Thursday, December 11, 2025
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
News of Self-driving Cars
Which goes to show that self-driving cars can be as stubborn and unreasonable as any (human) driver.
If I understood correctly, it is a software problem. Cars - all of them - have become computers on 4 wheels: if one goes by the performance of the average PC running Windows, this is hardly reassuring ("Your car speaking! Good morning! Sorry but I need to shut down the engine for a short period of time to run a critical update. You might want to re-schedule your urgent hospital appointment as you are going to be late - approximately 20 minutes. Thank you! Have a nice day!").
Monday, December 8, 2025
Pigeons Fitted with Neural Chips [Brave New World]
From METRO of the UK, November 28, 2025
How about fitting infantrymen with neural chips, to better steer them into battle and make sure they move forward, even when they are scared to death? As for the pigeons, the next step would be to turn them into flying suicide bombers...
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Friday, December 5, 2025
Monday, December 1, 2025
Peeping-Tom Hackers in Korea
BBC
Those video-cameras, known as IP cameras or home cameras, are meant to protect the people on site and enhance their security but they are, really, a potential way to invade a person's privacy and compromise it in the worst possible way. In other words, those hi-tech tools are also - paradoxically and yet unsurprisingly - a major security risk.
No surprises here; both Korea and Japan are major Peeping-Tom nations - the earlier perpetrators only had cameras and were taking pictures looking under the women's dresses and skirts. This is a major quantitative escalation.
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Four people have been arrested in South Korea for allegedly hacking more than 120,000 video cameras in homes and businesses and using the footage to make sexually exploitative materials for an overseas website.
Police announced the arrests on Sunday, saying the accused exploited the Internet Protocol (IP) cameras' vulnerabilities, such as simple passwords.
A cheaper alternative to CCTV, IP cameras - otherwise known as home cameras - connect to a home internet network and are often installed for security or to monitor the safety of children and pets.
Locations of cameras hacked in the country reportedly included private homes, karaoke rooms, a pilates studio and a gynaecologist's clinic.
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- Babak Makkinejad
- I had been a senior software developer working for HP and GM. I am interested in intelligent and scientific computing. I am passionate about computers as enablers for human imagination. The contents of this site are not in any way, shape, or form endorsed, approved, or otherwise authorized by HP, its subsidiaries, or its officers and shareholders.