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Consumers are allying with dark web hackers to participate in payment fraud tactics Sift on Thursday released its Q1 2023 Digital Trust & Safety Index with findings that nearly one in five (16%) consumers admit to committing, or know of someone who has taken part in, payment fraud. Likewise, 17% of consumers have encountered online offers to commit...

The large multimodal language model, GPT-4, is ready for prime time, although, contrary to reports circulating since Friday, it doesn't support the ability to produce videos from text GPT-4 can, however, accept image and text input and produce text output. Over a range of domains -- including documents with text and photographs, diagrams, or screen...

Companies that established open-source program offices over the last few years now need more C-suite oversight to drive education, awareness, and use of open-source software. That sets the stage for an expanded role of open-source program officers Incorporating open-source technology brings organizations an ecosystem that expands the user base, res...

Before the AI revolution, CRM had a well-defined, if not often discussed, role that tied it to the product commoditization cycle For instance, when a category is new, businesses employ many people to sell and service the new, new thing. The high labor component makes new products relatively expensive compared to other, older solutions. Yet customer...

Apple may be considering expanding the repertoire of its popular AirPods line beyond entertainment and into the realm of health Speculation about giving AirPods health chops was fueled over the weekend by Mark Gurman, who predicted in his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg that Apple would be upgrading the product in the next year or two to make it ...

Lenovo has been hitting it out of the park of late. Even its smartphone unit, Motorola, seems to have recovered, and in servers and PCs, Lenovo is a true force to reckon with But last week, Lenovo launched a new line of ThinkStation workstations co-designed with Aston Martin that expanded its lead in that market. They are impressive performers, usi...

Financial processes and merchandisers need an upgrade in awareness to cash in on younger consumers' in-store shopping loyalty Embedded within the changing economy are fundamental differences in the buying and banking mores of younger consumers compared to older constituents. Meeting the needs of three essential overlapping consumer groups can go a ...

Spatial audio has excited the audio market ever since Apple announced movie and TV content supporting it in iOS 14 at the WWDC event in June 2020. Spatial audio essentially delivers surround sound and 3D audio through headphones via dynamic head tracking. Typically, it's not a feature found in traditional audio speakers Over the past two decades si...

Digital Forensics Corporation is battling to protect and educate the public about a rapidly growing trend in cybercrime dubbed sextortion, where online predators target teens and young adults with threats to expose sensitive personal photos The extortionists disguise their identity on social media platforms, claiming to have a revealing picture or ...

CRM powerhouse Salesforce joined the ranks of Google and Microsoft Tuesday when it announced its own generative AI technology to deliver personalized content across every sales, service, marketing, commerce, and IT interaction in every Salesforce cloud Called Einstein GPT, the technology integrates with OpenAI and provides Salesforce customers with...

The global rising tide of cyber threats from nation-states should be a red flag for private sector security leaders in all industries to prepare for more frequent and brazen attacks in the future, according to Forrester Research To help companies prepare for the changing nation-state attack landscape, Forrester unveiled on March 2 a new model to de...

The White House on Thursday released its long-expected National Cybersecurity Strategy. The new federal policy assigns much of the digital security responsibility to tech firms rather than more federal regulations The policy document urges more mandates on the firms that control most of the nation's digital infrastructure. It also preaches an expan...

Microsoft just announced that it's putting generative AI into Windows 11, but we are still at the very beginning of the changes access to this technology will bring Some jobs will get easier, some more valuable, and many will become obsolete. No matter what you do for a living, there is a good chance AI, specifically generative AI, will significant...

Cloud computing, and especially Salesforce's brand of it, has changed the business world significantly, and that's undisputable to the point of being cliché. However, Benioff and company are not done yet; they may be going through some of the same turbulence we've seen over the years as activist investors take adversarial positions with the company's stock -- but the result will likely be different...

Last week, I wrote about my longing for Windows users to have the same robust experience that macOS users have for accessing iMessage on their Mac devices. Intel's Unison app, now available on select Intel Evo-certified laptops from HP, Lenovo, and Acer -- and presumably more Windows laptops in the future -- is a modest step in the right direction ...

Elon Musk reportedly has been approaching artificial intelligence researchers in recent weeks with an eye toward setting up a research lab to develop an alternative to OpenAI's ChatGPT The move stems from Musk's dissatisfaction with the safeguards OpenAI has included in ChatGPT to prevent it from producing text that might offend users, according to...

Despite a fall off in ransomware attacks since last year, the U.S. Marshals Service on Monday disclosed that it suffered a "major" breach of its computer network on Feb. 17 that included a ransomware component Numerous recent cybersecurity reports suggest that ransomware is becoming less profitable for cybercriminals as more victims refuse to pay t...

ChatGPT-powered Flowy might be a game changer for innovative developers looking to improve website accessibility Israel-based Equally.ai, a provider of web accessibility solutions, announced the release of Flowy last month. Ran Ronen, the company's co-founder and CEO, believes that accessibility should be fundamental to every web product. He design...

Puppy Linux is a niche computing solution that shows the flexibility and usefulness of open-source tools and the staying power of the Linux operating system Normally in this column, I focus on new versions of Linux distros that offer new tricks and features. But the current version of Puppy Linux, FossaPup64 version 9.5 is not a new release. It rep...

Last week, Mercedes-Benz held a special event covering the future of Mercedes cars and vehicles altogether. Mercedes-Benz is one of the great automotive manufacturers in the world. Famous for quality, performance, design, and technology, Mercedes often stands above its peers. While many in the U.S. believe Henry Ford created the first automobile, it was actually Karl Benz of Mercedes-Benz who did so...