Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled

[ad_1] Thomas Trutschel | Photothek | Getty Images New U.S laws designed to protect minors are pulling millions of adult Americans into mandatory age-verification gates to access online content, leading to backlash from users and criticism from privacy advocates that a free and open internet is at stake. Roughly half of U.S. states have enacted or are … Read more

‘Silent failure at scale’: The AI risk that can tip the business world into disorder

[ad_1] Aire Images | Moment | Getty Images As the business world comes to grips with artificial intelligence, the biggest risk may be one where those running the economy can’t possibly stay ahead. As AI systems become more complex, humans aren’t able to fully understand, predict, or control them. That inability to understand at a fundamental level where AI models are … Read more

Trump budget cuts, agency gutting, leave Americans and economy at greater risk of being hacked, experts warn

[ad_1] Almost a year into the second Trump administration, public sector leaders and cybersecurity experts say budget cuts and gutting of federal agencies are weakening critical lines of government communication to help companies prepare and respond to cyberattacks, even as AI threats are rising. The most recent assessment of cybersecurity, based on the goals set … Read more

Erasing personal data from the devices you discard is a booming business

[ad_1] Westend61 | Westend61 | Getty Images “Our first concern is always data, data, data, data,” said Sean Magann, chief commercial officer for Sims Lifecycle Services. Magann was emphasizing a primary focus of Sims and other IT asset disposition, or ITAD, providers, whose business is managing end-of-life, used and discarded IT equipment, such as smartphones, … Read more

Palo Alto CEO Nikesh Arora confronts Wall Street skeptics after company’s biggest bet yet

[ad_1] Nikesh Arora of the United States on the first hole during the third round of The Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at The Old Course on October 02, 2021 in St Andrews, Scotland. David Cannon | David Cannon Collection | Getty Images When Nikesh Arora was named CEO of Palo Alto Networks in June 2018, … Read more

23andMe bankruptcy: With America’s DNA put on sale, market panic gets a new form of testing

[ad_1] Signage at 23andMe headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images DNA testing has become a valuable tool for hobbyists and novice genealogists. For some, learning they are the 10th cousin of Paul Revere or the 15th great nephew four times removed of the … Read more

The weight-loss drug boom has become one of the internet’s biggest scams

[ad_1] A production line of Wegovy injection pens for the Asian market at the Novo Nordisk A/S pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Hillerod, Denmark, on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024.  Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images One interpretation of the law of supply and demand is that when demand outstrips supply, scammers get busy. That’s certainly the … Read more

Cyberattack on UnitedHealth firm forces doctors to dig into personal savings to stay afloat

[ad_1] Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images On a Sunday in early March, Dr. Angeli Maun Akey noticed something peculiar while making payroll for her private practice in Gainesville, Florida: She was missing $19,000. Akey owns and operates a primary care practice that serves around 3,500 patients in the area, many of whom suffer … Read more

UnitedHealth Group has paid more than $3 billion to providers following cyberattack

[ad_1] In this photo illustration the UnitedHealth Group logo displayed on a smartphone screen.  Sheldon Cooper | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images UnitedHealth Group has paid out an additional $1 billion to providers that have been impacted by the Change Healthcare cyberattack since last week, bringing the total amount of funds advanced to … Read more