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]Consumers lost almost a billion dollars to Zelle fraud between 2017 and 2023. While that sounds like a lot, Zelle transferred over a trillion dollars last year. Zelle – officially Early Warning Services – is owned by the big banks including Wells, Chase, Bank of America and a few others. While many kinds of bank […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Move fast and break things. That should be the mantra of AI everywhere. AI is both good and here to stay, but you need to validate anything that you do with AI. At least at this point in its lifecycle. Imagine, just for one sad moment, you’re in a life-or-death situation. You’re terribly ill and […]
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]Yes, you heard me right. No, not party balloons, spy balloons. As countries want ever more spy data but don’t have ever more budget, this is an option they are testing. Just last week the UK said it had completed trials of an UNCREWED, high altitude set of balloons. The MoD said they were a […]
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