Despite businesses and individuals implementing secure computing practices, hacker breaches targeting both corporate and personal data continue to escalate, underscoring significant gaps in cybersecurity expertise. To address this, NukuDo, a cybersecurity workforce developer, is tackling these gaps by offering specialized training programs that guarantee employment in the field of computer security. The U.S. is grappling…
IBM has launched a beta version of its Environmental Intelligence (EI) platform, offering application developers and data scientists AI-powered environmental insights, along with access to open-source geospatial and satellite data. This cloud-based platform provides a wide range of geospatial, weather, and climate APIs, enabling users to build applications that tackle sustainability challenges, climate change, and…
Generative AI: The Spotlight of Innovation Generative AI has emerged as one of the most transformative technological advancements in recent years. However, two pressing questions arise: why is it gaining such widespread attention now when companies like AWS and Synthesis Software Technologies have been using it for years? And why do so many businesses struggle…
According to the latest Global State of Fraud Report from LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, banks and online retailers can significantly improve their ability to detect hard-to-identify, high-risk fraud by integrating shared fraud intelligence into their risk assessment processes. The report emphasizes how collaborative digital identity intelligence can help businesses build stronger digital trust and proactively prevent…
Switzerland’s national postal service, Swiss Post, aims to attract one million residents to its ePost encrypted communication platform by the end of 2025. Facing a steady decline in demand for traditional mail, Swiss Post is positioning ePost as a comprehensive mobile app to bridge the gap left by reduced postal usage. ePost aspires to become…
by shadjava Tech companies like Apple, Google, and PayPal, along with other digital payment services that handle over 13 billion financial transactions annually, will now face government oversight, according to a new rule from the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Announced on Thursday, the rule subjects digital wallets and payment apps to the same…
In the past year, AI image generators have surged in popularity, enabling users to create a wide range of images with just a few clicks—including disturbing and dehumanizing content like hate memes. CISPA researcher Yiting Qu, working with Dr. Yang Zhang’s team, has explored the prevalence of such images among popular AI image generators and…
A small team of AI researchers from Adobe Inc., in collaboration with colleagues from Auburn University and Georgia Tech, has developed a compact language model (SLM) they claim can operate entirely on a smartphone without relying on cloud services. The team has released a paper detailing their innovation, named SlimLM, on the arXiv preprint server….
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday evening from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A as part of the Optus X/TD7 mission. The mission, aimed at deploying a geostationary communication satellite for Australian company Optus, was built by Northrop Grumman. Liftoff occurred at 5:28 p.m. ET, marking the 16th flight for the Falcon 9’s…
In a recent review published in Science Robotics, a cognitive roboticist, cognitive psychologist, and psychiatrist explore the fascinating concept of “sense of self” in humans and how robots could offer new insights into this phenomenon. The experience of being a self—connected to our bodies and capable of interacting with the world—feels natural to us as…