artificial intelligence

'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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Gartner’s 12 Emerging Tech Innovation Disruptors

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Gartner’s 12 Emerging Tech Innovation Disruptors

Image: Gartner (April 2025) In a new report by Gartner, the research firm spotlighted 12 early-stage innovations that will redefine industries and create new market frontiers. The list includes disinformation security, algorithm-aligned silicon, and hyper-synthetic data — each signaling seismic shifts in how intelligence is computed, secured, and simulated. Polyfunctional robots, domain-specific AI, and digital ethics frameworks are also poised to shake up the tech landscape. Gartner issued a call to action for tech leaders,…

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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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Google DeepMind Proposes AI ‘Monitors’ to Police Hyperintelligent Models

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Google DeepMind Proposes AI ‘Monitors’ to Police Hyperintelligent Models

Google DeepMind has introduced a new approach to securing frontier generative AI and released a paper on April 2. DeepMind focused on two of its four key risk areas: “misuse, misalignment, mistakes, and structural risks.” DeepMind is looking beyond current frontier AI to artificial general intelligence (AGI), human-level smarts, which could revolutionize healthcare and other industries or trigger technological chaos. There is some skepticism over whether AGI of that magnitude will ever exist. Asserting that…

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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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Which Top Cybersecurity Role of 2024 Was Featured in 64,000+ Job Postings? | TechRepublic

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Which Top Cybersecurity Role of 2024 Was Featured in 64,000+ Job Postings? | TechRepublic

Security engineer was the most common title in cybersecurity job listings in 2024, according to security and IT workforce management platform provider CyberSN. Its report “U.S. Cybersecurity Job Posting Data” was created by pulling together job postings from 30 major job boards and Fortune 500 companies’ job boards between January 2022 and December 2024. The report shows which roles are growing, which are decreasing in demand, and other hiring trends. Security engineer and security analyst…

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