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ZDNET Amid growing concerns over Chinese AI models like DeepSeek, new research suggests that fears may be overblown – at least when it comes to data privacy. In fact, some popular US-based AI chatbots might be collecting even more of your personal information. When DeepSeek debuted its flagship open-source AI model in January, the American tech industry was thrown into hysteria. Some embraced the competition — claiming this is “AI’s Sputnik moment” — but others? Well,…

ebrublue10/Getty Images Cybercriminals are weaponizing artificial intelligence (AI) across every attack phase. Large language models (LLMs) craft hyper-personalized phishing emails by scraping targets’ social media profiles and professional networks. Generative adversarial networks (GAN) produce deepfake audio and video to bypass multi-factor authentication. Automated tools like WormGPT enable script kiddies to launch polymorphic malware that evolves to evade signature-based detection. These cyber attacks aren’t speculative, either. Organizations that fail to develop their security strategies risk being…

D-Wave published its results today, peer-reviewed in the journal Science. The classical supercomputer that D-Wave benchmarked against was the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It was, until recently, the most powerful supercomputer in the world but moved to second place in November. Two different groups of researchers published competing papers, claiming to have solved the same problem with classical computers. However, according to Baratz, the two competing groups —…

Jack Wallen/ZDNET ZDNET’s key takeaways The Piccolo N150 netbook is on sale now for $389. This eight-inch laptop has a nice display, enough power for most use cases, and even runs Linux well. The keyboard on the N150 is a challenge to get used to.  If given the opportunity, I would much rather use a desktop over a laptop or phone. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad I have my Android, but typing on phones…

The MSPM0C1104 measure only 1.38 mm² and yet is a fully-featured microcontroller. TI Texas Instruments has officially unveiled the MSPM0C1104, which it claims to be the world’s smallest microcontroller. This remarkable device measures a mere 1.38 mm², which is only slightly larger than a flake of black pepper. The MSPM0C1104 is a wafer chip-scale package microcontroller (MCU) that is 38% smaller than existing alternatives, making it an ideal solution for applications where board space is…

Google Google Gemini has introduced a conversational AI assistant to understand users’ needs conversationally. But what if, in addition to understanding what you say, it could also understand you from your everyday interactions with your device? Now it can. Also: AI agents aren’t just assistants: How they’re changing the future of work today On Thursday, Google unveiled Gemini with Personalization, an experimental, opt-in experience that allows users to connect Gemini to their Search history to…

Although Huawei successfully introduced its wares into the heart of the UK’s telecommunications infrastructure, it faced an uphill struggle elsewhere in Europe, where authorities were concerned that it unfairly benefited from preferential financing by the Chinese government. Its effort to win European hearts and minds prompted Huawei to employ more lobbyists than Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple in the European Union. Following Thursday’s raids, Belgian authorities declined to name any of those involved “in order…

Keep in mind that it’s a good idea to test your changes to files before you make them permanent, especially if you’re just getting used to the command. You can omit the “-i” and, if the output looks like what you expected, run the same command with the -I to proceed with the changes to the file. 2. Global replacements To replace every instance of a certain word in a file, you would need to…