Criminals Are Using Deepfakes to Turn Social Media Photos X Criminals are weaponizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) in disturbing ways, one of which involves manipulating innocent social media photos into compromising or illegal images. This crime is perpetrated through AI-powered software that creates deepfakes. Deepfakes are synthetic media where a person in an existing image or video is… Read More »
Saturday Bonus Questions and Answers – 060124 It’s June and the meteorological beginning of summer for those of us north of the equator. For those of you south of the equator, it’s the meteorological start of winter. In most places on Earth, it’s Saturday And if it’s Saturday, it’s time for yet another edition of our… Read More »
Saturday Bonus Questions and Answers – 052524 Here in the U.S.A., it’s Memorial Day Weekend. It’s a time when we remember the brave men and women who died fighting for our freedom. And it’s a time for all of us, no matter where we live, to remember freedom isn’t free. We wish our friends in the… Read More »
Wednesday Newsbytes: Google Deletes Cloud Account with $125B in Pension Funds; Connecting Windows XP to the Internet – a Disaster; Microsoft Introduces AI PCs; AI PCs a Privacy Nightmare?… and more Every day we scan the tech world for interesting news in the world of technology and sometimes from outside the world of technology. Every Wednesday,… Read More »
Wednesday Newsbytes: 49 Million Dell Customers’ Breached; 12 Phrases That Alert You to Scams; Google Now Has a “Web” Search Button; The Most Relaxing Song In the World… and more Every day we scan the tech world for interesting news in the world of technology and sometimes from outside the world of technology. Every Wednesday, we… Read More »
Don’t Be a Phish: Learn to Recognize Phishing Scams Hundreds of thousands of people are tricked into giving up personal information to criminals daily. And many of these poor folks were tricked into clicking links in phishing emails or text messages. Phishing is a type of deceptive email or message that’s designed to trick you into divulging personal… Read More »