The time travel paradox of artificial intelligence

Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Slaughterhouse Five and J.K.Rowling’s series of Harry Potter novels describe the time travel paradox. Traveling through time changes the future from the point in time where the traveler arrived. The personal assistant that will arrive at some time in the future will change humans from that point in time forward, but in a more impactful way than GPS.Artificially intelligent personal assistants will be part of our lives Google and Facebook have recruited the best artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning talent in the world to build personal assistants in small increments.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Docker Distributed System Summit videos & podcast episodes

Following LinuxCon Europe in Berlin last week, we organized a first of its kind Docker event called Docker Distributed Systems Summit. This two day event was an opportunity for core Docker engineers and Docker experts from the community to learn, collaborate, problem-solve and hack around the next generation of distributed systems in areas such as orchestration, networking, security and storage.

More specifically, the goal of the summit was to dive deep into Docker’s infrastructure plumbing tools and internals: SwarmKit, InfraKit, Hyperkit, Notary, libnetwork, IPVS, Raft, TUF and provide attendees with the working knowledge of how to leverage these tools while building their own systems.

We’re happy to share with you all the videos recordings, slides and audio files available as #dockercast episodes!

Youtube playlist

Podcast playlist

All the slides from the summit are available on the official Docker slideshare account.

Please join us in giving a big shout out to our awesome speakers for creating and presenting the following projects:

  1. InfraKit: A toolkit for creating and managing declarative, self-healing infrastructure
  1. Heart of the SwarmKit: Store, Topology Continue reading

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 14th, 2016

Hey, it's HighScalability time:

 

A pattern from the collective unconscious of the universe. Scott Kelly's brilliant Year in Space Photos.

 

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  • $1.5 million: new iOS hack bug bounty; 120 Terabits per second: Google and Facebook's submarine cable between Los Angeles with Hong Kong; 142,000: IT jobs lost last month;  $17 billion: cost of recall to Samsung; $4.1 Billion: IRS detected identity theft tax fraud; 1956: first mention of P vs NP by Kurt Gödel to John von Neumann; 1 million HTTP requests per second: DDoS attacks coming from IoT cameras; 90 petaflops: capacity of volunteer computing; 500 msec: time it takes the brain to integrate all sensory data into consciousness;

  • Quotable Quotes:
    • @GreatDismal: Silicon Valley fantasy that our universe is a simulation is actually the fantasy that our universe is a *sucessful startup*
    • @gblache: Being POTUS must be like inheriting a 240 year old code base and being asked to fix it in 4 years while half your team tries to sandbag you.
    • chrissnell: I'm a huge believer in colocation/on-prem in the post-Kubernetes era. I manage technical Continue reading

US lawmakers want answers on Yahoo email surveillance

A bipartisan group of 48 U.S. lawmakers wants two government agencies to explain a surveillance program in which Yahoo reportedly scanned all the messages of its email users on behalf of the FBI.After recent news reports of the email scanning program, the Department of Justice and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence need to brief Congress about the efforts, the lawmakers said in a letter to the two agencies.The first news reports about the program contained "conflicting reports about which legal authority was used" for the email scans, said the letter, organized by Representatives Justin Amash, a Michigan Republican, and Ted Lieu, a California Democrat.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

US lawmakers want answers on Yahoo email surveillance

A bipartisan group of 48 U.S. lawmakers wants two government agencies to explain a surveillance program in which Yahoo reportedly scanned all the messages of its email users on behalf of the FBI.After recent news reports of the email scanning program, the Department of Justice and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence need to brief Congress about the efforts, the lawmakers said in a letter to the two agencies.The first news reports about the program contained "conflicting reports about which legal authority was used" for the email scans, said the letter, organized by Representatives Justin Amash, a Michigan Republican, and Ted Lieu, a California Democrat.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Migrating the Runbook – a Journey from Legacy to DevOps

DevOps Journey - Migrating The Runbook

 

"Just type this invoice up for me will you please?" asked a sheepish looking Malcolm.

"I do have better things to do you know" I replied.

"Yes, yes, I know. But who else is going to do it?"

"Give it here then!"

In the beginning, there was a problem

That was a fairly common interaction for me as a young lad. I was fresh out of school and working my summer in the sales department of a local car dealership. My job was mostly admin related tasks, which up until that point hadn't included doing all the sales guys' typing. Our secretary had recently departed the company, and the sales guys all figured I could happily do the replacement typing jobs. The duty had fallen to me because a) I had the stereotypical 1980s glasses of a nerdy computer kid and b) they all knew I actually was a nerdy computer kid. So fair play to them for assuming I could type, I could.

The thing was I really did have better things to do, and these daily interruptions were eating into my productive time. I wanted that time back; so Continue reading

63% off TaoTronics LED Desk Lamp, (Dimmable, Touch Control, 5 Color Modes, USB Charging Port) – Deal Alert

The TaoTronics energy-saving LED Desk Lamp comes with vision-friendly, low power consumption LED light source, adjustable color modes, and dimmable brightness settings, making this ideal for your dorm room, home or office. With a slight touch from your finger tips, you can switch between a strong white light to soft yellow light. 5 different color temperatures and 7 brightness levels for you to fine tune your illumination. This new generation of eco-friendly LED lighting consumes 75% less power than traditional incandescent lights, while providing the same amount of light. No more fumbling to get a charger, the USB port tucked away behind the touch panel comes in handy for when your smartphone or tablet needs a quick charge. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: Limitations of Current Branch Office WAN

A key characteristic of the traditional branch office WAN architecture is to have T1/E1-based access to a service provider’s MPLS network at each branch office and to have one or more high speed links at each data center. In this architecture it is common to backhaul some or all of a company’s Internet traffic to a data center before handing that traffic off to the Internet. In order to understand how common this architectural approach is, the survey respondents were asked to indicate how much of their Internet traffic that is generated in branch offices is backhauled to a data center before being handed off to the Internet. —ECI

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How blockchain can benefit IT outsourcing providers

Earlier this month IBM and its customer Bank of Tokyo announced that they would begin piloting blockchain technology to automate business transactions between the two companies. The joint experiment is one of the first projects built on the open-source Hyperledger Project (the Linux Foundation-led blockchain platform) to explore contract management, the companies said. It’s also an early example of the benefits of using an existing IT outsourcing engagement to experiment with blockchain technology.[ Related: How blockchain will disrupt your business ]To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

British navy sends robots to sea in military exercise

The Royal Navy is testing just how much robot craft can do by themselves in military exercises off the British coast.Operation Unmanned Warrior 16 is a chance for allied nations and the defense industry to show off their latest maritime autonomous systems, as part of a broader military exercise called Joint Warrior."Fire and forget" torpedoes capable of homing in on the noise emitted by a target -- then sinking it -- have been around since World War II, but the systems involved in this exercise are less offensive.More than 50 craft are taking part this week, including uncrewed helicopters and underwater vehicles, and an autonomous rigid inflatable boat (RIB). They will perform tasks such as surveillance, intelligence-gathering and mine countermeasures.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

British navy sends robots to sea in military exercise

The Royal Navy is testing just how much robot craft can do by themselves in military exercises off the British coast.Operation Unmanned Warrior 16 is a chance for allied nations and the defense industry to show off their latest maritime autonomous systems, as part of a broader military exercise called Joint Warrior."Fire and forget" torpedoes capable of homing in on the noise emitted by a target -- then sinking it -- have been around since World War II, but the systems involved in this exercise are less offensive.More than 50 craft are taking part this week, including uncrewed helicopters and underwater vehicles, and an autonomous rigid inflatable boat (RIB). They will perform tasks such as surveillance, intelligence-gathering and mine countermeasures.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

GlobalSign certificate revocation error leaves websites inaccessible

Users around the world have had trouble accessing some HTTPS websites due to an error at GlobalSign, one of the world's largest certificate authorities.As part of a planned exercise, GlobalSign revoked one of its cross-certificates that allowed end-user certificates to chain to alternate root certificates. GlobalSign operates multiple roots, which are trusted in browsers and operating systems by default, and links them together through these cross-certificates.The revocation of such a certificate was interpreted by some browsers and systems also as a revocation of the intermediate certificates that chained back to it. This was not really the case or the company's intention.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

GlobalSign certificate revocation error leaves websites inaccessible

Users around the world have had trouble accessing some HTTPS websites due to an error at GlobalSign, one of the world's largest certificate authorities.As part of a planned exercise, GlobalSign revoked one of its cross-certificates that allowed end-user certificates to chain to alternate root certificates. GlobalSign operates multiple roots, which are trusted in browsers and operating systems by default, and links them together through these cross-certificates.The revocation of such a certificate was interpreted by some browsers and systems also as a revocation of the intermediate certificates that chained back to it. This was not really the case or the company's intention.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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