The Saildrone is an uncrewed surface vehicle specifically designed to navigate hurricane swells. It was recently making its way through Hurricane Sam in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The Saildrone’s stabilizing wing sail and GPS navigation system allow it collect data used to predict hurricanes from a more direct source than ever before.
After Facebook, and subsidiaries Instagram and Whatsapp, all experienced downtimes on Monday, people not familiar with the situation suggested that the outage was the result of a cyberattack. In an official statement the company blamed “configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers” which interrupted communication and had downstream effects. Experts suggested from the beginning of the outage that an issue with the company’s Domain Name System which allows connected devices to locate one another was the problem.
Source: https://www.cyberscoop.com/is-facebook-down-instagram-outage-whatspp/
Both Facebook and Tesla are dealing with issues that originate with the faith they have put in different artificial intelligence technologies. While the algorithms at Facebook do a decent job of spotting nudity and terrorist related posts, they still have a long way to go when it comes to stopping misinformation. The problem is there are easy ways of avoiding detection in a lot of cases. For example typing “va((ine” will avoid detection by the algorithm or posting pictures of empty gun cases with the intention of selling what would go inside. Elon Musk once promised that by 2020 Tesla cars would be fully autonomous, currently, Tesla charges users $10k for software that can park the car, change langes, or drive on the highway but still a long way from fully autonomous.
