Author: David Rutman

An Iranian hacker group known as OilRig hijacked legitimate websites in order to target Israeli organizations, including a healthcare organization, in two separate cyberattack campaigns in 2021 and 2022, the Slovak ESET cybersecurity company reported last week. The two cyberattack campaigns were labeled “Outer Space” and “Juicy Mix” by ESET. The two campaigns collected browsing […]

A US civil rights agency sued Tesla Inc on Thursday, claiming the electric carmaker has tolerated severe harassment of Black employees at its flagship Fremont, California, assembly plant. The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said in the lawsuit filed in California federal court that from 2015 to the present, Black workers at the Tesla […]

A new peer-reviewed study from the University of Tokyo reports an advance in defending artificial intelligence (AI) systems from malicious attacks. Neural networks, the systems of algorithms that use pattern recognition to analyze data inputs, can be confused by the introduction of ‘noise’ into the data they are meant to analyze. A driverless car that […]

Should Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has a serious credibility problem among Israelis and even his ministers and MKs – not to mention the opposition – place houseplants or bookcases behind him when speaking online to seem more trustworthy? First impressions are made instantly. According to a new UK study, people tend to judge faces […]

Microsoft-backed OpenAI said on Wednesday that ChatGPT can now browse the internet to provide users with current information and that browsing is no longer limited to data before September 2021. “Browsing is available to Plus and Enterprise users today, and we’ll expand to all users soon. To enable, choose Browse with Bing in the selector […]

The Melnick State of the Israeli Economy Index reported a modest 0.1 percent increase in August, reflecting the ongoing challenges faced by the Israeli business sector. This news follows a similarly disheartening Index in July, which also saw only a 0.1% increase. The report attributes this economic slowdown to a combination of global economic downturns […]

Israeli software start-up Digma has raised $6 million in seed funding for its recently launched “Continuous Feedback” platform, which aims to enable developers to continuously analyze their code to identify issues in real time, preventing bad code from making it to production and slowing down development. The new platform is emblematic of the emerging Continuous […]

Rare coins and bills can fetch a hefty sum, especially if their minting is uncommon. Some 50 pence coins are sold for over $200, while rare £20 notes can be worth over $100. How much are we talking? A coin-collecting expert on TikTok, @coincollectorukofficial, shared how a single £10 coin could be valued at 300 […]

For almost a year, Large Generative AI Models (LGAIMs) such as ChatGPT have broken through as part of our daily lives. The model’s capacity to engage in a convincing dialogue and produce high-order texts has raised many questions, including whether such models possess independent reasoning capabilities, who trains whom (the machine or us), what will […]

The third anniversary of the Abraham Accords has come at a time when a lot of media coverage has focused on the possibility of progress in Israel and Saudi Arabia ties. This could potentially be very important. On another level, the Accords have also led to a lot of opportunities for Israeli companies in the […]