Editorial
Interviewing the ghost that took down 20% of the dark web
Seven years ago, on the last Friday of January 2017, an unusually large-scale cyberattack was carried out by an unknown cyber vigilante of unknown origin.
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Apple Intelligence is “a boomer dad” that reportedly prioritizes phishing emails
Users on the social media platforms Reddit and Panic are complaining that Apple’s new artificial intelligence (AI) platform, Apple Intelligence, prioritizes phishing emails.
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Black Hat USA 2024: “It doesn't mean you have to be young to come into cybersecurity”
One infosec pro we met at Black Hat USA 2024 in Las Vegas has an idea how to solve global cybersecurity talent shortage.
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Seeing double? Meta's Ray-Ban success ignites the battle of the smart glasses
The success of smart rings highlights a trend toward discreet and convenient tech wearables. However, the usual suspects, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple, are either releasing or rumored to be working on compact augmented reality glasses (AR).
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Taxation vs relaxation: Harris, Trump, and big tech
Kamala Harris has made her career in California, where most of the US tech industry is based. Elon Musk and other members of the “PayPal mafia” support Trump, but Silicon Valley’s silent majority is now sending their wealth to the Democrats. Why?
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Rise of the robots: the slow march of Musk's humanoid helpers
Although AI and visions of a mixed-reality future have dominated headlines this year, advancements in robotics have yet to live up to the hype. But with an increasing number of robot projects becoming tech unicorns, working alongside a humanoid robot colleague could be much closer than you might think.
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Hacker USDoD: “I don't pick sides. I play both sides and always win” – interview
Every black hat hacker has an origin story. Just as the hands of circumstances, seemingly woven by fate, shape anomalous incidents in history caused by powerful figures, a hacker is born in a similar vein.
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AI automated truth seeking in employment and immigration
As TSA facial recognition continues to be rolled out across US Airports, our boarding pass is increasingly becoming our face. But how will artificial intelligence (AI) uncover insights from our biometric travel data as these databases capture the faces of global travelers?
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Snapchat: a place for internet celebs and online predators
The hottest disappearing image platform online is a hotbed for predators, scammers, and groomers. Various Internet celebrities are under fire for allegedly grooming children via the platform, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.
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Spray-on shoes, flying taxis, AI, and other tech innovations at the Olympics
The Olympics will be the first to feature an AI agenda, while companies will introduce technological innovations to help athletes achieve peak performance.
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The future of war: technical and ethical implications of robot soldiers in modern war
The public release of ChatGPT in late 2022 has introduced radical changes to our daily lives.
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Is AI making us lonely at work? The dangers of replacing human interaction with machines
We're in the midst of what Noreena Hertz refers to as the Lonely Century, and nowhere is this more harmful than in the workplace, where loneliness has been associated with higher stress, lower employee engagement, and higher employee turnover.
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Your old emails might be harboring dirty secrets: delete them while you can
We’re all guilty of keeping emails in our inbox for far too long. You might have tens of thousands of emails in your inbox right now. But is it safe? We asked cybersecurity experts to weigh in on the topic and answer the question: should we keep ancient emails in our inbox?
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The race to remove harmful bias in AI before it’s too late
Have human rights stalled with the development of biased Generative AI?
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From the Moon straight to Hawaii: what did astronauts leave on the moon?
“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” said Neil Armstrong after stepping foot on Moon soil for the first time in human history. After 55 years of the Apollo 11 mission, not only is the Earth’s satellite still capturing the imagination of scientists, but the stuff left behind by astronauts is still there.
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Amazon hits 30: the real news beyond prime day excitement
Once again, it's time to prepare for Amazon Prime Day as our newsfeeds begin to fill with publications publishing lists of must-buy gadgets with affiliate links to Echo Devices, robot vacuums, and even doorbells that require a subscription. Elsewhere, social engineering attacks take the stage rather than the bargains you were expecting.
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A love-hate relationship with Elon Musk
Admit it, Harry Potter was the dullest character in the whole Potter series. A good boy who defeats evil with love. Boring. Severus Snape, on the other hand – a merciless potions teacher with a dark past, yet not incapable of love – is more relatable. We don’t necessarily love him, but he’s an interesting character to follow.
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Hackers and law enforcement: to be or not to be?
Hackers and law enforcement have a colorful history. Pick any decade, and it’s chock-full of arrests and heavy-handed prosecutions, which paint a picture of a dramatic adversarial relationship.
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Cyber pro and FBI vet on militarization of AI: “Let’s face it, it’s an arms race”
Innovation, efficiency, jobs – everyone’s talking about AI's civilian applications. But a cybersecurity expert and an FBI veteran tell Cybernews in an interview that the technology is also being militarized, and it’s worrisome.
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Is ChatGPT leading to biased recruitment?
It's well known that past applications of AI have often led to unintentional biases. This can be due to the way data is labeled, biases in the data collected, or how models were trained.
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