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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

GeekWire

.” Two decades later, that line from the Microsoft co-founder’s Trustworthy Computing memo would seem quaint if the reality weren’t so terrifying: ransomware, software supply chain attacks, privacy breaches, nation-state hacks, malware, worms, and adversarial machine learning are just a few of the looming threats.

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Content moderation issues are taking center stage in the presidential election campaign

The Verge

I spent the weekend watching three stories unfold at the intersection of social networks and politics. During the initial George Floyd protests earlier this month, a big question was whether the social networks would take action against President Trump for one of his bad posts. Let’s take them in turn. Ben Smith / The New York Times ).