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'No AI Agents are Allowed.' EU Bans Use of AI Assistants in Virtual Meetings

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'No AI Agents are Allowed.' EU Bans Use of AI Assistants in Virtual Meetings

Image: Guillaume Périgois/Unsplash The EU is banning the use of AI-powered virtual assistants during online meetings. Such assistants are often used to transcribe, take notes, or even record visuals and audio during a video conference. In a presentation from the European Commission delivered to European Digital Innovation Hubs earlier this month, there is a note on the “Online Meeting Etiquette” slide that states “No AI Agents are allowed.” AI agents are tools that can perform…

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Developers Beware: Slopsquatting & Vibe Coding Can Increase Risk of AI-Powered Attacks

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Developers Beware: Slopsquatting & Vibe Coding Can Increase Risk of AI-Powered Attacks

Security researchers and developers are raising alarms over “slopsquatting,” a new form of supply chain attack that leverages AI-generated misinformation commonly known as hallucinations. As developers increasingly rely on coding tools like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and DeepSeek, attackers are exploiting AI’s tendency to invent software packages, tricking users into downloading malicious content. What is slopsquatting? The term slopsquatting was originally coined by Seth Larson, a developer with the Python Software Foundation, and later popularized by…

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Google’s Sec-Gemini v1 Takes on Hackers & Outperforms Rivals by 11%

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Google’s Sec-Gemini v1 Takes on Hackers & Outperforms Rivals by 11%

Image: Sundry Photography/Adobe Stock In a bid to tilt the cybersecurity battlefield in favor of defenders, Google has introduced Sec-Gemini v1, a new experimental AI model designed to help security teams identify threats, analyze incidents, and understand vulnerabilities faster and more accurately than before. Announced by the company’s cybersecurity research leads, Elie Burzstein and Marianna Tishchenko, Sec-Gemini v1 is the latest addition to Google’s growing family of Gemini-powered tools — but this time, it is…

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Key Cybersecurity Challenges In 2025—Trends And Observations

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Key Cybersecurity Challenges In 2025—Trends And Observations

Digital 2025 Sign on Computer Code. 3D Render getty In 2025, cybersecurity is gaining significant momentum. However, there are still many challenges to address. The ecosystem remains unstable in spite of investments and the introduction of new tools. In addition to adding my own findings, I have examined some recent statistics, trends, and remedies. Among the subjects covered are ransomware, DDoS attacks, quantum technology, healthcare breaches, artificial intelligence and AI agents, and cybersecurity for space…

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Benchmarks Find ‘DeepSeek-V3-0324 Is More Vulnerable Than Qwen2.5-Max’ | TechRepublic

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Benchmarks Find ‘DeepSeek-V3-0324 Is More Vulnerable Than Qwen2.5-Max’ | TechRepublic

With the latest stable release dated January 28, 2025, Qwen2.5-Max is classified as a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model developed by Alibaba. Like other language models, Qwen2.5-Max is capable of generating text, understanding different languages, and performing advanced logic. According to recent benchmarks, it is also more secure than DeepSeek-V3-0324. Using Recon to scan for vulnerabilities A team of analysts with Protect AI, the company behind a red teaming and security vulnerability scanning tool known as…

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Apple Rolls Out iOS 18.4 With New Languages, Emojis & Apple Intelligence in the EU

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Apple Rolls Out iOS 18.4 With New Languages, Emojis & Apple Intelligence in the EU

Photo of Apple News+ Food feed. Image: Apple Apple has deployed iOS 18.4 to all compatible iPhones. The software update adds support for eight new languages on Apple Intelligence, recipes to Apple News+, and seven new emojis. Users in the European Union can also set their default navigation app other than Apple Maps. You should be prompted about the update automatically, but if not, you can initiate the download manually by going to Settings, General,…

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OpenAI Seeks Feedback About Open Model That Will Be Revealed ‘In the Coming Months’

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OpenAI Seeks Feedback About Open Model That Will Be Revealed ‘In the Coming Months’

Image credit: Creative Commons Developers have the opportunity to weigh in on OpenAI’s latest project. On March 31, the AI giant published applications for feedback sessions on an upcoming open language model, the second such model since OpenAI’s LLMs went private after GPT-2. It will be released “in the coming months,” according to a post on X by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Open-weight models can be modified by their users. In particular, “weights” in generative…

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Network Engineers: I Don't Want to Be an AI Babysitter

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Network Engineers: I Don't Want to Be an AI Babysitter

I get more excited every day as I learn something new. However, I also have my fair share of concerns about the future—specifically on the topic of AI and how it will impact the role of network engineers. Okay… I probably have more than my fair share of concerns. (That won’t come as a surprise if you’ve been following the last few years of my journey, exploring the “AI FUTURE!!!”) First off, I want to…

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Europol Warns Criminal Networks Are Embracing AI, Making Fraud Smarter and Harder to Detect

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Europol Warns Criminal Networks Are Embracing AI, Making Fraud Smarter and Harder to Detect

Image: DC_Studio/Envato Elements Organised crime gangs are using artificial intelligence for fraud, data theft, and money laundering, according to a new report by Europol. The European law enforcement agency revealed the extent to which criminals are exploiting the technology and said it has “fundamentally reshaped the organised crime landscape.” “The same qualities that make AI revolutionary — accessibility, adaptability and sophistication — also make it a powerful tool for criminal networks,” the authors wrote in…

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Delivering Resilient Connectivity for AI

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Delivering Resilient Connectivity for AI

Cisco EVP and CPO Jeetu Patel recently shared how service providers and hyperscalers must rethink their architectures to deliver the future of global connectivity in the AI era. As we head to the OFC conference next week, AI transformation will certainly be a hot topic, as it increasingly demands high-speed interconnects between data centers—and within data centers—that only fiber optics can provide. AI is driving a massive surge in data center workloads, with IDC predicting that…

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