More countries are working on technologies developed at home to lessen US control over their IT infrastructure. While this is good for local businesses, it is not good for Silicon Valley revenue. One example is a shift in Europe away from Windows to Linux. While there is a significant learning curve and you will have to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Florida Woman Uses AI – To Make False Assault Claim Brooke Schinault called St. Petersburg police on October 7th to report a stranger breaking into her house. While she didn’t know the person, she provided a photo of the suspect sitting on her couch. As the investigation continued, she remembered that the suspect sexually assaulted […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Other than allowing a hacker to inject arbitrary prompts, exfiltrate personal user data, bypass safety mechanisms and take other malicious actions, the collection of bugs do not represent a major problem for users. Needless to say, I am kidding about the last part. It could be a major problem. The exfiltration steals data from your […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Flock doesn’t have a great privacy reputation in many quarters and although, maybe, this is not their fault, they are going to get beat up for it anyway. Flock, you may remember, is the company that sells license plate reader cameras to anyone. Say, you are an HOA and you want to track the comings […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Mondelez Uses AI to Reduce Marketing Content Generation Costs by 30-50% Mondelez owns Cadbury, Oreo, Ritz, Toblerone and many more brands. They spent $40 million on an AI ad generation tool to slash fees paid to ad agencies. To start with they plan to use the Accenture created tools to create TV ads, including, possibly, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]To some people this is no surprise. To most, it will be a big surprise. A software engineer that bought (well, at least he thought he bought it) a smart vacuum discovered that he didn’t buy it, he was, sort of, renting it. When he blocked the “smartness” of the vacuum it stopped working in […]
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