Fintech
Amazon’s fintech partnerships increase pressure on card networks
Amazon’s announcement that it would halt acceptance of Visa credit cards in the U.K. in January due to « high costs » comes at the same time that the [… Read more ]
Cybersecurity
Wikipedia tests AI for spotting contradictory claims in articles
Artificial intelligence can be used to scour the crowdsourced encyclopedia for contradictory information and flag it to human editors The charity that maintains Wikipedia has [… Read more ]
Cybersecurity
From oximeters to AI, where bias in medical devices may lurk
Analysis: issues with some gadgets could contribute to poorer outcomes for women and people of colour The UK health secretary, Sajid Javid, has announced a [… Read more ]
Fintech
Europe’s AI laws will cost companies a small fortune
Artificial intelligence isn’t tomorrow’s technology — it’s already here. Now too is the legislation proposing to regulate it. Earlier this year, the European Union outlined [… Read more ]
Cybersecurity
Why you and I will pay the price for the next big cybersecurity crisis
As a former top civil servant has pointed out, private firms seem happy to let governments pick up the pieces when hackers strike Ciaran Martin [… Read more ]
Cybersecurity
83% of Companies Don’t Encrypt All Sensitive Data in Cloud
A recent report shows most companies are not encrypting a large portion of their sensitive data in the cloud. The report by Thales indicates that [… Read more ]
Juridique
NIS 2
Il y a presque un an, la Commission Européenne proposait une nouvelle directive destinée à abroger la directive (UE) 2016/1148, plus communément appelée directive NISi (ou SRI). Cette directive poursuit l’objectif d’assurer [… Read more ]
Metaverse
Calculating the future environmental impacts of the metaverse
he metaverse looks likely to reach into every corner of our lives. Apple, Disney, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta (formerly Facebook) have all stated their intentions [… Read more ]
Metaverse
Facebook Metaverse: Will it Support Blockchain?
Facebook recently announced a rebrand to Meta, and officially transitioned into a metaverse company. What exactly does that mean, and will there be blockchain and [… Read more ]
Cybersecurity
Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt take on AI
The Age of AI. By Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher. Little, Brown and Company; 272 pages; $30. John Murray; £20 Early last year, researchers at the [… Read more ]
Banque
Public Banking vs. Open-Source Money: What Omarova for OCC Means
Brian Quintenz, former commodities regulator and friend to the crypto industry, weighed in today on the confirmation process to elect a new Comptroller of the [… Read more ]
Bitcoin
Binance US to Close Pre-IPO Funding in 1-2 Months
Binance US will be closing a pre-IPO funding round in the next one to two months, the founder and CEO of the exchange’s parent company, [… Read more ]
Cybersecurity
How AI and NLP are helping healthcare call centers to be more efficient
Thirteen percent of calls in the healthcare industry are disconnected before the caller is routed to an agent, and 67% of callers hang up the phone [… Read more ]
Cybersecurity
The US government just launched a big push to fill cybersecurity jobs, with salaries to match
The US Department of Homeland Security, a key cybersecurity agency, has just announced a new system that will help it recruit, develop and retrain cybersecurity [… Read more ]
Cybersecurity
AI Can Now Model the Molecular Machines That Govern All Life
Thanks to deep learning, the central mysteries of structural biology are falling like dominos. Just last year, DeepMind shocked the biomedical field with AlphaFold, an algorithm [… Read more ]