An Unprecedented Look at Stuxnet the World’s First Digital Weapon

My recent book, The Universal Machine, opens its chapter on hacking with the deployment of the Stuxnet computer virus. Allegedly created by Israel and US intelligence services to target Irans nuclear bomb programme it was the worlds first state against state digital weapon. With North Korea now being accused of hacking Sony perhaps its time to revisit this story. Wired has recently published an excerpt from a new book on Stuxnet - recommended reading.



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The Plan to Build a Massive Online Brain for All the World’s Robots

This is a clever idea (in fact I thought of it a few years ago as well). Now with excellent WiFi and 4G connectivity there is no need for an individual robot to carry all its processing power onboard. Instead they can delegate some decisions to the cloud. Wired recently reported on a project to do just this - to build a massive robot brain in the c loud. Indeed I believe that Googles driverless cars can also use the cloud to aid their decision making. I cant find a link for this so would be grateful if a reader who knows a relevant URl could comment.

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