Like most Americans, I have a TP-Link router at home and am contemplating what to do with it. The company is under scrutiny for potential backdoors, and authorities are considering it as the next potential target for a ban. Is replacing the TP-Link router really the only option? The short answer is yes, according to the three cyber pros Cybernews talked to. I thought I could add a firewall or install custom firmware to limit exposure. All the other alternatives are worse security-wise. Even...

Russia is rapidly isolating its internet-connected infrastructure from the outside world. In less than a half year, over two-thirds of previously discoverable services and devices have vanished behind the ‘Great Firewall.’ Today, if you scanned and counted public-facing Russian servers and other devices, the country would appear smaller than Romania or Sweden, states with 5-10 times smaller populations. Before October 15th, 2024, Russia had around 920,000 public internet-facing devices and...

Aren’t we all living in a dystopian future? Human creators live in fear of accusations that their work might be generated using artificial intelligence (AI). Meanwhile, the Bible, Harry Potter, Bohemian Rhapsody, and other human works are supposedly generated by AI. You can’t trust AI detectors, such as ZeroGPT. They often mislabel famous human works as AI-generated, including the lyrics of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, excerpts from Harry Potter, or the Bible. Previously, AI detectors even...

If current on-device AI features aren’t compelling enough for you, there might be a reason for that. The largest AI model your next phone or laptop will be capable of running on-device amounts to just one percent of ChatGPT. Big tech is on a quest to convince consumers that they need the next phone or laptop with AI features, citing improvements in computation power. However, they may be better off just downloading an AI app running in the cloud. The latest consumer device can only process...