‘More important than ever’: Cybersecurity and data privacy attacks are growing daily
Ohio residents and businesses should take time now to prioritize their online security.
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DNV: Energy Companies View Cybersecurity as Greatest Risk
Hacking has risen up to dominate the risk landscape for energy companies, according to DNV. The class society’s most recent survey found that two…
Amid Backlash, Massive Porn Platform ManyVids Doubles Down on Bizarre, AI-Generated Posts
Faced with concerns about its leadership experiencing AI-induced delusions, backlash because its founder stating she now finds sex work “exploitative,” and confusion from its millions of creators and users, porn platform ManyVids is doubling down on the AI-generated messaging with posts about “believing in aliens.” In a post seemingly by the platform’s founder Bella French,…
Podcast: Inside the ICE Deportation Tool
This week we start with a couple of Jason and Joseph’s stories about the tool ICE uses to lookup an incredible amount of information about people. After the break, Joseph explains how he tested an AI service that calls your parents in case you can’t be bothered. In the subscribers-only section, our new regular contributor…
Podcast: We’re Not Ready for Chinese AI Video Generators
We start this week with Emanuel’s great investigation into Chinese AI video models, and how they have far fewer safeguards than their American counterparts. A content warning for that section due to what the users are making. After the break, Joseph explains how police are using AI to summarize evidence seized from mobile phones. In…
The U.S. Army Is Testing AI Controlled Ground Drones Near a Border with Russia
The U.S. Army tested a fully AI controlled ground vehicle in Vaziani, Georgia—about 100 miles from the Russian border—last month as part of a training exercise. In military-published footage, an all wheel, off-road vehicle about the size of a car called ULTRA navigated the European terrain with ease. The training exercise had the ULTRA resupplying…
How Video Game Sex Scenes Are Made
Somewhere in Warsaw, Poland, two actors are pretending to have sex. It’s not the most intimate of environments. The mood lighting, if you can call it that, is fluorescent bulbs burning overhead, making the sterile, white walls look even brighter than they actually are. In lieu of a bed or couch, the actors fit tightly…
Trump Admin Adds Note Rejecting ‘Gender Ideology’ on Sites Court Ordered Them to Restore
After being forced by a court order to restore certain pages about gender and diversity to government websites, the Trump administration has added a note to the top of those pages saying “Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate, and disconnected from the immutable biological reality that there are two sexes,…
Is the UK Government Ready to Face Severe Cyber Threats?
Focusing on legacy systems, skills shortages and gaps in cyber resilience, the National Audit Office evaluates the UK Government’s threat readiness
The UN Made AI-Generated Refugees
I am talking to Amina, an AI avatar that plays the role of a woman living in a refugee camp in Chad after she escaped violence in Sudan. “I’m hanging in there, yeah,” Anima tells me. “ It’s tough here in the camp, but we’re staying strong.” I ask her how she came to be…