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“Low on Cyan.”*
If you catch me at the end of a frustrating day, I can sometimes be overheard swearing quietly under my breath about certain technology platforms, especially inkjet printers. Make no mistake, I was a huge fan when they first appeared on the scene – being able to print your own, high-quality photos was a dream
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GPTBot starts crawling the web. Resistance is futile.
I know some of you are Trekkies, and even if you aren’t a fan, you’ve more than likely heard the phrase, “You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile,” chanted by Star Trek’s hive-mind aliens, the Borg. Though they pale in comparison to some of the movies and series’ most iconic nemeses like Khan and the
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Surprise, surprise. Hackers are using AI to bolster their attacks.
The FBI held a press conference last week to confirm what we figured was already a thing the moment open-source AI projects started surfacing: threat actors are using artificial intelligence to write malware, build ransomware websites and to put more teeth in their phishing campaigns. And as if we didn’t need more nightmare fuel, the
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Technology is very literal
Despite the fact that artificial intelligence seems to be creeping into almost every aspect of our lives, we’re still a bit aways from AI being able to understand that what we intend to do with our various bits of technology isn’t always what we end up doing. Perhaps the most familiar example of this is
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Apple tries to patch zero-day, breaks Safari
I still regularly encounter the perception that Apple computers are inherently more secure than Windows PCs. From a purely statistical standpoint Apples are hacked less than Windows PCs, but that’s largely because there are less OS X computers in the world compared to Windows PCs. From a purely mercenary standpoint, hackers are going to go
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Email broken. Sue Microsoft?
Though it may surprise you to know that Microsoft isn’t the biggest company in the world in 2023 (that honor belongs to Apple this year), you can bet they can field enough lawyers to literally bury any litigation Joe Everyman could think to bring against them. This hasn’t stopped a New Jersey attorney for suing
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