Articles by John P. Mello Jr.

Since ChatGPT arrived on the net in 2022, AI-generated content has soared more than 8,000%, according to a study released Tuesday by Copyleaks. The study, which covers a period from 2013 to March 2024, found a surge of 8,362% in AI content on the internet from November 2022, when ChatGPT-3.5 was released, to March 2024 When OpenAI released ChatGPT-...

Artificial intelligence is forcing many companies to evolve and rethink how to govern and analyze data, according to survey results released Monday by Gartner Based on a survey of 479 chief data and analytics officers, chief data officers, and chief analytics officers worldwide, the results revealed that 61% of organizations are reevaluating their ...

Brute force cracking of passwords takes longer now than in the past, but the good news is not a cause for celebration, according to the latest annual audit of password cracking times released Tuesday by Hive Systems Depending on the length of the password and its composition -- the mix of numbers, letters, and special characters -- a password can b...

Nearly two dozen dating apps were flagged by Mozilla's Privacy Not Included researchers Tuesday as failing to meet privacy and security standards, sharing customer data with third parties, and excluding the right of a user to wipe their data from the app According to Mozilla, financial pressures are forcing the owners of the apps to change leadersh...

While the major generative AI service providers depend on the cloud to power their large language models, Apple will be taking a different tack with the next version of its mobile operating system, which is set to be revealed in June Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, in his weekly newsletter published Sunday, predicted that the AI features planned for iOS 1...

Google joined the ranks of fellow cloud service providers Amazon and Microsoft on Tuesday with the announcement of custom silicon for its data centers Google's Axion line of processors represents its first Arm-based CPUs designed for the data center. "Axion delivers industry-leading performance and energy efficiency and will be available to Google ...

Proton, the maker of an email system known for its strong security, has added passkey support for its password manager while knocking "Big Tech" for trapping their users' passkeys behind "walled gardens." "Even though passkeys were developed by the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium to replace passwords and are meant to provide 'faster...

Canine Companions, a service dog company, will announce new technology this week that enables trained canines to perform tasks, such as tamping down anxiety and interrupting nightmares, after receiving wireless alerts Called CanineAlert, the technology is designed to be integrated with a service dog's training to mitigate trauma-related nightmares,...

Data backups have become a must-hit target for ransomware actors, according to a report released by a cybersecurity company The research, sponsored by Sophos and based on a survey of nearly 3,000 IT and security professionals across 14 countries, found that 94% of organizations hit by ransomware in the past year said that the threat actors attempte...

Move over Google Assistant, Alexa, and Siri. There's a new digital assistant in town, although you need to be a facilities manager to appreciate it On Tuesday, BrainBox AI, the maker of an AI-powered facilities management solution, announced a virtual building assistant called ARIA (Artificial Responsive Intelligent Assistant)....

In what could be a peek at the future of AI integration in enterprises, MicroStrategy on Tuesday announced a new addition to its platform that simplifies access to business analytical data within organizations MicroStrategy Auto is a customizable AI bot that the company said offers a faster, simpler way to deliver business intelligence to anyone in...

Nvidia is pumping up the power in its line of artificial intelligence chips with the announcement Monday of its Blackwell GPU architecture at its first in-person GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in five years According to Nvidia, the chip, designed for use in large data centers -- the kind that power the likes of AWS, Azure, and Google -- offers 20 ...

Apple and Google are huddling over a potential deal to bring the search king's Gemini generative AI offerings to the iPhone The negotiations, first reported by Bloomberg on Monday, aim to let Apple license Gemini's set of AI models to drive some new features for the iPhone later this year....

Online shopping returns cost retailers billions of dollars, pump tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and dump billions of pounds of waste into landfills, according to a global plastics cleanup company report In 2022 alone, returns cost online retailers US$816 billion, as noted in the report by CleanHub....

A new video venture announced by Elon Musk will face some strong challenges from entrenched incumbents, according to pundits interviewed by TechNewsWorld Reports began appearing last week that the bête noire of social media is crafting an app to stream long-form videos to users of X (formerly Twitter). "You can soon watch your favorite X long-form...

Organizations are increasingly taking to the offensive to foil threats before they become attacks, according to a report released Wednesday by a breach and attack simulation company In its 2024 State of Exposure Management & Security Validation report, Cymulate maintained that security leaders are recognizing that the pattern of buying new tech and...

Some 60% of consumers believe their self-monitoring home security systems keep them just as safe as monitoring provided by security pros, according to research released by Parks Associates "Consumers view self-monitoring as a way to be notified of what's going on in their homes. For many of them, that can provide the peace-of-mind that's safe enoug...

The first hydrogen fuel cell consumer vehicle for America was announced Tuesday by Honda With a name that doesn't quite roll off the tongue, the CR-V e:FCEV combines a hydrogen fuel cell system with plug-in charging capability and has an EPA driving range rating of 270 miles....

A leaked set of performance benchmarks for Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite Arm chip reveals a narrowing of the performance gap with Apple's top-of-the-line M3 silicon The benchmarks published Monday on the Windows Latest website reported the Snapdragon X Elite 1800 had a single-core score of 2574 and a multi-core score of 12,562. By comparison, the M...

Virtual agents and AI chatbots will be eating into search engine volumes over the next two years, causing them to decline by 25%, according to a report released Monday by technology research and advisory firm Gartner It predicted that pressure from competing technologies will create a new emphasis by search engines on quality and authenticity. Sear...