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Before your doctor uses AI to record your visits, ask these questions. Around 30% of U.S. physician practices use AI scribes, which reduce paperwork but may raise privacy and accuracy concerns, some critics argue. With AI scribes, your words are usually sent to a third party, often cloud-based, that converts audio to text. It is often not clear where the recordings are stored, for how long and who has access to them. (WSJ)
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Police in the Canadian city of Edmonton are testing AI-powered body cameras to match people with images of faces stored in so-called watch lists. Taser-maker Axon Enterprise in Scottsdale, Ariz., is supplying the cameras for the pilot program. (Associated Press)
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Federal fine: Precision-machinery company Swiss Automation must pay more than $421,000 to resolve Justice Department accusations that it didn't provide adequate cybersecurity to protect drawings of machine parts it supplied to Defense Department contractors. The allegations under the False Claims Act were made in a 2022 whistleblower lawsuit from a former quality-control manager at the Barrington, Ill., company who will receive more than $65,000 under the settlement.
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Apple, Google warn smartphone users about Intellexa's Predator spyware. Apple said it has notified several hundred people in more than 150 countries of Intellexa efforts to target iPhone users. Intellexa is a consortium of providers of spyware and surveillance tools that earlier this year was sanctioned by the U.S. as a national-security threat. (Reuters)
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Drug-research company Inotiv disclosed that nearly 10,000 current and former employees and their families had their personal data stolen in a ransomware attack in August. The incident knocked out some tech systems that have since been restored, Inotiv said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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62%
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Percentage of 200 corporate directors who say their management team lacks the appropriate skills and experience to oversee emerging technologies and mitigate cybersecurity risk, according to research from BDO, which provides tax and advisory services to businesses.
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Our CyberIndex ended the week up 3.15% with positive gains from 14 of the 20 companies that make up the group. Leading those gains was Rubrik, which rose 26.5% on strong overnight growth from Thursday to Friday. The stock price closed Friday at $86.78. SentinelOne went the other way when markets opened early Friday morning wiping out gains over 5% for the week through Thursday to close out the period with a 7% loss. —Jon Leckie
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