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Critical Insights from FortiGuard Labs – 2025 Global Threat Landscape Report: “Our latest global threat landscape report uncovers how automation, AI, and stolen credentials are fueling faster, more scalable cyberattacks—outpacing defenders across industries and geographies.” Forbes: Warning – 19 Billion Compromised Passwords Have Been Published Online – “Imagine having access to 19,030,305,929 passwords that were …
Washington Post [no paywall]: “The goal — a centralized system with unprecedented access to data about Social Security, taxes, medical diagnoses and other private information — would create a multitude of vulnerabilities, experts say. The U.S. DOGE Service is racing to build a single centralized database with vast troves of personal information about millions of …
PC Mag: “Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot (among others) have successfully made AI chatbots mainstream and serve as viable alternatives to standard web search engines. In turn, the standard search engines from those companies (along with alternative ones) have adopted some AI elements. Bing, for example, now offers the Copilot Search feature that shows you …
PC Mag – Concerned about high prices that might come with tariffs? Our experts offer handy buying advice to help you navigate this tricky global trade war.”Uncertainty reigns in global trade, with tensions brought on by the Trump administration’s decision to levy tariffs—taxation based on a percentage of a product’s value—on imports from countries near …
Forbes [no paywall] – Two new studies demonstrate some major downsides to upsizing our cars: “Our vehicles have never been bigger or heavier than they are now. Take the Ford F150 truck. Between 1991 and 2025, it got 75cm longer, 20 cm taller, and 483 kg heavier. But it’s not alone; the same trend of …
PC Mag: “Like it or not, artificial intelligence is here to stay. You’ve probably heard a lot of chatter about how it’s an incredible tool that can transform society and a malevolent force that steals work and is destined to put us all out of a job. The truth, of course, lies somewhere in between. …
The New York Times – no paywall: “Artificial intelligence software has given editing tools a huge boost in power, far beyond the spell-checkers and grammar aids of yore. A.I. can proofread, rewrite, summarize and compose text, making it simple to craft clean, complex documents in a flash — even on a smartphone. If you haven’t …
The Hill: “The cuts, under consideration as part of a broader push to offset the cost of Donald Trump’s proposed “big, beautiful bill,” would target the very programs that expanded access to care under the Affordable Care Act. From rolling back federal funding for Medicaid expansion to repealing enrollment protections, each option on the table …
CNN: “Chief Justice John Roberts stressed the importance of judicial independence during public remarks Wednesday, noting that the judiciary’s role as a co-equal branch of government is central to the nation’s political system. “The judiciary is a coequal branch of government, separate from the others with the authority to interpret the Constitution as law, and …
“The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has recently published a report showing that global progress in human development has slowed to historic lows despite expecting to recover from 2020-2021 crises. The report indicates that progress has been weaker than anticipated, with global human development showing its smallest rise since 1990. This year’s report, titled “A …
New Oxford study uncovers explosion of accessible deepfake AI image generation models intended for the creation of non-consensual, sexualised images of women. “Researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford have uncovered a dramatic rise in easily accessible AI tools specifically designed to create deepfake images of identifiable people, finding nearly …
Harvard Business Review Report: “…Ineffective knowledge management can hinder decision making and lead to poor business performance. When knowledge is fragmented and disorganized, with information documented and stored across disconnected applications and systems, workers find it difficult and time-consuming to find the information they need when they need it. As a result, collaboration stagnates, teams …