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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is not over until it is over. The cybercrime treaty forces signers to potentially break their own laws and criminalize actions that are legal in their own country if a foreign government asks them to. It requires governments to hand over data about their citizens such as, and certainly not limited to, a citizen’s […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lets face it; Texas public sector entities don’t have a good cybersecurity track record. And that is only a small part of the list. So the Texas legislature passed HB 150 to stand up the Texas Cyber Command over the next few years. It is going to do a couple of things. Sort of weirdly, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]10.24.25 Security News Bites Just Because You are Large Does Not Mean You Are Secure Russia hacked into eight UK Air Force and Navy bases and posted Ministry of Defense staff names and emails on the dark web. GEEEEEE, they got in by hacking a contractor. The MoD said they are actively investigating. One more […]
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