Category: Technology

The Los Angeles Unified School District last week shifted the official timeline of last year’s ransomware attack, more than four months after it first went public with the incident. The district is changing the scope of its high-profile data breach after an investigation showed the initial point of intrusion occurred more than a month earlier […]

Dive Brief: Workers who switched jobs during the Great Resignation gravitated to tech, according to a report by educational technology company Cengage Group published Tuesday. More than one-fifth of 1,200 respondents who quit their jobs and found a new one between May 2021 and May 2022 migrated to tech jobs, the report said. Nearly 9 […]

Delivery options: One, two, three, or four weeks For the Fastest, Freshest Delivery Blue Bottle is one of the older coffee subscriptions. It’s still great, though its selection is not as extensive as some of the newcomers. Where Blue Bottle stands out is freshness—the company promises to ship your coffee within 24 hours of roasting. […]

Early last year, the government of Bangladesh began weighing an offer from an unnamed Chinese company to build a smart city on the Bay of Bengal with infrastructure enhanced by artificial intelligence. Construction of the high-tech metropolis has yet to begin, but if it proceeds it may include face recognition software that can use public cameras to identify missing […]

LockBit emerged at the end of 2019, first calling itself “ABCD ransomware.” Since then, it has grown rapidly. The group is a “ransomware-as-a-service” operation, meaning that a core team creates its malware and runs its website while licensing out its code to “affiliates” who launch attacks. Typically, when ransomware-as-a-service groups successfully attack a business and […]

Enlarge / An illustration of a chatbot exploding onto the scene, being very threatening. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica ChatGPT has Google spooked. On Friday, The New York Times reported that Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin held several emergency meetings with company executives about OpenAI’s new chatbot, which Google feels could threaten its […]

Dive Brief: Google Cloud has designed AI-driven technology that allows retailers to use imagery to automatically track items on store shelves, the company announced Jan. 13. The system, which leverages a Google library with billions of data points to identify products in photos taken from multiple angles, is in preview now and is slated to […]

Enlarge / Holding up corporations, utilities, and hospitals for malware-encrypted data used to be quite profitable. But it’s a tough gig lately, you know? ifanfoto/Getty Images Two new studies suggest that ransomware isn’t the lucrative, enterprise-scale gotcha it used to be. Profits to attackers’ wallets, and the percentage of victims paying, fell dramatically in 2022, […]

Every year, new startup entrepreneurs attempt to launch a business on the leanest budget possible. It could be because they have limited access to funding, because they’re trying to maximize profitability, or another reason entirely. Whatever the case, you’ll need to make some big sacrifices and strategic managerial decisions if you want this lean startup […]

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Microsoft is entering into the third phase of its partnership with OpenAI with a multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment to “ensure these benefits are broadly shared with the world,” according to a blog post Monday. “In this […]