The United States was the first to use nuclear weapons when it bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. During the Cold War, both the US and Soviet Union engaged in an arms race to develop more advanced nuclear weapons and delivery systems. The US focused on developing intercontinental ballistic missiles like the Atlas and Minuteman that could strike the Soviet Union from great distances with accuracy. The US also deployed nuclear missiles on submarines like the Polaris, making retaliation more assured. The Soviet Union worked to catch up but struggled with inaccurate missiles until later improving their capabilities, increasing tensions during this nuclear standoff between the two superpowers.
A Review Lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis for St Gabriel's Secondary School using political cartoons. This presentation looks at the following inquiry question:
1. Why did the CMC break out?
2. Why did the CMC almost lead to nuclear conflict?
3. How was the CMC resolved?
4. What was the impact of the CMC?
Getting Uphill on a Candle: Crushed Spines, Detached Retinas and One Small StepBrian Troutwine
Looking back through history, we often view NASA’s early mission in terms of “getting to the Moon”, discussing how this or that program served the purpose of answering Kennedy’s challenge. This is wrong-headed. In this talk I will discuss aeronautics research beginning with the Writght Brothers and ending with the first Shuttle launch in 1981. We’ll see how NASA is an organization whose primary mission is basic research and development in aeronautics for the benefit of the public at large and space exploration. We’ll see how the Lunar Program was a focusing of research to a practical, political aim which built off decades of basic research and necessarily side-lined other programs. It’s my aim to convince you that Moonshot projects cannot be considered independently of their organizations and its history.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
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Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
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Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
2. Who was the 1st country to use nuclear
weapons?
The United States became the first
country in the world to use nuclear V2-ROCKET
weapons. They 1st bombed Hiroshima
and Nagasaki in 1945. These bombs
had been dropped by planes but later
they realized that Rockets were
cheaper, faster and more difficult to
destroy in the air so they used rockets
as a means of delivering the weapon to
its target. During world war II US set
out producing nuclear missiles. V-2
rockets were used against Britain at the
end of the war but most of the rockets
did not hit it’s accurate target so the
main problem was developing a missile
that was accurate. The more the V-2
rocket had to travel, the more
inaccurate it became.
3. The US development
The US main enemy was the
Soviet Union so they need
H-BOMB/hydrogen bomb
missiles that could travel long
distances.
The US spended most of their
time developing intercontinental
ballistic missiles that could be
more accurate after the war.
Finally in 1952 the US made their
first H-bomb that provided large
explosion with smaller, lighter
warheads. These bombs much
more accurate than the V2-
rocket.
4. Weight had always been a problem so the US developed the Atlas missile by
1957 that could travel 6,000miles and land within a mile of its target.
Truck transporting Atlas missile to a specific location
5. The final missile
The problem with the Atlas
missile was that it took over an
hour to prepare for firing.
By the end of the 1950s the A Minuteman missile
United States overcame this
problem by developing the
Minuteman missile. This
missile stored its fuel in its own
engines.
It was now possible to fire a
missile in thirty seconds. These
missiles were also fairly small
(54 feet long and 10 feet in
diameter) and could be stored
in silos under the ground,
protected from an enemy
attack.
6. Development of Polaris submarine
and it’s advantage.
United States developed Polaris submarines
Polaris submarine launches a missile
which could carry nuclear missiles. Protected
by the sea, these submarines could move close
to the Soviet Union and therefore increase the
missiles' accuracy which was a great advantage.
A Polaris submarine
7. The Soviet union
The Soviet union was very
worried by the developments
of the US.
They were the 1st to explode the
atomic weapon in 1949 but still
they were far behind in nuclear
technology.
They made large missiles that
could travel long distance but
these missiles were inaccurate
and their size made them
difficult to conceal so it was
useless.
An Atom bomb
8. Soviet union gets more
worried
The Soviet union became more worried
when President John F. Kennedy announced
a program to build nuclear shelters.
The Soviet union was more worried when
Kennedy told a journalist that in some
circumstances the US might start a nuclear
war.
Soviet Union needed to find a way to make
the United States vulnerable to a nuclear
attack.
A underground Nuclear shelter>>>>>
9. Situation between the two
countries
In the 1950s the Soviet Union had been
producing medium-range ballistic missiles
and intermediate-range ballistic missiles to
support troops if a war broke out in Europe.
The Soviet union needed a nuclear base and
also they did not have an ally.
The US radar network could detect anything
or any missile passing the border.
If the US attack’s the Soviet with nuclear
weapon than the Soviets will also attack back
which will cause both countries to suffer, so
the US decides not to attack the Soviet first.