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Disclosure: Intel is a client of the author. At Intel’s Innovation conference this past week, the company highlighted the next generation of Windows PCs, clearly anticipating Microsoft’s genAI Copilot tool, which can write documents for you, create presentations from comments, and automate much of what annoys everyone about Outlook. Intel offered up a number of… Continue reading c

The future of Windows AI. That’s what we’ve been hearing, and now Microsoft has shown us exactly what that looks like. If the future of Windows is AI, that’s because it’s like any other Microsoft product — the future of every Microsoft product involves AI and a Copilot. That’s the vision. AI everywhere. But the… Continue reading The AI future of Windows is here (next week)

The password manager service LastPass is now forcing some of its users to pick longer master passwords. LastPass says the changes are needed to ensure all customers are protected by their latest security improvements. But critics say the move is little more than a public relations stunt that will do nothing to help countless early… Continue reading LastPass: ‘Horse Gone Barn Bolted’ is Strong Password

Google’s dominance in the search arena has given rise to two major antitrust lawsuits from the U.S. government, which allege that the company has manipulated the market to maintain that dominance, to the exclusion of its competitors and the detriment of the public at large. The first lawsuit, targeting Google’s search business, kicked off last… Continue reading Google US antitrust trial: A timeline

Jake Appelbaum’s PhD thesis contains several new revelations from the classified NSA documents provided to journalists by Edward Snowden. Nothing major, but a few more tidbits. Kind of amazing that that all happened ten years ago. At this point, those documents are more historical than anything else. And it’s unclear who has those archives anymore.… Continue reading New Revelations from the Snowden Documents

As a landlord, you are the owner of a property that houses hundreds of people at a time, if not more. You are therefore responsible for the safety of all of those tenants when they are in your building. There are many security systems you can install to make your property safer and help ensure… Continue reading The Best Security Systems for Landlords to Consider

Four years after it started life as a white paper, the UK government’s controversial Online Safety Bill has finally passed through Parliament and is set to become law in the coming weeks. The  bill aims to keep websites and different types of internet-based services free of illegal and harmful material while defending freedom of expression.… Continue reading UK’s controversial online safety bill set to become law

In April, Cybersecurity Ventures reported on extreme cybersecurity job shortage: Global cybersecurity job vacancies grew by 350 percent, from one million openings in 2013 to 3.5 million in 2021, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. The number of unfilled jobs leveled off in 2022, and remains at 3.5 million in 2023, with more than 750,000 of those… Continue reading On the Cybersecurity Jobs Shortage

Google today announced it is embedding its conversational,Bard chatbot into many of its most popular apps, allowing users to get human-like responses to questions, summarize Gmail messages, and search Google Docs and Youtube. Bard is in heated competition with other top generative AI technologies, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing conversational AI tool (which is also based… Continue reading Google adds its Bard chatbot to Gmail, YouTube, Docs and other apps

There are no reliable ways to distinguish text written by a human from text written by an large language model. OpenAI writes: Do AI detectors work? In short, no. While some (including OpenAI) have released tools that purport to detect AI-generated content, none of these have proven to reliably distinguish between AI-generated and human-generated content.… Continue reading Detecting AI-Generated Text