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Flying IoT just took off following major deal with DJI and Microsoft

“Many of these applications can get written in Windows as the control plane for the autonomous drone. You can deploy and compute artificial intelligence (AI) models that have been trained in the cloud to the edge right on the drones.”

Nadella also revealed a partnership with chipmaker Qualcomm to create an AI developer kit for computer vision in cameras.

Remember Mirai? Many in the infosec community certainly do, but so do the owners of the devices affected by the DDoS attack.

Now, according to ZDNet, researchers have estimated that the attack cost these device owners upwards of $300,000.

Lasting 77 hours, the researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, estimated that a total of 24,000 unsecured IoT devices were involved in the attack, each of which supposedly cost an average of $0.42 per hour in power.

It is estimated that each device involved in the attack would have only cost the individual owners $13.50 per product, so, quite the loss on this occasion.

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