Porn ID Laws: Your State or Country May Soon Require Age Verification
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 06:00:00 +0000
An increasing number of states are passing age-verification laws. It’s not clear how they’ll work.
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The US Is Sending Money to Countries Devastated by Cyberattacks
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:08:13 +0000
The White House is providing $25 million to Costa Rica, after giving Albania similar aid following aggression by hackers linked to Iran.
Read MoreHow Good Smile, a Major Toy Company, Kept 4chan Online
Credit to Author: Justin Ling| Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 14:26:10 +0000
Documents obtained by WIRED confirm that Good Smile, which licenses toy production for Disney, was an investor in the controversial image board.
Read MoreTech big wigs: Hit the brakes on AI rollouts
More than 1,100 technology luminaries, leaders and scientists have issued a warning against labs performing large-scale experiments with artificial intelligence (AI) more powerful than ChatGPT, saying the technology poses a grave threat to humanity.
In an open letter published by The Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit organization that aims is to reduce global catastrophic and existential risks to humanity, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and MIT Future of Life Institute President Max Tegmark joined other signatories in saying AI poses “profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research and acknowledged by top AI labs.”
Microsoft’s ‘Security Copilot’ Sics ChatGPT on Security Breaches
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:31:16 +0000
The new tool aims to deliver the network insights and coordination that “AI” security systems have long promised.
Read MoreNorth Korea Is Now Mining Crypto to Launder Its Stolen Loot
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:00:00 +0000
A spy group working for the Kim regime has been feeding stolen coins into crypto mining services in an effort to throw tracers off their trail.
Read MoreThey Posted Porn on Twitter. German Authorities Called the Cops
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 06:00:00 +0000
Regulators are using an AI system to scan websites and messaging apps to find pornography. Creators face fines and potential prison sentences.
Read MoreQ&A: Cisco CIO Fletcher Previn on the challenges of a hybrid workplace
In April, 2021, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins announced he would let all 75,000 employees work remotely indefinitely, even after the COVID-19 pandemic ended. The company had seen no drop in productivity by allowing employees to work from home and expected to save money by not fully staffing offices. When and how often employees should come into the office would be up to their managers, who abide by a flexible hybrid policy.
But that shift brought technology challenges most companies are by now familiar with: how do you secure networks when the employee’s home is essentially a branch office? How do you create company culture from afar? And, how do you retain employees at a time when IT talent is in historically high demand.