The USA's Federal Bureau of Investigation has taken down "First VPN Service" . So has Europol. So they both say in public statements.

But there's a problem.

Accenture the global consulting giant enjoys revenues of more than USD70,000 million and employs upward of 750,000 people. Despite its size and resources, it continues to skate on the edge of a cybersecurity catastrophe for years, and the cracks are now impossible to ignore, says Andy Jenkinson.

WMLR's parent company uses Online Image Generators for graphics for several websites and for e.g. posters and other artwork for reinforcement of training messages and fraud awareness. Multiple generators are used depending on the type of output required: some are better at certain types of image than others. 

Some images require a very specific detail. Others require a "person" that appears in other images, for consistency. 

Ignoring, for the purposes of this article, the bad, sometimes funny, mistakes the software makes in understanding the instructions, even when they are very clear, nothing other than our own humiliation is at risk when the software doesn't do as it's told. 

But in real-life use, as has been demonstrated often, in the case of legal pleadings that contain fictitious references, the failures can be catastrophic.  If you are using such tech for your OSINT KYC assessments, you need to understand the limitations and here, in one simple example, we demonstrate one significant failure and the causes for it. 

As the four Imaginary Friends Celebrate New Year, they wrap up this series by tying up loose ends and in the spirit of the season spreading good cheer with some examples of where ″Artificial Intelligence″ has failed because, while many laud its successes, it’s important to recognise that when it fails, as it often does, lives may be ruined or lost. Their New Year’s Message is simple: never, ever let Artificial Intelligence loose unless it is under adult supervision and subject to real AI – Actual Intelligence.

The Four Imaginary Friends consider the importance of precision in language, examining vocabulary, grammar and inflection

″You can’t have standardised understanding if you don’t have standardised language.″

The Four Imaginary Friends, A, B, C and D continue to develop fundamental questions of whether we can expect machines to relate to the real world when the real world communicates in human language. 

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Two computers divided by a common language: it matters, even if some people think they could[n't] care less. 

″Artificial Intelligence″ and ″Machine Learning″ depend on, amongst other things, the language used by humans. Four imaginary friends discuss the uncertainties that creates.

Four imaginary friends continue their discussion begun in ″Yes, No, Maybe″ by chatting about some of Alan Turing’s views of the integration, or amalgamation, of man and machine.

″If it is accepted that real brains, as found in animals, and in particular in men, are a sort of machine it will follow that our digital computer, suitably programmed will behave like a brain.″ BBC interview, 1951

″Artificial Intelligence is neither artificial or intelligent″ - Professor Ian Angell, London University, c. 2000. 

Discuss. 

Taking a quarter of a century old statement by one of the world's leading Professors in Information Systems as a starting point, four imaginary friends discuss the fundamental issues of whether "artificial intelligence" is an artificial construct.

Apple released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple Apple products.