Information Technology

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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

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

DuckDuckGo DuckDuckGo, the internet browser that specializes in online privacy, is launching several new tools aimed at making sure online data brokers can’t get access to your personal information. Also: The best secure browsers to protect your privacy online The new set of tools, called Privacy Pro, combines three things: an anonymous VPN that secures […] More