Going Digital: Teaching a TI-84 Handwriting Recognition

close up of a TI-84 Plus CE running custom software

You wouldn’t typically associate graphing calculators with artificial intelligence, but hacker [KermMartian] recently made it happen. The innovative project involved running a neural network directly on a TI-84 Plus CE …read more Continue reading Going Digital: Teaching a TI-84 Handwriting Recognition

Detecting Pegasus Infections

This tool seems to do a pretty good job.

The company’s Mobile Threat Hunting feature uses a combination of malware signature-based detection, heuristics, and machine learning to look for anomalies in iOS and Android device activity or telltale signs of spyware infection. For paying iVerify customers, the tool regularly checks devices for potential compromise. But the company also offers a free version of the feature for anyone who downloads the iVerify Basics app for $1. These users can walk through steps to generate and send a special diagnostic utility file to iVerify and receive analysis within hours. Free users can use the tool once a month. iVerify’s infrastructure is built to be privacy-preserving, but to run the Mobile Threat Hunting feature, users must enter an email address so the company has a way to contact them if a scan turns up spyware—as it did in the seven recent Pegasus discoveries…

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Advanced threat predictions for 2025

Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team monitors over 900 APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) groups and operations. In this piece of KSB series, we review the advanced threat trends from the past year and offer insights into what we can expect in 2025. Continue reading Advanced threat predictions for 2025

Advanced threat predictions for 2025

Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team monitors over 900 APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) groups and operations. In this piece of KSB series, we review the advanced threat trends from the past year and offer insights into what we can expect in 2025. Continue reading Advanced threat predictions for 2025

Сrimeware and financial cyberthreats in 2025

Kaspersky’s GReAT looks back on the 2024 predictions about financial and crimeware threats, and explores potential cybercrime trends for 2025. Continue reading Сrimeware and financial cyberthreats in 2025

AI Industry is Trying to Subvert the Definition of “Open Source AI”

The Open Source Initiative has published (news article here) its definition of “open source AI,” and it’s terrible. It allows for secret training data and mechanisms. It allows for development to be done in secret. Since for a neural network, the training data is the source code—it’s how the model gets programmed—the definition makes no sense.

And it’s confusing; most “open source” AI models—like LLAMA—are open source in name only. But the OSI seems to have been co-opted by industry players that want both corporate secrecy and the “open source” label. (Here’s one …

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