Techstrong News Recap – September 29, 2022

Hi again, everyone here the headlines for September 29th. Earlier this week NASA's double asteroid Rendezvous test probe or Dart slammed into a small asteroid 7 million miles away from Earth. The goal of Dart was to change the orbit of the asteroid dimorphose and is being hailed as the first ever planetary defense test.

The golf cart size spacecraft hit dimorphosis of 14,000 miles per hour. While dimorphosis classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid. It poses no threat of impacting Earth in the near future.

Even though the crash itself was successful. It will take some time to know if the dart probe was successful as a planetary defense test. Next up meta has announced that they have identified and disabled the operation of a sprawling disinformation Network originating in Russia.

This network thought to use thousands of fake social media accounts and fake news websites to spread Kremlin talking points about the invasion of Ukraine. Facebook has stated. This is the largest and most complex propaganda effort that is found since the invasion began.

Meta has also identified a smaller Network coming from China that was meant to spread divisive political content in the US. While these well the shutdown of these networks show the effectiveness of social media maintaining their sites. It also continues to show the threat that this information poses.

In other news some Senators have been pushing for legislation that would limit US law enforcement from buying cell phone tracking tools. Recent concerns have been from the use of a tool known as fog reveal, which has been used together records from 250 million mobile devices as well as collect geolocation data. The tool uses advertising identification numbers to gather info on people's movements and interests.

This being said there is a secrecy around fog with little details on its use. Many law enforcement groups will not speak on it racing concerns that it violates privacy. The FTC recently held a hearing on this technology and others like it that generate data through popular apps for surveillance purposes.

Next LinkedIn announced the results of a study analyzing the data of over 20 million LinkedIn users to study job success. The study span over five years and use of practicing is A/B Testing that offered different contact recommendations. And then analyze that the new jobs that emerge from them.

Research finding from the study supports the theory known as the strength of weak ties, which says that it's the weak ties that can lead to better job opportunities. However users were not made aware that their data was being studied but LinkedIn says that it has the results will improve job Mobility overall. Earlier this week a prototype all electric plane took its first flight the plane itself was built to carry nine passengers and up to two pilots and uses 21,500 small battery cells to provide Power.

While the flight only lasted for eight minutes, it's a big step forward for all electric planes if the Federal Aviation Administration eventually certifies it to carry passengers. It would become the first all-electric commercial airplane. On container Journal we have an article that highlights the result of a report which reveals the true cost of container security breaches.

Cystic recently released a report that showed for every dollar cybercriminals make through crypto mining the victim pays 53 dollars. That means that an $8,000 attack could cost upwards of $400,000. com.

com. We have an article looking at cloudbees' recently acquisition of a release IQ. Cloud B.

Said the release IQ will provide more visibility and control over software delivery on an end-to-end basis. While cloudbees already has a tool within its continuous delivery platform release IQ uses a SAS platform. That is more accessible.

com. Finally on digital cxo. We have a leadership insights video where we interview hyper tracks CEO cache app deorro on Supply chains.

com. And that's today's text wrong news recap.