Over half of organizations lack effective vulnerability management, with 73% fearing penalties and operational gaps increasing risks of breaches and regulatory scrutiny.

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Want more housing market stories from Lance LambertsResiClubin your inbox?Subscribeto theResiClubnewsletter.Although homebuyers and home sellers continue to encounter headlines declaring the housing market a sellers domain with national home prices at record highs, a closer analysis shows that several regional markets have shifted, offering homebuyers increased leverage.During the pandemic housing boom, spanning from summer 2020 to spring 2022, active home listings in most housing markets dwindled as surging buyer demand rapidly consumed nearly every property that hit the market. Fast forward to today, and the housing markets where active inventory has returned to 2019 levels are now the ones where homebuyers have gained some power. As of December 2024, national active inventory remained 16% below December 2019 levels. However, a growing number of regional markets have surpassed that benchmark.Among the nations 200 largest metro area housing markets, 65 markets ended December 2024 with more active homes for sale than they had in pre-pandemic December 2019. These are the places heading into 2025 where homebuyers will be able to find the most leverage or market balance.Thats another uptick: Last month, when ResiClub ran this same analysis using final November data, only 59 housing markets were above pre-pandemic inventory levels.Many of the softest housing markets, where homebuyers have gained leverage, are located in Gulf Coast and Mountain West regions. These areas were home to many of the nations top pandemic boomtowns, which experienced significant home price growth during the pandemic housing boom, which stretched housing prices far beyond local income levels.When pandemic-fueled migration slowed and mortgage rates spiked, markets like Punta Gorda, Florida, and Austin, Texas, faced challenges as they had to rely on local incomes to sustain frothy home prices. The housing market softening in these areas was further accelerated by the abundance of new home supply in the pipeline across the Sun Belt. Builders in these regions are often willing to reduce prices or make other affordability adjustments to maintain sales. These adjustments in the new construction market also create a cooling effect on the resale market, as some buyers who might have opted for an existing home shift their focus to new homes where deals are still available.In contrast, many Northeast and Midwest markets were less reliant on pandemic migration and have less new home construction in progress. With lower exposure to that demand shock, active inventory in these Midwest and Northeast regions has remained relatively tight, keeping the advantage in the hands of home sellers.Generally speaking, housing markets where inventory (i.e., active listings) has returned to pre-pandemic levels have experienced weaker home price growth (or outright declines) over the past 24 months. Conversely, housing markets where inventory remains far below pre-pandemic levels have generally experienced stronger home price growth over the past 24 months.

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Some M4 Mac mini owners are discovering USB-C issues with their new desktops, with peripherals disconnecting seemingly at random.M4 Mac miniUSB is a fairly resilient technology, with the expectation that things connected using it will typically remain functional for a very long time, outside of external effects. However, it seems that in a small number of cases, USB-C connections on the M4 Mac mini are problematic.Various Internet posts uncovered by AppleInsider reveal that users are undergoing similar problems. They generally consist of hardware connected using USB-C suddenly disconnecting and becoming unusable, or not connecting in the first place. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Canoo announced yesterday it is ceasing operations immediately and that it has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in Delaware. The EV startup estimates in its filing that its assets are worth $126 million and that it owes over $164 million to its creditors, TechCrunch noted yesterday.Now, the US will appoint a Bankruptcy Trustee to oversee the liquidation of the Companys assets and the distribution of proceeds to creditors, Canoo writes. The company says it chose to file after failing to get support from either the US Department of Energys Loan Programs Office or foreign investors. Canoo had signaled its dire situation last month when it idled its Oklahoma operations and put its employees on a mandatory unpaid break. Before that, it had lost a steady stream of executives, including all of its founders.RelatedWe are truly disappointed that things turned out as they did, Canoo chairman and CEO Tony Aquila said in the announcement before thanking various government and business entities Canoo has dealt with. Those dealings have included producing shuttles for NASAs Artemis crew and an agreement to build 4,500 electric delivery vans for Walmart.

The rapid advancement and widespread adoption of generative AI systems across various domains have increased the critical importance of AI red teaming for evaluating technology safety and security. While AI red teaming aims to evaluate end-to-end systems by simulating real-world attacks, current methodologies face significant challenges in effectiveness and implementation. The complexity of modern AI systems, with their expanding capabilities across multiple modalities including vision and audio, has created an unprecedented array of potential vulnerabilities and attack vectors. Moreover, integrating agentic systems that grant AI models higher privileges and access to external tools has substantially increased the attack surface and potential impact of security breaches.Current approaches to AI security have revealed significant limitations in addressing both traditional and emerging vulnerabilities. Traditional security assessment methods mainly focus on model-level risks while overlooking critical system-level vulnerabilities that often prove more exploitable. Moreover, AI systems utilizing retrieval augmented generation (RAG) architectures have shown susceptibility to cross-prompt injection attacks, where malicious instructions hidden in documents can manipulate model behavior and facilitate data exfiltration. While some defensive techniques like input sanitization and instruction hierarchies offer partial solutions, they cannot eliminate security risks due to the fundamental limitations of language models.Researchers from Microsoft have proposed a comprehensive framework for AI red teaming based on their extensive experience testing over 100 generative AI products. Their approach introduces a structured threat model ontology designed to systematically identify and evaluate traditional and emerging security risks in AI systems. The framework encompasses eight key lessons from real-world operations, ranging from fundamental system understanding to integrating automation in security testing. This methodology addresses the growing complexity of AI security by combining systematic threat modeling with practical insights derived from actual red teaming operations. The approach emphasizes the importance of considering both system-level and model-level vulnerabilities.The operational architecture of Microsofts AI red teaming framework uses a dual-focus approach targeting both standalone AI models and integrated systems. The framework distinguishes between cloud-hosted models and complex systems that incorporate these models into various applications like copilots and plugins. Their methodology has evolved significantly since 2021 expanding from security-focused assessments to include comprehensive responsible AI (RAI) impact evaluations. The testing protocol maintains a rigorous coverage, of traditional security concerns, including data exfiltration, credential leaking, and remote code execution, while simultaneously addressing AI-specific vulnerabilities.The effectiveness of Microsofts red teaming framework has been shown through a comparative analysis of attack methodologies. Their findings challenge conventional assumptions about the necessity of complex techniques, revealing that simpler approaches often match or exceed the effectiveness of complex gradient-based methods. The research highlights the superiority of system-level attack approaches over model-specific tactics. This conclusion is supported by real-world evidence showing that attackers typically exploit combinations of simple vulnerabilities across system components rather than focusing on complex model-level attacks. These results emphasize the importance of adopting a holistic security perspective, that considers both AI-specific and traditional system vulnerabilities.In conclusion, researchers from Microsoft have proposed a comprehensive framework for AI red teaming. The framework developed through testing over 100 GenAI products provides valuable insights into effective risk evaluation methodologies. The combination of a structured threat model ontology with practical lessons learned offers a robust foundation for organizations developing their own AI security assessment protocols. These insights and methodologies provide essential guidance for addressing real-world vulnerabilities. The frameworks emphasis on practical, implementable solutions positions it as a valuable resource for organizations, research institutions, and governments working to establish effective AI risk assessment protocols.Check out the Paper. All credit for this research goes to the researchers of this project. 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According to Mark Gurmans Power On newsletter, Apple is not working on a new version of its AirPort wireless router. However, they are working on something else that could potentially serve as a wireless access point, so dont give up hope quite yet.Late last year, we got some new information regarding Apples in-house wireless networking chip, dubbed Proxima. So far, we know this chip will go in a number of home related products, including the Apple TV and HomePod. Itll also show up in iPhone 17 and Mac models later on.One interesting thing about this new chip is that its apparently sophisticated enough that Apple could choose to turn it into a wireless router:The Proxima chip is so sophisticated that it couldtheoreticallyturn a home device like an Apple TV box or HomePod into a wireless access point. Google has released products like this before, including a mixed Wi-Fi router and smart speaker.Gurman notes that the wireless features of these upcoming Apple TV and HomePods wouldnt be a highlight at all, if Apple even chooses to enable wireless access point functionality at all.I think an Apple Airport with a NAS is greatly welcomed. Integration with Matter would be awesome. Another reason would be the privacy trust that we would get with Apple. With all the trust news with manufacturers like TPLINK, I think having something I could trust would be nice. View all commentsEither way, its cool to know that it is possible. If Apple wanted to, we could have an Apple-designed wireless access point, similar to the AirPort Express, in our lives once again. Many have dreamed of this, especially since Apples AirPort lineup was discontinued so long ago. Apple released the last AirPort device in 2013.What do you think of the possibility of new Apple wireless access points? Let us know in the comments.Some great Apple accessories for the holiday season:Follow Michael:X/Twitter,Bluesky,InstagramAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

Amazon is still hard at work in its efforts to realize an AI-powered Alexa digital assistant.As the Financial Times reports, the tech giant still has to sort out "several technical hurdles" before rolling out the long-awaited feature. One of them, according to Amazon AI team lead Rohit Prasad, is solving the pesky issue of "hallucinations" an industry term denoting the non-factual hallucinations that large language models often spit out, to the chagrin of many companies attempting to commercialize the tech."Hallucinations have to be close to zero," Prasad told the FT.The issue? That's far easier said than done. Despite billions of dollars of investment and the construction of massive data centers to power increasingly complex AI models, even the most advanced chatbots still have a strong tendency to "hallucinate" false claims.Some experts have long argued that the issue might be intrinsic to the tech itself. In other words, hallucinations may always be a part of the equation an unfortunate reality that tech companies are unlikely to admit, especially in the face of all of generative AI's buzz right now."Theyre really just sort of designed to predict the next word," Anthropic cofounder and president Daniela Amodeitold the Associated Press back in 2023. "And so there will be some rate at which the model does that inaccurately."Meanwhile, tech companies that have invested astronomical sums in the tech's development are attempting to sweep the topic of hallucinations under the rug, insisting that it's only a matter of time until the issue is solved.Some companies, like Microsoft, believe that more AI could be the answer. The company unveiled a tool last year that uses AI to evaluate the outputs of other models, though experts have warned that the strategy may be inherently flawed."Trying to eliminate hallucinations from generative AI is like trying to eliminate hydrogen from water," University of Washington PhD candidate Os Keyes told TechCrunch last year. "Its an essential component of how the technology works."Amazon is several years behind the competition when it comes to releasing a generative AI-powered personal assistant. That's despite having worked on an Alexa redesign since late 2022, according to the FT.The long delay highlights just how difficult it is to overcome the issue of hallucinations if it's indeed possible.So far, Alexa's capabilities remain severely limited compared to AI chatbots like ChatGPT, only helping users with simple tasks like changing the music or starting timers.Making matters even more difficult is the fact that keeping AI assistants running while getting "billions of requests a week," according to Prasad, can become extremely expensivedue to the tech's power-hungry and highly energy-inefficient nature.That means turning the assistant into a money maker, even with a rumored $10 monthly subscription fee, could prove difficult.And it's not just Amazon. Apple's Siri home assistant is also set to get an AI-powered revamp. But the tech giant is giving itself until 2026 to release it,and in the meantime, Apple had to halt an AI news summary feature this week after it consistently spread hallucinated fake news to millions of iPhone users for over a month.The stakes are high for the likes of Amazon and Apple: unleashing a hallucinating assistant inside your home and giving it access to data from other internet-connected devices, such as smart doorbells or security cameras, could prove disastrous.More on Alexa: Amazon Horrified by What People Actually Use Alexa ForShare This Article

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