Govt issues warning on VPN use, AI chatbots
The advisory was issued by NTISB on VPN use and AI chatbots
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AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library
Low quality books that appear to be AI generated are making their way into public libraries via their digital catalogs, forcing librarians who are already understaffed to either sort through a functionally infinite number of books to determine what is written by humans and what is generated by AI, or to spend taxpayer dollars to…
Dow Jones Futures, Nvidia Plunge On Artificial Intelligence Threat From China
Nvidia and other AI stocks plunged Monday morning, as tech futures dived.
A Vast ‘Cosmic Web’ Connects the Universe—Really. Now, We Can Emulate It.
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. You may have noticed that the universe is pretty big—in fact, possibly infinite. These immense scales offer a challenge for scientists who seek to model the “cosmic web,” a network of…
Who’s Leading the AI Cybersecurity Race? ISG’s Massive Study Will Reveal All
ISG initiates comprehensive research on cybersecurity providers across 8 regions, evaluating AI integration and digital asset protection capabilities. Report due July 2025.
Musk Ally Demands Admin Access to System That Lets Government Text the Public
A worker at the General Services Administration told colleagues in a Slack message Tuesday that they have resigned in protest after Elon Musk ally Thomas Shedd requested “admin/root access to all components of the Notify.gov system,” which is a government system used to send mass text messages to the public that contains information the worker…
The Collision Of AI And Cybersecurity: Building The Future Of Digital Defense
By Ts Mohd Roydean Osman In today’s hyper-connected world, cybersecurity threats aren’t just evolving—they’re mutating at breakneck speed. As data breaches hit harder and hackers grow bolder, the industry is turning to AI not as a weapon, but as an entire arsenal. At the heart of this transformation lies the…
FINRA warns of AI use in sophisticated scams
The industry self-regulator is also concerned about third-party vendors, anti-money-laundering policies and whether certain annuity products are in clients’ best interests.
Behind the Blog: Backdoors and the Miracle of Wikipedia
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss Apple’s iCloud, Wikipedia is a miracle of humankind, and good soup. JASON: After our relatively unhinged BTBs last week, many of you left extremely nice comments, reached out…
Elon Musk’s Waste.gov Is Just a WordPress Theme Placeholder Page
A government website created by the Trump administration to “track government waste” has been left unupdated with a default WordPress sample page that includes language about an imaginary architecture firm. “Waste.gov: Tracking government waste,” the tagline for the website, archived here, says. The rest of the webpage, however, is about an imaginary architecture firm called…