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• At the four-year anniversary of the start of COVID in March 2020, car prices remain inflated at a structural level, with new car prices up 29% and used car prices up 34%.
• As car prices now move within this elevated “new normal,” CoPilot has created a Car Price Index that will track affordability in this adjusted context.
• This created a years-long ripple effect that continues to keep supply low and prices high in the used car market as well.
• Used car prices are no longer tied to their original listing price: Instead, they are more closely correlated to current new car prices.

• MINNEAPOLIS, March 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Perforce Software, a provider of solutions to enterprise teams requiring productivity, visibility, and scale along the development lifecycle, today announced the results of their annual survey of the Java community, the JRebel 2024 Java Developer Productivity Report.
• The report presents industry data and analysis on the key factors shaping Java development trends.
• Key findings centered on methods to encourage Java productivity—with 42% of those surveyed creating dedicated productivity teams or work groups.
• Additionally, the 2024 Java Developer Productivity Report found that 8% of respondents are using AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub CoPilot to write Java code.

• Veracode , a global leader in intelligent software security, today unveils its annual State of Software Security (SoSS) 2024 report , shedding light on the pressing issue of security debt in applications.
• There is good news, however: high-severity security flaws in applications have decreased by half since 2016, indicating progress in software security practices and that speed of remediation has a material impact on critical security debt.
• Veracode’s research also found remediation capacity among teams to be constrained, with only 64 percent of applications having a remediation capacity that’s sufficient to eliminate critical security debt.
• Only three percent of all flaws constitute critical security debt, and this subset represents the largest risk exposure for applications.

• But those with criminal intentions could also exploit and subvert these technologies, posing a threat to ordinary citizens.
• Criminals are even creating their own AI chatbots, to support hacking and scams.
• There are an increasing variety of ways that generative AI systems like ChatGPT and Dall-E can be used by criminals.

Malicious chatbots

• Entire malicious variants of large language models are also emerging.
• It has been used to create fake dating profiles capable of chatting to unsuspecting victims on Tinder, Bumble, and other apps.

• The US CISA security agency has also warned about generative AI’s potential effect on the upcoming US presidential elections.
• Privacy and trust are always at risk as we use ChatGPT, CoPilot and other platforms.

Leaky ship

• These vulnerabilities place person’s privacy or a business’s most-prized data at risk.
• More widely, this could contribute to a lack of trust in AI.
• Various companies, including Apple, Amazon and JP Morgan Chase, have already banned the use of ChatGPT as a precautionary measure.
• ChatGPT and similar LLMs represent the latest advancements in AI and are freely available for anyone to use.

• Nurse receives funding from The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), The Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security, and The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
• He is affiliated with Wolfson College, University of Oxford as a Research Member, CybSafe as the Director of Science and Research, and The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) as an Associate Fellow.