6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1029+ words) Flock Safety isn’t on Tuesday’s Santa Clarita City Council agenda, but a local group plans to keep pressing the city over its $500,000 contract for 35 traffic-surveillance cameras until the group’s public-safety and privacy concerns are addressed. At their Aug. 25 meeting, council…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (773+ words) Last week one of my clients was victimized by a new form of artificial intelligence-powered cybertheft. The cybercrooks used new technology to exploit a common vulnerability. It is easier now for cyberthieves to attack those having unclaimed digital identities at…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (666+ words) Santa Clarita Valley Signal Cybersecurity Is Now the Most-Offered IT Service in Los Angeles County — Here’s What That Means for Local Businesses For years, hiring outside IT help meant one thing for most small and mid-sized businesses: someone to keep…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (568+ words) A growing number of municipalities are ending their use of Flock Safety cameras amid concerns about how the automated license plate readers capture people’s movement. Flock has installed thousands of cameras across 49 states, and the data is accessible to law…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (382+ words) Los Angeles County’s sprawling freeway network carries some of the heaviest traffic volumes in the country, and with that volume comes a steady, significant rate of car accidents across the region’s many cities and unincorporated communities. Understanding how California law…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago   (579+ words) Travelers are more likely to trust a travel advisor over AI when the trip becomes complicated, expensive or likely to change. According to new research from ALG Vacations, a leading vacation package provider, 77% of AI users say they are likely…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (519+ words) Meta Platforms has agreed to pay out as much as $17 billion to settle state claims that it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, deceived consumers about the platforms’ safety, and collected personal data from children who used the platforms,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (581+ words) Say you’re an artist with a folder full of finished designs sitting on a hard drive with nowhere to go. Getting that work onto real products used to mean a whole separate skill set: finding a manufacturer, ordering in bulk,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (139+ words) Santa Clarita Valley Signal Arthur Saginian | Fruit-Picking Androids The famous “Hostess strike” occurred in November 2012, when a massive nationwide work stoppage by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union prompted the original Hostess Brands to liquidate its…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1401+ words) A marketing director in my network was preparing a quarterly review combining campaign results, charts, customer insights, and recommendations. The usual process meant outlining the deck first, moving data across slide by slide, and designing around it afterward. Using AI,…...