RCMP, FBI part of global take-down of Genesis criminal market
119 people around the world have been arrested as a result of co-ordination action by 17
NPM overwhelmed by DDoS attacks in malware campaigns
Researchers at Checkmarx aren’t sure if the recent campaigns are the work of several groups or are linked to one th
Canadian privacy commissioner to probe ChatGPT
An unnamed complainant alleges the developers of the chatbot collected and disclosed personal information witho
BlackBerry Q20 Keyboard now available for PCs
BlackBerry’s keyboards are now available for PCs courtesy of The Solder Party, a company based in Sweden, recently acquired a large stack of keyboards from the BlackBerry Q20 model. The Q20 model was one of the sleekest handsets ever released by the company. They paired each board with a Raspberry Pi RP2040 to detect and […]
BlackBerry reports FY 2023 results
BlackBerry has released its financial results for the full year 2023, with a revenue of US$656.0m, down 8.6% from the previous year. The company’s net loss for the year amounted to US$734.0m, a sharp decline from the US$12.0m profit recorded in FY 2022, resulting in a loss of US$1.27 per share, down from US$0.021 per […]
Motorola explores next evolution of mobile devices
Fifty years after Motorola’s Martin Cooper made the first cellphone call, Motorola is exploring ways to evolve. While the mobile phone has undergone numerous changes since that first call, the smartphone as we know it has largely remained the same for over a decade. However, Motorola and its rivals are seeking to change that by […]
Bloomberg launches BloombergGPT
Bloomberg has created its own large-scale generative artificial intelligence (AI) model, BloombergGPT. This model is a large language model (LLM) designed to “know” everything the entire company “knows.” BloombergGPT is specifically trained on a wide range of financial data, including the largest domain-specific dataset yet constructed, consisting of more than 363 billion tokens of Bloomberg’s […]
Vulkan’s leaked internal documents reveals cyberwar plans
Internal documents from NTC Vulkan, a Russian cybersecurity contractor, have been leaked by a whistleblower. The “Vulkan Files” reveal that the contractor’s engineers work directly for Russian military and intelligence outfits, training state-backed hackers, running disinformation campaigns, and providing support for cyberattacks. The Vulkan Files indicate that the contractor has particularly close ties with a […]
Organizations lack cohesive cybersecurity investment approach
A study by WithSecure shows that organizations around the world lack a cohesive and strategic approach to cybersecurity investments. Based on a survey of more than 400 global cybersecurity and IT decision-makers conducted by Forrester Consulting, the report states that many organizations are reactive in their approach to defending against threats and piecemeal when it […]
Cloud spending to grow while non-cloud spending declines
IDC has just released its quarterly cloud server and storage spending assessments for 2022, as well as its forecasts for spending from 2023 to 2027. The most important bits of data have to do with spending for 2023. Overall worldwide spending is expected to decline by nine-tenths of a point to $153.5 billion, with all […]
