Lewis Koch

War on Drugs Targets Tech

The new scapegoat for the failed War on Drugs is, of all things, technology.The 120-page December 2000 International Crime Threat Assessment report — created by basically every federal law...

Spin Doctors, Beware the Net

"The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted. . . . The...

Cyberspying

Can it be only eight years since Howard Rheingolds The Virtual Community described the Internet as a place where people could develop and support virtual communities of shared interests...

Private Matters

The world of digital snoops and spooks is a pretty dark space, but Richard M. Smith has illuminated some of its darker corners. It was his work that revealed...

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Cisco Live 2023: Cross-Product Integration

At Cisco’s global user event, Cisco Live, held recently in Las Vegas, Cisco didn’t launch several new routers, switches, and security devices as is...

Best Artificial Intelligence Software 2023

The demand for artificial intelligence software (AI) has increased significantly in recent years, and organizations of all sizes are adopting artificial intelligence to stay...

Informatica CEO Amit Walia on ‘Guardrails’ for Generative AI

I spoke with Amita Walia, CEO of Informatica, about the challenges that companies face with scaling artificial intelligence, including the need for ethics and...

What Is a Large Language Model?

A large language model (LLM) is a type of artificial intelligence model that has been trained through deep learning algorithms to recognize, generate, translate,...

SoftBank and NVIDIA to Bring Generative AI to Telcos

NVIDIA and Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank have partnered to create a platform for generative artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G/6G applications based on NVIDIA’s GH200...