Check Point: Hackers Are Dropping USB Drives at Watering Holes

Image: Timon/Adobe Stock In its 2023 Mid-Year Cyber Security Report, Check Point Software spotlighted numerous exploits so far this year, including novel uses of artificial intelligence and an old-school attack…

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Cloud Strategies Are Facing a New Era of Strain in Australia, New Zealand

Enterprises across Australia and New Zealand have been enthusiastic adopters of the cloud. A 2023 IDC whitepaper sponsored by Microsoft said Australia and New Zealand are among the few countries…

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NVIDIA Boosts LLM Inference Performance With New TensorRT-LLM Software Library

TensorRT-LLM provides 8x higher performance for AI inferencing on NVIDIA hardware. An illustration of LLM inferencing. Image credit: NVIDIA As companies like d-Matrix squeeze into the lucrative artificial intelligence market…

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UK’s NCSC Warns Against Cybersecurity Attacks on AI

The National Cyber Security Centre provides details on prompt injection and data poisoning attacks so organizations using machine-learning models can mitigate the risks. Image: Michael Traitov/Adobe Stock Large language models…

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Generative AI and Foundation Models Face Inflated Expectations

Computer vision, data labeling and annotation, cloud AI services, and intelligence applications are the most mature applications of AI, according to Gartner's 2023 AI Hype Cycle. Image: putilov_denis/Adobe Stock Generative…

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