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Microsoft released tools to address security issues with its AI assistant Copilot.Copilot’s indexing of internal data led to oversharing of sensitive company information.Some corporate customers delayed Copilot deployment due to security and oversharing concerns.You know when a colleague overshares at work? It’s awkward at best.Microsoft’s Copilot has been doing an…
Russia’s hybrid warfare tactics against the US and Europe are reaching new levels.The disinformation efforts seek to influence elections and stir chaos in domestic politics.Those efforts are in some respects being thwarted. Russian disinformation and interference — hybrid warfare tactics — are on the rise and again showed up in…
Gen Z voters who struggle with cursive could slow the vote count, Nevada’s secretary of state said.He attributed higher numbers of problematic mail ballots to young voters without signatures.Many schools stopped cursive instruction in 2010, leading to a generation unfamiliar with the style. Young people are increasingly without distinct signatures…
By Waylon Cunningham (Reuters) – Moves by major U.S. fast-food chains to temporarily scrub fresh onions off their menus on Thursday, after the vegetable was named as the likely source of an E. coli outbreak at McDonald’s (NYSE:), laid bare the recurring nightmare for restaurants: Produce is a bigger problem…
F-35 stealth fighter jets have been failing to meet mission-capable rates, a watchdog reports.This has been the case for six years despite over $12 billion on operations and maintenance, the GAO found.A defense official said the program and DoD must continue working to improve combat readiness. The US military’s F-35…
By Rajesh Kumar Singh CHICAGO (Reuters) – Southwest Airlines (NYSE:) will lay out a strategy on Thursday to turn around its business and restore profit margins to pre-pandemic levels as the U.S. carrier faces pressure from an activist investor to shake up its management. The pioneering low-cost airline once boasted…
Defense tech startup Anduril announced a new range of cruise missiles on Thursday that it says can be mass-produced at low cost to help the US in a near-peer war.Anduril said the key to its new Barracuda missile is its flexibility, through a modular system that can make the missile…
“Misinformation is the one where I — a little bit — had to punt and say, ‘Okay, we’ve handed this problem to the younger generation,'” Gates, 68, said during an interview with CNBC published on Thursday.Misinformation has been a concern almost since the advent of the internet. There was a…
The US Navy sacked the captain of a deployed warship after an unresolved steering problem resulted in a near-miss incident in the Middle East, according to a command investigation reviewed by Business Insider.The commander of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group relieved Cmdr. Cameron Yaste, the commanding officer of the…
Valeria Kogan is the CEO of Fermata, a software-development company specializing in agriculture.Her team develops AI tools to reduce crop loss that causes food waste and greenhouse gas emissions.This article is part of “Build IT,” a series about digital-tech trends disrupting industries. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation…
