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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For vendors who sell to the public sector, there are new rules in multiple states. For example, since April, new North Carolina contracts that have a cloud component require a risk assessment aligned with GovRAMP, the state level version of FedRAMP. GovRAMP was previously known as StateRAMP. Vendors MAY receive a waiver for one year, […]
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