Nathan Ord

Most experts would suggest that humans are the weakest link in cybersecurity, which is evidenced by the pervasiveness of phishing emails and whatnot. However, it’s not just end users that can be a problem. System administrators are human too, and can introduce serious problems just the same. This is what a group of researchers have shown by finding misconfigured Firebase instances leaking a plethora of user data, including plaintext passwords, but we cannot wholly blame

Artificial intelligence is seeping into almost everything we encounter daily, from chats to robots and much in between. One of these exciting things in between is video games, which can have AI-aided non-playable characters (NPCs) to enhance realism and interactivity. We saw this earlier this year with NVIDIA’s ACE showcase at CES, which gave a tech demo in situ. Now, Ubisoft is working on a similar tool to let players conversationally interact with an NPC