Seven South Korean financial institutions, including three major commercial banks, were hit by seemingly coordinated cyber attacks within days of one another, exposing more than 65,000 customer and employee records between 28 September and 3 October.
Government agencies and public services have become the biggest targets of cyberattackers worldwide, accounting for 27% of the cyber threats observed over the past year, up from 17% the previous year. At the same time, hackers are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate and expand their attacks.
Teenage criminal gangs are making social media a tool for forming groups, publicity and spreading fear amid an average of more than ten murder cases a day and about 60 incidents of violence against women and children every day.
Seeking a solution to the soaring electricity demand created by artificial intelligence (AI) on Earth, technology giant Google is now turning to space. The first prototype satellite under the company's "Project Suncatcher" is scheduled to be launched into orbit on October 1 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California aboard SpaceX's Transporter-18 mission.
The widely followed legal battle between The New York Times, OpenAI and Microsoft over whether news content can legally be used to train artificial intelligence models has entered a critical stage. After nearly three years of litigation, the case has recently taken several dramatic turns. On one hand, previously confidential court documents have come to light; on the other, the US government has formally sided with the two technology companies.
The assumption that what users write on ChatGPT is read only by machines is no longer holding up. An exclusive report by US investigative news outlet 404 Media has revealed that OpenAI has hired hundreds of contract workers who read a vast stream of actual prompts submitted by users—some of which may contain sensitive personal information. The programme is internally known by the codename “Project Lily.”