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FBI Shuts Down Russian AI-Enhanced Bot Farm

The US Justice Department has announced the disruption of a Russian-government-backed bot farm that used AI tools in a massive propaganda campaign. Using AI to create fake social media accounts that often claimed to be US citizens, the malicious actors involved in this bot farm hoped to promote messages in support of Russian government objectives. ... Full article

Four Steps to Ensure GenAI Safety and Ethics

With the deployment of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) happening at a rapid pace, organizations of all sizes are tasked with navigating the challenges around implementation, especially regarding ethics and accuracy. What is important for corporate leaders is establishing clear guidelines and guardrails for GenAI that encourage responsible AI usage and avoid unintended consequences. Product teams ... Full article

OpenAI Co-Founder Launches Company Dedicated to Safe, Superintelligent AI

Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder of OpenAI, has created a new company that will tackle one of the mostimportant topics in technology today – what happens when an AI system becomes smarter than humans? This question lies at the heart of Safe Superintelligence Inc.’s (SSI) mission. In fact, the company’s website states that the creation of ... Full article

Anthropic Talks Red Teaming for AI

The security and safety of AI tools is a topic that’s become ever more important as the technology influences more of our world. Achieving this goal is going to require a multi-faceted approach, but red teaming techniques will play a crucial goal in securing AI tools. Specifically, red teaming is the process of testing some ... Full article

NIST Q&A: Getting Ready for the Post Quantum Cryptography Threat? You Should be.

With the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) set to publish the first Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Standards in a few weeks, attention is shifting to how to put the new quantum-resistant algorithms into practice. Indeed, the number of companies with practices to help others implement PQC is mushrooming and contains familiar (IBM, Deloitte, et ... Full article

Privacy and Ethical Hurdles to LLM Adoption Grow

Large language models (LLMs) have dominated the data and AI conversation through the first eight months of 2023, courtesy of the whirlwind that is ChatGPT. Despite the consumer success, few companies have concrete plans to put commercial LLMs into production, with concerns about privacy and ethics leading the way. A new report released by Predibase this week ... Full article

VMware Unveils New Generative AI Tools, Expands Nvidia Partnership

VMware kicked off its Explore event in Las Vegas with a series of announcements geared toward enabling enterprise generative AI development. VMware and Nvidia extended their partnership to unveil VMware Private AI Foundation with Nvidia, an offering that promises to provide enterprises with the software and compute to fine-tune large language models and run AI-enabled ... Full article

20 Years into the Future: Splunk Conference Showcases New AI and Edge Solutions

At its .conf23 event in Las Vegas this week, Splunk unveiled a collection of new AI-powered tools across its portfolio of security and observability solutions. Splunk is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Splunk CEO Gary Steele, who joined the company in March 2022, acknowledged in a keynote how much the digital world has changed ... Full article

Nvidia Uses AI to Detect Insider Threats

New cybersecurity attack vectors are emerging to steal data and break into systems, but Nvidia has an artificial intelligence toolkit that constantly learns to keep up with the fast changes. The graphics chip maker is adding its Morpheus software development kit, which is targeted at cybersecurity, to its AI Enterprise 3.0, which was announced last ... Full article

MIT Researchers Warn of Interconnect Security Vulnerabilities, Propose Mitigation Strategies

Researchers at MIT have developed new software mitigation techniques for a hardware-level security vulnerability uncovered in on-chip mesh interconnects. On-chip interconnects enable communication between the processor cores, and the vulnerability lies in situations when programs run concurrently on multiple cores. Delays can occur when multiple cores use the same interconnect to transmit data across the ... Full article

Is Your AI Ready to Be Regulated? Lessons from GDPR

It’s been six years since European Union (EU) passed the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a wide-ranging and complex regulation intended to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the EU. Now, as analogous regulations around artificial intelligence (AI) are fomenting in multiple parts of the world, the business world’s experience with GDPR ... Full article

Major Tech, Financial Companies Pony Up $10M to Help Drive U.S. Cybersecurity Efforts

Working together to bolster the security of open source software for enterprises in the U.S. and around the world, a group of technology and financial companies has amassed $10 million in new investments to raise their game, particularly in the battle against devastating supply chain cyberattacks. The money, which will come from companies including Amazon, ... Full article

When Using AI in Enterprises, Balancing Innovation and Privacy Is Critical

While the U.S. is making strides in the advancement of AI use cases across industries, we have a long way to go before AI technologies are commonplace and truly ingrained in our daily life. What are the missing pieces? Better data access and improved data sharing. As our ability to address point applications and solutions ... Full article

AMD Partners Unveil Their Plans for Integrating New AMD Epyc CPUs in Servers, Services

Now that AMD unveiled its latest third-generation Epyc CPU product line for AI, HPC and enterprise workloads on March 15, the company’s server and services partners continue to announce their own plans for bringing Epyc-equipped products to market. Major server partners Cisco, Dell EMC, HPE and Lenovo are unleashing new enterprise server models powered by ... Full article

Latest 2021 Stanford AI Study Gives Deep Look into the State of the Global AI Marketplace

Despite major disruptions from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, global investment in AI technologies grew by 40 percent in 2020 to $67.9 billion, up from $48.8 billion in 2019, as AI research and use continues to boom across broad segments of bioscience, healthcare, manufacturing and more. The figures, compiled as part of Stanford University’s Artificlal Intelligence ... Full article

LyteLoop Wants to Take Data Storage Beyond the Clouds Into Orbit Around Earth

Diminishing returns on costly data center investments—facilities already bulging at the seams—are engendering novel architectures for storing data. Early prototypes such as Microsoft’s submersible data center address cooling requirements and reliability issues. Still, the ongoing problem is scale, and finding disruptive ways of securely storing and accessing exabytes of data without breaking the bank. A ... Full article

Ubuntu Core 20 Linux Gets Bolstered Security, Full Disk Encryption for Embedded, IoT

Canonical’s latest Ubuntu Core 20 Linux operating system now features several important security updates, including anti-malware and anti-hijacking technologies and full-disk encryption capabilities. The new version of Ubuntu Core 20, which is built as a minimal, containerized version of Ubuntu Linux 20.04 for use with embedded systems and IoT, was announced by the company this ... Full article

AI-Based Cyber Defenses Secure Drones From Zero-Day Attacks

Vulnerable to hacking, drones are getting another layer of defense via an AI-based cybersecurity approach that promises to shield the flying edge devices from zero-day attacks. SparkCognition, an industrial AI specialist, said this week the SkyGrid unit it formed with Boeing Co. has developed an AI-based cyber defense for drones that would detect attacks during ... Full article

Red Hat Bolstering Its OpenShift Kubernetes Security with Acquisition of StackRox

Red Hat is bringing deeper security capabilities to its popular Red Hat OpenShift enterprise Kubernetes platform through the acquisition of container and Kubernetes security vendor StackRox. The deal is the latest part of Red Hat’s road map to deliver a single, holistic platform that enables customers to build, deploy and securely run nearly any application ... Full article

Proposed Expansion of Facial Recognition Use at U.S. Borders Slammed by ACLU

A proposed expansion in facial recognition technology use by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency to screen foreign travelers coming in or out of the United States is being heavily criticized by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which argues that the tighter rules disproportionally harm immigrants and people of color. The proposed ... Full article

Privacy and Ethical Hurdles to LLM Adoption Grow

VMware Unveils New Generative AI Tools, Expands Nvidia Partnership

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