Why DeepSeek Could Change What Silicon Valley Believe About A.I.
A new A.I. model, released by a scrappy Chinese upstart, has rocked Silicon Valley and upended several fundamental assumptions about A.I. progress.
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Podcast: How the FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages
We start this week with Joseph’s story on the inherent friction between secure chat apps like Signal and the phone they’re running on. Incoming message content can be stored in a phone’s internal notification database. After the break, Matthew tells us the latest about the data center pushback. Then in the subscribers’ only section, Emanuel…
Top 5 Strategies for Cybersecurity Red Teaming
Red teaming offers a proactive approach to cybersecurity that is most effective when implemented through a strategy that includes collaboration and AI.
Is AI Security the Next Frontier in Tech?
How one startup is tackling the hidden risks of artificial intelligence
AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications
Anthropic, the company that made one of the most popular AI writing assistants in the world, requires job applicants to agree that they won’t use an AI assistant to help write their application. “While we encourage people to use AI systems during their role to help them work faster and more effectively, please do not…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s Iconic Look Used to Promote Knockoff Leather Jackets
It’s probably not a coincidence that some of the most famous tech company CEOs have instantly recognizable looks. Steve Jobs’s black turtleneck and blue jeans. Palmer Lucky’s Hawaiian shirts and flip flops. Mark Zuckerberg’s wedgieable jeans and t-shirt era followed by his current hypebeast transformation. Much like infamous dictators throughout history, the leaders’ style at…
The Anti-Porn Crusade That Censored Steam and Itch.io Started 30 Years Ago
Collective Shout, an organization “for anyone concerned about the increasing pornification of culture,” based its claim that Steam and Itch.io host “hundreds of rape and incest games” on user-generated tags, and the organizations that co-signed Collective Shout’s open letter to payment processors did not respond to 404 Media’s questions about whether they tried to verify…
Introducing the Sophos Security Services Retainer
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TSA Working on Haptic Tech To ‘Feel’ Your Body in Virtual Reality
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) are researching an incredibly wild virtual reality technology that would allow TSA agents to use VR goggles and haptic feedback gloves to allow them to pat down and feel airline passengers at security checkpoints without actually touching them. The agency calls this a “touchless…
Italian startup Exein to supply cybersecurity for chips to MediaTek
Italian tech startup Exein has agreed with Taiwan’s MediaTek to provide cybersecurity systems to be embedded on the chipmaker’s Genio platform, Exein said on Wednesday. The deal will provide security features to billions of chips using the system worldwide in industries including mobile, home, automotive and healthcare, Exein said in a statement. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT…