Tech is fun but a little caution is always a good idea. This Pentagon-funded report on blockchain says that, whatever its theoretical virtues, existing real-world implementations contain major security weaknesses. Raise your hand if you’re shocked.
It is intended to ensure companies meet requirements of the EU Commission’s new Code of Practice on Disinformation.
Deepfakes – computer-generated voice and video that replicates real people – pose many obvious dangers. One you might not have considered is deepfakes acing their tech job interviews. The FBI says it’s already happening, and can result in criminals gaining access to sensitive information. Puts a new twist on the old joke: “How many people work here?” “About half.”
Digital advertising platform PubMatic’s new partnership with GroupM, WPP’s media investment group, will enable the delivery of AI-powered cohort modeling to advertisers. Using a distributed AI model developed by Resolve, the collaboration aims to generate privacy-compliant audience segments across multiple publishers simultaneously. Not only does the targeting not rely on third party cookies, it also eradicates the need for user data to be moved or shared during the ad buying process.