A Vast New Data Set Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for Crypto Money Laundering

A Vast New Data Set Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for Crypto Money Laundering

As a test of their resulting AI tool, the researchers checked its outputs with one cryptocurrency exchange—which the paper doesn’t name—identifying 52 suspicious chains of transactions that had all ultimately flowed into that exchange. The exchange, it turned out, had already flagged 14 of the accounts that had received those funds for suspected illicit activity, …

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Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone

Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone

Last week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California released a ruling that concluded state highway police were acting lawfully when they forcibly unlocked a suspect’s phone using their fingerprint. You probably didn’t hear about it. The case didn’t get a lot of coverage, especially because the courts weren’t giving a blanket green light …

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Delaware lawsuit over prison internet protest settled

Delaware lawsuit over prison internet protest settled

Delaware prisoner details failed attempt to boycott internet David Holloman describes why he sought to boycott internet-connected tablets behind bars in Delaware. Xerxes Wilson, Wochit A Delaware inmate who said he was stripped of his prison job and relocated to a harsher environment after he threatened to organize a protest over excessive prisoner internet fees, …

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How AI is revolutionizing Internet fraud and romance scams

How AI is revolutionizing Internet fraud and romance scams

In hindsight, the red flags seem so obvious. A scammer a McKinney woman said she met on Instagram claimed to be a German cardiologist, and for months, the two messaged back and forth, building what she thought was a true relationship. However, the woman, who wanted not to reveal her identity, said her loneliness was …

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Internet Outage: Telecel Ghana Gets New Internet Capacity For Customers   | Technology

Internet Outage: Telecel Ghana Gets New Internet Capacity For Customers   | Technology

Telecel Ghana has multiple sources of internet services through SAT3, WACS, ACE, and submarine fibre links to other international providers. On the 12th of March 2024, Telecel Ghana lost internet capacity provided by WACS subsea cable, and immediately switched to ACE to maintain service. On 14th March 2024, Telecel Ghana lost internet connectivity from its …

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Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI trade secrets while working with Chinese companies

Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI trade secrets while working with Chinese companies

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets from the company while secretly working with two companies based in China, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Linwei Ding, a Chinese national, was arrested in Newark, California, on four counts of federal trade secret theft, each punishable …

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Chinese citizen charged with stealing AI technology from Google: DOJ

Chinese citizen charged with stealing AI technology from Google: DOJ

The alleged theft involved the building blocks of Google’s supercomputing data centers, which develop applications to generate responses to tasks or questions. WASHINGTON – A Chinese citizen was charged with stealing trade secrets from Google about artificial intelligence technology, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Wednesday. Linwei Ding, who is also known as Leon Ding, was …

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