Monthly Archives: February 2022
100 Trillion Zimbabwe-Dollar Banknote on Display in Museum
Zimbabwe’s now defunct 100 trillion-dollar banknote—the world’s highest denomination banknote ever—will soon be showcased in a museum exhibit in England.
On 11 February 2022 the...
The Benefits of Developing a Business Continuity Plan
In a previous article we defined the role of a Business Continuity (BC) Plan following a security breach. This article will describe the importance...
Azerbaijan to Issue New-and-Improved 20-Manat Banknote
The Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) will start issuing a new-and-improved 20-manat banknote on 10 February 2022. The new note will have an updated...
Belgium’s New Passport Blends Whimsy with Security
Belgium’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sophie Wilmès, recently revealed the new Belgian passport, which will be available starting 7 February...
The Euro: 20 Years of Cashing in on Holograms
To understand why the European Central Bank (ECB) decided to place holograms onto the euro as an anti-counterfeiting feature, you have to go back...
Upgraded Alaska Driver’s License, ID Card Coming This Fall
The Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) recently announced that it will begin issuing upgraded driver’s license and ID cards starting in late Fall...
EES and ETIAS: the EU’s New Border Management Systems [UPDATE]
As we have previously reported, the European Union has long been planning to introduce two separate but integrated border management systems. Together, the systems...
Advanced Generative AI: General Adversarial Network
We kicked off this new AI-focused series by Cyber expert Ravi Das with an article about the Variational Autoencoder (VAE). In this second article,...
Rwanda’s New 2,000 RWF and 5,000 RWF Banknotes
The National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) has put into circulation redesigned versions of two of its banknote denominations: the 2,000 Rwanda franc (RWF) and...
Advanced Generative AI: The Variational Autoencoder
In this series of articles, author Ravi Das examines some of the more advanced topics that support Generative AI. In this first article, he...