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The company says its Artificial Intelligence Platform will integrate AI into military decision making in a legal and ethical way. Continue reading Palantir Demos AI to Fight Wars But Says It Will Be Totally Ethical Don’t Worry About It
Today Jamf, a software company that helps other firms manage their Apple devices, raised its IPO price range. The company had previously targeted a $17 to $19 per-share range. A new SEC filing from the firm today details a far higher $21 to $23 per-share IPO price interval. Jamf still intends to sell up to […] Continue reading Jamf ups its IPO range, now targets a valuation of up to $2.7B
Palantir, the secretive big data and analytics provider that works with governments and other public and private organizations to power national security, health and a variety of other services, has reportedly been eyeing up a public listing this autumn. But in the meantime it’s also continuing to push ahead in the private markets. The company […] Continue reading SEC filing indicates big data provider Palantir is raising $961M, $550M of it already secured
It’s not just China: at least 75 out of 176 countries globally are actively using AI technologies for surveillance purposes, research shows. Continue reading Report: Use of AI surveillance is growing around the world
Peter Thiel says a U.S. law enforcement plan to access Americans’ protected communications is a bad idea. Thiel, founder of big data analytics platform Palantir and vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, told Fox News Sunday he supports the use of encryption to protect U.S. data. His comments come as government officials including, U.S. Attorney General William Barr, have threatened legislation that would require companies like WhatsApp and Apple to make it possible for the FBI to access encrypted messages. Thiel, a billionaire venture capitalist with a Silicon Valley background, suggested the FBI would not be able to ensure outsiders wouldn’t be able to use the same mechanisms to read communications that now are safe from prying eyes. “Maybe the FBI gets the information, maybe other people get it,” he told the Sunday morning show “Fox News Futures.” “I don’t trust the FBI to keep it protected inside the FBI…The […]
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The companies that make advanced surveillance software are quiet by design. They generate enough press to let the market (i.e., governments) know their products exist, but it’s not as if there’s an app store for mobile spyware. They do make mistakes, though. And thanks to two researchers from Lookout, the public now has more information on how these companies operate. In the course of investigating a new kind of Android-focused mobile malware, Lookout’s Andrew Blaich and Michael Flossman uncovered text conversations among members of a nation-state’s surveillance program. Those files, which were stored on a server that was part of the malware’s command-and-control infrastructure, represented a trove of insight about how much money the particular government budgeted for its program, whether its spies decided to buy exploits or build their own, and why it’s easier than ever for countries to leverage surveillance technology. It started when Blaich and Flossman were analyzing how a single malware sample had manipulated data within the popular […]
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The legislation would ban the city from signing non-disclosure agreements with surveillance companies. Continue reading Oakland Proposes Strongest Anti-Surveillance Regulations in the Country
When Google was founded in 1998, its goal was to organize the world’s information. And for the most part, mission accomplished — but in 19 years the goal post has moved forward and indexing and usefully presenting information isn’t enough. As machine learning matures, it’s becoming feasible for the first time to actually summarize and contextualize the world’s… Read More Continue reading Primer helps governments and corporations monitor and understand the world’s information
CyberGRX and BitSight join forces, Java vs. JavaScript, YARA rules explained, Riverbed teases an application networking offering, and more enterprise security news! Enterprise News CyberGRX Partners With BitSight to Address Supply Chain Risks | SecurityWeek.Com Riverbed to tout application networking offering at GITEX Explained: YARA rules – Malwarebytes Labs Palantir’s IPO Plans are Just as […]
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