U.S. division of CIBC apparently sideswiped by MOVEit hack
CIBC says data of “a small number” of US customers
Google to add more granular security controls to Workspace
AI will help automate data classification and enforce data loss prevention. New tools to help meet data sovereignty demands a
Cyber Security Today, August 23, 2023 – Public exposure doesn’t deter this attacker, and more
This episode reports on a persistent attacker, security updates for Ivanti Sentry
Microsoft releases public preview of Python in Excel
Microsoft had released the public preview of Python in Excel, a new feature that allows users to combine Python scripts with their Excel formulas. This new tool makes it possible to perform advanced data analysis and visualization tasks within Excel, without having to leave the familiar Excel environment. To use Python in Excel, users need […]
Musk to strip news links of headlines on X
Elon Musk, CEO of X (formerly Twitter), has announced that the social media platform will soon remove headlines from news links shared on the site. The change, which is said to help reduce the vertical pixel space that articles take, is also reportedly intended to cut down on clickbait. “This is coming from me directly,” […]
Musk’s Twitter followers labeled inactive or fake
A new data analysis by third-party researcher Travis Brown has found that a large percentage of Elon Musk’s Twitter followers are either inactive or fake. The data, which was collected in May 2023, found that 42% of Musk’s followers have zero followers on their own account, and 72% have less than 10 followers. Additionally, 62.5 […]
ChatGPT hides copyright training data, research finds
ChatGPT is trying to hide that it was trained on copyrighted material, according to new research published in a paper by a group of AI scientists from ByteDance. The researchers found that ChatGPT now disrupts its outputs when users try to extract the next sentence from a prompt. This is a new behavior that was […]
Meta presents six speech recognition and understanding research papers
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has presented six research papers at the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2023) conference in Dublin. The papers focus on advances in speech recognition and understanding, including new methods for improving the accuracy of speech recognition, developing more robust spoken language understanding systems, and creating expressive speech synthesis models. […]
CEOs optimistic about economy
CEO optimism about the economy has grown in recent months, according to a new survey by PwC. Only 17% of executives now anticipate that the U.S. will experience a recession in the next six months, down from 35% a year ago. The survey also found that CEOs are increasingly focused on new technologies, with 59% […]
Canadians embrace AI but lack understanding of downsides
A new study by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) has found that Canadians are enthusiastically embracing new artificial intelligence (AI) tools, but are failing to fully comprehend the potential downsides. The study, titled “Incautiously Optimistic,” analyzed 6.9 million social media posts and years of online searches related to AI. The findings revealed that […]
