Articles by John P. Mello Jr

Identity thieves are favoring device takeovers over scams, according to the latest trends report released Tuesday by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) For the first time, unauthorized device access has surpassed scams as the primary threat for adults aged 35 to 64, according to the San Diego-based nonprofit organization founded to provide i...

Improvements in artificial intelligence integration and child safety were highlighted in the keynote video kicking off Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday At the event, Apple demonstrated AI features designed to work across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and its core applications....

Google's "new era for AI search" appears to be a boon for one of its competitors, DuckDuckGo Since Google announced last month that it would be changing its traditional search box into a conversational engine that uses artificial intelligence to answer questions rather than display pages of links, installs of DuckDuckGo have soared....

Since their market launch in 2024, AI PCs have received a tepid consumer response. Microsoft hopes to change that, with a helping hand from Nvidia The two companies announced Monday that they will introduce this fall some 30 laptops and 10 PCs built around Nvidia's new RTX Spark "superchip," which can deliver one petaflop of AI performance and addr...

Some of the biggest names in telecommunications are joining forces to bolster cybersecurity across the industry The companies — AT&T, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Lumen Technologies, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Zayo — are establishing the Communications Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (C2 ISAC) to provide a trusted setting where tech...

By the end of the year, mass adoption of public large language models (LLMs) as a replacement for traditional search will double public relations and earned media budgets, according to global research and advisory company Gartner In a report titled "Top Predictions to Inform 2026 Comms Strategies," Gartner noted public LLMs will replace traditional...

Social networking platform LinkedIn will be detailing its plans on Wednesday to combat low-value AI content — aka AI slop — in its user feeds According to a report in Engadget, the changes will target everything from outright engagement bait to recycled "thought leadership" and other "generic" content that lacks authenticity and originality....

For the second time in two weeks, a significant privilege escalation vulnerability has been discovered in Linux The vulnerability known as "Dirty Frag" enables escalation from an unprivileged user to root through vulnerable kernel networking and memory-fragment handling components, according to the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team....

Meta is turning to artificial intelligence to enforce age restrictions across its platforms In an online post, the company explained that it will use AI to scan user profiles for contextual clues of age-restriction violations....

Apple is huddling with Intel and Samsung to move production of the processors for the iPhone and iPad maker's devices stateside, according to a report published Tuesday by Bloomberg The financial news service, citing people familiar with the deliberations, reported that the "exploratory discussions" were aimed at providing Apple with a secondary op...

TV is evolving into a critical channel for brand marketers, according to a report released Monday by market research and technology company Circana The report, "The Future of TV: Where Immersion Meets Commerce," found that 75% of U.S. households subscribe to ad-supported streaming services, driving TV to an unprecedented transaction-ready scale....

OpenAI is getting ready to shake up the smartphone market with a phone that replaces traditional apps with AI agents, according to master prognosticator Ming-Chi Kuo Kuo is known for his accurate predictions about Apple products, but in a posting on X Sunday, the TF International Securities analyst took a detour from Cupertino to Mission Bay....

Companies are pumping billions into AI infrastructure that's largely unused, according to a report released Tuesday by Cast AI, a global automation platform for cloud-native and AI workloads Based on data from 23,000 Kubernetes clusters, the report found that average GPU utilization across enterprise servers is just 5%. In other words, 95% of provi...

Doomsayers have tagged artificial intelligence with a host of negatives, including widespread job displacement, wage suppression, shrinking tax bases, financial instability created by overinvestment, and atrophy of human skills and expertise. Here's another: income inequality Critics of AI argue that the concentration of wealth in a handful of "hyp...

For most folks, emojis are an innocent way to avoid typing, but there's nothing innocent about the way denizens of the online underworld are using them, according to threat intelligence company Flashpoint As threat actor activity continues to shift toward informal, fast-moving communication platforms such as Telegram and Discord, the way adversarie...

The future of massive-scale data centers to accommodate the demands of artificial intelligence appears to lie in inland America New data released Monday by the Synergy Research Group indicates that the focus of U.S. hyperscale developments has shifted substantially away from coastal regions toward the center of the country, with Texas and Midwester...

Malware affecting industrial control systems (ICS) has the potential to disrupt key industries underpinning modern society, warned a report released Wednesday by the cybersecurity research website Comparitech Internet-exposed ICS devices are a primary target for threat actors, particularly those running legacy protocols such as Modbus, according to...

With more than 1,000 school shootings killing or wounding 800 victims in the last three years in the United States, parents, teachers, educators, law enforcement agencies, and legislators are desperately seeking ways to avert active shooter situations. One of the latest solutions is the use of drones Mithril Defense, a company in Austin, Texas, has...

Marketing leaders expect SEO and AI search to grow side by side, at least in the short term, according to new research from mobile analytics and marketing tech firm Branch Branch's AI Search and Discovery Enterprise Benchmark Report, based on a survey of 300 enterprise, marketing, growth, and digital leaders across six industries, concluded that le...

Embedding artificial intelligence (AI) in customer service operations is becoming commonplace, but the technology doesn't seem to be lightening the workloads of customer service reps New research by Typewise, based on a survey of 207 frontline agents in the U.S., U.K., and Germany, found that nearly three out of four (72%) of them said AI improved ...