Articles by John P. Mello Jr.

Plans were announced Monday to launch a new AI website generator that promises to accelerate the ability of e-commerce operators to create an online presence Created by Wix, AI Site Generator will be launched with a suite of AI-powered tools that the company says will streamline the entire website-building, design, and management process....

The wraps were pulled off a new AI chatbot billed as "helpful, harmless and honest" on Tuesday by its developer, Anthropic The chatbot, Claude 2, boasts a familiar repertoire. It can create summaries, write code, translate text, and perform tasks that have become de rigueur for the software genre....

Competitors have been nipping at Twitter's heels for months, trying to exploit growing dissatisfaction among its users over decisions made by its new helmsman Elon Musk. Those efforts, though, haven't been able to gain much traction -- until now In just five days, the latest Twitter alternative, Meta's Threads, has garnered 100 million users, shatt...

Companies for years have wrangled their employee's phones with mobile device management (MDM) software but haven't been able to exercise the same ease of control over their workforce's PCs. That's about to change, according to Venn Software The company on Wednesday announced a patented technology for securing remote work on any computer that uses a...

Advertising by more than 140 major global brands is supporting the proliferation of unreliable artificial intelligence-generated news and information websites (UAINs), according to an analysis released Monday by a misinformation watchdog group The ads appear to be posted on the sites through an automated placement system, most of them through Googl...

Three out of four online users in the United States and Europe are putting themselves at risk of being hacked due to poor password practices, according to a study released Tuesday by a password management solutions provider The study by Keeper Security, based on a survey of 8,000 people in the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany, fou...

Workers are using AI tools to boost individual productivity but keeping their activity on the down-low, which could be hurting the overall performance of their organizations, a professor at the Wharton business school contends in a blog posted Sunday "Today, billions of people have access to large language models (LLMs) and the productivity benefit...

Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are sparking an increase in sophisticated email attacks, according to a report released Wednesday by a global, cloud-based email security company Security leaders have worried about the possibilities of AI-generated email attacks since ChatGPT was released, and we're starting to see those fears validated, noted the ...

A desire for sustainable data center options and a heat wave caused by increasingly powerful computer chips are driving the adoption of systems that cool computers by immersing them in fluids By operating a server rack submerged in a special fluid, heat can be passively removed from the hardware to the fluid, pumped to a heat exchanger, then return...

Researchers at an Israeli security firm on Tuesday revealed how hackers could turn a generative AI's "hallucinations" into a nightmare for an organization's software supply chain In a blog post on the Vulcan Cyber website, researchers Bar Lanyado, Ortel Keizman, and Yair Divinsky illustrated how one could exploit false information generated by Chat...

Apple raised the curtain Monday on its much anticipated mixed reality headset in a video presentation at its World Wide Developers Conference on the Apple campus in Cupertino, Calif The Apple Vision Pro headset, priced at $3,499, won't be available until next year but promises to usher in a new era of "spatial computing."

A new report from a human resources analytics firm found that artificial intelligence threatens to replace a disproportionate number of jobs typically held by women According to researchers at Revelio Labs, their findings reflect social biases that have funneled women into roles ripe for AI replacement, such as administrative assistants and secreta...

Amazon is adding age verification to its palm-based Amazon One identity offering The company on Monday announced that the age-verification feature is being rolled out at Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball club....

Since OpenAI introduced ChatGPT, privacy advocates have warned consumers about the potential threat to privacy posed by generative AI apps. The arrival of a ChatGPT app in the Apple App Store has ignited a fresh round of caution "[B]efore you jump headfirst into the app, beware of getting too personal with the bot and putting your privacy at risk,"...

Google has begun taking pre-orders for its first foldable phone with an eye toward shipping the gadget in June The Pixel Fold will sell for US$1,799, the same price as its chief competitor, the Samsung Galaxy Fold 4....

Telly, a company started by Pluto TV co-founder Ilya Pozin, on Monday announced it's offering 500,000 55-inch 4K TVs free to the public as part of a business model that has advertisers pick up the tab for a consumer's entertainment upgrade At the center of the model, which has been in the works for two years, is a dual-screen smart TV developed by ...

Holy deflation! For the eighth month in a row, online prices have declined, according to the Adobe Digital Price Index, which analyzes one trillion visits to online retail sites and more than 100 million SKUs The index for April, released on Tuesday, showed a year-over-year decline in online prices of 1.8% and a month-over-month drop of 0.7%....

A survey of 1,600 chief information security officers found that more than two-thirds of them (68%) expect a "material cyberattack" on their organizations in the next 12 months The survey, which is the basis of the annual "Voice of the CISO Report" by Proofpoint, an enterprise security company, showed a pronounced shift in attitude among the securi...

Battery replacements in electric cars are rare, and most replacements occur during the life of the vehicle's warranty, concluded a recent study by Recurrent Motors, a provider of battery health reports and range projections for used electric cars Based on a sample of 15,000 cars, Recurrent researcher Liz Najman found that only 225 cars (1.5%) had t...

A new generation of clickbait websites populated with content written by AI software is on the way, according to a report released Monday by researchers at NewsGuard, a provider of news and information website ratings The report identified 49 websites in seven languages that appear to be entirely or mostly generated by artificial intelligence langu...