In case any government thought that their systems were either off limits to AI hacks or ultimately secure, they got disabused of that this week when the Australian government admitted what happened. By the way, I don’t think AI thinks that government systems are off limits and many people would agree that they are not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember when, in late July, we learned about a half dozen or so water systems in Minnesota that were hacked and the president said that was due to Minnesota’s ‘gross incompetence’ (Reference: Fox9) and not Iran? Very quickly that number grew to 30 systems, still in Minnesota (Reference: Statescoop) Within a day, reporting morphed to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I keep telling people the blockchain is useful. They say it is not. Here is the proof that it is useful. (full disclosure: actually I say the reverse of this). Hackers have figured out that since the blockchain can’t be changed (of course, except when the maintainers decide it can be changed), it is a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Issue, in Plain Terms When a company gets sued, it has a legal duty to preserve and hand over records relevant to the case — emails, documents, and increasingly, anything generated using AI tools. That duty applies the moment litigation is reasonably expected, not just after a complaint is filed. AI tools create a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CISA fired a third of its staff in an effort to save money. Key people there said screw you, I am leaving. Now CISA is trying to hire new people (it would require a very strange logic for competent people to apply right now). The president came up with this half baked strategy to assist […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AI CEOs including Dario Amodei, issued a call to ‘slow the pace’ of AI. After one of Anthropic’s researchers quit last week, saying that AI could kill all of humanity by 2030, Amodei issued a proposal this weekend to slow down the tech’s advancement to ensure public safety. OpenAI, Google and even Twitter posted support […]
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