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December Tech Trends Report and 2016 Enterprise Tech Projections

CTOvision

The Trends To Track in 2016. Here is more on what we expect each will bring us in 2016: Cloud Computing : The efficiencies of this new architecture are driving compute costs down. For 2016, expect more IT departments to be buying these small form factor cloud in a box data centers. For more see: [link] TheCyberThreat.

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Internet shutdowns by governments have ‘proliferated at a truly alarming pace’

The Verge

The number of government-led internet shutdowns has exploded over the last decade as states seek to stifle dissent and protest by limiting citizens’ access to the web. The first significant internet shutdown took place in Egypt in 2011, as a response to protests against then-president Hosni Mubarak. Photo by James Bareham / The Verge.

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The Supreme Court decides not to break the internet

Vox

The Supreme Court handed down two high-stakes tech decisions on Thursday — cases that, if handled ineptly, could have destroyed much of the internet and subjected social media companies to devastating liability. The good news is that none of that will happen. Both Justice Clarence Thomas’s unanimous opinion in Twitter v.

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Amazon partners with UCLA on science hub focusing on AI and its social impact

GeekWire

Amazon and UCLA are launching a research hub that will draw upon industry and academic research to address the social issues raised by the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. UCLA organized an “Amazon Science Day” event today to celebrate the unveiling of the hub as well as the 52nd anniversary of the birth of the internet.

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What will stop AI from flooding the internet with fake images?

Vox

Within a matter of minutes of being posted, the realistic-looking image spread on Twitter and other social media networks after being retweeted by some popular accounts. Online misinformation has existed since the dawn of the internet, and crudely photoshopped images fooled people long before generative AI became mainstream.

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RiskIQ Accelerates Momentum Across Entire External Threat Management Solution Set in First Half of 2016

CTOvision

They are like the SIEM of the Internet and all mobile devices. RiskIQ Accelerates Momentum Across Entire External Threat Management Solution Set in First Half of 2016. Love that the use case below mentioned Facebook, which means RiskIQ is really protecting all of us already. We track RiskIQ in our Security Companies Directory -bg.

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6 of the most effective social engineering techniques

Network World

Social engineering is the strongest method of attack against the enterprise’s weakest vulnerability, its people. In 2015, social engineering became the No. 1 method of attack, according to Proofpoint’s 2016 Human Factor Report. These successful social engineering methods often use phishing and malware.