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Now armed with AI, America's adversaries will try to influence election, security officials warn
Now armed with AI, America's adversaries will try to influence election, security officials warn
A startup called Firefly that's tackling the thorny and growing issue of cloud asset management with an “infrastructure as code” solution has raised $23 million in funding. The firm's latest success also comes on the heels of tragedy, as co-founder CTO Joseph “Sefi” Genis was among the hundreds killed by Hamas in October 2023 at the now-infamous Nova music festival. Firefly was hatched in 2021 in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, amid a huge burst of “digital transformation."
The nonprofit organization has announced that it's currently in its "third day of warding off an intermittent DDoS cyber-attack."
The ransomware attack that has engulfed U.S. health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group and its tech subsidiary Change Healthcare is a data privacy nightmare for millions of U.S. patients, with CEO Andrew Witty confirming this week that it may impact as much as one-third of the country. As one of the largest healthcare companies in the U.S., UnitedHealth is well known domestically, intersecting with every facet of the healthcare industry from insurance and billing and winding all the way through the physician and pharmacy networks -- it's a $500 billion juggernaut, and the 11th largest company globally by revenue.
The de facto gateway to the internet is undergoing a dramatic change that could have repercussions that ripple throughout the entire online ecosystem.
Generative AI makes stuff up. Rick Caccia, the CEO of WitnessAI, believes it can. "Securing AI models is a real problem, and it’s one that's especially shiny for AI researchers, but it’s different from securing use," Caccia, formerly SVP of marketing at Palo Alto Networks, told TechCrunch in an interview.
The gatekeeper of the internet is revamping its most important product, but it's not clear how advertising fits into AI-infused answers.
Google's new AI search feature was bound to have its issues. Now, after weeks of jokes and memes on social media, the tech giant is responding.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud computing business, has confirmed further details of its European "sovereign cloud," which is designed to enable greater data residency across the region. The company said that the first AWS sovereign cloud region will be set up in the German state of Brandenburg and will go live by the end of 2025. AWS added that it plans to invest €7.8 billion ($8.5 billion) in the facility through 2040.
Google's AI-driven approach is a bulwark against an emergent threat. It’s also a strategic gamble.
The European Union has warned Microsoft that it could be fined up to 1% of its global annual turnover under the bloc's online governance regime, the Digital Services Act (DSA), after the company failed to respond to a request for information (RFI) that focused on its generative AI tools. Back in March, the EU asked Microsoft and a number of other tech giants for information about systemic risks posed by generative AI tools. On Friday, the Commission said Microsoft failed to provide some of the documents it asked for.
According to Bloomberg, the company is currently developing the capability, which can scour the web for answers to your queries and spit out results complete with citations to their sources.
Google has been taking heat for some of the inaccurate, funny and downright weird answers that it’s been providing via AI Overviews in search. AI Overviews are the AI-generated search results that Google started rolling out more broadly earlier this month, with mixed results — apparently, a user looking for help in getting cheese to stick to their pizza was told to add glue (the advice was pulled from an old Reddit post), and someone else was told to eat “one small rock per day” (from The Onion). “The vast majority of AI Overviews provide high quality information, with links to dig deeper on the web,” the spokesperson said.
OpenAI has formed a new committee to oversee "critical" safety and security decisions related to the company's projects and operations. Altman and the rest of the Safety and Security Committee -- OpenAI board members Bret Taylor, Adam D’Angelo and Nicole Seligman as well as chief scientist Jakub Pachocki, Aleksander Madry (who leads OpenAI's "preparedness" team), Lilian Weng (head of safety systems), Matt Knight (head of security) and John Schulman (head of "alignment science") -- will be responsible for evaluating OpenAI's safety processes and safeguards over the next 90 days, according to a post on the company's corporate blog.
The Yahoo Fantasy football analysts reveal their first running back rankings for the 2024 NFL season.
Olympic gold medal and two-time NCAA champion wrestler Gable Steveson has signed with the Buffalo Bills. He'll attempt to make the team as a defensive tackle.
Rhode Island is making it illegal to register a kei car, and it's asking enthusiasts who already have one to turn in their registration.
The Yankees slugger was struggling massively in April. He now leads MLB in home runs.
Howard Buffett talks about life at Berkshire Hathaway and why he is donating hundreds of millions of dollars to Ukraine.
Nearly half of Gen Xers say their retirement savings are behind schedule, according to a new survey.
Drew Gordon played all over Europe after a college career at UCLA and New Mexico.