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Beta News: “A new report from The Conference Board and ESGAUGE [The full report available from The Conference Board site] finds that 72 percent of S&P 500 companies now flag AI as a material risk in their public disclosures. That’s up from just 12 percent in 2023, underscoring how rapidly AI has moved from experimental …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 3, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on …
Nature Scientific Reports [full text] – People are poorly equipped to detect AI-powered voice clones. Sarah Barrington, Emily A. Cooper & Hany Farid. “As generative artificial intelligence (AI) continues its ballistic trajectory, everything from text to audio, image, and video generation continues to improve at mimicking human-generated content. Through a series of perceptual studies, we report on …
Wired – no paywall: “On Wednesday, the first day of the US government shutdown, employees at the Department of Education (DOE) set their automatic out-of-office email responses to inform recipients that they would be unable to respond until after the shutdown. Hours later, many DOE employees realized their response message had been altered to contain …
TNR: “President Donald Trump’s new scheme to transform the federal government into a pharmacy is already raising red flags for legal and health experts. Earlier this week, Trump announced the launch of TrumpRx, a strangely socialist-sounding service where consumers can procure cheap prescription drugs from the U.S. government—just days before Trump’s 100 percent tariff on …
PC Mag: “…You probably already pay for internet access, but once you’re online, surfing the web doesn’t cost a penny. But as with many things that don’t have a cash price, you pay in other ways. Advertisers and data brokers monetize their knowledge about your online habits and activities. They use data that your browser …
The New York Times: “When I received a phone call from an unknown number this week, I didn’t have to pick up the phone to find out it was a robocaller impersonating a utility company with an offer to reduce my bill. A robot spoke on my behalf and told me what the caller had …
MakeUseOf: “ackups are one of those chores we all know we should be doing, but most people either put it off or do it halfway. That’s because backing up an entire digital life is overwhelming, and storage space isn’t exactly free. Also, just to be clear here, backing something up is not the same thing …
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 27, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and …
How to Geek: “Website addresses that end in “.onion” aren’t like normal domain names, and you can’t access them with a normal web browser. Addresses that end with “.onion” point to Tor hidden services on the deep web. Lots of deep web sites contain very nasty things, and many of them are likely scams or …
LinkedIn new terms of use will use your data to train their AI starting Nov 3rd. You can opt out of this here Mobile users: Settings > Data Privacy > How LinkedIn uses your data > turn off Use my data for training content creation Al models. New terms of use can be found here …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 20, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss,highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …
