Author: aristotle
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology Braces for Mass Firings
Sweeping layoffs architected by the Trump administration and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency may be coming as soon as this week at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a nonregulatory agency responsible for establishing benchmarks that ensure everything from beauty products to quantum computers are safe and reliable. According to several current
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Microsoft Hosted Explicit Videos of This Startup Founder for Years. Here’s How She Got Them Taken Down
Breeze Liu’s online nightmare started with a phone call. In April 2020, a college classmate rang Liu, then 24 years old, to tell her an explicit video of her was on PornHub under the title “Korean teen.” Liu alleges it had been filmed without her permission when she was 17 and uploaded without her consent.
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The Next Frontier in AI: Consumer-Centric Applications for Real-World Impact
AI still feels like a cutting-edge breakthrough, even though it’s been around for decades. Machine learning has quietly powered search engines, recommendation algorithms, and speech recognition for years – but only recently has AI become a consumer product in its own right. Since generative AI as a sub-category of AI ‘went mainstream’ in 2022, ChatGPT
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The Loneliness Epidemic Is a Security Crisis
Loneliness has never been more urgent. On top of the significant mental health concerns, the idea that people are now lonelier and having fewer social interactions is fueling very real threats to security. Foremost among these is one of today’s most pernicious digital frauds: romance scams, which exploit targets’ feelings of isolation and net fraudsters
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Considering the Convergence of Cybersecurity and AI
While business leaders and consumers have growing concerns over new security threats empowered by AI, cybersecurity professionals are eager to get their hands on AI-enabled tools to defend against bad actors. This evolving dynamic around AI is requiring both business leaders and IT organizations to think critically about new considerations regarding security and risk. The
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AI and the Gig Economy: Opportunity or Threat?
AI is indeed changing the way we work, and nowhere is that more obvious than in the world of the gig economy. Freelancers have always been known for their flexibility in adapting to new trends, but now, AI has come on the scene as a powerful technology that freelancers must embrace to stay ahead. But
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Elon Musks DOGE Is Working on a Custom Chatbot Called GSAi
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is pushing to rapidly develop “GSAi,” a custom generative AI chatbot for the US General Services Administration, according to two people familiar with the project. The plan is part of President Donald Trump’s AI-first agenda to modernize the federal government with advanced technology. One goal of the initiative
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The AI Explosion Continues in 2025: What Organizations Should Anticipate This Year
With AI forecasted to continue its explosion in 2025, the ever-evolving technology presents both unprecedented opportunities and complex challenges for organizations worldwide. To help today’s organizations and professionals secure the most value from AI in 2025, I’ve shared my thoughts and anticipated AI trends for this year. Organizations Must Strategically Plan for the Cost of
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Google Lifts a Ban on Using Its AI for Weapons and Surveillance
Google announced Tuesday that it is overhauling the principles governing how it uses artificial intelligence and other advanced technology. The company removed language promising not to pursue “technologies that cause or are likely to cause overall harm,” “weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people,”
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DeepSeeks Safety Guardrails Failed Every Test Researchers Threw at Its AI Chatbot
Ever since OpenAI released ChatGPT at the end of 2022, hackers and security researchers have tried to find holes in large language models (LLMs) to get around their guardrails and trick them into spewing out hate speech, bomb-making instructions, propaganda, and other harmful content. In response, OpenAI and other generative AI developers have refined their