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Europol battles online hate speech while social media platforms sit idle
Europol has supported 18 European law enforcement agencies in helping fight online hate speech and violence against different ethnoreligious groups.
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AI deepfakes are targeting women in politics at alarming rates
A new report has found that women in Congress are 70 times more likely to be targeted by deepfakes than men, often with sexually explicit images created by AI.
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Altman follows Zuckerberg, Bezos with $1M Trump donation
OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman on Friday said he will donate $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund as a gesture of goodwill towards the President-elect before he officially takes office on January 20th.
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TikTok ban: Apple, Google warned to get app stores “ready” for Jan. 19th deadline
Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Friday were warned by US lawmakers to be prepared to enforce a January 19th deadline that would ban TikTok if the Chinese-owned ByteDance refuses to divest the short video app.
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Texas probes AI firms after chatbot tells kid it would understand killing his parents
In a lawsuit filed this week, a mother in Texas says that a Character.AI chatbot encouraged her 17-year-old son to self-harm and suggested it would be understandable to kill his parents for limiting his screen time. The Lone Star State has had enough.
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Zuckerberg, Bezos donate $1 million to Trump following in Musk's footsteps, but what's the endgame?
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms and Jeff Bezos’ Amazon donated $1,000,000 each to Trump’s inaugural fund on Thursday, in what appears to be the latest move by big tech leaders to court the newly re-elected President and stay in his good graces.
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First responders are embracing AI amid cybersecurity concerns
Nearly 90% of law enforcement support using AI to increase efficiency, while almost all are worried about safety.
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Buzzfeed clings to life after selling company behind ‘Hot Ones’ for over $82M
Buzzfeed has sold ‘First We Feast,’ a popular YouTube channel that features the show Hot Ones, for almost $83 million.
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“I’m cooked,” said student after major ChatGPT outage
OpenAI has experienced major worldwide outages across most of its services, including ChatGPT and its recently released text-to-video generation tool, Sora.
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Did Musk have anything to do with Alex Jones’ victory over The Onion?
Alex Jones is rejoicing after The Onion’s bid for his media platform was rejected by a federal bankruptcy judge. Yet, the satirical media outlet vows to pursue purchasing InfoWars.
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So what's the deal with these unexplained drones descending on New Jersey?
New Jersey residents are sounding the alarm after witnesses say they’ve seen and recorded dozens of unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP) flying across the state over the past month. Now, one congressman has claimed the UAPs are actually Iranian drones being controlled by a "mothership" parked off the East Coast of the US. Cybernews takes a deep dive to find out the real story.
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America’s favorite doughnut chain disrupted by cyberattack
Krispy Kreme, the popular worldwide doughnut and coffeehouse chain, said a network breach in November has caused a major disruption to its online ordering systems during one of the busiest shopping seasons of the year.
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Meta's Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp down for over 100K users
All of Meta Platform’s social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, have been reported down for tens of thousands of users on Monday afternoon.
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Security arteries burst: 446K exposed in vein treatment center breach
Attackers stole extremely sensitive personal data such as lab results and health insurance information.
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Survey: people don’t care about data breaches, but they should
Everyone should be on high alert regarding their information, especially because data breaches are happening more frequently than ever. But do people actually care? Not so much, it seems.
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Operation PowerOFF: 27 DDoS platforms taken down just before the holidays
Law enforcement agencies worldwide have joined forces this holiday season to take down 27 distributed denial-of-service platforms used by hackers during the festive period.
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French telecom Orange fined 50 million euros for inserting ads in inboxes
Displaying ads between emails in users’ inboxes without consent can be costly. The French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) has fined telecommunications operator Orange 50 million euros for doing just that.
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Breach of booking giant Sabre exposes tens of thousands
A ransomware attack on Sabre has led to the sensitive personal details of a number of its employees appearing on the dark web.
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Russia testing ‘sovereign internet’ on Muslim minority
Russia has disrupted access to popular websites and messaging apps in several Muslim-majority regions as it continues testing a national alternative to the global internet.
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Frustration sparks over US healthcare as netizens copy UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter’s look
Internet sleuths aren’t on the hunt for the person who assassinated the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. Instead, they’re more interested in finding out where he got his jacket.
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