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Russia retaliates to Obama actions, strikes back to U.S. with closure of a Moscow school

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President Obama struck Russian hard on its meddling of U.S. presidential election. As Russia promised, the country has returned the favor in its own way.

Russian authorities on Thursday announced the closure of the Anglo-American School of Moscow, hours after the Kremlin vowed to retaliate against recent U.S. sanctions.

The nonprofit day school, which enrolls international students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, will be closed along with the U.S. Embassy vacation dacha in Serebryany Bor on the outskirts of Moscow, according to a CNN report.

Meanwhile, President-elect Donald Trump is calling U.S. to move on from the assertion that Russia hacked the election for him.

Insisting it’s time “to move on,” President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he will nonetheless meet next week with leaders of the intelligence community “to be updated on the facts” of alleged Russian cyberattacks.

“It’s time for our country to move on to bigger and better things,” he said in a statement. “Nevertheless, in the interest of our country and its great people, I will meet with leaders of the intelligence community next week in order to be updated on the facts of this situation.”

The Department of Homeland Security and FBI released a joint report Thursday dubbed Grizzly Steppe that “provides technical details regarding the tools and infrastructure used by the Russian civilian and military intelligence Services (RIS) to compromise and exploit networks and endpoints associated with the U.S. election, as well as a range of U.S. Government, political, and private sector entities.”

Nigerian students, work for Facyber and earn a small income while in school

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We are looking for Students Ambassadors  to cover all universities, colleges of education, and polytechnics across Nigeria. This is to assist the enrollment of students in our online cybersecurity business, First Atlantic Cybersecurity Institute (Facyber), which is U.S.based, but coordinated in Nigeria by Fasmicro.

About the Job
First Atlantic Cybersecurity Institute (Facyber) is a cybersecurity training, consulting and research company specializing in all areas of cybersecurity including Cybersecurity Policy, Management, Technology, Intelligence and Digital Forensics.  The clientele base covers universities, polytechnics, colleges of education, governments, government labs and agencies, businesses, civil organizations, and individuals. Specifically, the online courses are designed for the needs of students of any discipline or field (CS, Engineering, Law, Policy, Business, etc) with the components covering policy, management, and technology. Please see complete Facyber curricula here.

The programs are structured thus:

  • Certificate Program (Online 12 weeks)
  • Diploma Program (Online 12 weeks)
  • Nanodegree Program (Live 1 week)

The purpose of a Students Ambassador is to promote Facyber training programs in the respective campus. The incumbent will coordinate the enrollment of students in his/her campus. When necessary, the incumbent will help coordinate cybersecurity and digital forensics seminars/workshops in the campus in partnership with Fcyber local partner, Fasmicro.

Qualifications for Students Ambassador include:
•         Be an active student of the school to be represented
•         No sales experience needed
•         Tech-savvy with strong presence in social media
•         Relationship development skills a must. You must be self-driven . We want students with good networks in  their schools.

All the students will report remotely to our Director of Campus Initiatives who is based in Owerri, Nigeria.

Qualified applicants are encouraged to send an intent email (add a short CV please) to info@facyber.com. We plan to have 2-3 students per school and once we meet our targets, the opportunities will close.

This is an opportunity to earn extra naira while in school, so do not delay.

Serena Williams is marrying Y Combinator partner Alexis Ohanian [see Reddit post]

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Tennis superstar Serena Williams is marrying Reddit cofounder and Y Combinator partner Alexis Ohanian, according to a Thursday post she made on Reddit.

“And you made me the happiest man on the planet,” Ohanian replied.

Keystone Bank Nigeria is laughable with excuse of system upgrade during Christmas

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Imagine a bank doing system upgrade in December! That is what Keystone Bank is trying to tell us. We mean the upgrade is the reason why its services, especially in the electronic channels, have been down for days.

They need a better liar in the corporate communication unit.APC or PDF  can give them better guys to explain out things.

 

Why Africa should develop better policies to police Google, Facebook, etc in 2017

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This piece by the Economist explains why the Western world will rule the 21st century. Even the promise of China is muted when you know the West is creating another world entirely. For us in Africa, we can be happy to connect as usual buyers until technical education is  made a priority in the continent.

There will be consequences for that decision. There is a possibility that software will eat all of us here in Africa. Google, Facebook and others are leading these charges via artificial intelligence. The world domination will have consequences but Africa will suffer most because we do not even have resilience capabilities.

Never think these companies are merciful – no, they are not. They answer to gods in Wall Street and will do all to make those gods happy. As Shell, Mobile etc polluted Nigerian Niger Delta, they gods applauded them. And when they finished, leaving our people in diseases and penury, the gods have forgotten. They are now looking for new areas.

So, people, Africa needs a plan for these companies in 2017. We need to be assertive to get something from them as they eat all we exist for with software and AI.

Now the piece from the Economist:

Sometimes it is perceived as a figment of the far future. But artificial intelligence (AI) is today’s great obsession in Silicon Valley. Last year technology companies spent $8.5 billion on deals and investments in artificial intelligence, four times more than in 2010. Nearly all of the world’s technology giants, including Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and Baidu, are competing fiercely to hire the best AI experts, snap up start-ups and pour money into research. What accounts for the tech elite’s sudden AI-phoria?

The technology has not always been so popular. The field was largely ignored and underfunded during the “AI winter” of the 1980s and 1990s. At that time AI research conducted at universities proved to be disappointingly slow and irrelevant to companies’ bottom lines. Now, however, the chill is gone. Progress in AI is accelerating. Recently Google generated lots of headlines when DeepMind, a start-up it acquired in 2014, helped train a computer to repeatedly beat the world champion at Go, a board game. This has sparked both fear and hope for the future of AI: hope for fat profits and improving people’s lives through technology; fear about how society will cope with the dislocation AI could bring.

AI is already starting to generate big financial gains for companies, which helps explain firms’ growing investment in developing AI capabilities. Machine-learning, in which computers become smarter by processing large data-sets, currently has many profitable consumer-facing applications, including image recognition in photographs, spam filtering and those that help to better target advertisements to web surfers. Many of tech firms’ most ambitious projects, including building self-driving cars and designing virtual personal assistants that can understand and execute complex tasks, also rely on artificial intelligence, especially machine-learning and robotics. This has prompted tech firms to try to hire up as much of the top talent as they can from universities, where the best AI experts research and teach. Some worry about the potential of a brain drain from academia into the private sector.

The biggest concern, however, is that one firm corners the majority of the talent in artificial intelligence, creating an intellectual monopoly of sorts. Google looks best positioned to do this: between its Google Brain project and its acquisition of DeepMind, it has some of the brightest human brains working on AI. Because superior AI systems are able to learn and improve more quickly, the firms that develop an early edge in artificial intelligence may reap the greatest rewards and erect barriers to entry that smaller firms will find hard to overcome. In December Elon Musk and several other tech leaders pledged $1 billion to help fund OpenAI, a research lab that will make public all of its findings, to ensure there is an entity that is working on developing AI on behalf of the public good and not just its own profits. Today AI is the domain of tech geeks, but its future matters to everyone.