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TECHNOLOGY – HAI Recommended Reading: 10 Books Worth Checking Out (HAI Stanford University)

HAI faculty members share their favorite fiction and nonfiction books with a technology theme. https://hai.stanford.edu/blog/hai-recommended-reading-10-books-worth-checking-out

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – AI Has Sped Up Biological Discovery by Cracking the Mystery of Proteins (Russ Altman, HAI Stanford University)

Proteins are the molecular machinery of life. DNA blueprints tell cells how to make a given protein by stringing amino acids together like a...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) Announces 2020 Seed Grant Recipients (HAI Stanford University)

Stanford HAI announced it has awarded more than $2.5 million dollars in seed grants to fund interdisciplinary artificial intelligence (AI) research at Stanford University...

GLOBAL – Twelve highlights from our 2020 research (McKinsey Global Institute)

These 12 charts distill some of the best research from the McKinsey Global Institute over the course of a year of shocks. https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/innovation-and-growth/twelve-highlights-from-our-2020-research

USA/ISRAEL/IRAN – The US and Israel Prepare for Iranian Revenge (Mordechai Kedar, BESA Center)

Moments before Donald Trump leaves the White House, Iran may try to avenge the killing of Qassem Soleimani and Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. The Gulf States...

CYBER CRIME/HACKING/SOCIAL NETWORKS – Facebook ads used to steal 615000+ credentials in a phishing campaign (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/112882/hacking/facebook-phishing-campaign-2.html

HACKING/INTERNET OF THINGS – Expert found a secret backdoor in Zyxel firewall and VPN (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/112877/iot/secret-backdoor-zyxel-devices.html

SECURITY – Today Adobe Flash Player reached the end of life (EOL) (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/112867/breaking-news/flash-player-eol.html

DATA BREACH/DEEP WEB – Alleged docs relating to Covid-19 vaccine leaked in darkweb (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/112856/data-breach/covid-19-ema-docs-dark-web.html

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