Lurie Children’s Hospital sign is seen at the hospital as patients walk in, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024, in Skokie, Ill. A Chicago children’s hospital has been forced to take its…
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Russian sentenced to five years in prison for Trickbot malware
A Russian man involved in developing the Trickbot malware has been sentenced to more than five years in prison in Ohio. A Russian man has been sentenced to more than…
Face recognition technology follows a long analog history of surveillance and control based on physical features
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain American Amara Majeed was accused of terrorism by the Sri Lankan police in 2019. Robert Williams was arrested outside his house in Detroit and detained in…
Microsoft says state-backed Russian hackers accessed emails of senior leadership team members
The Microsoft logo is shown at the Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona, Spain, on March 2, 2023. In a blog post Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, Microsoft says state-backed Russian…
Using antineutrinos to surveil nuclear reactors
The proposed approach is promising for the prevention ofuncontrollable nuclear proliferation. Credit: Tokyo Tech Nuclear power constitutes an essential source of energy in many countries worldwide, including France, U.S., China,…
Cybersecurity expert weighs in on AI benefits and risks
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence has been taking the world by storm as the powers of tools such as ChatGPT and others have become available to the public. A…
Researchers use AI chatbots against themselves to ‘jailbreak’ each other
NTU Ph.D. student Mr. Liu Yi, who co-authored the paper, shows a database of successful jailbreaking prompts which managed to compromise AI chatbots, causing them to produce information that their…
Fraud is a problem so big we need to start teaching children how to spot it in schools
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Have you or someone you know been a victim of fraud? If so, that’s not unusual. The UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported a rise…
A suspected cyberattack paralyzes the majority of gas stations across Iran
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Nearly 70% of Iran’s gas stations went out of service on Monday following possible sabotage—a reference to cyberattacks, Iranian state TV reported. The report said a…
