Summer solstice in the Northeast Kingdom is my favorite time to visit Vermont with the solitude of early summer slowly getting displaced with the fleeting hustle of sunlight endeavors. This week on the Global Frequency...
Washington Post journalists targeted in cyber attacks. (Read More)
The Pentagon pizza monitoring metric strikes again. (Read More)
Harvard releases over 1,000,000 digitized books in a format useable for AI models. (Read More)
New York state is trying to determine when layoffs are AI related with new reporting requirement. (Read More)
US Navy wants to embrace emerging tech and start-ups. (Read More)
Ads are coming for all WhatsApp users. Remember, they'd rather sell ads in the app than let you pay for the service. (Read More)
OpenAI inks large deal with US Department of Defense. (Read More)
Unsurprisingly, data broker sites were used to collect address information in Minnesota political assassinations. (Read More)
US offers $10m reward for information on Iranian cyber attackers. (Read More)
Dust will need to settle on this to get clarity, but it seems from numerous stories that cyber played a significant role in Iran conflict. (Read More | Second Source)
Amazon expects AI to reduce workforce. (Read More)
As AI wars heat up, Meta looked to recruit from OpenAI with $100m bonus lures. (Read More)
DOJ makes large seizure representing proceeds of pig butchering scams. (Read More)
UBS victim in data breach, but no client data lost. (Read More)
DARPA wants to accelerate the advancement of mathematics by partnering mathematicians with AI. (Read More)
With a surplus of drones, China looks for new use cases. (Read More)
Large healthcare company loses data in major breach. (Read More)
Predatory Sparrow cyber attack group is back and hitting targets in Iran. (Read More)
In Europe, Chinese cyber espionage on par with Russia. (Read More)
Softbank pitches trillion dollar US AI innovation hub in Arizona. (Read More)
Aflac insurance investigates impact of breach. (Read More)
In Iran, wartime life means living without the internet. (Read More)
Global supply chains open up new opportunities for replica luxury goods. (Read More)
Fact or Fiction:
For years I've debated whether this book section should only focus on recommendations or should also include honest reviews of books that might get your attention, but are not worth your time. "MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy" by James Rickards caught my eye in the bookstore, but was disappointing in almost every regard. Rickards argues that AI represents a threat to the markets, not because it will malfunction or suffer from normal accidents, but that it will perform exactly as designed to be exploited by bad actors. While I think the overall premise that AI will have an impact in publicly traded markets is sound, the book quickly muddles the narrative and concludes with the most disappointing of arguments.
Quote of the Week:
“Truth never triumphs—its opponents just die out. Science advances one funeral at a time.” - Max Planck