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Car wash turns Cybertruck into the world’s most expensive brick

The Cybertruck, Tesla's revolutionary electric vehicle, touted for its innovative design and robust features, faced an unexpected challenge:...

Digital humans make inroads into customer service: Hashtag Trending for Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Before we get to our stories, coincidentally leading with one on digital humans used in customer service, we...

Silicon Valley tech founder sentenced to prison for fraud

In a significant shake-up in Silicon Valley, Manish Lachwani, co-founder and former CEO of the mobile app-testing company HeadSpin, which was once valued over...

Meta CEO takes a different direction in AI training

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg offers a fresh perspective on the frenzy for AI data among tech giants. In a recent interview, he emphasized the...

AI hallucinations ended in a year? Hashtag Trending, Monday April 22, 2024

Capital Gains tax in Canada gets criticized by tech sector.  Amazon drops 100,000 jobs while vastly increasing its...

Cyber Security Today, Week in Review for week ending Friday April 19, 2024

On this episode Jen Ellis, co-chair of the Ransomware Task Force, talks about ways of fighting one of the biggest cyber threats to IT d

Cyber Security Today, April 19, 2024 – Police bust phishing rental platform, a nine-year old virus found on Ukrainian computers, and more

This episode reports on a threat actor targeting governments in the Middle East with a novel way of hiding malware is going international

Amazon pushes back on public perceptions of “Just Walk Out” technology

Amazon is pushing back against perceptions that its "Just Walk Out" technology is exaggerating the capabilities of its...

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Cyber Security Today, April 17, 2024 – More suspicious attempts to take over open source projects, a data theft at a Cisco Duo partner,...

This episode reports on security updates from Delinea and PuTTY, and reports on bad bots and threat actors going after Zoo

Cyber Security Today, Week in Review for week ending Friday, April 12, 2024

This episode features a discussion on Microsoft's cybersecurity troubles, worries about open source, a warning about abusing IT help desks to launch attack

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Microsoft and OpenAI partner to build a $100 Billion AI supercomputer “Stargate”

In a bold stride towards computational supremacy, Microsoft, in...

US Bill Aims to Unveil AI Training Data Sources Amid Copyright Concerns

In a significant move toward transparency, a bill was...

AI presents an “extinction level threat” – US Gov’t Report: Hashtag Trending for Tuesday, March 12, 2024

A new US government report warns that AI presents an “extinction level threat to the human species. Elon Musk is outsourcing his Grok AI code. Hackers have breached the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the US and a researcher shows how to steal a Tesla by leveraging a feature of the Tesla charging stations.

Robot startup uses ChatGPT to enhance its communications and reasoning skills

Humanoid robot startup Figure has secured a significant $675...

Lawsuit requires Pegasus spyware to provide code used to spy on WhatsApp users

NSO Group, the developer behind the sophisticated Pegasus spyware,...

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The race to harness AI in big banks heats up

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IMF reports that 40 percent of global employment could be disrupted by AI

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued a stark...

Reverse ATMs becomes solution for cashless business

To accommodate the expanding number of cashless companies, reverse...

Shopify teams up with Melio to launch bill pay tool

Melio, a B2B payments firm, has teamed with Shopify...

Federal Budget 2023: Millions to fight foreign interference, threats and covert activities

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