Free WiFi is not a safe place – Siciliano says in his line of work he’s been seeing an increase in hackers prying on people using free Wi-Fi on their smart phones. Because the free Wi-Fi doesn’t encrypt your data, hackers can use a scanning tool to duplicate a person’s device by cloning their IME…
It’s not just musicians, it’s also little websites like mine, for this same reason: When someone buys digital music from an artist directly they’ll see long, slow downloads that hopefully manage to finish. When they stream music from that same musician’s site it’ll hang and pause unless it’s compressed to hell. But when that same…
This is an interesting idea that might be an easy way to eliminate at least some of the malware epidemic. I enabled it on my Macbook for the past day or two and haven’t noticed it really, which I guess just means I haven’t tried to access any sites that have been distributing malware. A…
And yet, for some reason we continue to look up to the people who work an enormous number of hours and probably ruin their health, and their own future value in the workplace. There’s something seriously wrong with us. What happens if we have a bad night’s sleep? Getting enough sleep is important for attention…
As we head into the holidays, this will likely also be the time that your family and friends will hit you up for some tech support for their PC that is “acting up”. Sadly, some of us will find a malware infected PC when we agree to take a look, so let’s all just go…
This is an obvious use of AI in law, allowing clients the ability to respond to questions and get legal documents like a will without the much higher expense of a lawyer’s time. This, is the part that jumped out at me though: “Much of the work these bots, and AI technology in general, do…