Signal investigates rumored zero-day bug, AI predicts new COVID-19 strains, declining US-China scientific collaboration, European Commission's CSAM detection bypass, cybersecurity incidents, data breaches, decline in scientific collaboration, social media use by teenagers, gender disparities on GitHub, and various other interesting topics.
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Signal's rumored zero-day bug turned out to be false information.
Collaboration between American and Chinese scientists is dwindling.
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Security News
In the podcast episode, security news is discussed, including the potential signal zero-day that turned out to be rumors, the predator spyware from the Vietnamese government targeting US representatives and journalists, the importance of patching Atlassian confluence servers, and the high severity vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Reader being actively exploited.
Tech and Science Updates
The episode covers various tech and science updates, such as using ads to predict new COVID-19 strains, California's use of automated cameras to nab speeders, the development of a bionic hand prosthetic, Atlassian's acquisition of the video tutorials platform Loom, and the impact of the annular solar eclipse on US solar energy output.
Social and Cultural Observations
The podcast episode touches on social and cultural observations, including the widening income gap, the CIA's admission of the undemocratic 1953 coup in Iran, the decline of collaboration between American and Chinese researchers, the decline in pro-Palestinian demonstrations in France, and the underrepresentation of women on GitHub and in AI YouTube content.
In This Edition We Look Into Signal's Investigation Into A Rumored Zero-Day Bug, How Harvard And Oxford Researchers Are Using AI To Predict New COVID-19 Strains, The Dwindling Collaboration Between American And Chinese Scientists, And The European Commission's CSAM Detection Bypass