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Google delays launch of new AI model Gemini

Google's highly anticipated AI model, Gemini, has had its launch rescheduled to early 2024, as reported by The...
Social Networks

Walmart drops ads from X/Twitter

On December 1st, Walmart announced it is no longer advertising on social media platform X, previously known as...
Future of Work

Broadcom CEO says “get your butts” in the office

Broadcom's CEO Hock Tan is shaking things up in the world of work-from-home policies. After Broadcom's $69 billion acquisition of VMWare, Tan didn't mince...
Future of Work

Return to office movement is dead – Stanford study

The "Return to Office" movement might be hitting a dead end, according to Stanford economist Nick Bloom. Despite efforts by companies like IBM, Apple,...
Artificial Intelligence

Canadian group gets $2.2 million to research AI threat detection for wireless networks

Ericsson Canada and three universities have been awarded funds by the National Cybersecurity
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Proposed Canadian AI law ‘fundamentally flawed,’ Parliament told

A privacy lawyer said the proposed AI bill is vague and sets a dangerous precedent
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Cyber Security Today, Nov. 29, 2023 – More ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector

This episode reports on a company hit twice by a ransomware gang, the arrest in Ukraine of the alleged head of a ransomware gang
Government & Public Sector

Compel social media apps to toughen their privacy, trust practices, Parliament told

Committee hearing told social media apps can be exploited for propaganda and radi

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Canada, U.S. sign international guidelines for safe AI development

Eighteen countries, including Canada, the U.S. and the U.K., today agreed on recommended guidelines to developers in their nations for the secure design, development, deployment, and operation of artificial intelligent systems. It’s the latest in a series of voluntary guardrails that nations are urging their public and private sectors to follow for overseeing AI in
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Cyber Security Today, Nov. 27, 2023 – Ransomware gang posts data stolen from a Canadian POS provider, and more

This episode reports on the latest ransomware attacks, and details of how a gang that scams people selling used products on
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Cyber Security Today, Week in Review for the week ending November 24, 2023

This episode features discussion on Australia's decision to not make ransowmare payments illegal, huge hacks of third-party service suppliers in Canada and the U.S. and whether email and smartphone service providers are doing enough to protect

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Is OpenAI’s Q* Artificial General Intelligence?

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OpenAI's latest model, Q* (pronounced Q Star), is raising...

OpenAI’s Q* model: Was an AGI breakthrough the impetus for the management crisis?

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There are reports that a new model from OpenAI's,...

Microsoft employees angered by plans to hire OpenAI staff

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The announcement by Microsoft's CTO, Kevin Scott, about hiring...

Altman returns as CEO of OpenAI with a new board

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Sam Altman has been reappointed as the CEO of...

Majority in tech industry view AI as overrated

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A new survey conducted by Retool, a development platform...

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Reverse ATMs becomes solution for cashless business

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To accommodate the expanding number of cashless companies, reverse...

Shopify teams up with Melio to launch bill pay tool

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Melio, a B2B payments firm, has teamed with Shopify...

Federal Budget 2023: Millions to fight foreign interference, threats and covert activities

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A new National Counter-Foreign Interference Office will be created if the bud

Fintech Plaid adds identity verification to Canadian service

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A U.S.-based data aggregator that allows consumers to connect their accounts with a variety of financial institutions through one app has now added its identity verification service for Canadian organizations. Last week, Plaid Financial began offering its Identity Verification and Monitor, a global verification and know-your-customer (KYC) solution, to help digital finance apps and services

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Cyber Security Today, Nov. 24, 2023 – A warning to tighten security on Kubernetes containers, and more

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This episode reports on the increasing number of vulnerable Kubernetes containers online, the latest acknowledged data breaches, a browser scam aimed at Macs

Big-Box Stores moving away from self-service

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A recent trend has emerged among some big-box retailers, including Canadian Tire and Walmart, as they move away from self-checkout machines in favor of traditional cashier-based checkouts. This shift, highlighted in a...

Security researchers reveal vulnerabilities in Windows Hello fingerprint authentication

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A recent investigation by Blackwing Intelligence, conducted in collaboration with Microsoft's Offensive Research and Security Engineering group, has uncovered significant vulnerabilities in Windows Hello's fingerprint authentication system. Presented at Microsoft's BlueHat conference,...

Zero-Day vulnerabilities in routers and cameras exploited by hostile botnet

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Security researchers at Akamai have discovered two new zero-day vulnerabilities being actively exploited to incorporate routers and video recorders into a hostile botnet. These vulnerabilities, previously unknown to both manufacturers and the...

Canada’s privacy czar investigating data theft of federal employees from relocation companies

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Canada’s privacy commissioner has opened an investigation into the theft of 24 years of data of federal employees from two government-contracted relocation firms. As we reported earlier this week, the Treasury Board said data as far back as 1999 on military, RCMP, and federal employees held by Brookfield Global Relocation Services (BGRS) and Sirva Canada,

Cisco aids Ukraine in cyber defense with modified switches to counter Russian attacks

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Cisco has proactively shipped modified switches to Ukrenergo, the state-owned electricity grid operator in Ukraine, to bolster its defenses against Russian cyberattacks targeting energy infrastructure. These attacks have included the use of...

Ottawa and provinces should harmonize privacy laws, says think tank

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In a discussion paper on proposed privacy legislation now before Parliament the C.D. Howe Institute offers ways the law could be implemented, including the creation of a public-private council to review the effectiveness of pr

Cyber Security Today, Nov. 22, 2023 – Boeing division hacked through NetScaler vulnerability, and more

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This episode reports on unpatched holes that are being exploited by threat actors
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