DeepSeek Shows Meta’s A.I. Strategy Is Working
The Silicon Valley giant was criticized for giving away its core A.I. technology two years ago for anyone to use. Now that bet is having an impact.
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Red Hat Investigating Breach Impacting as Many as 28,000 Customers, Including the Navy and Congress
A hacking group claims to have pulled data from private GitHub repositories connected to Red Hat’s consulting business, scooping up 570 GB of compressed data from 28,000 customers. The hack was first reported by BleepingComputer and has been confirmed by Red Hat itself. “Red Hat is aware of reports regarding a security incident related to…
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…
Pinterest Is Drowning in a Sea of AI Slop and Auto-Moderation
Pinterest has gone all in on artificial intelligence and users say it’s destroying the site. Since 2009, the image sharing social media site has been a place for people to share their art, recipes, home renovation inspiration, corny motivational quotes, and more, but in the last year users, especially artists, say the site has gotten…
Sophos Workspace Protection Enables Secure Access for Contractors and Guests
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Joe Rogan Subreddit Bans ‘Political Posts’ But Still Wants ‘Free Speech’
In a move that has confused and angered its users, the r/JoeRogan subreddit has banned all posts about politics. Adding to the confusion, the subreddit’s mods have said that political comments are still allowed, just not posts. “After careful consideration, internal discussion and tons of external feedback we have collectively decided that r/JoeRogan is not…
How Benn Jordan Discovered Flock’s Cameras Were Left Streaming to the Internet
On the podcast this week, I talked to YouTuber Benn Jordan, who has done some of our favorite reporting on Flock, the automated license plate reader surveillance company. A couple months ago, he found vulnerabilities in some of Flock’s license plate reader cameras. I have been following Benn’s work for a while, and soon after…
How Fortinet is Tackling Cyber Skills Gap with STEM Alliance
Fortinet’s training programme reaches nine million students as education sector faces mounting threats, with 82% of institutions reporting breaches
We Have Learned Nothing About Amplifying Morons
Almost a decade ago Jason and I sat in the roof garden in VICE’s Brooklyn office to talk to Whitney Phillips, a professor and expert on digital communications and ethics. The media, academics, and political pundits were still trying to wrap their minds around the fact that Donald Trump won his first presidential election, and…
Hackers use GenAI to attack more frequently and effectively
AI is a gamechanger for cyber attackers and defenders alike, report claims