Switzerland has been known for being a privacy haven for decades. For years it wouldn’t even reveal banking information to law enforcement except under really limited conditions. That is now distant history. But now Switzerland is joining countries like Russia and China and instituting the ability to mass surveil its population (and even foreigners who […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is a battle that has been going on for decades. But now AI is ramping up the battle with velocity. Piracy of content on the Internet is a big problem, especially for people who make a living from posting content on the Internet. An example of this is adult content, but that is certainly […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Musk Sues Apple and OpenAI Over Favoring ChatGPT Over His Chatbot Apple has had its fair share of lawsuits over the years as they try to control the Apple universe. Lately, some of those walls have seemed a bit shaky. In this case, Musk is whining that Apple is favoring Sam Altman’s (OpenAI, ChatGPT) app […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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]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]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 […]
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