<!–> Tim Robberts/Getty Images Google and Yahoo are upping their efforts in the fight against bulk email spam. Starting in early 2024, both companies will kick off new and stricter requirements for bulk senders who use their platforms to send mass emails. On Tuesday, Google and Yahoo both published blog posts outlining the new rules […] More
June Wan/ZDNET I’ve been using the Pixel phones since they were first released to the public. From the first phone to the latest, the experience has (for the most part) been exceptional. Also: Every product unveiled at the Made by Google event today Yes, there was the dreaded Pixel 4 and it’s shamelessly bad battery life […] More
<!–> JanRoode/Getty Images Microsoft’s proprietary protocol, Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS), started with a good idea. It would enable hardware vendors to add networking support to USB devices without having to build them from scratch. There was only one little problem. RNDIS has no security to speak of. As Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux Foundation […] More
David Gewirtz/ZDNET Programming is a constant game of mental Jenga: one line of code stacked upon another, building a tower of code you hope is robust enough not to come crashing down. But it always does, as code never works the first time it’s run. So, one of the key skills for any programmer is […] More
<!–> B2M Productions/Getty Images As an author of fiction (especially horror and thrillers), I often have to research things I wouldn’t want other people to know I’m looking for. For example, while writing a new romance/thriller series, I had to research how much time would elapse before the effects of benzodiazepine took hold. That’s not […] More
<!–> Debrocke/ClassicStock/Getty Images According to most reports, AI will soon be everywhere, pretty much like sugar, or Taylor Swift. AI systems will soon form an intelligent backbone to everything we use or do and transform industries and society as a whole, say experts. Also: AI safety and bias: Untangling the complex chain of AI training […] More
<!–> da-kuk/Getty Images Last week, OpenAI (the folks who brought you the wildly disruptive ChatGPT) announced that the AI chatbot will no longer be limited to data from before September 2021 (or in the case of GPT-4, from before January 2022). In fact, it will be able to browse the web and provide insights into […] More
<!–> Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images Identifying the top nation-state actors can depend on who you ask, which underscores the need to gather threat intelligence from varied data sources. In a climate where geopolitical issues now can drive industry discussions, organizations will be better served if they formulate their cybersecurity strategy on information that reflects threat activities […] More
