Articles by John P. Mello Jr.

A desire for sustainable data center options and a heat wave caused by increasingly powerful computer chips are driving the adoption of systems that cool computers by immersing them in fluids By operating a server rack submerged in a special fluid, heat can be passively removed from the hardware to the fluid, pumped to a heat exchanger, then return...

Researchers at an Israeli security firm on Tuesday revealed how hackers could turn a generative AI's "hallucinations" into a nightmare for an organization's software supply chain In a blog post on the Vulcan Cyber website, researchers Bar Lanyado, Ortel Keizman, and Yair Divinsky illustrated how one could exploit false information generated by Chat...

Apple raised the curtain Monday on its much anticipated mixed reality headset in a video presentation at its World Wide Developers Conference on the Apple campus in Cupertino, Calif The Apple Vision Pro headset, priced at $3,499, won't be available until next year but promises to usher in a new era of "spatial computing."

A new report from a human resources analytics firm found that artificial intelligence threatens to replace a disproportionate number of jobs typically held by women According to researchers at Revelio Labs, their findings reflect social biases that have funneled women into roles ripe for AI replacement, such as administrative assistants and secreta...

Amazon is adding age verification to its palm-based Amazon One identity offering The company on Monday announced that the age-verification feature is being rolled out at Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball club....

Since OpenAI introduced ChatGPT, privacy advocates have warned consumers about the potential threat to privacy posed by generative AI apps. The arrival of a ChatGPT app in the Apple App Store has ignited a fresh round of caution "[B]efore you jump headfirst into the app, beware of getting too personal with the bot and putting your privacy at risk,"...

Google has begun taking pre-orders for its first foldable phone with an eye toward shipping the gadget in June The Pixel Fold will sell for US$1,799, the same price as its chief competitor, the Samsung Galaxy Fold 4....

Telly, a company started by Pluto TV co-founder Ilya Pozin, on Monday announced it's offering 500,000 55-inch 4K TVs free to the public as part of a business model that has advertisers pick up the tab for a consumer's entertainment upgrade At the center of the model, which has been in the works for two years, is a dual-screen smart TV developed by ...

Holy deflation! For the eighth month in a row, online prices have declined, according to the Adobe Digital Price Index, which analyzes one trillion visits to online retail sites and more than 100 million SKUs The index for April, released on Tuesday, showed a year-over-year decline in online prices of 1.8% and a month-over-month drop of 0.7%....

A survey of 1,600 chief information security officers found that more than two-thirds of them (68%) expect a "material cyberattack" on their organizations in the next 12 months The survey, which is the basis of the annual "Voice of the CISO Report" by Proofpoint, an enterprise security company, showed a pronounced shift in attitude among the securi...

Battery replacements in electric cars are rare, and most replacements occur during the life of the vehicle's warranty, concluded a recent study by Recurrent Motors, a provider of battery health reports and range projections for used electric cars Based on a sample of 15,000 cars, Recurrent researcher Liz Najman found that only 225 cars (1.5%) had t...

A new generation of clickbait websites populated with content written by AI software is on the way, according to a report released Monday by researchers at NewsGuard, a provider of news and information website ratings The report identified 49 websites in seven languages that appear to be entirely or mostly generated by artificial intelligence langu...

For years the security industry has stressed the importance of strong passwords. Some recent research from Home Security Heroes starkly shows the value of that advice Using artificial intelligence, the crew at the home security information and reviews website cracked passwords in the four- to seven-character range either instantly or in a matter of...

Social media fueled the bank run on the Silicon Valley Bank, a run that sent shock waves throughout the U.S. banking industry, according to a 53-page report released last week by a group of university professors In their study, the boffins used Twitter data to show that the failure of SVB was preceded by a large spike of public communication on Twi...

Tech execs looking to get the most value for their organizations from generative AI need to understand the basics of the technology, according to a report released Tuesday by Forrester Research "The tech world has been disappointed by several recent bubbles promising much but delivering no real value, but generative AI is already improving content ...

A collateral beneficiary of the feverish pace of generative artificial intelligence development appears to be the humanoid robot A Norwegian company called 1X Technologies, formerly Halodi Robotics, which describes itself as a manufacturer and inventor of androids, recently attracted $23.5 million in a round of funding led by the OpenAI Startup Fun...

The FBI's Denver office is cautioning consumers about using free public charging stations, saying bad actors can use the USB ports at the juice stops to introduce malware and monitoring software onto devices "Carry your own charger and USB cord and use an electrical outlet instead," the agency recommended in a recent tweet....

If crime doesn't pay, some cybercriminals wouldn't know it. A top team member in a cybercrime outfit like Conti can make an estimated US$1.1 million a year, according to a report released Monday by Trend Micro Since cybercrime groups don't file reports with the SEC, the salary earned by a top money maker in a large criminal enterprise like Conti re...

Online raiders are stealing IP addresses and converting them to cash by selling them to so-called proxyware services Malicious actors are planting proxyware on computers without the owner's knowledge, then selling the unit's IP address to a proxyware service, making as much as US$10 a month for every compromised device, the threat research team at ...

Tax fraud schemes in 2022 netted scammers $5.7 billion, more than twice the amount of the previous year, according to the Internal Revenue Service, and there doesn't appear to be any letup in sight While scams may be on the rise, the good news is that the core tactics used by fraudsters remain basically unchanged, which means that by understanding ...