While I was teaching, one of my students asked if I had seen Cybergeddon, a film distributed by Yahoo! in 2012. I had not, so I decided it would be fun for VERT to watch the film and review it, since my hobby is writing film reviews for RotundReviews. Cybergeddon is not talked about as much as it should be given some of the background around it. It should be noted that while we’ll reference…

A panel of experts considers the best methods for safe domestic and international air travel including proof of testing, vaccination passports, and digital health passes. Image: iStock/Vanessa Nunes A recent panel conducted by the security firm Concentric Advisors, “Protocols, Testing, and Proof of Vaccine—What is the future of privacy and travel?” took a deep dive predicting how domestic and international air travel can be safely mandated during the continuing COVID-19 worldwide pandemic.  The panel of…

A South African man has admitted carrying out a cyber-harassment campaign against his neighbors in an attempt to extort money.  Residents of the same quiet street in a Durban suburb that Dharmesh Singh calls home were subjected to weeks of abuse with no idea that the person behind it was their immediate neighbor.  Twenty-three-year-old Singh used unregistered SIM cards to create fake social media profiles from which he sent threatening messages to residents of Battersea Road,…

European consumer groups have accused video-sharing app TikTok of failing to protect minor users from inappropriate content and hidden advertising. The Chinese-owned app was the target of multiple complaints from organizations in 15 different countries on Tuesday for allegedly violating European consumer rights. Along with its treatment of children and teens, the app was slammed for its allegedly unfair terms of service, misleading data-processing practices, and virtual gifts feature critics say modifies the exchange rate so transactions are financially in the…

Many applications can take advantage of GPU acceleration, in particular resource-intensive Machine Learning (ML) applications. The development time of such applications may vary based on the hardware of the machine we use for development. Containerization will facilitate development due to reproducibility and will make the setup easily transferable to other machines. Most importantly, a containerized application is easily deployable to platforms such as Amazon ECS, where it can take advantage of different hardware configurations. In…