Economy

September 7, 2023
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How China gets free intel on tech companies’ vulnerabilities

Enlarge (credit: Wired staff; Getty Images) For state-sponsored hacking operations, unpatched vulnerabilities are valuable ammunition. Intelligence agencies and militaries seize…
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September 6, 2023
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Talk to your taxes? TurboTax’s new AI agent makes it possible

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Wednesday, TurboTax-maker Intuit launched an AI assistant called “Intuit Assist” that can provide AI-generated financial…
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September 6, 2023
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AI-generated child sex imagery has every US attorney general calling for action

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Wednesday, American attorneys general from all 50 states and four territories sent a letter to…
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September 6, 2023
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Hack of a Microsoft corporate account led to Azure breach by Chinese hackers

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft said the corporate account of one of its engineers was hacked by a highly skilled…
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September 6, 2023
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Toyota’s Japanese production was halted due to insufficient disk space

Enlarge (credit: Getty) Toyota’s 14 Japanese factories all shut down for about two days last week due to a production…
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September 5, 2023
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4 Okta customers hit by campaign that gave attackers super admin control

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Authentication service Okta said four of its customers have been hit in a recent social-engineering campaign…
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September 5, 2023
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“AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Last week, Gizmodo parent company G/O Media fired the staff of its Spanish-language site Gizmodo en…
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September 1, 2023
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PII leaked after Sourcegraph, an AI-driven service for code development, is hacked

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) An unknown hacker gained administrative control of Sourcegraph, an AI-driven service used by developers at Uber,…
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August 31, 2023
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AI fever turns Anguilla’s “.ai” domain into a digital gold mine

Enlarge / Thirst for the “.ai” domain has put Anguilla on the global technology map. (credit: Getty Images) Anguilla, a…
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August 31, 2023
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AI-powered hate speech detection will moderate voice chat in Call of Duty

Enlarge (credit: Activision) On Wednesday, Activision announced that it will be introducing real-time AI-powered voice chat moderation in the upcoming…
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