Facebook and Instagram owner Meta will be fined $100,000 a day over privacy breaches unless it fixes the issue, says Norway’s data protection board. Norway says that Meta can’t harvest physical location data to target ads. Big tech loves doing this, so while Meta is in the cross hairs today, if this sticks, others will […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember when we used to say seeing is believing. Or hearing. Well not any more. Want to hear Johnny Cash sing Barbie Girl? With amazing fidelity? It is available on YouTube. Only problem is that the Barbie song came out after Cash was diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease and had stopped performing. Also, this recording […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Everyone is in love with Large Language Model AIs, but they are far from perfect. Someone suggested that ChatGPT is “mansplaining as a service” (MaaS). While perhaps it is a somewhat pejorative term (to either the GPTs or men), it is fairly accurate. A couple of months ago a professor at UCLA asked ChatGPT to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Things are moving very quickly in the AI/Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT) business. This is a super-competitive world between say Google, Microsoft, Meta, IBM and many others with – more to come. But there are still privacy laws to deal with and a court system that is ill-prepared to even fully understand the problem. There are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In an effort to fortify our critical infrastructure security, CISA has a new program to enhance cyber resilience of participating partners using CISA’s advanced threat detection and monitoring capabilities. The program is called CyberSentry and it is designed to work across industries, in real time and monitor both traditional IT networks and those control or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week I wrote about how long it takes hackers to find “secrets” that are left accidentally (hopefully) exposed in the cloud. The answer was scarily short – as little as two minutes. This prompted one reader to ask “well how should I harden my cloud server”. Here are some tips. Most of the time […]
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