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Report: US Department of Justice holds China responsible for 2017 Equifax breach
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) today brought espionage charges against the four Chinese military hackers allegedly responsible for the 2017 Equifax data breach. Widely considered one of the largest data breaches in US history, the 2017 attack exposed the personal data of nearly ...
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Facial recognition company CEO says he doesn't need permission to use your face
The CEO of facial recognition company Clearview AI, Hoan Ton-That, today gave his first network television interview on “CBS ...
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Report: Amazon's negotiation strategy for HQ2 was called 'Fuck you. We're Amazon'
A recent report from Bloomberg revealed that Amazon's negotiation strategy during its recent failed bid to build a second headquarters (HQ2) in New York and Virginia was internally referred to as “Fuck you. We're Amazon.” In 2017 Amazon announced it had begun a global search ...
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US Army plans to bring human-AI interaction to the battlefield
The Aided Threat Recognition from Mobile Cooperative and Autonomous Sensors (ATR-MCAS) will act as a 'teammate' to soldiers ...
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Report: Whichever country claims AI supremacy this decade will rule the Earth
The Brookings Institution last week published a report from global economy expert Indermit Gill prophesying that the AI leader in 2030 will go on to rule the planet until at least 2100. The territories in the running include the US, China, and the European Union. Economists appear ...
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Russian military hackers go after the Ukrainian quid that Trump tried to pro quo
The 2020 US Presidential campaign has officially kicked off in Russia. Russian leader Vladmir Putin's military hackers recently launched a successful phishing campaign against employees at Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company at the center of the 'quid pro quo' scandal that lead to ...
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Trump's chief technology officer is treating AI regulation like the net neutrality repeal
Did you ever notice how the Trump administration's chief science and technology officer Michael Kratsios never talks while FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is drinking water? I bring this up because there's a greater chance than zero that they're the same awful human being. We all know that ...
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FBI and Apple seemingly headed toward another showdown over locked iPhone
Apple has declined to help the FBI unlock two iPhones belonging to the gunman in last month’s naval base shooting in Pensacola, ...
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Everything you need to know about the drone used by the US to assassinate an Iranian general
Meet the Reaper, a $64M death-dealing assassination drone straight out of a science-fiction nightmare. Designated the MQ-9 Reaper multi-purpose drone, it's widely considered the deadliest unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in the sky. And for good reason. On 3 January 2020, US President ...
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US Navy officers can't use TikTok on government-issued phones because it's a 'cybersecurity threat'
Last week, the US Navy banned TikTok, the short video sharing app, from government-issued mobile devices, as it represented ...
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How Huawei powered through a tough 2019 and came out on top
Huawei has had a tough year. The company’s fight with the US government impacted its business across the globe, but this ...
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Federal study: Facial recognition systems most benefit middle-aged white males
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology today released its 2019 report on facial recognition. And there are ...
