Telechronics (Ademar Days of opinion): cyborgs, malicious software, phishing and something else.
When we talk about Tesla or SpaceX immediately comes to the idea the name of Elon Musk, but now there is another company of the tycoon on the agenda.
Ademar Days
Journalist
Radio Horizonte Algarve / Tavira
The Neuralink develops its work in the segment of communication interfaces between brain and computer. Now, the startup will be involved in a research project to primate species, in partnership with the University of California (UC).
“The investigation developed in this lab […] It will provide us the information we need before proceeding to clinical trials in humans, which will lead later to the creation of new drugs, therapies or surgical procedures that benefit the health and quality of human life”, reads the agreement now made public.
It is certain that the central project of the company is to develop an interface between men and machines that work exclusively on the basis of synaptic processes of human users. This means that, based on this idealized tool, people would be able to convey thoughts to the machines that surround them, which would allow, for example, initiate phone calls without physical contact with your phone, or writing little notes without the computer nearby. A more complex level of communication could even cause revisitassem computers and they store part of the memories we create.
We will be really the way to create cyborgs?!
An alert and tangible reaches us by the hand of the FBI this week informed the National Center for Cybersecurity that malicious software could affect routers and recommended that the Portuguese public and private entities repusessem the factory settings of the equipment and do upgrades to the latest versions.
O National Center Cibersegurança (CNCS) confirms having received information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) North American, and the issue of "an alert to the national network of public and private entities that collaborate with the National AIDS Council to guarantee the security of national interest cyberspace".
The measures suggested for the problem of mitigation passed "reset to factory defaults, restart equipment (routers) and perform updates to the latest versions available ".
The FBI has detected a hacker attack, originating in Russia, which may void the Internet in neighborhoods or entire cities. The threat of'BadRabbit` entitled involves the introduction of “malware” assuming control of home routers.
The FBI recommended to reset the router to disable the malware, while offering no guarantees.
Already the Cisco experts, company that have detected the attack, suggest resetting the device to factory settings, to ensure that no trace of the virus remains in the router.
A study of Kaspersky Lab shows that Facebook was the easiest social network to replicate fraudulently by hackers between January and March 2018, with pages of this social network are often forged to steal personal information through phishing attacks.
The data shows that Kaspersky Lab recorded over 3,7 millions of rounds of visits to fake social networking pages, 60% of which were Facebook pages.
The trend is long term, refers to computer security company. In 2017, Facebook has become one of the top three phishing targets, reaching 8% of total attacks, followed by Microsoft Corporation (6%) and by PayPal (5%).
In the first quarter of this year, Facebook also leads in phishing category in social networks, followed by VK - a Russian social network - and by LinkedIn.
disclose now the annual ranking of the most valuable brands 2018 da Forbes.
The highlight is the technological giants that a total of 10 places occupy eight.
In the ranking You can find brands like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Samsung, Toyota e AT&T, with Coca-Cola and Disney to be exceptions.
As for the methodology used by Forbes to elect these brands as the most valuable, that passed the three year calculation gains, still examining the role that brands play in their respective industries.
It remains to reveal the top 10 organized last to first on the list: AT&T, Toyota, Disney, Samsung, Coca Cola, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Google e Apple.
In video games, and the World Cup at the door, EA Sports has released their predictions.
According to the producer of FIFA18, video game which appealed to predict the winner of the World Russia, Portugal is no more than 'the 8th’ by evidence, being eliminated by Uruguay.
The simulation was made after the most recent updates on the attributes of the players.
And in this virtual World, the final will be played between France and Germany, with the victory smile at the Gallic selection. In the game for third place award, Spain will beat Belgium.
EA Sports had done simulations of this kind in world 2010 and 2014 and always hit the winners: Spain and Germany, respectively.
No cinema, now comes to the rooms the movie "Terminal", a thriller directed by Vaughn Stein has the actress Margot Robbie as protagonist, a cast which also guide the Simon Pegg names and Dexter Fletcher.
The story of "Terminal" to seek refuge killers with a sinister mission, a teacher with a terminal illness, an employee of cleaning and fey a bar used with a double life. Their lives intersect and are decided by a genius of crime planning, meticulously, his revenge…
Here is the film trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAyRrpE8ezA.
