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The content of large tech companies, like Google and Meta, will be more tightly regulated under a new European Union law that received provisional approval Saturday. Among the provisions of the Digital Services Act approved in an agreement between the European Council and European Parliament are transparency measures on the algorithms used by online platforms …

New EU Law Will Force Google, Meta, Others To Expose Algorithms Read More »

I’ve been working with home automation offerings since the 1970s when I first installed X-10 switches in my apartment — which I’m sure my landlord really appreciated when I moved out. Back then, there was only X-10, and while it was anything but secure, the fact there was no internet pretty much prevented me from …

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In today’s world, data is a rich natural resource worth a fortune in relationship knowledge. One of the newest business approaches for understanding data more accurately is with natural language processing, or NLP. This AI field involves analyzing human speech and text to derive meaning from it. Delving into NLP is all about gathering data …

Natural Language Speaks Loudly About a Big Shift in AI Read More »

A company with a promising technology to fight plagiarism announced Tuesday that it has received US$6 million in venture capital to expand its efforts to expose cribbers. Copyleaks, which has offices in Tel Aviv and Stamford, Conn., uses artificial intelligence to identify similarities and understand the meaning of textual content. In addition to flagging plagiarism, …

Plagiarism Hunter Gets $6M To Flag Copycats Read More »

Research released Monday by a cybersecurity services provider reveals how widespread the risks are to executives and the organizations they ramrod from data brokers collecting sensitive data about them. The provider, BlackCloak, published in a blog the results of an analysis of 750 of its customers, most of them executives and board members at Fortune …

PII of Many Fortune 1000 Execs Exposed at Data Broker Sites Read More »

One of the largest IT companies in Ukraine has been waging its own informational defense against Russian propaganda since the start of the incursion. When the Russian invasion began, digital marketing firm Netpeak, made a redirectional web page on its website for Russian users. That site reflected insights regarding Russian propaganda and evidence of war …

Ukrainian IT Firm Counterattacks Russian War Lies Read More »

Elon Musk presents himself as a free speech absolutist. In other words, he believes everyone should have a voice. He has certainly had issues with critics, brutally going after a whistleblower and a first responder among others. So, like a lot of people in power, he feels strongly no one should take away his voice …

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No-code platforms are a key tool for organizations to better secure their own mobile apps. Mobile software is frighteningly insecure, warns Tom Tovar, CEO and co-creator of Appdome. This is not a tenable situation for mobile app publishers. The company’s no-code software removes the costly and time-consuming in-house process of building in security and fraud …

Appdome CEO on Mobile App Security: No Developer, No Code, No Problem Read More »

No-code platforms are a key tool for organizations to better secure their own mobile apps. Mobile software is frighteningly insecure, warns Tom Tovar, CEO and co-creator of Appdome. This is not a tenable situation for mobile app publishers. The company’s no-code software removes the costly and time-consuming in-house process of building in security and fraud …

Appdome CEO on Mobile App Security: No Developer, No Code, No Problem Read More »

The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday announced it seized the website and user database for RaidForums, a popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world’s largest data breaches since 2015. The DOJ also charged the alleged administrator of RaidForums — 21-year-old Diogo …

US-Led Seizure of RaidForums May Defy Lasting Effect on Security Read More »