By Holmes Chan and Xinqi Su Hong Kong demanded Wednesday that a protest song popular during pro-democracy demonstrations be removed from the internet after a court banned it, judging it was a “weapon” to incite violent protests in 2019. File photo: Supplied. The case has been closely watched for how it would affect tech firms …
In early April, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) became the first university in the world to have an operating quantum computer. Just earlier that week, Microsoft and Quantinuum announced they had demonstrated the most reliable logical qubits on record. Both RPI and IBM, the company behind the university’s quantum computer, had received funds through the CHIPS …
One type of risk you’ve been very interested in for a long time is “biorisk.” What’s the worst thing that could possibly happen? Take us through that. I started out in public health before I worked in national security, working on infectious disease control—malaria and tuberculosis. In 2002, the first virus was synthesized from scratch …
Liam Byrne, a Labour MP and the chair of the House of Commons business and trade committee, told the Financial Times that while attention has primarily been on scrutinising TikTok’s handling of user data safety, his main concern lies in the platform’s impact on democratic elections. Byrne is worried about the TikTok’s algorithms potentially amplifying …
“We want to see divestiture from this Chinese company because we are concerned, as every American ought to be concerned, about data security and what ByteDance and what the Chinese Communist Party could do with the information that they can glean off of Americans use of the application.” The White House’s call to action comes …
Washington — The Biden administration said Thursday it plans to investigate the national security risks posed by internet-connected vehicles from China, a probe that could result in a ban on Chinese vehicles in the United States. Administration officials noted that a potential ban on connected vehicles — or CVs — resulting from the investigation is …
Wray, who was joined at the virtual roundtable by General Paul Nakasone, commander of U.S. Cyber Command, said that generative AI is a “significant amplifier, both in terms of quantity and sophistication, of the threats that are already out there,” adding that AI tools are helping criminals “make their attacks more sophisticated, more credible, more …
Donald Trump may turn off the internet if elected to a second term in the White House, a former staffer has warned. Miles Taylor, Trump’s former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, was asked on MSNBC about what potential damage the former president, who is the frontrunner in the GOP primaries, could …
New York City has introduced crime-fighting robots which are designed to support human police officers. This is the second attempt by the city to incorporate robocops in its police department, after public outcry curtailed a similar effort two years ago. Massachusetts-based Boston Dynamics built two “Digidogs” at a cost of $750,000 from the police department’s …
The FBI has disrupted a long-running malware operation that allowed Russian spies to steal sensitive information from various countries. Among the targets are NASA-member governments, prominent journalists and those deemed to be of interest to the Russian government. The court-authorized operation named MEDUSA has disrupted a global peer-to-peer network of computers compromised by a sophisticated …