management: Actions Are Needed to Help Ensure the Completeness of Political Conversion Data and Adherence to Policy, GAO-16-859: Published: Sep 30, 2016. Publicly Released: Sep 30, 2016. “When a new president takes office in January, scores of new political appointees will join the federal workforce. What happens to the old appointees? Some… Continue Reading
CJR – Analyzing 547 debate questions: This year, personal qualities take center stage
Carlett Spike and Pete Vernon, Columbia Journalism Review: “This year’s first presidential debate focused more on personality than any other in US history—befitting a match-up featuring two of the least popular candidates ever. And if the next two debates shape up like the first, the debate season as a whole would set a new high-water… Continue Reading
Research Letter – violence is not exclusive to humans
The phylogenetic roots of human lethal violence, José María Gómez, Miguel Verdú, Adela González-Megías& Marcos Méndez. Nature (2016) doi:10.1038/nature19758 “The psychological, sociological and evolutionary roots of conspecific violence in humans are still debated, despite attracting the attention of intellectuals for over two millennial. Here we propose a conceptual approach towards understanding these roots based on… Continue Reading
New Report – US Could Reach Peak Car Ownership By 2020
PRWeb: “The auto industry faces transformative times ahead, with potential for the United States market to reach peak car ownership by 2020, according to a new Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) report released [September 26, 2016]. The report, Peak Car Ownership, outlines what to expect as the United States moves away from the traditional model of… Continue Reading
McKinsey – Poorer than their parents? Flat or falling incomes in advanced economies
“Most people growing up in advanced economies since World War II have been able to assume they will be better off than their parents. For much of the time, that assumption has proved correct: except for a brief hiatus in the 1970s, buoyant global economic and employment growth over the past 70 years saw all… Continue Reading
