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Lees meer'Just trust us' – Big Tech's hackneyed catchphrase makes an unwelcome return The Electronic Frontier Foundation says it will accept LLM generated code from contributors to its open source projects but will draw the line at non-human generated commen…
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Lees meerConsultancy to monitor usage by meatbags with corporate aspirations Accenture staff must demonstrate they have fully bought into the consultancy's AI vision if they want to get on.…
Lees meerPolish arrest leads to extradition and federal prison sentence Ukrainian national Oleksandr Didenko will spend the next five years behind bars in the US for his involvement in helping North Korean IT workers secure fraudulent employment.…
Lees meerFeds say trio conspired to siphon processor and cryptography IP, allegedly routing some data overseas Two former Google engineers and a third alleged accomplice are facing federal charges after prosecutors accused them of swiping sensitive chip and …
Lees meerHardcoded credential flaw in RecoverPoint already abused in espionage campaign Uncle Sam's cyber defenders have given federal agencies just three days to patch a maximum-severity Dell bug that's been under active exploitation since at least mid-2024…
Lees meer'Just trust us' – Big Tech's hackneyed catchphrase makes an unwelcome return The Electronic Frontier Foundation says it will accept LLM generated code from contributors to its open source projects but will draw the line at non-human generated commen…
Lees meerStudy of 11 LLMs shows they rarely refuse to answer, even when they probably should Artificial intelligence chatbots can be too chatty when answering questions on government services, swamping accurate information and making mistakes if told to be m…
Lees meerSecurity is 'dangerously behind' though, as devs' treat it as something to solve later 25 years after the Agile Manifesto, a group of experts hosted by one its signatories met to consider the impact of AI on software development, concluding among ot…
Lees meerAppeals judge says yes in latest battle of ICO against a breached retail giant The UK's data protection watchdog has scored a small win in a lengthy legal battle against a British retail group that lost millions of data records during a 2017 breach.…
Lees meerFeds say trio conspired to siphon processor and cryptography IP, allegedly routing some data overseas Two former Google engineers and a third alleged accomplice are facing federal charges after prosecutors accused them of swiping sensitive chip and …
Lees meerAbout half of exemption requests approved as 780,000 prepare for quarterly reporting in April The UK tax collector has exempted 661 people from moving to quarterly software-based reporting under its Making Tax Digital (MTD) scheme, about half the nu…
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Lees meerReliance Jio used super-cheap plans and own-brand phones to conquer India’s top telco, Reliance Jio, has announced plans to spend $110 billion on datacenters to run AI workloads and says it will use them to deliver services with the same “extreme af…
Lees meer$300 a month buys you a backdoor that looks like legit software Researchers at Proofpoint late last month uncovered what they describe as a "weird twist" on the growing trend of criminals abusing remote monitoring and management software (RMM) as th…
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