July 21, 2021
NOTABLE DEVELOPMENTS THIS WEEK
Increasing alarm over crypto energy consumption can hinder its growth
The energy consumption from crypto mining has been increasingly exponentially with the increasing adoption of crypto. This increasing becoming of concern as it should be. Large parts of the world suffer from energy deprivation due to unaffordability and inadequate energy generation. At the same time climate change goals will require the world to reduce net emission much of which is produced from electricity generation. Supporting the world’s growth and generating the and while reducing emissions when large populations suffer from energy deficiency is a very difficult issue requires trillions is capital over the coming 2 decades. Bill Gates told the New York times recently that:” “Bitcoin uses more electricity per transaction than any other method known to mankind.” Thus, mining energy consumption will become a roadblock to mainstreaming crypto.
Cybereum comments: What if you can generate crypto tokens without conventional cryptomining? Read our whitepaper to find out.
Read the Forbes article on the report here,
The New York times Interview with Bill Gates is here,
Read our whitepaper here
Pegasus spyware: What to know about the NSO Group software infecting phones
It’s a doozy of an electronic spying case. Security researchers found evidence of attempted or successful installation of Pegasus, software made by an Israeli cybersecurity company, on 37 phones of activists, journalists and businesspeople. They appear to have been the targets of potentially intense secret surveillance with software intended to pursue criminals and terrorists. The phones were on a list of more than 50,000 phone numbers for politicians, judges, lawyers, teachers and others. Made by NSO Group, Pegasus is the latest example of how vulnerable we all are to digital prying. Our most personal information — photos, text messages and emails — is stored on our phones. Spyware can bypass the encryption that protects data sent over the internet. — CNET Reporting
Whose phones did Pegasus infect
In addition to Mangin, two journalists at Hungarian investigative outlet Direkt36 had infected phones, the Guardian reported. A Pegasus attack was launched on the phone of Hanan Elatr, wife of murdered Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post said, though it wasn’t clear if the attack succeeded. But the spyware did make it onto the phone of Khashoggi’s fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, shortly after his death. And seven people in India were found with infected phones, including five journalists and one adviser to the opposition party critical of Prime Minister Nar endra Modi, the Washington Post said. — CNET Reporting
Read the CNET article on the report here, check to see if your phone is infect by using the MVT kit here.
CYBEREUM NEWS
Cybereum Creates
Cybereum has created several digital art pieces generated while creating the cybereum website and application. This digital art has been mined as NFT items on the Ethereum blockchain.
Preview our growing collection on OpenSea here.
Special Event — National Moon Day
On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong & Edwin Buzz Aldrin became the first humans ever to land on the moon. About six-and-a-half hours later, Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon. As he took his first step, Armstrong famously said, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” The Apollo 11 mission occurred eight years after President John F. Kennedy announced a national goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Apollo 17, the final manned moon mission, took place in 1972.
Read the History article on this amazing achievement here, watch the Apollo 11 landing video here.
NOTABLE DEVELOPMENTS THIS WEEK
Augmented & Artificial Intelligence
The power of AI is extended by AI. #ArtificialIntelligence together with Human Intelligence and expertise can form even more powerful #AugmentedIntelligence. This is particularly important in a discipline of project management where expert project management expertise is crucial, but where the limitations of expertise due to biases and cognitive limits is also extremely significant.
Cybereum observes that Augmented Intelligence will be crucial to the application of AI to project management, where it has hitherto made little headway. A forthcoming paper by cybereum founder, Ananth Natarajan, on Machine Learning for project forecasting in a special issue of the Project Management Journal (PMJ) will discuss the balance between expert judgment & machine learning. This balance will be a critical issue in deploying artificial intelligence to disciplines that rely on expert judgement.
A recent article on Forbes that gives an overview on Augment Intelligence is here.
The announcement of the PMJ special issue on how Project Management be Changed by 21st-Century General-Purpose Technologies is here.
