Techstrong News Recap – May 4, 2023

Hi again, everyone here the headlines from May 4th. First up Jeffrey Hinton a prominent researcher in the field of artificial intelligence and widely known as The Godfather of AI has left his position at Google to discuss the potential hazards of the technology without any restrictions Hinton is raised awareness regarding the risks associated with AI such as the chance of AI chatbots surpassing humid intelligence and the possibility of malicious individuals exploiting AI technology to manipulate elections or Insight violence. These concerns have been expressed by other AI Specialists as well who've also pointed out the presence of bias and inequality in AI systems.

Hinton's decision to leave Google enables him to address AI safety concerns without worrying about any potential impact on the company's operations allowing them to speak out further next a proposed California measure could require a big tech companies like Google and meta to pay media outlets for using their media content the bill which is bipartisan support including important assembly Judiciary Committee hearing would require Google and meta to share their advertising Revenue stemming from news with California media companies. According to the bill at least 70% of the revenue would go to local news organizations to help pay for reporters salaries. However, opponents including trade groups and some journalism groups argue that the legislation would be an unprecedented mandate that violates the First Amendment.

And despite clearing a major hurdle questions still remain about how the bill would be implemented in how the state would ensure the money goes to local journalists. While on the topic of big Tech Apple and Google are working together with other companies to combat unwanted tracking through Bluetooth devices such as Apple's airtight trackers and similar gadgets. While these devices have been useful in helping people locate Lost Property.

They also have been misused by soccer to track individuals without their knowledge. These Tech Giants aimed to set standards for combating secret tracking and surveillance and thwarting stealth tracking with a plan to be put in place by the end of the year. Next up the Telecom giant T-Mobile has just disclosed another data breach between February and March of this year hackers gained access to personal information berlonging to hundreds of T-Mobile customers in this information includes full names date of births government IDs Social Security numbers and T-Mobile account pins.

T-Mobile has reset the account pins of the user's affected by the security breach and is offering them two years of free credit monitoring and identity theft detection services. Zooming out. This is T-Mobile's 9th data breach since 2018 and the second this year after reporting data from 37 million accounts was leaked between November of 2022 and January of 2023.

On cloud native now. We have an article looking at day two kubernetes challenges. Kubernetes is a powerful container orchestration platform.

However, like any other technology it comes with its own long-term challenges that could be costly to an organization's bottom line. com. com we've an article looking at how honeycomb added a query assistant to its observability platform that makes use of chat GPT.

The assistant usage generative AI to launch queries with a natural language interface instead of having to use a query language. Honeycomb is stated that the tool makeup. com.

Finally on Security Boulevard. We've an article looking at a survey that shows how Network operators and Security Professionals are being overwhelmed by continuous Network updates. The survey which was conducted by back box found that 61% of companies only upgrade their networks every quarter, but almost half that the companies had not implemented these these changes in network automation.

To learn more go to Security Boulevard calm and that's today's text wrong news recap.