If you’ve been losing sleep over the idea of AI replacing you at work, you can relax. Your job is safe, at least for now. It’s not that artificial intelligence doesn’t have ambitions; it’s just that it’s nowhere near capable enough to pull it off.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University recently ran a fascinating and unintentionally hilarious experiment. They created a mock software company entirely staffed by AI “agents,” which are essentially autonomous AI programs designed to complete tasks independently. [Read more…]
For college seniors eagerly anticipating that first step onto the career ladder, reality is hitting like a brick wall. The tech jobs they studied for? Drying up. Entry-level finance and consulting gigs? Not what they used to be. Even internships are getting scarce. Blame a shaky economy, cautious employers, and a new coworker who doesn’t need coffee breaks: generative AI.
Apple just pushed out emergency updates across iOS, macOS, and other platforms to squash two zero-day bugs that were actively being exploited. But before you panic: unless you’re someone Apple might actually send a holiday card to, you’re probably not the target. Their official language? These vulnerabilities were used against “specific targeted individuals.” Translation: celebrities, high-ranking officials, or people who pay someone else to clean their AirPods.
So… turns out one of the leading enterprise security products forgot the “security” part. More than 16,000 Fortinet devices exposed to the internet have been found carrying a persistent symlink backdoor—one that grants read-only access to sensitive files.