Last year California governor Newsom vetoed an AI safety bill that big tech donors didn’t like. That bill, SB 1047, would have required big tech to do safety testing of their AI models. Newsom said it would hurt innovation. Now another fight is happening. Assembly bill 412 would require generative AI developers to meticulously document […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]And big US players are not happy. Apple has been forced to allow users to specify non-Safari browsers as their default. Browser choice was also opened in the Android world although users could already use any browser they want to. Mostly, it is about companies like Apple, Google, TikTok and a few other mega players […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Is Russia Reining-In Ransomware? Historically, if you are a ransomware hacker you are in heaven in Russia as long as you don’t attack targets favored by the Kremlin. Putin has arrested, unexpectedly, Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, a famous Russian hacker who was indicted in the U.S. He paid a fine and had to give Putin a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google researchers have figured out how to break AMD’s processor security allowing them to load any processor microcode of their choosing. They demonstrated this by loading microcode that had the chip produce the number 4 every time when asked for a random number. In theory, only AMD (for their chips) or Intel (for theirs) should […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google has revealed that just in the past year dozens of hacking groups in two dozen countries have been detected using Google’s AI agent Gemini to write malware, look for vulnerabilities and target organizations for attack. Among other nefarious tasks. Hackers have used regular Google for years to profile organizations, so that is not really […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The US has been trying to reign in China’s thefts of intellectual property and other bad behavior by putting tech sanctions on them. The next president wants to increase sanctions on China. Will it work? Huawei, China’s leading phone maker was seriously impacted over the last 2-3 years over the restriction of US made chips. […]
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