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Funding for Cybersecurity Startups Plunges – But Some Still Get Deals

eSecurity Planet

billion , according to data from Crunchbase. Funding in the first half of 2023 was down 60% from a year earlier. “But tools that can extract insight from entirely new data sources and replace manual processes in ways that could not be done at scale before are very interesting.”

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Private UK health data donated for medical research shared with insurance companies

The Guardian Data Protection

An Observer investigation has found that UK Biobank opened up its vast biomedical database to insurance sector firms several times between 2020 and 2023. The data was provided to insurance consultancy and tech firms for projects to create digital tools that help insurers predict a person’s risk of getting a chronic disease.

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Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

Krebs on Security

Chaput said that on May 4, 2023, someone unleashed a spam torrent targeting users on these Mastodon communities via “private mentions,” a kind of direct messaging on the platform. His resume also says he is a data science intern at Mondi Group , an Austrian manufacturer of sustainable packaging and paper.

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ChatGPT: A Brave New World for Cybersecurity

eSecurity Planet

Unlike most other AI research projects, ChatGPT has captivated the interest of ordinary people who do not have PhDs in data science. OpenAI plans to launch a much more advanced version of this technology in 2023. ChatGPT Security Threats. In a week, the app gained more than one million users.

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How to enable trustworthy AI with the right data fabric solution

IBM Big Data Hub

Automated, integrated data science tools help build, deploy, and monitor AI models. In most organizations there are a number of data science tools, making it difficult to govern and manage information, let alone adhere to increasingly strict security, compliance and governance regulations.

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Building on a year of focus to help IBM Power clients grow with hybrid cloud and AI

IBM Big Data Hub

At the beginning of the year, we laid out a new strategy for IBM Power under the leadership of Ken King, who will be retiring by the end of 2023 after forty years with IBM. Oracle will be releasing Oracle Database 23c on Power , as part of their next Long Term Release as reported in April 2023.

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Reddit discloses security breach that exposed source code and internal docs

Security Affairs

Social news aggregation platform Reddit suffered a security breach, attackers gained unauthorized access to internal documents, code, and some business systems. Reddit announced it was hit by a sophisticated and highly-targeted attack that took place on February 5, 2023. ” reads a notice published by the company. .