The number of significant new AI models coming out of industry has surged in recent years relative to academia and government. Stanford HAI The seventh-annual report on the global state of artificial intelligence from Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence offers some concerning thoughts for society: the technology’s spiraling costs and poor measurement of […] More
South_agency/Getty Images The XZ Utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) may not have been an isolated incident, according to a joint statement by the Open Source Security Foundation and the OpenJS Foundation. If you’re unaware of the XZ Utils saga, my esteemed colleague, Steven Vaughn-Nichols, covered the story in “This backdoor almost infected Linux everywhere: The XZ Utils close […] More
Antonio Solano via iStock/Getty Images Plus With recent data breaches coming to light, you may wonder how to protect your identity from bad actors. A credit freeze is a simple thing you can do to restrict access to your credit report and prevent bad actors from using your personal information for their financial gain. Also: […] More
JuSun/Getty Images I never thought this would happen, but Xfinity is wheedling its way into my affections. Or, at least, out of my disaffections. Also: Switching to better internet? Do these 5 things before you change ISPs Sometimes the Comcast company has truly tested my patience — and not just mine. Whether it’s customers who […] More
That looks effective. Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/ZDNETWe’ve become used to giving ourselves away.We give away our data. We even give away what we think, feel and do. Somehow, we say we care about privacy but don’t often do anything to protect it.Also: The best robot vacuums: Expert testedBut here’s something that may help in ways that we might never have imagined. It’s a robotic camera system — and its sole purpose is to protect your privacy.Its creators at the University of Sydney, Australia say they want to fight anyone who tries to sneak through your robot vacuum, your Ring camera, or any other so-called smart home device and get a full view of your inner life. Which includes, of course, where you keep your most valuable items.In a paper outlining their work, the researchers say: “We propose a specific form of inherent privacy preservation in which no images are captured or could be reconstructed by an attacker, even with full remote access.” More
Gov.uk Generative AI is growing exponentially, with new developments daily. As a result, safeguards and policies regarding the technology are more necessary than ever. World leaders will gather soon at the AI Seoul Summit to discuss just that. Also: Despite DALL-E military pitch, OpenAI maintains its tools won’t be used to develop weapons On Friday, […] More
boonchai wedmakawand/Getty Images Companies around the world need to act quickly after another major security breach hit a company that provides critical data analytics and visualization tools to a slew of organizations. Earlier this week, Sisense confirmed that the data dashboard and analytics company had been hit with a breach that allowed hackers to access its […] More
rob dobi/Getty Images If you have a lot of customers you need to contact regarding an important communication, such as a data breach, it may be a good idea to stage those communications over several days rather than do it all at once. It appears that one of the US’s largest wireless services carriers did […] More
