2024

In pursuit of artificial general intelligence, Meta adds Broadcom boss Hock Tan to its board 2024-02-15 at 05:44 By Simon Sharwood Zuck needs silicon smarts – and the energy experience of a former Enron exec Social networking company Meta has appointed Broadcom CEO Hock Tan to its board and added energy entrepreneur John Arnold too.… […]

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‘Scandal-plagued’ data broker tracked visits to ‘600 Planned Parenthood locations’ 2024-02-15 at 04:32 By Jessica Lyons Anti-abortion group said to have used that monitoring to push ad campaign A pro-life group was able to specifically target visitors to nearly 600 Planned Parenthood facilities in 48 states in America with anti-abortion ads using location data from

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Slack adds AI to help users cope with chat overload 2024-02-15 at 03:46 By Katyanna Quach Summarizes threads you just can’t keep up with and beefs up search After nearly a year of testing, Salesforce-owned Slack has launched some generative AI features that may help enterprise users search, summarize, and ask questions about information in

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Quilter’s AI design service nabs $10M to make circuit board design easier 2024-02-15 at 02:47 By Tobias Mann Claims what took weeks to do by hand, machine learning can do in hours On Tuesday AI startup Quilter picked up $10 million in series-A funding to use a combination of machine learning and high-performance computing (HPC)

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OpenAI shuts down China, Russia, Iran, N Korea accounts caught doing naughty things 2024-02-15 at 02:16 By Katyanna Quach You don’t need us to craft phishing emails or write malware, super-lab sniffs OpenAI has shut down five accounts it asserts were used by government agents to generate phishing emails and malicious software scripts as well

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Date set for for epic Amazon-FTC antitrust showdown 2024-02-15 at 00:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo Lina Khan may not even be in charge of watchdog by time case gets to trial, if it even goes that far The FTC’s antitrust case against Amazon is headed to trial, though not anytime soon, with a federal judge scheduling

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Report reveals the 5 fraud threats to watch out for in 2024 2024-02-15 at 00:16 By The report discusses the five fraud threats that are predicted to emerge in 2024.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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China’s Volt Typhoon spies broke into emergency network of ‘large’ US city 2024-02-14 at 23:17 By Jessica Lyons Jeez, not now, Xi. Can’t you see we’ve got an election and Ukraine and Gaza and cost of living and layoffs and … The Chinese government’s Volt Typhoon spy team has apparently already compromised a large US

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AI won’t take our jobs and it might even save the middle class 2024-02-14 at 22:17 By Thomas Claburn MIT economist argues AI can moderate the inequalities of the Information Age The future described in OpenAI’s mission statement, in which autonomous systems “outperform humans at most economically valuable work,” sounds like a hellscape to MIT

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Phishing attacks increased 106% year over year 2024-02-14 at 22:16 By According to a recent threat report, detections of phishing attempts increased by 106% year-over-year, while malware detections were up 40%. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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The FBI warns of the prevalence of romance scams this Valentine’s Day 2024-02-14 at 22:16 By This Valentine’s Day, the FBI warns online users about romance scams and the associated losses.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Moving to Windows 11 is so easy! You just need to buy a PC that supports it! 2024-02-14 at 21:47 By Richard Speed New Start Menu is a ‘game changer’ claims relentlessly cheerful vid Microsoft is again releasing a video to entice more Windows 10 users to make the leap to the brave new world

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US Air Force’s new cyber, IT skill recruitment plan: Bring back warrant officer ranks 2024-02-14 at 20:49 By Brandon Vigliarolo Officer pay, limited command duties and writing ‘code for your country’ Skilled IT professionals considering a career change have a new option, as the US Air Force is reintroducing warrant officer ranks exclusively “within the

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Prudential Financial finds cybercrims lurking inside its IT systems 2024-02-14 at 19:31 By Paul Kunert Some company admin and customers data exposed, but bad guys were there for ‘only’ a day Prudential Financial, the second largest life insurance company in the US and eight largest worldwide, is dealing with a digital break-in that exposed some

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Kent Goodrow appointed Chief Information Security Officer at Systems Engineering 2024-02-14 at 19:02 By Kent Goodrow has been appointed Chief Information Security Officer at Systems Engineering. Goodrow is pursuing a Master’s in Cybersecurity Management. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Waymo services driverless car software after Phoenix truck collision 2024-02-14 at 18:47 By Lindsay Clark Alphabet owned autonomous vehicle biz files voluntary recall report saying it tweaked wares via over-the-air update Self-driving car company Waymo — a subsidiary of Google-owner Alphabet — has voluntarily filed a recall report after one of its vehicles collided with

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