FTC Says it Won’t Regulate AI Until After it Causes Harm While I understand the concept, I am not sure it is the best strategy for protecting you and me. On the other hand, regulators really don’t understand technology and rules, once made, are hard to change. Given the rate of change of AI, the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Musk’s Grok AI Says 75%-85% Probability That Trump is a Russian Asset Some of you are probably old enough to remember Art Linkletter’s “Kids Say The Darnedest Things”. Grok is like that, apparently. Responding to a prompt from a journalist, Grok, the Maximally Truth Seeking AI, according to Musk, says that there is a 75% […]
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]This weekend a Chinese company announced an AI model that, they say (no evidence) cost $5 million to train vs. the $500 billion that the president is trying to put together for US companies to develop their models. The Chinese model, R1, is on par with the best we have to offer. The DeepSeek app […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The House created a task force on Artificial Intelligence last year which was tasked with developing a US vision for AI adoption, innovation and governance. They provided 66 key findings and 85 recommendations over 15 different issue areas. The Steptoe law firm summarized the key aspects of this report (link below). Congress has some interesting […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft Confirms MMC Bug Being Exploited – No Patch I could tell you to patch the bug but, for the 23rd time this year, the bug is being exploited in the wild and there is no patch. The bug, rated 7.8/10, is in the Microsoft Management Console tool and it was not among the 119 […]
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