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Financial institutions have 30 days to disclose breaches under new rules

Enlarge (credit: Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images) The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will require some financial institutions to disclose security breaches within 30 days of learning about them. On Wednesday, the SEC adopted changes to Regulation S-P, which governs the treatment of the personal information...

Fri May 17, 2024 22:30
Using vague language about scientific facts misleads readers

Enlarge Anyone can do a simple experiment. Navigate to a search engine that offers suggested completions for what you type, and start typing "scientists believe." When I did it, I got suggestions about the origin of whales, the evolution of animals, the root cause of narcolepsy, and more. The search results contained...

Fri May 17, 2024 22:30
Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training

Enlarge (credit: Tim Robberts | DigitalVision) After launching Slack AI in February, Slack appears to be digging its heels in, defending its vague policy that by default sucks up customers' data—including messages, content, and files—to train Slack's global AI models. According to Slack engineer Aaron Maurer, Slack has...

Fri May 17, 2024 22:30
Twitter URLs redirect to x.com as Musk gets closer to killing the Twitter name

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Kirill Kudryavtsev) Twitter.com links are now redirecting to the x.com domain as Elon Musk gets closer to wiping out the Twitter brand name over a year and half after buying the company. "All core systems are now on X.com," Musk wrote in an X post today. X also displayed a message to users...

Fri May 17, 2024 19:30
How to port any N64 game to the PC in record time

Enlarge / "N-tel (64) Inside" (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) In recent years, we've reported on multiple efforts to reverse-engineer N64 games into fully decompiled, human-readable C code that can then become the basis for full-fledged PC ports. While the results can be impressive, the decompilation process can...

Fri May 17, 2024 19:30
Sony Music opts out of AI training for its entire catalog

Enlarge / The Sony Music letter expressly prohibits artificial intelligence developers from using its music — which includes artists such as Beyoncé. (credit: Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Parkwood via Getty Images) Sony Music is sending warning letters to more than 700 artificial intelligence developers and music streaming...

Fri May 17, 2024 16:48

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