Editorial
European champion no more: Mistral AI's painful bluff also eye-opener
From now on, when a European tech startup says it will surely become a valid alternative to American giants if it’s not weighed down by regulations – believe them at your own peril.
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Musk faces conundrum over SpaceX contract with Pentagon
Facing pressure from hawkish members of US Congress to make SpaceX’s Starshield satellite network available to American forces in Taiwan, billionaire Elon Musk is risking his business relationship with China – but does he care?
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Sora’s shaking up Hollywood
It’s difficult to discern what’s real and what isn’t in this content-driven world, yet OpenAI is widening the gap even further by creating Sora, a text-to-video service that allows you to create videos using prompts.
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The Fediverse: a new era for social media or just a fad?
Social media pioneers hope for new era that would see different platforms communicate with one another.
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Expecting privacy from ChatGPT is like asking the NSA to stop spying on citizens
OpenAI is rolling out the ability for its chatbot to memorize conversations with users. A privacy researcher Davi Ottenheimer thinks it’s “Orwellian.”
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Cyberstalking and cyber harassment: knowing the laws and your rights
Most of us in the hacker world have been stalked or are being stalked right now. For this reason, we try to plant eyes and ears everywhere to know everything about the unseen threats lying in the shadows, waiting to strike.
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Book review: Kyle Chayka’s “Filterworld” investigates algorithms
We might be inadvertently outsourcing our cultural tastes and abilities to curate our consumption to all-powerful algorithms. They’re literally everywhere, Kyle Chayka says in his new book.
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The unequal nature of working from home
The fact that remote work ballooned during the pandemic is beyond doubt, but the availability of remote work has been far from equal.
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Cybernews podcast #28: how algorithms curate and flatten our online lives
The latest Cybernews podcast is a nostalgia trip dedicated to our ever-changing digital lives and the possibility of clawing back human agency from powerful algorithms.
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Workers willing to forgo salary to work remotely
The COVID pandemic normalized the concept of working remotely for vast swathes of the workforce, and yet, despite huge amounts of evidence about its efficacy and value to employees, the debate rages as to whether to continue with the practice or not.
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How a forgotten password turned me into a vandal
Screw it, no more accounts! I’ll tell you the story of how, in one day, I lost access to my entire digital life, which taught me a lesson about the importance of organizing digital identities.
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I installed top 100 apps: my Android phone contacted Russia and China at night
Could your phone be sending data to Russia and China without you knowing and while you’re sleeping? Well, it probably does.
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Cybernews podcast #27: Apple Vision Pro – a glimpse into the future
The latest Cybernews podcast explores the future of work and entertainment promised by Apple Vision Pro – as well as some bad behavior by early adopters.
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New social engineering threat: AI voice cloning
A new social engineering attack – artificial intelligence-based voice cloning – has emerged on social media. What does this mean? Put simply, imagine having your voice impersonated through AI by bad actors, painting a target on your back. Making “you” say things that you’d never say. If this sounds innocuous, think again.
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AI won’t boost cybersecurity, that’s cutting corners – interview
The artificial intelligence (AI) cybersecurity market is projected to reach hundreds of billions of dollars soon. But an expert tells Cybernews that the current lovefest with AI is actually dangerous.
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A breach beyond banks: the Infosys incident and its wider implications
The Bank of America recently revealed that it had been hit with a security breach that has impacted thousands of its customers.
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Spatial computing explained
Discover how spatial computing, heralded by Apple's Vision Pro, has set the stage for a revolutionary fusion of digital and physical worlds that transcends traditional AR, VR, and MR boundaries.
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Too smart to obey: What if IoT devices turn against humanity
Brace yourself as your smart devices decide to sabotage you.
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Cybernews podcast #26: Love, Apps + Robots
Want to finally settle? Get married? Find another wife or husband? Quite obviously, this is an important decision. And chances are, in order to find the one, you’re going to do it online – especially if you’re under or around 30.
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EU’s AI Act might clip wings of small tech startups – interview
With the final text of the AI Act now approved by EU member states, Alon Yamin, the CEO of Copyleaks, a young AI startup, says he’s concerned that the regulation might hurt smaller firms.
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