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7 keys to evaluating zero trust security frameworks
Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. Zero trust as a framework for securing modern enterprises has been around for years, but is drawing renewed attention with the increase in cyberattacks. The United States government is pushing for zero... Read more
HBO Max: 10 best movies to stream tonight
In the Heights hit HBO Max last Friday. Warner Bros. Thanks to WarnerMedia’s simultaneous theatrical and streaming release plan, major 2021 releases are swiftly hitting HBO Max, including Lin Manuel Miranda’s high-energy love letter to the Latinx community In the Heights, which arrived earlier this month. Watch it swiftly before it leaves the streamer... Read more
A $26 Billion Plan to Save the Houston Area From Rising Seas
This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Hurricane Ike made landfall in 2008, Bill Merrell took shelter on the second floor of a historic brick building in downtown Galveston, Texas, along with his wife, their daughter, their grandson, and two Chihuahuas.... Read more
Peggy Johnson interview: How Magic Leap is getting traction with its enterprise pivot
Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. Magic Leap has gone through a whirlwind in the past year. Founded in 2010 by Rony Abovitz, the company set out to be a pioneer in augmented reality and mixed reality technologies. Abovitz... Read more
SolarWinds hackers breach new victims, including a Microsoft support agent
The nation-state hackers who orchestrated the SolarWinds supply chain attack compromised a Microsoft worker’s computer and used the access to launch targeted attacks against company customers, Microsoft said in a terse statement published late on a Friday afternoon. The hacking group also compromised three entities using password-spraying and brute-force... Read more
iPhone 12 vs. iPhone 11: Every big difference
Apple’s iPhone 12 is one of the highest-rated phones CNET has ever reviewed. If you’re thinking about an upgrade from the previous year’s iPhone 11 to the base iPhone 12 model (or one of the other three models available), you may be wondering: What exactly is the difference between the two phones?... Read more
Hackers Are Erasing Western Digital Hard Drives Remotely
An array of ATMs and point-of-sale terminals can be hacked with a wave of your phone, according to research released this week about vulnerabilities in near-field communication card readers. And flaws in a well-intentioned Dell firmware update mechanism left 128 recent, popular PC models, including high-end devices with extra... Read more
DeepMind AGI paper adds urgency to ethical AI
Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. It has been a great year for artificial intelligence. Companies are spending more on large AI projects, and new investment in AI startups is on pace for a record year. All this... Read more
Why biologists like Carl Bergstrom are warning that social media is a risk to humanity
Social media has drastically restructured the way we communicate in an incredibly short period of time. We can discover, “Like,” click on, and share information faster than ever before, guided by algorithms most of us don’t quite understand. And while some social scientists, journalists, and activists have been raising... Read more
A well-meaning feature leaves millions of Dell PCs vulnerable
Enlarge / Dell has released a patch for a set of vulnerabilities that left as many as 30 million devices exposed. Artur Widak | Getty Images Researchers have known for years about security issues with the foundational computer code known as firmware. It’s often riddled with vulnerabilities, it’s difficult... Read more