March 29, 2024

Cyberattacks, AI-human love are major challenges of artificial intelligence boom, former Google chief warns

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the tech industry will face a “reckoning” over artificial intelligence, comparing the potential dangers of the technology to the risks associated with social media when the platforms were first rolled out years ago.  “What happened with social media is we, including myself, just offered social media because we had […]

Colombia Probes Voter Registration Cyberattacks Traced to Russia’s Allies

Colombian government and military officials say the government is investigating tens of thousands of cyberattacks on the country’s voter registration systems, and traced the incidents to Russia’s key allies in the region. More than 50,000 attacks on the web platform of Colombia’s national voter registry were detected during the run-up to March 11 parliamentary elections, […]

Cyberattacks take down Twitter, Netflix, Spotify

A wave of Friday cyberattacks on a New Hampshire-based internet firm took down a number of popular websites on the east coast — including Twitter, Netflix, Visa and Spotify. The firm, Dyn, Inc., said its infrastructure was hit by “distributed denial-of-service” attacks on Friday morning — which affected its internet traffic management for the websites, […]

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