Marcus Reed reports on technology for Tilias News — artificial intelligence, consumer products, platforms and the rules that govern them. He focuses on what new tools actually change for ordinary people.
Phishing is fraud that works on people rather than software. The variants differ mainly in how well the attacker has researched you before making contact.
Two-factor authentication asks for a second proof of identity beyond your password. The three common types are not equally secure, and the gap matters.
The chatbots answering your questions are prediction engines trained on text. Here is what they actually do, and where they fall short.
End-to-end encryption keeps the contents of your messages private in transit. It is powerful, and it is also narrower than many people assume.
The cloud is not in the sky. It is rooms full of computers in buildings around the world, and someone else owns them.
