DeepSeek: why the hot new Chinese AI chatbot has big privacy and security problems
Sending your personal information to be stored in China is a risky proposition.
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Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek censors itself in realtime, users report
Depending on version downloaded, app approaches its answers with preamble of reasoning which it then erases
Quantifying ROI: Understanding the impact of cybersecurity products and services on cyber insurance claims
Research reveals that the value of cyber insurance claims made by organizations using MDR services are, on average, 97.5% lower than those made by organizations that rely on endpoint protection alone.
Trump Wants to Double Production of New Nuclear Weapon Cores
Trump’s proposed 2027 budget would almost double the budget for plutonium pits, the chemical filled metal sphere inside a nuclear warhead that kicks off the explosion in a nuclear weapon. The same budget would slash almost $400 million from nuclear environmental cleanup. The budget request follows a leaked National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) memo calling…
Polygon Acquired by Porn Mogul Who Co-Founded Brazzers
Polygon, Vox Media’s video games website, has been acquired by Valnet, a company founded and helmed by Hassan Youssef, a former pornography mogul and the co-founder of the popular adult entertainment site Brazzers. The news, which broke first on social media via various Polygon writers and editors saying that they suddenly don’t have a job,…
Hackers and Trolls Target Wave of ICE Spotting Apps
Over the last few days hackers and trolls have targeted a slew of ICE spotting apps and their users in an apparent attempt to intimidate and stop them from reporting sightings of ICE. These hackers sent threatening text messages to users of StopICE, claiming their personal data has been sent to the authorities; attempted to…
W3 Total Cache plugin flaw exposes 1 million WordPress sites to attacks
A severe flaw in the W3 Total Cache plugin installed on more than one million WordPress sites could give attackers access to various information, including metadata on cloud-based apps. […]
Trump administration scraps AI-focused framework for FedRAMP
The program was created in response to the Biden administration’s AI executive order.
Scientists Identify Remains of the Earliest Human Ancestor
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Mysterious bones that date back seven million years likely belong to the oldest known human ancestor, according to a study published on Friday in Science Advances. For years, scientists have debated…
Teachers Are Not OK
Last month, I wrote an article about how schools were not prepared for ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, based on thousands of pages of public records I obtained from when ChatGPT was first released. As part of that article, I asked teachers to tell me how AI has changed how they teach. The response…