Unsupervised Learning NO. 365 | China’s Decline, MicrosoftAI, Creativity Ratio…

🎙️If you’re not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it using with your favorite client! APPLE | SPOTIFY | OTHER SECURITY NEWS NYC Surveillance Amnesty International has revealed new research showing that the NYPD has over 15,000 cameras that can do facial recognition, including over 577 cameras in the most surveilled neighborhood of East New…

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Avast releases free BianLian ransomware decryptor

BianLian (not to be confused with the same-name Android banking trojan) is a Go-based ransomware hitting Windows systems. It uses the symmetric AES-256 algorithm with the CBC cipher mode to encrypt over 1013 file extensions on all accessible drives.

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Brooklyn trial set for Mexico’s former top cop charged with being on payroll of drug lord ‘El Chapo’

NEW YORK — He was once Mexico’s top cop — and now a Brooklyn jury will decide if he was a lapdog for a drug lord’s empire. Jury selection is slated to start this week in the federal trial of Genaro Garcia Luna, Mexico’s former secretary of public secu…

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