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fromApp Developer Magazine
8 months ago

OpenAI open weight models released for optimized laptop performance

OpenAI has released two open-weight language models designed to operate efficiently on laptops and personal computers. These models are intended to provide advanced reasoning capabilities while allowing developers greater flexibility through local deployment and fine-tuning. Unlike proprietary models, open-weight models provide public access to trained parameters, enabling developers to adapt the models for specific tasks without access to the original training datasets. This approach improves control over AI applications and supports secure, local usage in environments with sensitive data.
Artificial intelligence
#archival-storage
fromChannelPro
12 hours ago

What actions should channel partners take in response to DSPM growth?

Every customer conversation today revolves around the same topic again and again: there's too much data, in too many places, and not enough clarity about who has access to what. In addition, AI tools like Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, and Gemini are accelerating how fast data is created, replicated, and shared. Suddenly, files are being drafted, saved, and distributed without any meaningful oversight.
Information security
UK politics
fromComputerWeekly.com
1 day ago

Digital ID risks turning UK into 'Checkpoint Britain' | Computer Weekly

A mandatory digital ID would create mass surveillance, erode civil liberties, create a 'papers, please' society, and fail to effectively stop illegal immigration.
US politics
fromFast Company
1 day ago

'TrumpTok' with a U.S.-flavored algorithm is doomed to fail

U.S. control of TikTok's algorithm could force American ownership but risk producing a weakened app that users might abandon.
#tiktok
US politics
fromAxios
4 days ago

TikTok deal will be signed soon, with U.S. control of algorithm, White House says

A U.S.-controlled TikTok replacement is expected soon with American majority ownership, an American-controlled algorithm, and Oracle responsible for data and security.
US politics
fromWIRED
5 days ago

Donald Trump Is Saying There's a TikTok Deal. China Isn't

US and China appear to have agreed on a TikTok deal creating a US-controlled entity holding roughly 80% of TikTok's US operation, with details unclear.
fromAxios
4 days ago
US politics

TikTok deal will be signed soon, with U.S. control of algorithm, White House says

#ai-governance
#generative-ai
fromFortune
4 days ago
Artificial intelligence

'Every copilot pilot gets stuck in pilot'-unless companies balance data security and innovation, say experts | Fortune

fromFortune
4 days ago
Artificial intelligence

'Every copilot pilot gets stuck in pilot'-unless companies balance data security and innovation, say experts | Fortune

Information security
fromTheregister
1 week ago

SSA rejects major DOGE whistleblower claims, silent on copy

DOGE allegedly created an unauthorized, unsecured live copy of SSA's Numident database stored outside SSA control and administered by DOGE employees.
Information security
fromBusiness Matters
1 week ago

Achieving Quantum-Resistant Encryption with Certificate Management Tools

Implement quantum-resistant encryption and effective certificate management now to protect long-lived sensitive data from future quantum computing threats and harvest-now/decrypt-later attacks.
Marketing
fromCreative Bloq
1 week ago

I can't believe the audacity of these anti-WeTransfer ads

Smash positions itself as an ethical, cheeky file-sharing alternative to WeTransfer, leveraging provocative ads to highlight data security and AI controversy.
Artificial intelligence
fromMarTech
1 week ago

Marketers turn to AI for speed, while consumers turn away in distrust | MarTech

Marketers increasingly rely on AI to boost productivity and content output, but most consumers distrust AI and prefer human interaction and disclosure.
#shadow-ai
fromFast Company
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

Your company may be using AI you don't know about. It could be putting you at risk

fromFast Company
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

Your company may be using AI you don't know about. It could be putting you at risk

fromClickUp
1 week ago

15 Best GPTs for Accounting to Simplify Finances in 2025 | ClickUp

There's never enough time in the day for an accountant. Between balancing ledgers, chasing down missing invoices, and ensuring compliance with changing tax laws, it's easy to feel buried in work. But what if artificial intelligence (AI) can handle it for you accurately and instantly? Thanks to advancements in AI, GPT-powered tools are here to take the stress out of accounting. These tools are designed to streamline financial tasks, provide real-time insights, and help you stay organized, all while saving you time.
Business
#social-security
fromNextgov.com
1 week ago
US politics

Senate Finance Chair wants details from SSA following whistleblower allegations of data endangerment

fromNextgov.com
1 week ago
US politics

Senate Finance Chair wants details from SSA following whistleblower allegations of data endangerment

Artificial intelligence
fromeLearning Industry
1 week ago

What Sets AI Mentor Apart From General AI Assistants?

AI Mentor is a customizable, secure, scalable corporate AI training solution trained on approved company content for consistent, role-based, context-aware learner support.
US politics
fromTheregister
1 week ago

SSA asked to explain response to DOGE whistleblower

Senator Mike Crapo demands answers on alleged duplication of the Numident database to an unmanaged test cloud and seeks immediate confirmation of any unauthorized access.
#ai
Artificial intelligence
fromZDNET
2 weeks ago

Use Claude's new feature at your own risk - here's why

Claude AI can create and edit Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files, but file-creation access risks exposing sensitive data and requires monitoring for misuse.
Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
2 weeks ago

What is 'BYOAI' and why it's a serious threat to your company

Employees are rapidly adopting unapproved AI agents (BYOAI) to boost productivity, creating governance, data leakage, and power-asymmetry risks that outpace corporate controls.
US news
fromwww.npr.org
2 weeks ago

33 million voters have been run through a Trump administration citizenship check

A revamped SAVE tool has been used to check citizenship and death status for over 33 million voters, prompting concerns about accuracy, data security, and oversight.
Law
fromAdExchanger
2 weeks ago

The Reasoning Behind The Remedies; The Demise Of De Minimis | AdExchanger

Judge banned Google from exclusive default search deals; ending de minimis will raise import costs and alter retail and consumer purchasing behaviors.
Artificial intelligence
fromTheregister
2 weeks ago

Perplexity (hopes to) join US government discount AI fest

Perplexity launched an Enterprise Pro for Government offering, pledging new security measures and discounts while acknowledging public AI tools expose federal data.
fromComputerWeekly.com
2 weeks ago

AI without borders: Why the next advantage is in model ownership, not just access | Computer Weekly

For the past five years, much of the enterprise conversation around artificial intelligence (AI) has revolved around access - with access to application programming interfaces (APIs) from hyperscalers, pre-trained models, and plug-and-play integrations promising productivity gains. This phase made sense. Leaders wanted to move quickly, experimenting with AI without the cost of building models from scratch. " AI-as-a-service " lowered barriers and accelerated adoption.
Artificial intelligence
fromAbove the Law
2 weeks ago

Lawyers Need A Panel To Explain Texting Because We're Still One Notification Away From An Ethics Apocalypse - Above the Law

Here at Kaleidoscope, the newly minted 8am's inaugural conference, lawyers gathered to hear about the dangers lurking in their pockets. Rather than being happy to see us, the phones they lug around carry a ticking ethical timebomb poised to erupt as their terminally Millennial clients demand to talk about their cases over SMS. It's not an outlier scenario anymore. Mark Palmer, Chief Counsel of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, explained that 59 percent of clients want to communicate with their lawyers by text.
Law
Information security
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks ago

Pornhub owner pays $5M settlement to FTC over historic failure to block abusive content | TechCrunch

Aylo will pay $5 million to settle claims it profited from CSAM and nonconsensual content while inadequately protecting performer data and enforcement systems.
#cyberattack
Information security
fromwww.bbc.com
3 weeks ago

Jaguar Land Rover production severely hit by cyber-attack

A cyber-attack severely disrupted Jaguar Land Rover's production and retail operations, forcing IT shutdowns while no customer data has been found stolen.
#social-security-administration
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 weeks ago
Privacy professionals

Top Social Security Official Resigns After Claiming DOGE Uploaded Confidential Information to Insecure Server

fromwww.mediaite.com
3 weeks ago
Privacy professionals

Top Social Security Official Resigns After Claiming DOGE Uploaded Confidential Information to Insecure Server

#data-breach
fromWIRED
1 month ago
Privacy professionals

Highly Sensitive Medical Cannabis Patient Data Exposed by Unsecured Database

fromWIRED
1 month ago
Privacy professionals

Highly Sensitive Medical Cannabis Patient Data Exposed by Unsecured Database

#numident
Artificial intelligence
fromTechzine Global
1 month ago

Alation launches chatbot for business data

An enterprise AI chatbot provides metadata-aware natural-language queries with transparent provenance, improved accuracy, and security while querying data in place without vendor lock-in.
Artificial intelligence
fromTheregister
1 month ago

KPMG wrote 100-page prompt to build agentic TaxBot

KPMG built a multi-vendor private AI platform and a 100-page prompt-based agentic system to accelerate tax advice while addressing data security risks.
Tech industry
fromHackernoon
1 year ago

The TechBeat: Why Hydra Is the Most Practical Scaling Solution in Web3 (8/19/2025) | HackerNoon

1.1 million sensitive messages were exposed due to misconfiguration of Tea's Firebase.
#artificial-intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

A leaked list shows which websites were used to improve Anthropic's chatbot - and which ones were off-limits

fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

A leaked list shows which websites were used to improve Anthropic's chatbot - and which ones were off-limits

fromTheregister
1 month ago

Microsoft's Nuance settles MOVEit breach suit for $8.5M

Nuance's proposed settlement of $8.5 million addresses claims that it failed to secure personal information during the MOVEit Transfer mega-breach, impacting 1.225 million individuals.
Privacy professionals
E-Commerce
fromZDNET
1 month ago

How web scraping actually works - and why AI changes everything

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries.
#hmrc
fromHackernoon
1 year ago

The TechBeat: Refactoring 031 - Removing OOPs (8/17/2025) | HackerNoon

Tea's Firebase misconfiguration exposed 1.1M sensitive messages, raising concerns over data security and highlighting the crucial need for better configuration practices.
Tech industry
Privacy technologies
fromWIRED
1 month ago

Gear News of the Week: A New Privacy Phone Arrives, and Samsung Has a $30K 115-Inch Micro RGB TV

Up Phone promises enhanced privacy features but faces skepticism due to outdated specs and past controversies.
Privacy technologies
fromIT Pro
1 month ago

Using DeepSeek at work is like 'printing out and handing over your confidential information'

DeepSeek poses serious risks to sensitive data, potentially exposing it to Chinese authorities.
fromZDNET
1 month ago

This flash drive offers military-grade protection for a budget price tag

The Kingston IronKey Vault Privacy 50 features XTS-AES 256-bit hardware encryption, ensuring data is always stored encrypted and never in plain text, maximizing security for users.
Gadgets
Privacy professionals
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline

Colt Technology Services experienced a cyber incident affecting its customer portal and other services without reports of data breaches.
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Boffins: LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft

AI chatbots are widespread in many different sectors as they can provide natural and engaging interactions. We already know these models aren't good at protecting information.
Privacy technologies
Privacy technologies
fromHackernoon
1 month ago

BingX PCI DSS Certification Sets New Benchmark For Data Security In Web3 | HackerNoon

BingX achieved PCI DSS v4.0.1 certification, enhancing security for fiat transactions and data privacy.
#encryption
fromZDNET
1 month ago
Privacy technologies

This SSD gadget locks prying eyes out and makes me feel like James Bond

fromZDNET
1 month ago
Privacy technologies

This SSD gadget locks prying eyes out and makes me feel like James Bond

Law
fromAbove the Law
1 month ago

The Dollar Signs Are Heading Your Way! - See Also - Above the Law

Hueston Hennigan announces summer bonuses, DOJ leaks lawyer identities, Biglaw partner dies in suicide, bar exam participation offers $1500, PACER hacked.
#chatgpt
fromForbes
1 month ago
Privacy professionals

ChatGPT Warning: Change This Setting To Protect Your Business Data And Privacy

fromForbes
1 month ago
Privacy professionals

ChatGPT Warning: Change This Setting To Protect Your Business Data And Privacy

#cybersecurity
fromWIRED
1 month ago
Privacy technologies

It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug

fromWIRED
1 month ago
Privacy technologies

It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug

fromTheregister
1 month ago

UK proxy traffic surges as users consider VPN alternatives

"Encryption alone doesn't guarantee a secure connection. True security depends on how traffic is routed, what's exposed, and how much control the company has. With proxies, only selected traffic is routed, giving enterprises tighter control, lower attack surface, and better integration into existing security policies."
Privacy technologies
fromIT Pro
1 month ago

LastPass just launched a tool to help security teams keep tabs on shadow IT risks

"Small and mid-sized businesses are facing a perfect storm of complexity: unknown risks living within unknown apps and AI services," said Don MacLennan, Chief Product Officer at LastPass.
Privacy technologies
from24/7 Wall St.
1 month ago

Trump's TikTok Dance Continues

ByteDance is reportedly planning a separate standalone TikTok app for the U.S. to address data security concerns and regulatory pressure, which could pave the way for a partial or full monetization event.
US politics
#privacy
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
Privacy professionals

A rival Tea app for men is leaking its users' personal data and driver's licenses | TechCrunch

fromZDNET
2 months ago
Privacy technologies

4 things Proton's privacy-first AI chatbot Lumo can do - and how to try it

fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
Privacy professionals

A rival Tea app for men is leaking its users' personal data and driver's licenses | TechCrunch

fromZDNET
2 months ago
Privacy technologies

4 things Proton's privacy-first AI chatbot Lumo can do - and how to try it

Information security
fromMedium
1 month ago

DLP vs. EDR: A Technical Deep Dive Beyond the Acronyms

DLP focuses on protecting sensitive data, while EDR is concerned with detecting and responding to threats on endpoints.
fromWIRED
1 month ago

Inside the Biden Administration's Unpublished Report on AI Safety

Researchers identified 139 novel methods to cause AI systems to misbehave, including generating misinformation and leaking personal data, during a red teaming exercise.
US politics
US politics
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

OpenAI is practically giving ChatGPT to the government for free | TechCrunch

OpenAI has secured a $1 per agency deal with GSA for ChatGPT Enterprise access for federal agencies.
Miscellaneous
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Cohere's new AI agent platform, North, promises to keep enterprise data secure | TechCrunch

Cohere's AI platform North enables private deployments, addressing enterprises' data security concerns while ensuring large language models access useful data.
fromTheregister
1 month ago

MoD taps Aussie AI shop to help prevent data leaks

The MoD faces a complex challenge in managing vast and sensitive datasets in the knowledge that even a single case of data leak or loss can be catastrophic.
EU data protection
Privacy technologies
fromHackernoon
3 years ago

Stop Exposed Secrets from Breaching Your Code Today: 4 Urgent Steps to Protect Your Organization | HackerNoon

Proper secrets management is essential to prevent data breaches and unauthorized access.
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
1 month ago

No Walled Gardens. No Gilded Cages.

Sometimes technology feels like a gilded cage, and you're not the one holding the key. Most people can't live off the grid, so how do we stop data brokers who track and exploit you for money? Tech companies that distort what you see and hear? Governments that restrict, censor, and intimidate? No one can do it alone, but EFF was built to protect your rights.
Privacy professionals
fromdatabreaches.net
1 month ago

Cencora & The Lash Group reach $40M settlement in data breach class action

Cencora Inc. has agreed to pay $40 million to resolve a class action lawsuit over allegations that it failed to adequately protect sensitive personal information.
Online learning
fromIT Pro
1 month ago

Upcoming webinars not to be missed

IT professionals benefit from attending ActualTech Media's webinars for insights on technology trends and solutions to industry challenges.
Privacy professionals
fromThe Hacker News
1 month ago

Misconfigurations Are Not Vulnerabilities: The Costly Confusion Behind Security Risks

Misconfigurations and vulnerabilities are distinct concepts in SaaS security, both posing different risks that require specific attention.
fromFast Company
1 month ago

Using ChatGPT or other AI tools? Here's who can see your chat history

AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini save records of conversations, potentially exposing personal data. Users should adjust settings and use private modes to enhance privacy.
Privacy professionals
Cryptocurrency
fromHackernoon
1 year ago

Defining the Edge: Our Unique Focus on Cross-Language Crypto Challenges | HackerNoon

Transport layer security (TLS) is the most discussed technique, with Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) being a primary concern in data transmission security.
Artificial intelligence
fromInfoQ
2 months ago

Google Apigee Adds Built-in LLM Governance with Model Armor

Google Cloud's Model Armor provides LLM governance through integrated API management with features like prompt validation and output filtering.
Privacy technologies
fromHackernoon
3 months ago

Immutable Backups: Everything You Need To Know To Protect Your Cloud | HackerNoon

Immutable backups provide protection against ransomware and ensure data integrity by preventing alterations or deletions once created.
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