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Meta fends off AI-aided deception as US election nears
Aug 15, 2024 (AFP)
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram found that so far AI-powered tactics "provide only incremental productivity and content-generation gains" for bad a...
US soldier pleads guilty to selling defense information to China
Aug 13, 2024 (AFP)
Sergeant Korbein Schultz, who held a top-secret security clearance, was arrested in March at Fort Campbell, a military base on the Kentucky-Tennessee border. Sc...
US Army soldier pleads guilty to selling military secrets to China
Aug 13, 2024 (UPI)
Korbein Schultz of Fort Campbell, Tenn., faces decades in federal jail after pleading guilty Tuesday to a six-count indictment for being involved in a conspirac...
The risks of artificial intelligence in weapons design
Aug 13, 2024 (SPX)
According to Kanaka Rajan, associate professor of neurobiology in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, and her team, AI-powered autonomous weapons...
US warns Iran on interference after Trump hacking
Aug 12, 2024 (AFP)
"These latest attempts to interfere in US elections are nothing new for the Iranian regime, which, from our vantage point, has undermined democracies -- or atte...
EU warns Musk over 'harmful content' ahead of Trump interview
Aug 12, 2024 (AFP)
"With great audience comes greater responsibility," the bloc's internal market commissioner Thierry Breton posted on X, along with the letter laying out Musk's ...
AFRL aims to accelerate development of software-enabled weapons
Aug 10, 2024 (SPX)
Colliders give Air Force leaders the opportunity to share the same room with industry to spark interaction and unleash American ingenuity to solve warfighter pr...
Musk's misleading election posts viewed 1.2 billion times: study
Aug 08, 2024 (AFP)
Ahead of the November election, researchers have raised alarm that X, formerly Twitter, is a hotbed of political misinformation. They have also flagged that Mus...
Chinese-born academic convicted in US of acting as covert Chinese agent
Aug 06, 2024 (AFP)
After a one-week trial, a jury convicted Shujun Wang, 75, of four counts of acting and conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government. He will be sentenc...
X's AI chatbot spread election misinformation, US officials say
Aug 05, 2024 (AFP)
The letter comes as researchers express concern that the influential site, formerly named Twitter, is a hotbed of political misinformation, while Musk -- who ha...
Germany summons Chinese envoy over govt agency cyberattack
Jul 31, 2024 (AFP)
Western nations have been increasingly voicing concerns about cyber breaches by Beijing-backed groups directed at targets ranging from lawmakers to democratic i...
Hughes introduces comprehensive cybersecurity solution for small businesses
Jul 31, 2024 (SPX)
Offering a spectrum of cybersecurity measures generally reserved for larger entities, HughesON Cybersecurity for Small Business provides essential protection in...
U.S. House warns staff TikTok ban on House-managed phones starts Aug. 15
Jul 30, 2024 (UPI)
"Starting Aug. 15, 2024, the CAO Office of Cybersecurity will initiate the block and removal of all ByteDance products from all House-managed devices and app st...
US defends law forcing sale of TikTok app
Jul 27, 2024 (AFP)
TikTok's suit in a Washington federal court argues that a law, which forces the video platform to be sold next year or face a US ban, violates First Amendment r...
CrowdStrike: cybersecurity giant behind global outage
Jul 19, 2024 (AFP)
Based in Austin, Texas, the company was founded in 2011 by George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch and Gregg Marston. Both Kurtz and Alperovitch had extensive backgrou...
Conspiracy theories take off after global IT crash
Jul 19, 2024 (AFP)
Airlines, banks, TV channels and financial institutions were engulfed in turmoil after the crash, one of the biggest in recent years that was the result of a fa...
Trump shooting conspiracy theories flourish on X, researchers say
Jul 16, 2024 (AFP)
The social media site, formerly named Twitter, was flooded with unsubstantiated claims soon after the shooting Saturday at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylva...
Pentagon leaker to face military trial: spokesperson
Jul 15, 2024 (AFP)
Jack Teixeira orchestrated the most damaging leak of US classified information in a decade while serving as a junior Massachusetts Air National Guard IT special...
Polish PM accuses ex-ambassador of foreign intelligence contacts
Jul 12, 2024 (AFP)
"(Tomasz) Szatkowski is accused of improperly handling classified documents, having contacts with foreign special services, obtaining unauthorized financial ben...
Germany to ban Chinese telecom giants from 5G network
Jul 12, 2024 (AFP)
It was the latest move by Berlin to reduce economic reliance on Beijing that some fear have left it vulnerable, and follows warnings from the EU that the firms ...
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