Articles by John P. Mello Jr.

Cisco is taking a radical approach to AI security in its new AI Defense solution In an exclusive interview Sunday with Rowan Cheung of The Rundown AI, Cisco Executive Vice President and CPO Jeetu Patel said that AI Defense is "taking a radical approach to address the challenges that existing security solutions are not equipped to handle."

Shipments of personal computers grew in 2024, fueled by businesses replacing old hardware and Microsoft's looming end of support for its Windows 10 operating system According to market research firm Canalys, PC shipments climbed 3.8% in 2024 to 255.5 million units from 246.3 million in 2023. IDC, another research firm, pegged 2024 shipments higher ...

An eleventh-hour move by the Biden Administration to regulate how American AI technology is shared with the world is coming under fire from the nation's tech sector According to the White House, the Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion (IFR) streamlines licensing hurdles for both large and small chip orders, bolsters U.S. AI lead...

Fact-checkers are headed to the dustbin of history at Meta "We will end the current third-party fact-checking program in the United States and instead begin moving to a Community Notes program," Meta's Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan announced in a company blog on Tuesday....

When it comes to cybersecurity in 2025, artificial intelligence is top of mind for many analysts and professionals Artificial intelligence will be deployed by both adversaries and defenders, but attackers will benefit more from it, maintained Willy Leichter, CMO of AppSOC, an application security and vulnerability management provider in San Jose, C...

Quantum computing made significant strides in 2024, but it's yet to demonstrate a practical advantage over classical digital computers, according to a recent trends report released by Forrester Research "Despite improvements in qubit count, coherence time, and gate fidelity, the technology remains experimental, with broad-scale applications likely ...

While artificial intelligence has juiced the marketing departments of smartphone makers like Apple and Samsung, it isn't generating much enthusiasm among users, according to a survey released Monday by a used electronics selling site The survey by SellCell of more than 2,000 iPhone and Samsung users found that 73% of iPhone and 87% of Samsung users...

Google announced a major step forward in the development of a commercial quantum computer on Tuesday, releasing test results for its Willow quantum chip Those results show that the more qubits Google used in Willow, the more errors it reduced and the more quantum the system became....

A sophisticated mobile phishing campaign targeting job seekers intended to install dangerous malicious software on their phones was revealed Tuesday by security researchers The campaign discovered by Zimperium zLabs targets Android mobile phones and aims to distribute a variant of the Antidot banking trojan that the researchers have dubbed AppLite ...

Cyberattacks on consumers and retailers surged during Black Friday week, according to a report released Wednesday by a cybersecurity platform provider The provider, Darktrace, of Cambridge, England, reported that an analysis of its customer data for November revealed a 327% increase in worldwide Christmas-themed phishing from the first week to the ...

A near-production model of a solar-powered car will be on display at CES 2025 Aptera Motors has announced that a "production intent" version of its eponymously named solar-powered vehicle will be displayed at the mammoth consumer electronics show, which will be held January 7-10 in Las Vegas....

Mushrooming fake store sites, deceptive domains, and compromised e-commerce sites are just a few of the threats facing online shoppers and businesses this holiday season, according to reports recently released by two cybersecurity companies A report released Tuesday by London-based Netcraft, a cybercrime disruption and digital risk protection compa...

High-powered computer chip maker Nvidia on Monday unveiled a new AI model developed by its researchers that can generate or transform any mix of music, voices and sounds described with prompts using any combination of text and audio files The new AI model called Fugatto -- for Foundational Generative Audio Transformer Opus -- can create a music sni...

Paradoxical tensions among consumers are making their behavior unpredictable and baffling many sellers, according to a report released Monday by a global strategy and management consulting firm Consumers want choice but are overwhelmed by it; want to control their decisions but want curation of their choices; and want to live certain values but can...

Risk management in many organizations is mired in a framework that can't keep pace with the challenges that most enterprise risk teams face. It needs to be modernized That's the verdict that senior analysts Cody Scott and Alla Valente handed down in a recent Forrester Research blog that's critical of the Three Lines of Defense (3LOD) approach, whic...

Package thieves snatched US$12 billion in goods this year, according to a report released Tuesday by Security.org Based on a survey of 11,000 adults in 50 states, the report also noted that one-quarter of American adults have had a package stolen, and 4% (14 million people) suffered a theft within the last three months. The average value of each st...

Despite increased spending by many businesses, 2025 looks like a lackluster year for customer experience (CX) quality, according to Forrester Research "For most brands, 2025 will be another year of CX mediocrity following years of decline and an all-time low in quality in 2024," Forrester predicts. "That’s because many executives mistakenly inter...

Search engines using artificial intelligence could harmfully disrupt the digital economy, warns a researcher at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center "[I]f AI search becomes our primary portal to the web, it threatens to disrupt an already precarious digital economy," Benjamin Brooks wrote in a recent article in the MIT Technology Review....

Meta is reportedly working on an AI-powered search engine that will crawl the web for information, a move that could disrupt how advertising is sold online Currently, Meta's AI chatbot gets information about news, sports, stocks, and other current events from Google and Bing, a situation the company is looking to change, according to a report appea...

Fast, secure, reliable connectivity is now an expectation at multifamily residences, according to a report released Monday by market research and consulting company Parks Associates and Xfinity Communities Residents need access to high-speed internet services to work, attend class, and stream video and games, among other high-bandwidth activities, ...