The U.S. government just took its biggest step yet toward letting private companies fight cybercrime with cyberattacks of their own. A presidential memorandum directs the Justice and Homeland Security departments to create a program letting vetted companies hack into criminal groups to spy on them or sabotage their operations, aimed at cybercrime schemes that cost […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Everyone agrees kids and social media are a bad mix. Nobody agrees on how to fix it — and the last few months have made that gap painfully visible. Australia’s pioneering ban is proving hard to enforce, France’s ban just got struck down by its own top court, and the EU is trying to build […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One of the supposed “benefits” of the blockchain is that it is immutable, meaning that once data is written to the blockchain it can’t be changed. Unless someone decides to change it. Two incidents this week show that immutable is not always immutable. Which means that the fairy tale of the blockchain is permanent is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I know that is not the normal version of that expression, but it applies to AI. You just might not like what that help looks like. With the help of AI, Microsoft patched 400 bugs, plus or minus, depending on how you count. Last month it was around 600. June, which was pre-AI “Help” was […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Meta released a new open weight LLM today, called Muse Glimmer. They also released a paper that says, basically, that data wants to be free. Fundamentally, the paper says that a wider dissemination of software is good instead of under the control of just a few people like, say, his arch enemies, Anthropic and OpenAI. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I just saw an item on the news that talked about Waymo starting to run driverless cars in Boulder, Colorado. When the police were asked who was liable if the driverless car got into an accident, the answer was we don’t know and we would ask the Attorney General. Likely, if a driverless car crashes […]
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