The end of TikTok has begun. As the dust settles from a week of shockingly fast legislative action by the US Congress, it’s clear that TikTok next year will look much different from the TikTok we’re using today. When President Joe Biden signed a $95 billion dollar foreign aid package on Wednesday, it brought to […]
This might be the end of TikTok. President Joe Biden signed a bill this week which allows the US government to ban the platform if TikTok doesn’t divest from its China-based owner, ByteDance, within a year. Today on the show, we’re going to talk about what happens to TikTok now and how this new law […]
Jerome Pesenti has a few reasons to celebrate Meta’s decision last week to release Llama 3, a powerful open source large language model that anyone can download, run, and build on. Pesenti used to be vice president of artificial intelligence at Meta and says he often pushed the company to consider releasing its technology for […]
Last week when a security researcher said he could easily obtain the precise location from any one of the millions of users of a widely used phone-tracking app, we had to see it for ourselves. Eric Daigle, a computer science and economics student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, found the vulnerabilities in […]
Last updated 25 March, 2024 KRK has this week launched its new Rokit Generation 5 series of monitor speakers in 5, 7 and 8-inch woofer variants. This is the latest update to this popular entry-level monitor series. They are bi-amped, offering class D amplification, KRK’s iconic yellow Kevlar woofers, silk dome tweeters, XLR and 1/4″ […]
South St. Paul Public Schools alerted families this week to an ongoing technology disruption that is being investigated. Staff and families were notified Monday of technical difficulties “that may disrupt certain services” like online platforms, emails and other digital services. On Tuesday the district said it had been made aware of “unauthorized activity within our […]
U.S. prosecutors secured another conviction this week in a business email compromise (BEC) scheme that dates back to 2017. Nigerian national Henry Onyedikachi Echefu, 32, pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said. Echefu was in South Africa at the time of […]
National Cyber Director Harry Coker this week reiterated prior warnings that hackers linked to the People’s Republic of China are actively working to gain access to critical infrastructure in the U.S. to potentially launch malicious attacks. Coker, in his first major speech in Washington since he was confirmed in December, said the state-linked threat actors […]
One of the largest unions in California confirmed this week that it is dealing with network disruptions due to a cyber incident following claims of an attack last month by a notorious ransomware gang. Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1000 represents nearly 100,000 state employees in California across more than 2,000 worksites in the […]