A committee established through Russia’s initiative is finalizing the draft for what would be the first-ever legally binding United Nations treaty to crack down on cybercrime. But as the provisions of the potential landmark deal take shape in talks that began Monday in New York, Moscow wants the agreement to go even further. “Whether it …
Russia’s federal censorship agency, Roskomnadzor, has announced plans to create a database of the geolocations of Russian users’ IP addresses, according to a draft order published on a government website. According to the draft order, internet providers will be required to hand over data on network addresses used by their clients, including location data. A …
Israel’s use of artificial intelligence to help its forces select targets for air strikes worries A.I. skeptics and human-rights advocates. A targeting A.I. is only as smart as the people who trained it—and those people are prone to dropping bombs in the wrong places, these experts warned. All that is to say, Israel’s A.I. air …
Alfieri | Digitalvision Vectors | Getty Images As around half of the world’s adult population heads to the polls in a bumper year of elections, concern over the role of artificial intelligence in disrupting outcomes has topped the list of the biggest risks for 2024, according to a new report. The World Economic Forum’s “Global …
BRICS+ leaders met in St. Petersburg in November 2023 as part of the Fifth International Municipal Forum amid the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War. The organization, which has invited Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, Argentina, and the United Arab Emirates to join in 2024, has taken pains to project the image of a coherent international organization. Russian politicians …
Opinion editorial By Post Editorial Board Published Jan. 2, 2024, 5:06 p.m. ET Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelensky give remarks after meeting in the Oval Office in December. Julia Nikhinson/UPI/Shutterstock Ukraine war: Team Biden Hinders Kyiv’s Victory “The Biden administration doesn’t want Ukraine to win” against Russia, concludes Phillips P. O’Brien in The Wall Street …
In 2023, the world has felt like it was balanced on a precipice. A United States presidential election looms, with a resurgent candidate that threatens to bring with him all the chaos of 2016 and 2020. Artificial intelligence developed so quickly that it seemed to have suddenly sprung into being, heralding vast societal promise and …
Internet users across Ukraine have faced outages following a technical failure on the network of communications company Kyivstar. In a statement on its Facebook page, Kyivstar said that the technical problems had meant that communication services and internet access in parts of the subscriber base might be unavailable. It was not immediately clear if the …
Disinformation is deliberately generated misleading content disseminated for selfish or malicious purposes. Unlike misinformation, which may be shared unwittingly or with good intentions, disinformation aims to foment distrust, destabilize institutions, discredit good intentions, defame opponents and delegitimize sources of knowledge such as science and journalism. Many governments engage in disinformation campaigns. For instance, the Russian government …
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a division of GCHQ, attributed these activities to the group known as Star Blizzard, asserting its likely affiliation with Centre 18 of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). The malicious cyber activity orchestrated by Star Blizzard encompasses a range of tactics, including spearphishing attacks on UK parliamentarians across multiple political …