Techstrong News Recap – April 20, 2023

Hi again, everyone here the headlines for April 20th. First up the European Union is getting closer to approving a strategy that will increase its production of semiconductors the chips act which totals to 47 billion dollars. It involves pooling public and private funds and offering State support to jumpstart significant investments in shipmaking facilities has received in informal agreement from the eu's 27 member states in the European Parliament.

The chips act will link research design and testing and will also coordinate Investments made by the EU and its individual Nations. The ACT is aimed at doubling the Block's global market share of Chip production to 20% by 2030 and reducing its dependence on Asia for the tiny computer chips that control every day items. This follows similar plans to the United States as both are as attempting to reduce their dependence on Asia which produces the majority of the world semiconductors.

Next in an effort to safeguard their copyrights against chat GPT over 140,000 authors and performers from 42 different German associations and trade unions have requested that the European Union reinforced draft artificial intelligence regulations. These creative industry trade unions and associations that are for profession such as photographers designers illustrators and journalists have voiced their concerns in a letter addressed the European commission European Council in EU lawmakers. Their apprehensions are over generative AI which can replicate human responses to and generate text and images.

AIS unauthorized usage of Safeguard and training material non-transparent processing in the substitution of generative ai's output for Source material has been highlighted as organizations are raising concerns of accountability liability and reneumeration that need to be addressed before it adverse reversibly harms these industries. The groups are asking the European commission to regulate generative AI through a product cycle with particular emphasis on Foundation model providers and are pushing for these technology providers to be responsible for an all AI generated into disseminated content including copyright infringement discrimination or misinformation. In other news the FBI is cautioned against the use of public phone charging stations that can be found at airports and malls warning that cybercriminals are using these public USB stations to spread malware and monitoring software.

Though the FBI did not provide any specific examples of this happening experts have been warning about the danger of using these charging stations for a long time. When a power strip or Chargers compromised a juice jacking problem occurs, which compromises all data on a device including emails text messages photos and contacts. As a result the FBI advises carrying personal Chargers USB cords and using electrical outlets instead.

The Federal Communications Commission has also issued a warning about the danger of corrupted charging ports, which can allow cybercriminals to steal personal data and passwords or locket device. Next up several public broadcasters including national public radio and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation have stopped posting on Twitter in recent days after the platform labeled their accounts as government funded. The broadcasters argue that this label is inaccurate as it fails to account for their editorial Independence despite receiving Public Funding.

Meanwhile Twitter CEO Elon Musk maintains that the platform's goal is to be truthful and accurate as well in these labels will avoid misinformation. Other broadcasters such as Public Broadcasting Service in Hawaii's public radio have also ceased post and content on Twitter following similar labels. Laist a Los Angeles space news outlets has additionally voiced support for NPR's decision to stop posting content on the platform.

Twitter is long stated that users come to keep up to date with the most recent events making it a place for news outlets to shine the implementation of a government funding media label in the change to a subscription-based verification system though has brought up questions as to how to fight misinformation and how these Outlets can properly share news with their audiences. On Security Boulevard, we've an article looking at how lacework added a risk vulnerability score and capability to its cloud-native application protection platform. Lacework has stated that this capability will analyze package detection attack path analysis and export data with a list of known vulnerabilities to generate a risk score for your cloud computing environment to learn more go to Security Boulevard calm.

On digital cxl. We have an article looking at Amazon web services new service bedrock. This new service will provide an API offering foundational models for text and images from generative AI.

Additionally Bedrock will allow customers to customize these foundational models with their own data. com. com.

We've an article that looks at how AI chatbots can be game changing for devops. Many companies have begun to use devops to accelerate their software development processes. But AI chatbots can make devops Transformations much more efficient and much more effective as well.

com. And that's today's text wrong news recap.