Once more into the breach

The Midterm Elections Are Already Under Attack | WIRED

http://bit.ly/2LCHYAz

We've known, have we not, for a good 15 years the voting machines we use in this country—many of them, at least—are eminently insecure. Elections have come and gone over those years—each time there's a flurry of half-hearted concern over the matter and then, nothing.

Will this time be different? We are not taking bets.

Buzzword alert

Here's Ramona Schindelheim on "The U.S. Has Over 6 Million Job Openings. Why Aren't They Being Filled?" Forbes Magazine July 17, 2018  (#Economy):

"Bovino suggested that 'given that many businesses complain that they can’t find the workers they need with the skills that they need, it seems like they’d be very interested in helping with reskilling this workforce that’s fallen behind.'” 

And later in the same piece…

"And so that might also leave kind of a question for the business of reskilling that worker with the technology he or she needs right now, which might become obsolete in just a few months.”

NSA and Cyber Command to coordinate actions to counter Russian election interference in 2018 amid absence of White House guidance - The Washington Post

"The head of the nation's largest electronic spy agency and the military's cyberwarfare arm has quietly directed the two organizations to coordinate actions to counter potential Russian interference in the 2018 midterm elections."

https://wapo.st/2uvg03c

And in any other world we would say the agencies have gone rogue. 

We live in interesting times. 

Riding with the bots

"Want a hint of how the automotive zeitgeist is changing? You only need to look at the just-ended Goodwood Festival of Speed…"

https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/15/roborace-completes-goodwood-hill-climb/

H/T Sam Guy

Need a new marketing director there?

Russian women push back at shaming over World Cup dating

MOSCOW (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of foreign men have flooded into Russia for the monthlong World Cup...

Burger King...ended up being harshly criticized when it offered 3 million rubles ($48,000) and a lifetime of Whopper burgers to any Russian woman impregnated by a World Cup player.

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