AI firms agree to fight deepfake nudes in White House pledge
WEB2 days ago · Fri 13 Sep 2024 // 18:46 UTC. Some of the largest AI firms in America have given the White House a solemn pledge to prevent their AI products from being used to generate non-consensual deepfake pornography and child sexual abuse material. Adobe, Anthropic, Cohere, Microsoft, OpenAI, and open source web data repository Common Crawl each made non ...
Google Chrome gets a mind of its own for some security fixes
WEB3 days ago · Google has enhanced Chrome's Safety Check so that it can make some security decisions on the user's behalf. Safety Check debuted in 2020 as a way to check when passwords stored in Chrome have been compromised, to encourage browser updates, and to warn users when websites have been deemed unsafe by Google's Safe Browsing service.. It was expanded in the years since with real-time Safe Browsing ...
Win 11 refreshes delayed, say PC makers – and here's why
WEB2 days ago · The slowing economy has also deterred some businesses from making the move, according to Bryan Ma, VP of Devices Research at IDC. He told The Register via email: "Macroeconomic uncertainty has made IT decision makers hesitate, but we nonetheless expect replacement demand to drive 6 percent growth in the commercial PC market next year, up from 1 ...
The Europa Clipper stretches its wings as launch nears
WEB2 days ago · Richard Speed. Fri 13 Sep 2024 // 16:15 UTC. NASA's Europa Clipper is now less than a month from its October 10 launch, and the US space agency has shown off the spacecraft's giant solar arrays. However, concerns persist over how well the probe's electronics will fare in the harsh Jovian environment. Each …
Boeing union workers reject contract, vote to strike
WEB2 days ago · Strike action, involving approximately 30,000 workers in the Seattle and Portland areas, began at midnight, September 12, after union members voted by 94.6 percent to reject a new contract and by 96 percent in favor of industrial action. The action will hit Boeing's assembly plants in Washington …
MongoDB CEO: If AI hype were the dotcom boom, it is 1996
WEB2 days ago · Fri 13 Sep 2024 // 14:33 UTC. Analysis It is 1996 in terms of the business adoption of AI if it were put on the dotcom era timeline, according to MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria. Speaking to investors at a Goldman Sachs event earlier this week, the boss of the NoSQL database company argued the tech industry was still early in the rise of AI, a ...
Healthcare giant settles patient data theft lawsuit for $65M
WEB4 days ago · Thu 12 Sep 2024 // 02:24 UTC. A US healthcare giant will pay out $65 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by its own patients after ransomware crooks stole their data – including their nude photographs – and published at least some of them online. Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN), one of the largest primary care groups in ...
MI6 and CIA using Gen AI to combat tech-driven threats
WEBMon 9 Sep 2024 // 06:34 UTC. CIA director Bill Burns and UK Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) chief Richard Moore have for the first time penned a joint opinion piece in which the two spookmasters reveal their agencies have adopted generative AI. "We are now using AI, including generative AI, to enable and improve intelligence activities ...
White House publishes roadmap to secure internet routing
WEBSep 3, 2024 · It's used to manage the routes your online traffic takes between the networks, known as autonomous systems or ASes, that together constitute the internet. As noted in the Roadmap to Enhancing Internet Routing Security, published by the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) today, BGP wasn't designed with security in mind.
Former YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki, 56, succumbs to cancer
WEBLaura Dobberstein. Mon 12 Aug 2024 // 06:30 UTC. Susan Wojcicki, the architect of YouTube's spectacular rise and one of Silicon Valley's most influential figures, has passed away at age 56 after a two-year battle with cancer. The news was announced on Saturday by her husband of 26 years and Google colleague, Dennis Troper.
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