“The best way to think of the slop and spam that generative AI enables is as a brute force attack on the algorithms that control the internet and which govern how a large segment of the public ...

So you have a strong password. Is that enough? The psychology of password creation would suggest we are not necessarily safe from Brute Force Attacks. “Heuristic brute forcing provides hackers with ...

It's Man v. Machine on Jeopardy! this week as IBM super-robot Watson takes on former champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. At The Atlantic, we're using Watson as an occasion to think about what ...

Kebler's Instagram account is flooded with a large number of 'AI-generated videos' every day, many of which are bizarre and grotesque, like the screenshot below, but these videos are recommended by an ...

The U.S. election aftermath has brought the ethical issues of algorithmic life into sharp focus. But it's time for companies to admit that brute force algorithms also undermine the customer experience ...

Harish Kumar asked if a brute force attack–which tries random text strings until one turns out to be your password—would work on major websites. “Will Facebook allow millions of failed attempts?” We ...

I have a few bones of contention with the hyper-personalization crowd. But is there a better model for B2B? Grab your beverage of choice, and let's follow the argument and see if it has merit. Two ...