Alleged AI voice imitation leads to arrest in Baltimore school racism controversy
Police uncover plot to defame principal with AI-generated racist and antisemitic comments....
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Deepfakes in the courtroom: US judicial panel debates new AI evidence rules
Panel of eight judges confronts deep-faking AI tech that may undermine legal trials....
read moreNation-state hackers exploit Cisco firewall 0-days to backdoor government networks
Perimeter devices ought to prevent network hacks. Why are so many devices allowing attacks?...
read moreHackers infect users of antivirus service that delivered updates over HTTP
eScan AV updates were delivered over HTTP for five years....
read moreWindows vulnerability reported by the NSA exploited to install Russian backdoor
Microsoft didn't disclose the in-the-wild exploits by Kremlin-backed group until now....
read moreLastPass users targeted in phishing attacks good enough to trick even the savvy
Campaign used email, SMS, and voice calls to trick targets into divulging master passwords....
read moreOpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022
How a group of friends found themselves at the center of a fierce debate about the future of art....
read moreKremlin-backed actors spread disinformation ahead of US elections
To a lesser extent, China and Iran also peddle disinfo in hopes of influencing voters....
read moreAttackers are pummeling networks around the world with millions of login attempts
Attacks coming from nearly 4,000 IP addresses take aim at VPNs, SSH and web apps....
read moreLinus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap
One does not simply suggest changing a kernel line to help out a parsing tool....
read moreAlleged cryptojacking scheme consumed $3.5M of stolen computing to make just $1M
Indictment says man tricked cloud providers into giving him services he never paid for....
read moreWords are flowing out like endless rain: Recapping a busy week of LLM news
Gemini 1.5 Pro launch, new version of GPT-4 Turbo, new Mistral model, and more....
read moreNew AI music generator Udio synthesizes realistic music on demand
But it still needs trial and error to generate high-quality results....
read moreElon Musk: AI will be smarter than any human around the end of next year
While Musk says superintelligence is coming soon, one critic says prediction is "batsh*t crazy."...
read moreCritical takeover vulnerabilities in 92,000 D-Link devices under active exploitation
D-Link won't be patching vulnerable NAS devices because they're no longer supported....
read moreThe Bulgarian Computer's Global Reach: On Victor Petrov's "Balkan Cyberia"
Alex Langstaff calls “Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain” a must-read fo...
read moreFinovate Global Nigeria: Payments, Supply Chain Financing, and a Look at our African Alums
This week Finovate Global looks at recent fintech news from Africa’s most populous nation: Nigeria. Nigerian blockchain network Zone secures investm...
read moreMinnesota real estate mogul Ralph Burnet dies at age 78
Burnet's companies, including Coldwell Banker Burnet, helped changed the way people buy and sell houses across the nation....
read moreFG to develop AI framework for national development
The Federal Government has disclosed plans to assemble 120 Nigerian researchers, startups, and stakeholders in Artificial Intelligence to formulate a ...
read moreDIANA, NATO's innovation accelerator, doubles the size of its transatlantic network
On Thursday (14 March 2024), NATO's Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) announced a major expansion of its transatlantic net...
read moreIndonesia hunts clues as study suggests Javan tiger may still exist
Indonesia is hunting for more clues that the extinct Javan tiger may still exist in the wild, a government official said Tuesday, after a new study su...
read moreZulily sues Amazon, alleging that price-fixing and supplier coercion sank its attempts to compete
Updated with Amazon statement. Less than a week after cutting hundreds of jobs and signaling its intent to go out of business, online retailer Zulily ...
read moreAmazon brings back ability to use Alexa to thank and tip delivery drivers during holiday rush
Next time an Amazon package hits your front step, don’t just shout thanks through the door or at the van driving off down your street — use A...
read moreAds coming to Amazon Prime Video movies and TV shows starting Jan. 29
Amazon has set the date for when it will introduce ad breaks to streaming content on Prime Video: Jan. 29. In an email to Prime subscribers on Tuesday...
read moreAmazon shuts down last remaining Fresh Pickup location in Seattle, but keeps package service open
Amazon closed the last of its only two Amazon Fresh Pickup locations, marking the end of another effort by the tech giant to disrupt how and where peo...
read moreAmazon Business leader taking leave of absence; Devices exec will step in to fill role
Alex Gagnon, vice president of Amazon Business and a 21-year veteran of the tech giant, is taking a leave of absence from the company, GeekWire has le...
read moreAmazon logistics leader John Felton takes new role as CFO of Amazon Web Services
John Felton, a member of Amazon’s senior leadership team who most recently helped lead the company’s logistics operations, took a new role...
read moreAmazon not planning to add delivery fees in Seattle as new minimum wage law impacts Flex drivers
Uber, Instacart, and DoorDash made it known last week that they were adding new delivery fees for Seattle customers as a result of recently implemente...
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