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The emphasis, of course, is on “relatively.” Sample conversations from Facebook’s study showed that the bots were much more consistent and fluent than bots trained on movie phrases, but they definitely wouldn’t pass a Turing test. Testers added that the bots weren’t as engaging, although The Verge speculatesthat this may have stemmed from the limited number of factoids. Real people often have…

A new ransomware is actively infecting victims called the Velso Ransomware. This ransomware appends the .velso extension to encrypted files and then drops a ransom note that contains an email address that a victim can use to contact the developer.

In this article I will provide a brief summary of what we know about the velso ransomware and how you can protect yourself from it. You can also…

The plump, cylindrical smart speaker was originally slated to be released in late 2017, but Apple delayed the launch last November saying, “We need a little more time before it’s ready for our customers.” Today, the company announcedthat it is finally ready to ship. HomePod preorders start online this Friday, Jan. 26, in the US, UK, and Australia, while France and Germany will get the device in…

Okta teams up with ServiceNow to bring identity layer to breach containment

Okta and fellow cloud company ServiceNow got together to build an app that helps ServiceNow customers using their security operations tools find security issues related to identity and take action immediately.

The company launched the Okta Identity Cloud for Security Operationsapp today. It’s available in the ServiceNow app store and has been designed for customers who are using both toolsets.…

Video: How to make Google Chrome faster: Five tips

Google, the world’s biggest online ad company, is updating its ad settings tools to give you a new choice to mute ads that seem to follow you around the web.

These so-called ‘reminder ads’ appear when you’ve visited some ecommerce site to, say, buy a pair of shoes, but for whatever reason don’t complete the purchase. Ad services such as Google…