A Presidential Executive Order (EO) is making its way though the approval process which, if approved, would require cloud vendors like Google and Amazon to identify who is buying server time from them. This is very similar to what banks and other financial institutions have been doing for decades. But Google’s and Amazon’s trade group […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]HHS Beefs up Privacy Protection for Reproductive Healthcare Info In a final rule released this week, doctors, clinics and other providers are prohibited from disclosing protected health information related to lawful reproductive healthcare. The rule is designed to protect women who cross state lines seeking an abortion and their providers. The 291 page regulation will […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There are a lot of people with a lot of opinions about this. Here are mine. In no particular order. First, if you assume that TikTok makes a buck per user per month off selling your data, if they just invest One month’s revenue – $170 million – they can outspend everyone else as they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Change Health / UnitedHealth Group breach continues to evolve and get worse. UnitedHealth is suggesting that the hackers may have accessed health data for “a very large number of people in the United States. Fundamentally, this is a worst case scenario for what happens when data moves from paper to bits and when those […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Who would have guessed? Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) fed AI agents vague descriptions of more than a dozen unpatched vulnerabilities. The agent they created with GPT-4 exploited 87 percent of those vulnerabilities. Fourteen other agents made with lesser tools like GPT 3.5 and Metasploit failed. The researchers said that GPT-4 was […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Feds Give Another Chip Maker Subsidy to Build in US Last week the feds announced a subsidy to Taiwan Semi to build multiple chip plants (fabs) in Arizona. This week the feds announced, based on last year’s CHIPS Act, a subsidy to Samsung to build multiple plants in Texas. This creates a lot of construction […]
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