Ransomware was on everyone's mind again this week as the world's largest meat processing company, JBS SA, faced an attack that crippled its operations in Australia and North America. The company was able to restore operations in just a...
Judging from the press releases filling my inbox and the tweets lighting up my timeline, no one is happy with Facebook right now. On Friday, the company issued its response to the Facebook Oversight Board’s recommendations on the indefinite...
Mark Zuckerberg onstage at a 2019 event. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images Facebook wants to launch its newsletter product later this month. But it doesn’t want controversial writers using it — just the ones it’s recruiting....
With a single tweet, Tesla CEO Elon Musk can move the crypto market. | Christophe Gateau/Picture Alliance via Getty Images How Elon Musk affects bitcoin prices, in one chart. As Elon Musk tweets go, so...
As I move from project to project, I’ve seen the latest trend is to leverage operational tools, such as AIops and security operations platforms to automate most of what it takes to proactively operate a cloud, hybrid cloud, or...
The 24-hour vigil started just after 8 a.m. US Eastern Time on June 3—more or less on schedule, and without any major disruptions. The event, hosted on Zoom and broadcast live on other platforms such as YouTube, was put...
The results point to one of the most challenging aspects of AI-based hate-speech detection today: Moderate too little and you fail to solve the problem; moderate too much and you could censor the kind of language that marginalized groups...
A little over four years ago, nine-year-old Dani Jamal struggled to walk and communicate, and could do little for himself. Today he can eat using cutlery, drink water unaided, run and chase a ball.Dani has muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy...
United announced that it will buy 15 supersonic passenger planes from the aviation startup Boom. | Boom Several startups are racing to get supersonic planes flying again, nearly two decades after the Concorde was retired. On Thursday,...
In the ever-urgent quest to ensure United States elections are safe and secure, Microsoft’s ElectionGuard software has been a tantalizing development. The project, launched in 2019, offers what's known as "end-to-end verifiability," meaning that all vote data is encrypted...
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