Amid declining patient visits and a 66% drop in stock value, telehealth giant Teladoc appoints new leadership and withdraws its previously stated financial outlook for 2024, signaling uncertainty in its future trajectory.
The hyperscaling of cyberattacks in the cloud era is scary. According to research from Proofpoint, 94% of cloud customers were targeted at some point during every month of 2023. Of those targeted companies, 62% were successfully compromised. In the wrong hands, emerging technologies will increase the success rate of cyberattacks.
The government advisory mentions that RansomHub victims are from various critical infrastructure sectors, including water, IT, government services and facilities, healthcare, emergency services, financial services, food and agriculture, commercial facilities, critical manufacturing, communications, and transportation.
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) recently unveiled its latest draft definition for "open source AI," aiming to clarify the ambiguous use of the term in the fast-moving field. The move comes as some companies like Meta release trained AI language model weights and code with usage restrictions while using the "open source" label. This has sparked intense debates among free-software advocates about what truly constitutes "open source" in the context of AI.
Sharing access to AI models is a significant step at a time when federal and state legislatures are considering what kinds of guardrails to place on the technology without stifling innovation.