AI in cybersecurity from a hands on tech pro: Hashtag Trending, the Weekend Edition features Greg Statton from Cohesity
AI in cybersecurity is not a new concept. Almost every security vendor has been working on it for years. In fact, AI was a godsend for cybersecurity. In the olden days, like 5 years ago, you pretty much needed to know what a threat was, what it did – what
Read MoreSafety by design
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Read MoreDeal Dive: VCs are no longer gunshy about firearm startups
Kai Kloepfer started biometric “smart” gun startup Biofire as a science fair project after the Aurora, Colorado, mass shooting in 2012 brought the U.S.’s gun violence problem close to home. Kloepfer began thinking of ways to solve the problem using what he knows: technology. Twelve years later, that project has
Read MoreFactoring pseudoprimes
Fermat’s little theorem says that if p is a prime number, then for any positive integer b < p we hve bp-1 = 1 (mod p). This theorem gives a necessary but not sufficient condition for a number to be prime. Fermat’s primality test The converse of Fermat’s little theorem
Read MoreNotion acquires privacy-focused productivity platform Skiff
Notion launched its new calendar based on Cron last month, but its productivity suit can soon have more privacy-focused offerings. The company announced today that it has acquired Skiff, a platform that offers end-to-end encrypted file storage, docs, calendar events, and email. Skiff was started in 2020 by Andrew Milich
Read MoreWith Disney’s magic, Fortnite is poised to win the metaverse
We may not be using the M word much these days, but the race to build an interconnected avatar-driven virtual world didn’t take the last year off. The metaverse, a tech buzzword sandwiched in between the hype eras of NFTs and AI, is still being built, regardless of what we’re
Read MoreHow to fake a robotics demo for fun and profit
In March 2008, a roboticist in winter wear gave Big Dog a big kick for the camera. The buzzing DARPA-funded robot stumbled, but quickly regained its footing amid the snowy parking lot. “PLEASE DO NOT KICK THE WALKING PROTOTYPE DEATH MECH,” pleads the video’s top comment. “IT WILL REMEMBER.” “Creepy
Read MoreMeet Goody-2, the AI too ethical to discuss literally anything
Every company or organization putting out an AI model has to make a decision on what, if any, boundaries to set on what it will and won’t discuss. Goody-2 takes this quest for ethics to an extreme by declining to talk about anything whatsoever. The chatbot is clearly a satire
Read More‘World’s biggest casino’ app exposed customers’ personal data
The startup that develops the phone app for casino resort giant WinStar has secured an exposed database that was spilling customers’ private information to the open web. Oklahoma-based WinStar bills itself as the “world’s biggest casino” by square footage. The casino and hotel resort also offers an app, My WinStar,
Read MoreApple defends parts pairing as Oregon mulls right-to-repair bill
Oregon may soon become the latest state to pass right-to-repair legislation. Last month, Google lent its support in an open letter, calling Senate Bill 1596 “a compelling model for other states to follow.” The bill, sponsored by a sextet of state senators and representatives, was inspired in part by California
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