Please see my latest Forbes article on the need to get ready for the Quantum Era. Thanks!
By Chuck Brooks, Forbes Contributor. Global Thought Leader in Cybersecurity and Emerging Tech.
“We are on the emerging pathway to the new era of quantum computing. We must now prepare for the exponential benefits and risks of quantum technologies.”
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Not everyone is willing to passively accept the future AI companies are shaping.
In an aggressive response to AI companies like OpenAI, independent developers have created “tarpits” — malicious software designed to trap and confuse AI scrapers for months on end.
The goal? To make AI companies pay a higher price for their relentless data collection and, perhaps, to slow the rapid commercialization of AI-driven content generation.
Inspired by cybersecurity tactics originally used against spam, these digital snares lure AI crawlers into endless loops of fake data, slowing their operations and potentially corrupting their training models. One such tool, Nepenthes, forces scrapers into a maze of gibberish, while another, Iocaine, aims to poison AI models outright.
While critics argue that these efforts may have limited long-term impact—since AI companies are developing countermeasures—supporters see tarpits as a symbolic act of resistance against AI’s unchecked expansion.
The lead researcher has told the BBC he was so astounded he assumed his computer had been hacked.
In today’s AI news, Meta on Tuesday announced that it’ll host its first-ever dev conference dedicated to generative AI. Called LlamaCon after Meta’s Llama family of generative AI models, the conference is scheduled to take place on April 29. Meta said that it plans to share the latest on its open source AI developments to help developers build amazing apps and products.
In other advancements, after her sudden departure from OpenAI last fall, ex-CTO Mira Murati vanished from public view to start something new. Now, she is ready to share some details about what she’s working on. Her new AI startup is called Thinking Machines Lab, and while the specifics of what it plans to release are still under wraps, the company says its goal is “to make AI systems more widely understood, customizable and generally capable.”
Meanwhile, In a new paper, OpenAI researchers detail how they developed an LLM benchmark called SWE-Lancer to test how much foundation models can earn from real-life freelance software engineering tasks. The test found that, while the models can solve bugs, they can’t see why the bug exists and continue to make more mistakes.
And, Humane is selling most of its company to HP for $116 million and will stop selling AI Pin, the company announced today. AI Pins that have already been purchased will continue to function normally until 3PM ET on February 28th, Humane says in a support document. After that date, Pins will “no longer connect to Humane’s servers.”
Then, in this episode of Top of Mind, Gartner Global Chief of Research Chris Howard breaks down the buzz around agentic AI. Learn how AI agents can make autonomous decisions, optimize solutions and even collaborate in multi-agent systems to transform the future of business now.
In my new marketing position at Moving On IT I am blessed to be working with some old friends that really know the IT, AI, and Cybersecurity industry inside out. So much so, they have recently been certified as an Ingram Micro partner.
We are in the midst of developing a whole new website, and product information portal using AI-design software. The website is a bit of mess now, but stay tuned and watch it grow.
One of coolest things is that the company allows me the leeway to find new ways to promote their company, products, and services. So I have been using AI and my creativity to craft a unique new spokesperson that embodies the brand, and amplifies the companies values and industry messaging.
In today’s highly digital landscape, cybercrime has become a pervasive threat, compromising the security and integrity of our nation’s information technology infrastructure.
As an authorized provider of IT, AI, and cybersecurity solutions from the world’s leading manufacturers, Moving On IT has taken a bold stance against this menace.
Dream, a company focused on artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cybersecurity for nations and critical infrastructure, raised $100 million in a Series B funding round to expand into additional markets in which cyber threats pose challenges to national security.
The round valued Dream at $1.1 billion, the company said in a Monday (Feb. 17) press release.
Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure are becoming more common and more sophisticated, Sebastian Kurz, co-founder and president of Dream, and former prime minister of Austria, said in the release.
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A major cybersecurity incident has exposed sensitive personal, medical and financial records of more than half a million Americans.
In a data breach notification, the Office of the Maine Attorney General says the California-based non-profit organization NorthBay Healthcare Corporation experienced an external system breach affecting 569,012 Americans.
In a notice sent to affected people, NorthBay Health says an unauthorized entity gained access to the firm’s computer systems between January 11th, 2024 and April 1st of the same year.
Sandworm’s BadPilot campaign exploits eight security flaws to infiltrate global critical sectors, enabling persistent access for cyber espionage opera.
The transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI) is bringing about major changes in the worlds of business and cybersecurity.
Source: Forbes.
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