In Depth: These experts are racing to protect AI from hackers. Time is running out Ethan Mollick, professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, has embraced ChatGPT and AI use in all of his classes. His policy sets an expectation that students must use AI for class – and learn how to use it well. The results of implementing ChatGPT into his syllabus were “great,” according to Mollick....

But did you know that you’re actually more likely to remember things when you physically write them down rather than typing or recording them? Writing things down helps you commit information to memory, but you don’t have to give up the undeniable convenience of digital notetaking. Get the best of both worlds with the Rocketbook Fusion Smart Reusable Notebook Set. This notebook isn’t like your standard, bound collection of lined paper – nor is it like that unorganized folder of typed notes you keep on your phone....

The Ember Mug 2 is a smart coffee mug that uses your smartphone (via Bluetooth) to control beverage temperature. It’s another technological solution to a real-world problem. With the goal of helping coffee and tea lovers drink on their own time rather than racing against it, the Ember Mug is a hot commodity every holiday season. But for $129, is the smart gadget worth the hype? Also: This $39 water bottle can hack your taste buds: Is it worth it?...

A white noise machine can also bring the sounds of nature into any space, and the Letsfit builds on that with 30 different soundtracks and a portable design. Available in white, black, and wood, the Letsfit has a compact form. It’s less than five inches high by four inches wide and weighs less than a pound, and it even works off of any standard outlet with the included adapter. High-fidelity speakers are built into the top of the device, with a grille touch switch and full touch buttons that are backlit for easy use at night....

Thomson Reuters executives told ZDNet that the patent-pending Indirect Tax Determination Anywhere platform was launched to help companies conduct “fast, accurate, and secure tax calculations in the cloud.” Sunil Pandita, president of corporates at Thomson Reuters, said corporate tax departments and specialists are constantly up against ever-changing tax regulations and complicated jurisdictional requirements that manual calculations and legacy systems struggle to keep up with. “Cloud-based solutions are invaluable in incorporating regulatory changes as they happen, allowing for consistent monitoring, fast calculations, simple reporting, and reliable security,” Pandita said....

This tasks IT teams with the design of rudimentary applications on which end-users can embellish. This will help reduce the time business users may spend attempting to build apps and not enough time on their businesses. Business users “may not consider all the different factors required in order to map the software to their requirements,” says Michael Larner, principal analyst at ABI Research. “And you don’t want staff duplicating effort when they should be focusing on their core tasks....

Sometimes the new features are a bit silly. Other times they are quite interesting. Ulefone’s Armor 15 is one of those with a very interesting feature. On paper, the Armor 15 is quite a capable smartphone: The fit and finish of the Armon 15 is also excellent. Despite the rugged build, it has a very stylish finish. All in all, the Armor 15 is a capable budget Android smartphone. The performance is great, the cameras output decent photos perfect for social media, and the screen is bright and comfortable to look at, even for extended periods....

Spurred by the need to find new ways to maintain safe customer experiences during the coronavirus pandemic, companies are keen to adopt new touchless interfaces that help employees and customers work and play effectively in ways that move beyond the traditional, flatter realm of 2D computing. From automatic speech recognition to 3D eye tracking and onto gesture-based computing, companies are investigating how these technologies can be used to break a reliance on touching screens – without negatively impacting the quality of customer experiences....

You’ll find eight courses in this bundle, starting with the “Ethical Hacking with Metasploit: Exploit & Post Exploit” course. This student-loved class (rated 4.8 out of 5 stars) is presented by Oak Academy, a company of tech experts offering frequently updated courses in coding, mobile, IT, game development, app monetization and much more. This course teaches pen testing, Linux commands and a whole lot more. Meanwhile, the “Cyber Security Analyst & Enterprise Architecture” classes cover security threat prevention and detection, as well as how to fight it....

According to the New York Times, the new Twitter CEO and Tesla/Space X founder has decided that Twitter will no longer put out free lunches for staff in a bid to save the company $13 million (£11m) a year. Also: Mastodon isn’t Twitter but it’s glorious On Twitter, Musk later claimed that there were “more people preparing breakfast than eating it” in an exchange with a former Twitter executive on the platform, after previously suggesting that the company was spending $400 per lunch....

For those that don’t know, Ubuntu has been, for years, one of the top 10 most popular Linux desktop distributions on the market. One of the many reasons for this is due to remarkable user-friendliness. Ubuntu is simple to install, use, and maintain, supports a wide range of hardware, just works, and (of course) is free to anyone. Also: How to install Ubuntu Linux (It’s easy!) Very soon, the latest iteration of Ubuntu Desktop will hit the metaphorical shelves....

US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco was speaking at the Aspen Cyber Summit on Wednesday when announcing the new efforts. “Cryptocurrency exchanges want to be the banks of the future; well, we need to make sure that folks can have confidence when they’re using these systems, and we need to be poised to root out abuse. The point is to protect consumers,” she said. “For too long, companies have chosen silence under the mistaken belief that it’s less risky to hide a breach than to bring it forward and report it....

Notebooks and desktops led the way with growth in shipments of 27% and 23% respectively compared to last year. Tablet shipments were down 1% in Q2. HP was the leading company in the US, delivering more than 8 million devices to customers and dominating the Chromebook sector with a 42% market share. Apple suffered a 3% decline in devices shipped but still held on to the second place slot behind HP....

Leveraging Verizon 5G Edge with Microsoft Azure Stack Edge, the solution “enables the ultra-low latency needed to deploy real-time enterprise applications,” the companies said in a statement. Sampath Sowmyanarayan, chief revenue officer of Verizon Business, said it would allow businesses to “bring compute and storage services to the edge of the network at the customer premises, providing increased efficiencies, higher levels of security, and the low lag and high bandwidth needed for applications involving computer vision, augmented and virtual reality, and machine learning....

Verizon’s “5G Nationwide” network leverages Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) technology on a low-band spectrum, which lets customers jump to 4G LTE or 4G in areas where 5G service isn’t available. By bringing IoT devices onto the network, Verizon Business is aiming to be a “single-provider destination for IoT, with solutions spanning broadband and narrowband, 5G and LTE… for applications across industries,” TJ Fox, SVP of Industrial IoT and Automotive for Verizon Business, said in a statement....

“Cyclists are among our most vulnerable road users because they don’t have the same protection as people in vehicles and are exposed to greater risk of death or injury when the unexpected happens,” a statement from Premier Daniel Andrews said. The 12-month light insights trial (LIT) will see 1,000 Victorians given access to a smart bike light from Northern Ireland cycling technology company See.Sense that the state will use to capture road safety data....

According to the entertainment company, it migrated 17 on-premise customer-facing ticketing websites to AWS, to ensure its websites could automatically scale during large-scale film events. “Customers constantly expect improved entertainment experiences, and with AWS, we can give them exactly that as we enter the post-COVID summer rush,” Village Roadshow CTO Michael Fagan said. “The cloud’s scalability and agility enable us to innovate new ways of bringing people back together in our cinemas now that lockdowns and social distancing measures are easing....

If you’ve never used a Fire TV stick before, they’re one of the best streaming sticks on the market. The USB stick plugs into the back of your TV for a seamless – and subtle – integration into your system. Perfect for teens, college students, or even just as a gift to another family member or friend, the Fire Stick uses a simple remote system to navigate to your favorite apps and shows....

The SEC said people who may be receiving lump-sum payouts from insurance companies due to damage from Hurricane Ida should be wary of investment scams or other online efforts to steal their money. “These scams can take many forms, including promoters touting companies purportedly involved in cleanup and repair efforts, trading programs that falsely guarantee high returns, and classic Ponzi schemes where new investors’ money is used to pay money promised to earlier investors,” the SEC explained....

The card’s other rewards include 3x points for dining, 2x points per dollar for travel purchases, and 1x point for everything else. Rent rewards are capped at 100,000 points per calendar year, but the other bonus categories have no limit to the number of points cardholders can earn. Most rent payments made with credit cards incur a transaction fee, which more often than not makes paying rent with a credit card ill-advised, especially if the fee outweighs any potential rewards....