It's 5:05! Daily cybersecurity and open source briefing
“It’s 5:05!'' is a daily audio news cast highlighting security and open source stories from around the world. We filter for the real cybersecurity and open source stories in the news, so you won't have to. Each day, a global team of journalists contribute stories they found interesting in their daily research from the previous 24 hours. We present them to you in an easy to listen to format, making the resources available at the end of each episode so you can do a deep dive on stories you find of interest.
Weekly Cybersecurity and Open-source News Updates
It's April 5th, 2024, and time for your weekly cybersecurity and open-source news updates. We have news updates from Trac Bannon in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, Julie Chatman in Washington, DC, Katy Craig in San Diego, California, Edwin Kwan in Sydney, Australia, and Olimpiu Pop in Transylvania, Romania. We'll start with Julie Chatman
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POV Friday: The Rise Of Low Code/No Code Citizen Developers
It's March 29th, 2024 and time for Point of View Friday, where we cover a single topic from multiple perspectives. Today's point of discussion is around low-code/no-code solutions and their implications. Today we have perspectives from Julie Chatman in Washington, DC, Katy Craig in San Diego, California, Trac Bannon in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, Edwin Kwan in Sydney, Australia, and Olimpiu Pop reporting from KubeCon Paris.
We'll start with Katy Craig.
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POV Friday: CISA got hacked!?
It's March 15th, 2024, and time for Point of View Friday, where we cover a single topic from multiple perspectives. Today's point of discussion is around the recent Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency hack, and it's suspected perpetrators and implications. We have perspectives from Julie Chatman in Washington, D.C., Katy Craig in San Diego, California, Trac Bannon in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, and Olimpiu Pop from Transylvania, Romania. We also have a couple of interviews from last month's, AFCEA cybersecurity conference held in San Diego, California.
We'll start with Katy Craig.
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POV Friday: Backdoored AI
It's March 8th, 2024, International Women's Day, and time for Point of View Friday, where we cover a single topic from multiple perspectives. Today's point of discussion is around the risk of backdoored AI. We have perspectives from Julie Chatman in Washington, D.C., Katy Craig in San Diego, California, Trac Bannon in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, and Olimpiu Pop from Transylvania, Romania. We also have a couple of news stories at the end, and some interviews from the annual AFCEA conference held in San Diego, California last month.
We'll start with Julie Chatman.
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POV Friday: Apple's PQ3 raises the bar on postquantum encryption
It's March 1st, 2024 and time for Point of View Friday, where we cover a single topic from multiple perspectives. Today's point of discussion is around the anticipation of advancements in quantum computing and the massive overhauls of technology taking place. We have perspectives from Trac Bannon in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, Olimpiu Pop from Transylvania, Romania, and Katy Craig in San Diego, California. We'll start with Trac Bannon.
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POV Friday: Disinformation a weapon in an election year?
It's February 23rd, 2024 and time for point of view Friday, where we cover a single topic from multiple perspectives. Today's point of discussion is around the increasing threat of deepfakes to democracies worldwide. We have perspectives from Trac Bannon in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, Olimpiu Pop from Transylvania, Romania, Hillary Coover in Washington, DC, and Katy Craig in San Diego, California. We'll start with Katie Craig.
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POV Friday: The Securities and Exchange Commission's change in cybersecurity disclosure rules.
It's February 16th, 2024 and time for Point of View Friday, where we cover a single topic from multiple perspectives. Today's point of discussion is the Securities and Exchange Commission's change in cybersecurity disclosure rules. We have perspectives today from Trac Bannon in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, Olimpiu Pop from Transylvania, Romania, and Katy Craig in San Diego, California. We'll start with Trac Bannon
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POV Friday: Recent large-scale Microsoft breach.
It's February 9, 2024 and time for Point of View Friday where we cover a single topic from multiple perspectives. Today's point of discussion is the recent large-scale Microsoft breach. We have perspectives from Trac Bannon in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, Olimpiu Pop in Transylvania, Romania and Shannon Lietz in San Diego, California. We'll start with Katy Craig also in San Diego, connecting the dots between the HPE breach and Microsoft.
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PoV Friday: 2024 Predictions for AI and Cyber Legislation with Trac Bannon, Edwin Kwan, Olimpiu Pop, and Shannon Lietz
It's January 12th, 2024, and time for Point of View Friday, where we cover a single topic from multiple perspectives. Today's point of discussion is what does the future look like for AI and cyber legislation? We have perspectives from Edwin Kwan in Sydney, Australia, Trac Bannon and Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, Olympia Pop from Transylvania, Romania. We'll begin with Shannon Lietz in San Diego, California on the Win, Lose or Draw when considering cyber legislation.
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PoV Friday: 2024 Predictions for AI with Edwin Kwan, Trac Bannon, Olimpiu Pop and Shannon Lietz
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It’s January 5, 2024, and time for Point of View Friday, where we cover a single topic from multiple perspectives. Today’s point of discussion is “What does the near future look like for AI, what should you consider when utilizing AI for your personal use or business solution?”
Today’s contributors are Trac Bannon from Camp Hill Pennsylvania, Olimpiu Pop from Transylvania Romania, Shannon Lietz from San Diego...
Episode #304: Edwin Kwan: Google Chrome Safety Check Feature Enhancements; Shannon Lietz: EU CRA: Win | Lose | Draw; Olimpiu Pop: Year in Review: Ukraine and the cyberwar; Marcel Brown: This Day in Tech History
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Marcel Brown: December 31st, 1999. The world waits in anticipation of the year 2000 and the potential disasters that might be brought about by the Y2K bug. Just for fun, I set up my home with a remote control to turn off all the lights in my house and the TV our friends would be watching at our New Year's Eve party. Seconds after mid...
Episode #303: Edwin Kwan: Chrome Users Infected via Fake VPNs in Video Game Torrents; Ian Garrett: 6 Key Aspects of SEC Rules for Data Breaches; Olimpiu Pop: Cybersecurity Legislation (CRA, US Legislation); Marcel Brown: This Day in Tech History
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Marcel Brown: December 28th, 1895. The world's first projected movie screening takes place at the Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris, France. 33 people attend at the admission price of 1 franc each to view 10 films at about 50 seconds each.
Edwin Kwan: Three malicious Chrome extensions disguised as VPNs infected approximately 1. 5 million users. The extensions - netPlus, netSafe, and netWin - were distributed thr...
Episode #302: Edwin Kwan: Developers Ignore Critical Flaw in Apache Struts 2 Framework; Hillary Coover: The Quantum Computing Revolution and Global Security; Olimpiu Pop: 2023 in Review: AI Legislation; Marcel Brown: This Day in Tech History
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Marcel Brown: December 27th, 1968. Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first manned orbit of the moon. When the spacecraft hit the water, the parachutes dragged it over and left it upside down. Because they were being buffeted by 10 foot swells, astronaut Frank Borman actually got sick and vomited. Welcome back to Earth, Frank.
Edwin Kwan: A critical remote code...
Episode #301: Edwin Kwan: Critical Vulnerability Threatens SSH Security; Hillary Coover: National Grid Removes China-Based Supplier's Components; Ian Garrett: Ransomware Evolves to Extortionware Threat; Olimpiu Pop: 2023 in Review: Cybersecurity and the Supply Chain; Marcel Brown: This Day in Tech History
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Marcel Brown: December 25th, 1990. Merry Christmas, everyone. Tim Berners Lee, a British scientist working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, otherwise known as CERN, along with his associate, Robert Kaliau, were operating the first web server, info.cern.Ch, and first web browser slash editor, World Wide Web, which were reportedly able to communicate over the internet by this date.
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Episode #300: Edwin Kwan: SMTP Smuggling ByPasses Email Security Controls; Hillary Coover: Researchers Seek to Unmask Hackers Through Code Analysis and AI; Marcel Brown: This Day in Tech History; Katy Craig: CISO Accountability: Framework for Compliance; Trac Bannon: CISO Accountability: The buck stops… where?; Olimpiu Pop: CISO Accountability: Compliance is not Security
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Marcel Brown: December 22nd, 1882. Edward Johnson, an associate of Thomas Edison, has walnut sized bulbs made specifically for him to wire his Christmas tree with electric light. The eighty red, white, and blue bulbs formed the first set of electric Christmas tree lights in history.
Edwin Kwan: A recently discovered SMTP smuggling technique is allowing cyber attackers to sidestep email security p...
Episode #299: Edwin Kwan: Terminated Bank Cloud Engineer Sabotages Systems; Hillary Coover: Unauthorized Access to MongoDB Corporate Systems; Ian Garrett: Insights from the Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2023; Marcel Brown: This Day in Tech History
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Edwin Kwan: A former cloud engineer at a bank was terminated for violating company policies, including inappropriate laptop use. After he was fired, the employee went home and used a company issued laptop to launch attacks on the bank's network.
Hillary Coover: Database management company MongoDB is currently investigating a security incident that has led to the exposure of some customer info...
Episode #298: Edwin Kwan: Ubiquiti User Accounts Suffer Data Breach; Katy Craig: Xfinity Acknowledges 36 Million Customer Accounts Breached; Hillary Coover: L.L. Bean's Surprising Stance on Data Privacy; Marcel Brown: This Day in Tech History
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Marcel Brown: December 20th, 1996. In a surprise move at the time, Apple Computer announces their intention to purchase Steve Jobs' company, NeXT, and bring Steve Jobs on board as an advisor to CEO Gil Amelio. Along with the leadership of future CEO Steve Jobs, the resurgence of Apple in the 2000s, and the emergence of the new world of technology can be traced bac...
Episode #297: Edwin Kwan, My Personal Experience with SMS Impersonation Scams; Hillary Coover, Europe Probes Elon Musk's X Over Disinformation Handling; Ian Garrett, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, and Nuclear weapons, Oh my!
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Marcel Brown: This day in Tech History
December 19th, 1974. Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems, otherwise known as MITS, begins selling the Altair 8800 microcomputer kit. It is one of the most important computers in history, for it inspired the first generation of entrepreneurs that created the personal computer industry.
Edwin Kwan: My Personal Experience with SMS Impersonation Scams
I was rec...
Episode #296: Edwin Kwan: 38% of Apps Still Exposed to Log4J Vulnerability; Katy Craig: Is My Phone Spying on Me?; Hillary Coover: Foreign Geographic Software Poses National Security Threats; Marcel Brown: This Day in Tech History
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Marcel Brown: December 17th, 1903. Orville and Wilbur Wright make their famous first controlled and sustained flights with a heavier than air, powered aircraft. Orville made the very first flight, which lasted about 12 seconds.
Edwin Kwan: It's been almost three years since the critical Log4j vulnerability was disclosed. Despite patches being available shortly after vulnerability disclosure, many organizations persistently u...
Special Report: POV Friday - Four Opinions on the EU AI Act.
From Sourced Network Productions, It's 5:05!, the Podcast , with a special report on the EU AI Act. It’s Point of View Friday, featuring Trac Bannon, Katy Craig, Shannon Leitz, and Olimpiu Pop, with their perspectives on the release of the EU AI Act. We’ll start with Katy Craig.
Katy Craig: Today, we’re diving into a significant milestone in AI regulation: the European Union’s recent passing of the AI Act. This legislation is set to shape how AI is used across industries, but it also raises questions about potential, unintended consequences.
Trac Bannon: The EU i...
Episode #295: Edwin Kwan: Apple Beta Testing Stolen Device Protection Feature; Marcel Brown: This Day in Tech History; Katy Craig: EU AI Act: Significant Milestone in AI Regulation; Trac Bannon: EU AI Act: Does it Leave U.S. in the Dust?; Shannon Lietz: EU AI Act: Win, Lose, or Draw?; Olimpiu Pop: EU AI Act: A Baseline for Regulation
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Marcel Brown: December 16, 2003. The CAN SPAM Act of 2003 is signed into United States law. Passed in an attempt to control the growing deluge of junk email, the law's effectiveness is dubious at best. Especially considering political spam is exempt from the law.
Edwin Kwan: Apple will soon be introducing a stolen device protection feature, which is aimed at enhancing security if an...
Episode #294: Edwin Kwan: Over 50% Insider Attacks Involve Privilege Elevation Exploits; Katy Craig: Malware Deployment Strategy against Adobe ColdFusion; Ian Garrett: Where Will Cyber Leaders Focus on AI in 2024; Marcel Brown: This Day in Tech History
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Marcel Brown: December 14th, 1902. The cable ship Silvertown begins laying the first Transpacific telegraph cable from San Francisco, destined for Honolulu, Hawaii. On January 1st, 1903, the connection between Hawaii and San Francisco was established.
Edwin Kwan: A research study based on data from January 2021 to April 2023 shows a rise in insider threats, with 55% relying on privilege escalation exploits and the remaining 4...
Episode #293: Edwin Kwan: Messenger and Facebook: Default End to End Encryption; Hillary Coover: Campaign Targets Taiwan Elections with Stolen Identities and Disinformation; Katy Craig: North Korea’s Lazarus Still Exploiting Log4j; Marcel Brown: This Day in Tech History
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Marcel Brown: December 16, 2016. After a long delay, Apple finally releases their new wireless earbuds, the Apple AirPods. Within two years, they became Apple's most popular accessory, and today are some of the most popular and well recognized earbuds in the market.
Hillary Coover: A covert campaign dating back to May 2022 is distorting conversations about Taiwan's upcoming elections. The Graphika report exposes...
Episode #292: Edwin Kwan: 5Ghoul Vulnerabilities Affecting Most 5G Smart Phones; Katy Craig: P2PInfect: Evolving to Target Routers and IoT Devices; Ian Garrett: That Job Candidate Might Be a Hacker; Mark Miller: This Day in Tech History
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Mark Miller: December 12th, 1980. Apple computer holds their initial public offering selling 4.6 million shares at $22 per share, and turning more than 40 Apple employees and investors into instant millionaires.
Edwin Kwan: A set of 14 security vulnerabilities named "5Ghoul" has been discovered in the firmware implementation of 5G mobile network modems from major chipset vendors like MediaTek and Qualcomm. The flaw impacts USB and IoT...
Episode #291: Edwin Kwan: Critical Vulnerabilities Affect Multiple Atlassian Products; Hillary Coover: Russian Deepfake: Celebrities Used in Disinformation Against Ukraine; Mark Miller: Gemini: A fake it till you make it demo by Google; Marcel Brown: This Day in Tech History
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Marcel Brown: December 11th, 2008. Google releases the first stable, public version of their new web browser, Chrome. By 2013, Chrome had bypassed Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox to become the most popular web browser in the world, and is still considered so today.
Edwin Kwan: Atlassian has issued an email warning customers of four critical vulnerabilities, each rated 9.0 or higher. Conflue...
Special Report: Point of View Friday - Four Opinions on the OWASP BOM Maturity Model, with Trac Bannon, Katy Craig, Shannon Lietz, and Olimpiu Pop
From @Sourced Network Productions, @It's 5:05!, the Podcast , with a special report on the release of the OWASP BOM Maturity Model. It’s Point of View Friday, featuring Trac Bannon, Katy Craig, Shannon Leitz, and Olimpiu Pop, with their perspectives on the release of the BOM Maturity Model by the OWASP Foundation. We’ll start with Trac Bannon.
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Episode #290: Edwin Kwan: Bluetooth Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Apple and Linux; Marcel Brown: This Day in Tech History; Trac Bannon: OWASP BOM Maturity Model: Is It Valuable?; Katy Craig: OWASP BOM Maturity Model: A Benefit for Consumers; Olimpiu Pop: OWASP BOM Maturity Model: Is it too soon?; Shannon Lietz: OWASP BOM Maturity Model: Win, Lose, or Draw?
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Marcel Brown: December 8th, 1975. Paul Terrell opens the Byte Shop in Mountain View, California, one of the first retail computer stores in the world. Paul Terrell and the Byte Shop are most famously known for ordering the first 50 computers from Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak's fledgling Apple Computer Company in 1976.
Edwin Kwan: A Bluetooth authentication bypass vulnerability has been discovered to be im...
Episode #289: Edwin Kwan: Malicious Wordpress Plugin Issues Fake Security Advisories; Katy Craig: Feds surveilling us via push notifications; Mark Miller: Special Report: ChatGPT Isn’t the Only AI Game in Town; Marcel Brown: This Day in Tech History
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Marcel Brown: December 7, 1999. The Recording Industry Association of America sues the peer to peer file sharing service Napster, alleging copyright infringement for allowing users to download copyrighted music for free. The recording industry in general was caught with its pants down when it came to digital music and the internet.
Edwin Kwan: WordPress administrators are being targeted by a fake security advisory...
Episode #288: Edwin Kwan: WhatsApp Updates Password Security; Katy Craig: AI Alliance to Compete with Closed Source LLMs; Hillary Coover: 23andMe: Guard Your DNA Data, Protect Your Family; Marcel Brown: This Day in Tech History
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Marcel Brown: December 6, 1994. Apple sues the San Francisco Canyon Company, alleging they helped Intel and Microsoft steal code developed under contract for QuickTime for Windows. Apple was threatening Microsoft with a multi-billion dollar lawsuit that was famously settled by Steve Jobs and Bill Gates in 1997. This settlement is now believed to have helped Apple survive long enough to transform themselves in the 2000s, ush...
Episode #287: Edwin Kwan: Mandatory Data Breach Notification Coming to Queensland; Ian Garrett: Deepfakes: A Growing Concern for 2024 Election Security; Katy Craig: A Prickly CACTUS: Ransomware to Encrypt and Exfiltrate Data; Mark Miller: This Day in Tech History
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Mark Miller: December 5th, 1965. The first PhD dissertation in computer science is presented. Richard L Wexelblat was the first candidate in a computer science program to complete a dissertation. Wexelblat's diploma presented by the University of Pennsylvania, the home of ENIAC, was the first one to carry the designation, "Computer Science".
Ian Garrett: Enhancements to AI platforms have been incredible for the...
Episode #286: Edwin Kwan: Discovered Zoom Vulnerability Allows Account Hijacking; Katy Craig: LogoFAIL: New UEFI Vulnerabilities Threaten Device Firmware Security; Hillary Coover: Secure Shopping Strategies: Navigating the Peak Season with Virtual Credit Cards; Marcel Brown: This Day in Tech History
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Marcel Brown: December 3rd, 2001. Inventor Dean Kamen unveils the Segway self-balancing battery-powered vehicle on the TV show Good Morning America. The Segway uses computers and motors in its base to keep itself upright while the user is riding it. While the original Segway was not considered a commercial success, it definitely became a familiar icon of personal transportation.
Edwin Kwan: Security resea...
Episode #285: Edwin Kwan: Apple Releases Emergency Zero-Day Security Updates; Macrel Brown: This Day in Tech History; Katy Craig: AI Guidelines: US and EU Release Secure AI System Development Guidelines; Olimpiu Pop: AI Guidelines: Can governments protect us from AI?; Trac Bannon: AI Guidelines: Can CISA and her partners keep up the pace?
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Marcel Brown: December 1st, 1996. America Online launches a new subscription plan offering their subscribers unlimited dial up internet access for $19.95 a month. Previously, AOL charged $9.95 a month for 5 hours of usage. The new plan brought in over 1 million new customers to AOL within weeks, and daily usage doubled among subscribers, to a whole 32 minutes per day.
Edwin Kwan: Apple has urgently rel...
Episode #284: Edwin Kwan: Are We Sharing Too Much on LinkedIn?; Katy Craig: MITRE ATLAS: Mapping Security Vulnerabilities in AI; Ian Garrett: The Two Faces of Cybersecurity Investing; Marcel Brown: This Day in Tech History
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Marcel Brown: November 30th, 2009. Book retailer Barnes Noble releases their first Nook eReader to compete with the highly successful Amazon Kindle, released two years earlier.
Edwin Kwan: Are we sharing too much on LinkedIn? Daniel Barbosa from WeLiveSecurity recently published an article on the potential risks associated with the wealth of personal information shared on LinkedIn, which is the world's largest profe...
Episode #283: Edwin Kwan: Australian Banks Begin Blocking Transfers to Suspect Accounts; Katy Craig: Google’s Cybersecurity Forecast: The Growing Influence of AI; Hillary Coover: Hacker's Haven: Cocaine Infiltration Unveiled in Europe's Biggest Ports; Marcel Brown: This Day in Tech History
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Marcel Brown: November 29th, 1972. Atari introduces their first product, Pong, which would become the world's first commercially successful video game. Nolan Bushnell installed the game at Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale, California on this day. There were 10,000 machines installed within four months.
Edwin Kwan: In 2023, Australians suffered over $400 million in losses due to scams. The actual figure is believed to be much higher...
Episode #282: Ian Garrett: Deprecation of Defender Application Guard for MS Office; Edwin Kwan: Open Source 3D Design Suite Targeted by DDoS; Katy Craig: US and UK: Joint Guidelines for AI System Security; Marcel Brown: This Day in Tech History
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Marcel Brown: November 28, 1948. Just in time for the Christmas shopping season, 57 units of the first commercial instant camera, the Polaroid Land Camera Model 95, go on sale at the Jordan Marsh Department Store in Boston. Polaroid believed that 57 units would be enough to last through Christmas.
Edwin Kwan: Open Source Blender Project is being targeted by Distributed Denial of Service attacks resulting...
Episode #281: Edwin Kwan: OwnCloud App Suffers Three Critical Vulnerabilities; Katy Craig: AI-Enabled Autonomous Vehicles and Lethal Weapons; Hillary Coover: Debunking the Incognito Shopping Myth; Marcel Brown: This Day in Tech History
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Marcel Brown: November 27, 1995. Nearly six months to the day after Bill Gates sent his Internet Tidal Wave memo recognizing the importance of the Internet, and only three months after releasing version 1.0, Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 2.0 for Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.5.
Edwin Kwan: Three critical vulnerabilities have been reported to affect OwnCloud, exposing users to potential data breaches. One of these flaws, with a m...
Special Report: POV Friday with Trac Bannon - OpenAI: Should Camelot Be Restored?
Hello, this is Trac Bannon reporting from Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.
The news of San Altman sacking by the OpenAI Board of Directors shook the world on Friday, November 17th. As events unfolded in the following hours and days, the world suffered collective whiplash. While many are asking why the board made that decision, more profound questions are being raised about the balance between innovative leadership and effective governance.
The sacking of Altman, coupled with the ChatGPT outage on November 21st, underscores the delicate equilibrium required in leading cutting edge technology organizations. The impact of such...
Special Report: POV Friday with Olimpiu Pop - OpenAI: What will its future look like?
The recent turmoil at OpenAI, stemming from the ousting of CEO Sam Altman, has thrown the AI community into a state of intense discussion and speculation. We have a whole saga that looks more like a new season of HBO's Game of Thrones than a sane tech company that is crafting the future of humanity. The coup backfired and Altman seems to be returning in a more powerful position, just in time for the Thanksgiving turkey.
The saga has significant implications for the broader AI industry. ChatGPT's release and OpenAI's innovative strides have triggered a surge in...
Special Report: POV Friday with Shannon Lietz - OpenAI and Microsoft: Win, Lose, or Draw?
Hi, this is Shannon Leitz from San Diego, California.
With all the brouhaha going on with Sam Altman and OpenAI, there's a lot to unpack and digest. A few things for all of us. When OpenAI, not yet a year ago, released its ChatGPT to the world, a fabulous capability if you ask me, it was pretty obvious at the time that they were chasing adoption and velocity as a brand new organization entering into the market.
I say that because most folks know that there's sort of a chase for go to market. When...
Special Report: POV Friday with Katy Craig - OpenAI: Sam Altman’s Triumphant Return
This is Katy Craig in San Diego, California.
In an extraordinary twist fit for a Silicon Valley drama. OpenAI's boardroom coup against CEO Sam Altman not only failed, but spectacularly backfired, leading to a reshuffling of the board itself. The recent turmoil at OpenAI, a beacon in the AI industry, laid bare the complexities and power dynamics at play in the high stakes world of technological innovation.
The attempt to oust Altman, ostensibly for a lack of transparency, was more than just a disagreement over leadership style. It symbolized a deeper conflict about the direction...
