Practicing good "operations security" is essential to staying safe online. Here's a complete guide for teenagers (and anyone else) who wants to button up their digital lives. Teenagers have always been formidable hackers. In fact, in recent years, some of the most high-profile and brazen digital attacks around the world have been carried out by teens. And whether you've never given much thought to your digital privacy and security or you've started to rein in your data, you can use this guide to implement basic precautions and keep operations security in mind. In other words, this guide contains advice and ideas to help you conceptualize how people can find out information about you from your digital activities--and start to minimize what's out there in ways you didn't intend. Some people are more private by nature, and others prioritize putting themselves out there. But even if you're a 24/7 streamer, you can still think about your operations security, commonly known as opsec. What can viewers see in your room while you're streaming?

Last year was dominated by artificial intelligence. The release of Chat-GPT in autumn 2022 triggered such huge hype that every software manufacturer rushed to integrate real or supposed AI functions into their products and advertise them heavily. The share price of Microsoft, which has direct access to the technology thanks to its stake in Chat-GPT manufacturer Open AI, rose from 230 in January to over 370 in November 2023. The topic of AI will also be with us in the coming year: New tools with AI functions continue to appear. Unfortunately, the topic of ransomware will also continue to appear in the headlines in 2024.

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used in Metaverse environments to generate dynamic and realistic content and to control the behavior of non-player characters (NPCs). However, the cybersecurity concerns associated with LLMs have become increasingly prominent. Previous research has primarily focused on patching system vulnerabilities to enhance cybersecurity, but these approaches are not well-suited to the Metaverse, where the virtual space is more complex, LLMs are vulnerable, and ethical user interaction is critical. Moreover, the scope of cybersecurity in the Metaverse is expected to expand significantly. This paper proposes a method for enhancing cybersecurity through the simulation of user interaction with LLMs. Our goal is to educate users and strengthen their defense capabilities through exposure to a comprehensive simulation system. This system includes extensive Metaverse cybersecurity Q&A and attack simulation scenarios. By engaging with these, users will improve their ability to recognize and withstand risks. Additionally, to address the ethical implications of user input, we propose using LLMs as evaluators to assess user content across five dimensions. We further adapt the models through vocabulary expansion training to better understand personalized inputs and emoticons. We conduct experiments on multiple LLMs and find that our approach is effective.

Windows 11 has a lot of features you may not know about. CyberGuy shows you how to customize your computer. AI is sweeping across industries like a wave, opening up new frontiers and leaving regulators scrambling in its wake. It's easy to see why – with tools like ChatGPT on the rise, the line between humans and machines blurs more each day. However, just when we thought we had our hands full with job displacement debates and drafting digital policies, a new issue sneaks up – ChatGPT accounts stolen and traded on the dark web.

Frightened of a future where artificial intelligence replaces the real thing? Brace yourself, because here comes quantum computing. The developing technology -- which relies on subatomic, quantum mechanics -- could accelerate the advancement of AI to lightning speed, experts say. Such a powerful upgrade could lead to amazing things -- or terrible ones. "We could cure cancer with quantum computing combined with AI," Lisa Palmer, chief AI strategist for the consulting firm AI Leaders told The Post. "There is a huge upside here … like upgrading from a bicycle to a high speed sports car."

CyberGuy shows you how to create and customize events in the calendar app. When the pandemic hit and so many aspects of our lives went digital, older adults had to get accustomed to using more technology like Facetime, Zoom and more. Now, older adults have become a lot more tech-savvy and even have their favorite devices that they enjoy using. Here are five tech obsessions that older adults have adopted over the last few years. Perhaps the most popular devices among older adults are ones like Apple Watches, FitBits and other products that help people keep track of their health.

Speed up your daily workflows by getting AI to write Python code in seconds. On March 14, 2023, OpenAI launched GPT-4, the newest and most powerful version of their language model. Within just hours of its launch, GPT-4 stunned people by turning a hand-drawn sketch into a functional website, passing the bar exam, and generating accurate summaries of Wikipedia articles. It also outperforms its predecessor, GPT-3.5, in solving math problems and answering questions based on logic and reasoning. ChatGPT, the chatbot which was built on top of GPT-3.5 and released to the public, was notorious for "hallucinating."

Federal agencies that want to successfully scale and implement cloud computing systems into existing infrastructure can do so through several key practices, including designating expert teams, two-factor authentication, and enhanced education opportunities among users. Outlined in a White House report published earlier this month, officials documented how cloud computing systems can support further federal research and development in artificial intelligence, a goal within the broader Biden administration. Authored by the Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee within the National Science and Technology Council, the report notes that leveraging cloud computing technology can enable better on-demand resources for researchers working with AI technologies. It went on to highlight opportunities for public agencies looking to bolster AI research efforts with advanced computing systems. "Agencies that have undertaken early efforts to leverage commercial cloud computing resources to advance AI R&D have commonly experienced benefits to their investments in terms of providing internal and external researchers persistent, on-demand access to cutting-edge capabilities, accelerating experimentation and the use of AI in new domains, and enabling reproducibility and scalability of the research activities and results," the report explains.

Machine learning operations (MLOps) are key to effectively transition from an experimentation phase to production. The practice provides you the ability to create a repeatable mechanism to build, train, deploy, and manage machine learning models. To quickly adopt MLOps, you often require capabilities that use your existing toolsets and expertise. Projects in Amazon SageMaker give organizations the ability to easily set up and standardize developer environments for data scientists and CI/CD (continuous integration, continuous delivery) systems for MLOps engineers. With SageMaker projects, MLOps engineers or organization administrators can define templates that bootstrap the ML workflow with source version control, automated ML pipelines, and a set of code to quickly start iterating over ML use cases.

Elon Musk has said that new Tesla cars will have horns that can bleat like a goat. In a Twitter thread about Dojo, a new neutral network computer that the company is apparently developing, the Tesla CEO was asked whether the "silly talk of making the horn honk like a goat" was "an Easter Egg or wide release software update?" Musk replied that the feature was "definitely coming" but that it would only "only be on relatively recent cars, as we didn't have an outside speaker until about a year ago. Can change inside sound easily." As well as a goat horn, Musk also mentioned other features that will be coming to Tesla cars in future updates.