Voice-cloning companies hit for lack of safeguards against scammers – Computerworld

Still, the testers were able to bypass those safeguards, prompting the magazine to call for tighter standards. “We argue that the nascent voice-cloning industry should adopt norms and standards to…

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February’s IT job market in the US shows mixed signals; unemployment ticks up – Computerworld

The jobs report shows a market trying to balance itself amid falling consumer confidence and ongoing economic uncertaintyr\, according to Ger Doyle, US country manager for staffing firm ManpowerGroup. While…

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You thought genAI hallucinations were bad? Things just got so much worse – Computerworld

“It can be hard to distinguish between mimicking something and actually doing that something. This is an unsolved technical problem,” Volkov said. “AI agents can clearly set goals, execute on…

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SEC, DOJ investigate CrowdStrike deal with reseller Carahsoft – Computerworld

Vendor sales reps push hard to lock in revenue, typically tied to new product adoption, upgrades, or expanded usage, before closing their books, he said, “often dangling so-called ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ aggressive…

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Virginia Tech researchers raise red flags about mixed-reality security – Computerworld

“There are only a few collaboration platforms in use today for enterprise and defense, and a good chunk of the potentially vulnerable collaboration tools most likely don’t connect to the…

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