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How to balance development goals with security and privacy

O'Reilly Software

Practical advice for software engineers and security consultants. As a software security evaluator and a one-time engineer, I can confirm what the daily security breaches are telling us: software engineers and architects regularly fail at building in sufficient security and privacy.

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AI for everyone - How companies can benefit from the advance of machine learning

All Things Distributed

In the case of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), this is different. Many are uncomfortable with the idea that an artificial intelligence exists alongside human intelligence. For the past 20 years, thousands of software engineers at Amazon have been working on ML.

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Communal Computing’s Many Problems

O'Reilly

Amazon’s Ring partnership with one in ten US police departments troubles many privacy groups because it creates a vast surveillance program. The issue isn’t just what you can do with your devices; it’s also what happens to the data they create. What if you don’t want to be a part of the police state?

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