Not surprisingly AI has both a good side and a dark side. The good side is well publicized. Today I am going to talk about the dark side. Scam calls have been a long time problem. People lose tens or hundreds of millions dollars a year to them. The future is scam calls running entirely […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Even to the AI gods a trillion dollars is a lot of money. The AI industry has been hoovering up data as fast as the can and some people are not happy about that. Anthropic is being sued for using authors works without their permission to train their AIs. The judge in the case, William […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Want to know what the most in demand skill is on the underground job boards? English language social engineering. The ads on the boards doubled between last year and this year. One security CEO calls this Impersonation as a service or IaaS, not to be confused with the other IaaS, Infrastructure as a service. You […]
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]Stablecoin is a type of Bitcoin-like digital currency that doesn’t physically exist. Unlike a dollar bill, which is backed by “the full faith and credit of the United States”, digital currencies are backed by, well, I am not sure what. Mostly hot air. In the case of Wyoming, their stablecoin is called FRONTIER and is […]
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 […]
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