Cisco alerts users to password-spraying attacks targeting VPN services

Cisco alerts users to password-spraying attacks targeting VPN services

Networking giant Cisco has warned its users of an ongoing attack against its business VPN services. In a security advisory, Cisco said it had been notified of an ongoing password-spraying attack against different third-party VPN concentrators.  In this instance, it was Remote Access VPN (RAVPN) services configured on Cisco Secure Firewall that were affected. Russian … Read more

How Singer Studios and Lucy Liu brought forgotten history to life

How Singer Studios and Lucy Liu brought forgotten history to life

I had a favorite growing up (Anita Yuen in the 1998 Taiwanese TV series). I obsessed over Chinese period TV series like , and . I consider myself fairly well-versed in Chinese historical figures, especially those represented in ‘90s and 2000s entertainment in Asia. So when I found out that a UK-based studio had made … Read more

How AI smart video is powering business excellence

How AI smart video is powering business excellence

As businesses across Europe look to stay ahead of the competition and drive success, leaders at these organizations are continuously on the lookout for new solutions. Especially those that tap into the potential of their data to generate valuable insights. A key innovation in this space growing in adoption is enhanced smart video that can … Read more

I lived with Samsung’s S95D QD-OLED TV for a week, and it’s a game changer

I lived with Samsung’s S95D QD-OLED TV for a week, and it’s a game changer

Despite still being in its relative infancy by AV technology standards, Samsung’s Quantum Dot OLED panels are seriously shaking up an already complicated TV world. The arrival of the first couple of generations of this pure RGB approach to self-emissive OLED screen technology has already forced its LCD and traditional WRGB OLED (with their additional … Read more

Elon Musk’s updated Grok AI claims to be better at coding and math

Elon Musk’s updated Grok AI claims to be better at coding and math

Elon Musk’s answer to ChatGPT is getting an update to make it better at math, coding and more. Musk’s xAI has launched Grok-1.5 to early testers with “improved capabilities and reasoning” and the ability to process longer contexts. The company claims it now stacks up against GPT-4, Gemini Pro 1.5 and Claude 3 Opus in … Read more

White House demands all government agencies must appoint an AI officer to help mitigate risks

White House demands all government agencies must appoint an AI officer to help mitigate risks

The White House has unveiled a major policy update that marks a major step in the battle to ensure safe AI across the states, following plenty of other policy adjustments and introductions in recent months. The policy, a response to President Biden’s directive, aims to manage the risks associated with AI while allowing federal agencies … Read more

How papers with doctored images can affect scientific reviews

How papers with doctored images can affect scientific reviews

It was in just the second article of more than 1,000 that Otto Kalliokoski was screening that he spotted what he calls a “Photoshop masterpiece”. The paper showed images from western blots — a technique used to analyse protein composition — for two samples. But Kalliokoski, an animal behaviourist at the University of Copenhagen, found … Read more

Reducing technical debt: A critical agenda item for business leaders

Reducing technical debt: A critical agenda item for business leaders

This year, a critical agenda item for business leaders is the strategic consolidation of systems and technology stacks. The driving force behind this move? A quest to streamline operations, significantly cut costs, and mitigate risks. At the heart of this transformative strategy lies the challenge of addressing and minimizing technical debt associated with legacy systems. … Read more