Articles by John P. Mello Jr

Intel raised the curtain Tuesday on some new tech it's banking will recoup some lost ground to its chip-making rivals At the annual Computex expo in Taiwan, the company announced a new generation of processors for data centers, pricing on its AI accelerator kits, and the architecture for an AI PC chip....

An effective approach to children’s online safety needs to strike a balance between protecting kids' user privacy and free speech, as well as distributing responsibility to the government, online services, and parents, according to a report released Monday by a Washington, D.C. technology think tank No amount of regulation will completely eradica...

Google announced on Tuesday that it's joining the AI laptop party by baking new smart features into its new generation of Chromebook Plus computers The new features include "Help Me Write," AI-generated videoconferencing backgrounds, Magic Editor for photos, and direct access to Google's gen AI agent Gemini directly from a Chromebook's home screen....

How should policymakers handle the many concerns raised by the introduction of artificial intelligence into society? The Center for Data Innovation (CDI) has some answers to that question in a report it released Monday The 56-page document focuses on more than two dozen concerns raised by AI, each accompanied by a description of the issue along wit...

Website impersonation scams have become a growing problem, although many businesses aren't happy with the tools they have to address them A study released Tuesday by digital risk protection solutions company Memcyco found that nearly three-quarters of businesses have deployed a digital impersonation protection solution to avert online scams, but on...

Cat-phishing, using a popular Microsoft file transfer tool to become a network parasite, and bogus invoicing are among the notable techniques cybercriminals deployed during the first three months of this year, according to the quarterly HP Wolf Security Threat Insights Report released Thursday Based on an analysis of data from millions of endpoints...

Google's dabbling with enhancing its search results with artificial intelligence could have dire consequences for anyone with a business that depends on Alphabet's best-known subsidiary for web traffic Anyone who's done a Google search knows it's already stuffing AI summaries into its search results, but it will be upping its ante in AI when a prog...

Apple beefed up its iPad product line Tuesday by upgrading the silicon in its Air models and introducing a new processor, the M4, into its Pro editions, which also got a display boost to OLED "The iPad Pro with the M4 and outdoor viewable OLED screen is arguably the best tablet created so far," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with Ende...

Since ChatGPT arrived on the net in 2022, AI-generated content has soared more than 8,000%, according to a study released Tuesday by Copyleaks. The study, which covers a period from 2013 to March 2024, found a surge of 8,362% in AI content on the internet from November 2022, when ChatGPT-3.5 was released, to March 2024 When OpenAI released ChatGPT-...

Artificial intelligence is forcing many companies to evolve and rethink how to govern and analyze data, according to survey results released Monday by Gartner Based on a survey of 479 chief data and analytics officers, chief data officers, and chief analytics officers worldwide, the results revealed that 61% of organizations are reevaluating their ...

Brute force cracking of passwords takes longer now than in the past, but the good news is not a cause for celebration, according to the latest annual audit of password cracking times released Tuesday by Hive Systems Depending on the length of the password and its composition -- the mix of numbers, letters, and special characters -- a password can b...

Nearly two dozen dating apps were flagged by Mozilla's Privacy Not Included researchers Tuesday as failing to meet privacy and security standards, sharing customer data with third parties, and excluding the right of a user to wipe their data from the app According to Mozilla, financial pressures are forcing the owners of the apps to change leadersh...

While the major generative AI service providers depend on the cloud to power their large language models, Apple will be taking a different tack with the next version of its mobile operating system, which is set to be revealed in June Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, in his weekly newsletter published Sunday, predicted that the AI features planned for iOS 1...

Google joined the ranks of fellow cloud service providers Amazon and Microsoft on Tuesday with the announcement of custom silicon for its data centers Google's Axion line of processors represents its first Arm-based CPUs designed for the data center. "Axion delivers industry-leading performance and energy efficiency and will be available to Google ...

Proton, the maker of an email system known for its strong security, has added passkey support for its password manager while knocking "Big Tech" for trapping their users' passkeys behind "walled gardens." "Even though passkeys were developed by the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium to replace passwords and are meant to provide 'faster...

Canine Companions, a service dog company, will announce new technology this week that enables trained canines to perform tasks, such as tamping down anxiety and interrupting nightmares, after receiving wireless alerts Called CanineAlert, the technology is designed to be integrated with a service dog's training to mitigate trauma-related nightmares,...

Data backups have become a must-hit target for ransomware actors, according to a report released by a cybersecurity company The research, sponsored by Sophos and based on a survey of nearly 3,000 IT and security professionals across 14 countries, found that 94% of organizations hit by ransomware in the past year said that the threat actors attempte...

Move over Google Assistant, Alexa, and Siri. There's a new digital assistant in town, although you need to be a facilities manager to appreciate it On Tuesday, BrainBox AI, the maker of an AI-powered facilities management solution, announced a virtual building assistant called ARIA (Artificial Responsive Intelligent Assistant)....

In what could be a peek at the future of AI integration in enterprises, MicroStrategy on Tuesday announced a new addition to its platform that simplifies access to business analytical data within organizations MicroStrategy Auto is a customizable AI bot that the company said offers a faster, simpler way to deliver business intelligence to anyone in...

Nvidia is pumping up the power in its line of artificial intelligence chips with the announcement Monday of its Blackwell GPU architecture at its first in-person GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in five years According to Nvidia, the chip, designed for use in large data centers -- the kind that power the likes of AWS, Azure, and Google -- offers 20 ...