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Most online retailers deploy analytics software that can generate insights into how shoppers engage — which products they search for, how they navigate categories and brands, which activity correlates with purchases, and so on. Because of these analytics tools, online retailers tend to assume that whenever they need to know how to optimize e-commerce search,…

AI may be ushering in a new breed of malicious threat actors who know even less about hacking than script kiddies but can produce professional-grade hacking tools. In a report released Tuesday, Cato CTRL, the threat intelligence arm of cybersecurity company Cato Networks, explained how one of its researchers, who had no malware coding experience, tricked…

During the dawn of the PC era, a single program was touted as the “killer app” that fired the market for personal computers. That program was a spreadsheet called VisiCalc. Now, another spreadsheet could have a similar impact on the AI market. Announced Monday, along with US$4.3 million in venture funding, the new spreadsheet, cloud-based Sourcetable,…

Mobile applications are quietly attracting more and more malevolent attention — and for good reason. They contain a trove of private information about their users. In the iOS universe alone, 82.78%, or about 1.55 million apps, track private user data, according to the trends tracker Exploding Topics. To read more click here

The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence is both exhilarating and deeply concerning. The sheer power unleashed by these algorithms, largely concentrated within the coffers and control of a handful of tech behemoths — you know, the usual suspects, the ones who probably know what you had for breakfast — has ignited a global debate about…

Over several decades as an industry analyst, I have followed the evolution of telecom, wireless, broadband, pay TV, and more. Today, a new transformation is taking shape. Artificial intelligence and 5G wireless — both part of the broader telecom ecosystem — are now converging to create intelligent, self-optimizing networks that are reshaping industries from telecommunications…