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Maria Korolov is an award-winning tech journalist who covers cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and extended reality.
She’s also a science fiction author and the editor and founder of MetaStellar, an online magazine of speculative fiction, and of Hypergrid Business, one of the world’s top virtual reality blogs.
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Latest AI articles
AI agents can find and exploit known vulnerabilities, study shows
Researchers at the University of Illinois gave a team of autonomous AI agents a CVE description of a vulnerability and the agents were able to autonomously find and exploit the vulnerability in a test environment in April. Two months later, the same researchers showed that those teams can now find and exploit previously unknown vulnerabilities. They tested the agents by selecting a list of severe vulnerabilities that were discovered after the cut-off training…
10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI
Data profiling vs. data mining: Why you need both
Red Hat unveils image mode for its Linux distro
Latest quantum computing articles
Cybersecurity in a Post-Quantum World
Experts agree that future quantum computers will break most current encryption when they become sufficiently powerful. The code to do this – Shor’s algorithm – has already been written. It just needs a powerful enough quantum computer to run on. According to the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a suitable quantum computer will be available by 2030. The CSA created a quantum-safe security working group in March 2023 and even has…
What is Quantum Computing and What Does It Have to Do with Encryption?
Managing Encryption for Data Centers Is Hard. And It Will Get Harder
Quantum Teleportation Makes Progress, But Toward What?
Latest Cybersecurity articles
Breach and attack simulation tools: Top vendors, key features, how to choose
Breach and attack simulation (BAS) products help organizations understand their security posture by automating the tests of specific threat vectors. BAS typically uses MITRE ATT&CK and Cyber Killchain frameworks to emulate attacks such as network and infiltration, lateral movement, phishing, endpoint and gateway attacks, malware, and ransomware. The goal of these simulations is to test a company’s defenses against these attack vectors. BAS is complementary to but differs from red teaming and penetration…
Assessing and quantifying AI risk: A challenge for enterprises
3 ways to fix old, unsafe code that lingers from open-source and legacy programs
Data loss prevention vendors tackle gen AI data risks
Latest Networking articles
Intel builds world’s largest neuromorphic system
Quantum computing is billed as a transformative computer architecture that’s capable of tackling difficult optimization problems and making AI faster and more efficient. But quantum computers can’t be scaled yet to the point where they can outperform even classical computers, and a full ecosystem of platforms, programming languages and applications is even farther away. Meanwhile, another new technology is poised to make a much more immediate difference: neuromorphic computing. Neuromorphic…
VMware combines SASE and edge management in new orchestration platform, announces private 5G service
VMware, Nvidia team on enterprise-grade AI platform
Hybrid mesh firewall platforms gain interest as management challenges intensify
Flight to cloud drives IaaS networking adoption
Gartner: SSE landscape shifts as vendors add more security services
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Jan. 2018: Maria Korolov talks with Sine Wave about “Succeeding As A Retailer In Immersive Worlds.”
Dec. 2017: Speaker at Stereopsia conference in Brussels, Belgium. Topic was women in virtual reality. Click here for slides.
Dec. 2017: Speaker at OpenSimulator Community Conference. Topic was a statistical overview of OpenSim development. Click here for slides.
Apr. 2017: Profiled in Viar360’s Women of VR – 35 Ladies Who Are Killing It In Virtual Reality
Aug. 2016: Mentioned in Marie Claire’s Virtual Reality Has a Female Mafia—and They’re Looking for New Recruits
May 2016: Interviewed by the BCC about how virtual reality will change our lives. Listen to the broadcast here. Read the transcript here.
Sep. 2015: Mentioned in Fortune’s Meet the women shaping our virtual future.
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(Image courtesy Geralt via Pixabay.) This question has been coming up a lot lately, and there’s a whole speech I give…
UPDATE FEB. 2021: Lately, I’ve been testing out a new online collaboration tool called Notion. The basic plan, which includes sharing with up to five…
New update, June 18: I’ve started a new virtual Zoom-based MeetUp group for speculative fiction writers. If you write science fiction, fantasy or horror, check…
(Image courtesy Otter.AI.) Another tool useful for writers that I’ve talked about this one in writers’ meetings before is Otter.AI. It…
Filming IDG Tech Talk in September of 2019. A friend of a friend just called me, asking for advice on how…
The Lost King of Krim was #10 on Amazon’s Two-Hour Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Reads best seller list on September…