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8 big IT failures of 2023

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We’ve gathered eight instances of big tech failures that struck companies and other organizations in 2023. Both United Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines saw service outages in 2023 resulting from wonky software upgrades, and Southwest ended the previous year with a Christmas travel meltdown blamed on outdated systems.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Says Midnight Blizzard Swiped U.S. Gov’t Emails During Microsoft Hack, Tells Fed Agencies To Take Immediate Action

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The attack against Microsoft began in November 2023, when Midnight Blizzard – also known as Nobelium, Cozy Bear and APT29 – compromised a legacy, non-production test account that lacked multi-factor authentication protection. Already, 22% of polled organizations use generative AI for security. The rest had no opinion.

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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

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According to Stanford’s AI Index Report, released in April, 149 foundation models were released in 2023, two-thirds of them open source. Hugging Face currently tracks more than 80,000 LLMs for text generation alone and fortunately has a leaderboard that lets you quickly sort the models by how they score on various benchmarks.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: A Look Back at Key 2023 Cyber Data for GenAI, Cloud Security, Vulnerability Management, OT, Cyber Regulations and more

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As we bid adieu to 2023, we highlight major trends that impacted cybersecurity professionals in the past 12 months. 1 - Excitement over GenAI for cyber defense Artificial intelligence, and generative AI (GenAI) specifically, captured the world’s imagination in 2023, as we all marveled at the technology’s potential for good and evil.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework Gets Major Update, as Advisories on APT29 and ALPHV Blackcat Get Rolled Out

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Also, how to assess the cybersecurity capabilities of a generative AI LLM. And the most prevalent malware in Q4. In these attacks, users are tricked into installing what they think is a legitimate browser update that in reality is malware that infects their computers. And much more! 1 - NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework 2.0

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Radar Trends to Watch: October 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

This month, the AI category is limited to developments about AI itself; tools for AI programming are covered in the Programming section. One of the biggest issues for AI these days is legal. Stability AI has released a new demo of generative AI for music, called (unsurprisingly) Stable Audio.

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Radar Trends to Watch: July 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Mechanical Turk is often used to generate or label training data for AI systems. What impact will the use of AI to generate training data have on future generations of AI? What happens when generative AI systems are trained on data that they’ve produced ?