Why Are the Solar Panels on Your Roof a National Security Problem? It would take some work, but if a hacker got access to the same network as your solar panels (like as a result of, say, an unchanged default WiFi password), then due to vulnerabilities in EG4’s solar inverters, a hacker could intercept data, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Probably not, but it could have some impact. The key parameters for what an LLM can do is the number of “parameters” it can run. Up until now, anything larger than 32 billion parameters and most computers that you might buy in the store will come to a screeching halt. But now, someone on Reddit […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AI has entered the boardroom, front and center. For directors, it is not an IT issue. It is a governance, ethics and judgement issue. Board members can ignore it for a little while, but they do so at their own risk. And the whole issue around AI is about managing risk. Managing risk in an environment […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Move fast and break things is Silicon Valley’s motto. Sam Altman (OpenAI) obliged. When OpenAI released Chat GPT-5 last week they thought they had a winner on their hands. As part of the release, OpenAI got rid of the option for users to pick the model that they wanted to use – GPT-5 knows better […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AI Vendor Perplexity Accused of Scraping Websites That Explicitly Blocked AI Scraping Oops. Did they do that? They wouldn’t do that, would they? Cloudflare published research that says it actually saw Perplexity scraping sites while explicitly obscuring its identity in an attempt to circumvent the website’s preferences. To the tune of tens of thousands of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Drug Cartels Use IT to Kill FBI Informants According to a newly published report, a Sinaloa cartel/El Chapo insider contacted the FBI in 2018 and told it of all the ways in which the cybercrook hired by the cartel helped it track down those who could give up key details about its operation and eliminate […]
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