Google, through its AI Opportunity Fund, is doling out $75 million in grants to workforce development and education organizations to teach Americans how to utilize AI, the company said Friday. “AI offers significant opportunities to accelerate economic growth, particularly if people have access to the right resources and training,” Google’s senior vice president for research, […]
The US State Department is imposing visa restrictions on 13 people involved in the development and sale of commercial spyware, as well as their spouses and children. “These individuals have facilitated or derived financial benefit from the misuse of this technology, which has targeted journalists, academics, human rights defenders, dissidents and other perceived critics, and […]
Two weeks ago we discussed a new development in website hacks: Web3 crypto wallet drainers. We’ve been closely following the most significant variant which injects drainers using the external cachingjs/turboturbo.js script. Our SiteCheck website scanner has already detected this version on over 1,200 sites since the beginning of February, 2024. Since our last post, this […]
As development environments grow more complex, applications increasingly communicate with many external services. When a software development project communicates with an external service, it utilizes a token or “secret” for authentication. These tokens are the glue that keeps any modern application together, and there is a staggering volume and variety of them in code today. […]
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The Colombia office of the U.S. government agency that oversees foreign aid and development funding said its Facebook page was hacked and asked the public to ignore any posts or links from the account. The United States Agency for International Development and the U.S. Embassy in Bogota said in a statement […]
What is the GNU project? The GNU project is a mass collaborative initiative for the development of free software, specifically a free operating system called GNU. Of course, “free”, in a software context, does not necessarily mean “free of cost”. Rather, free refers to the freedom that users have to use, study, share and improve […]
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Agency Prepares $1.7M Contracts for Synthetic Data Prototypes Rashmi Ramesh (rashmiramesh_) • January 8, 2024 The U.S. federal government is preparing for an era of synthetic data. (Image: Shutterstock) In a solicitation for synthetic data generators, the U.S. federal government is looking […]
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is now accepting submissions for a contest designed to spur development of products and policies to protect consumers from the malicious use of voice cloning technology, which has been fueled by the advance of text-to-speech artificial intelligence capabilities. The challenge is an effort by the FTC to speed the evolution […]
The AI chip is key to the development, implementation and proliferation of AI today. These computer chips are foundational to powering and processing large-scale AI computations, and they’re evolving at a rapid pace. Gartner forecasts worldwide AI chips revenue to more than double by 2027 — a rise from an expected $53 billion in 2023 […]