David Gewirtz

Yaroslav Kushta/Getty Images It’s an age-old adage of cyber defense that an attacker has to find just one weakness or exploit, but the defender has to defend against everything. The challenge of AI, when it comes to cybersecurity, is that […]

ZDNET Buying stuff online can be a risky proposition. Sure, the big vendors do their best to make you feel safe, but what if you have to give up your credit card digits to a vendor you don’t know? As

ZDNET February 26 is this coming Wednesday. That’s how long you have to download your Kindle books as files to your computer. We discussed the deadline at length in my previous article. If you have a lot of Kindle books

ZDNET This AI thing has taken off really fast, hasn’t it? It’s almost like we mined some crashed alien spacecraft for advanced technology, and this is what we got. I know, I’ve been watching too much *Stargate*. But the hyper-speed

Randy Faris/Getty Images The past year has been a big year for AI, and we here at ZDNET have been documenting it through multiple articles per day, across our entire editorial team. I’ve generally written a couple of articles each week

PhonlamaiPhoto/Getty Images In the first article of this two-part analysis, we looked at who owns the code created by AI chatbots like ChatGPT and explored the legal implications of using AI-generated code.  Part I: Who owns the code? If ChatGPT’s AI helps

monsitj/Getty Images In one of my earlier AI and coding articles, where I looked at how ChatGPT can rewrite and improve your existing code, one of the commenters, @pbug5612, had an interesting question: Who owns the resultant code? What if it

Jorg Greuel/Getty Images It’s only been about two years since generative artificial intelligence (AI) hit the mainstream as a new paradigm of productivity, but here we are — it’s everywhere.  I test AI tools as part of my work. I’ll dig into

David Gewirtz/ZDNET Of all the computer gear I own, my AirPods Pro have been the least portable. No, that’s not a typo. Let me explain. I loved my first set of AirPods Pro, even after I dropped them into a

Iana Kunitsa/Getty Images Sometimes, I think AI chatbots are modeled after teenagers. They can be very, very good. But other times, they tell lies. They make stuff up. They confabulate. They confidently give answers based on the assumption that they