Entities in Armenia have come under a cyber attack using an updated version of a backdoor called OxtaRAT that allows remote access and desktop surveillance.
“The tool capabilities include searching for and exfiltrating files from the infected machine, …
Super Evasive Beep Malware Stuns Researchers
Minerva Labs discovered a brand-new piece of stealthy malware known as Beep. Through this, malware authors were attempting to use as many anti-debugging and anti-VM (anti-sandbox) strategies as they could uncover. Beep is meant to evade detection and e…
Iran protesters march in several cities in mourning for executed men
Videos showed anti-government rallies in several cities – the most widespread unrest in weeks.
“US Can’t Ask For Dialogue While…”: China Hits Back Over Balloon Downing
By shooting down the Chinese spy balloon, Biden said the US has sent “a clear message that the violation of our sovereignty was unacceptable.
London’s Saatchi Gallery opens new street art exhibition
London’s iconic Saatchi Gallery is hosting a brand new exhibition, designed to take over all of its three floors and showcase “the most comprehensive graffiti & street art exhibition to open in the UK.”
London’s Saatchi Gallery opens new street art exhibition
London’s iconic Saatchi Gallery is hosting a brand new exhibition, designed to take over all of its three floors and showcase “the most comprehensive graffiti & street art exhibition to open in the UK.”
Businessinsider.co.za | A top Russian military official fell out of a 16th floor window, the latest in a string of unusual deaths
Marina Yankina, the head of the financial support department for the Russian Defense Ministry’s Western Military District, was found dead on Wednesday.
Fiji opposition leader suspended from parliament for sedition
Frank Bainimarama, who launched a blistering attack on the president on Monday, was suspended for three yearsFiji’s opposition leader and its long-serving former prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, has been suspended from parliament for three years for …
Ukraine and its allies must agree on a joint vision of what victory against Russia means
Different approaches among NATO countries have led to friction between the allies and hampered Kyiv in resisting Moscow’s aggression. As long as that is the case, Ukrainians are paying the price with their lives, Marius Ghincea argues.
Defending against AI Lobbyists
When is it time to start worrying about artificial intelligence interfering in our democracy? Maybe when an AI writes a letter to The New York Times opposing the regulation of its own technology.
That happened last month. And because the letter was responding to an essay we wrote, we’re starting to get worried. And while the technology can be regulated, the real solution lies in recognizing that the problem is human actors—and those we can do something about.
Our essay argued that the much heralded launch of the AI chatbot ChatGPT, a system that can generate text realistic enough to appear to be written by a human, poses significant threats to democratic processes. The ability to produce high quality political messaging quickly and at scale, if combined with AI-assisted capabilities to strategically target those messages to policymakers and the public, could become a powerful accelerant of an already sprawling and poorly constrained force in modern democratic life: lobbying…