More than 190 internet shutdowns have been recorded in 41 African countries since 2016, the African Digital Rights Network (ADRN) has found, as governments across the continent seek to normalise the use of digital blackouts to suppress dissent, quell protests and influence elections. According to an analysis of shutdowns in 11 different African countries by…
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Dmitri T/Shutterstock A new APK breakdown of Google’s latest Android System Intelligence update has revealed more information about an incoming feature that could change how Pixel smartphones detect spam. According to Android Authority’s report on the teardown, it appears that the latest version of Android System Intelligence found on the Pixel 10 lineup shows settings…
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A Rotherham man who hacked and defaced a number of websites, and stole login credentials on over four million individuals, has been jailed for 20 months at Sheffield Crown Court, after pleading guilty earlier this year to nine offences under the Computer Misuse Act of 1990. Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky, aged 26, was arrested by the National…
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Generative AI (GenAI) tools used by cyber criminal fraudsters to create convincing deepfake voice scams appear to have mastered the fine art of the Glaswegian accent, according to stand-up comic Billy Connolly. In a post to his Facebook page earlier this week, Connolly warned fans that online scam artists were impersonating him with fraudulent social…
Europe’s baulked attempt to curb Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) training will persevere and culminate at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), said the data protection commissioner who is leading the challenge. Within days of European Union (EU) privacy commissioners giving Meta licence to train its popular open source Llama large language model (LLM) on public posts…
Meta has serious ambitions for Meta AI, and its recent moves show that it’s not looking to play second fiddle to ChatGPT and Gemini for too long. Meta spent billions on its Scale AI acquisition and has also hired top talent from rival OpenAI in recent days.To reach AGI and superintelligence, Meta needs to gobble…
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Reports of various Nvidia GPU scams keep surfacing, and scammers find new ways to trick shoppersSome buyers claim to have received old GPUs or a bag of rice instead of the card they expected to getShopping and selling second-hand is riddled with tricky situations, too — my friend got scammed out of $1,900It’s definitely not…
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Researchers from Cybernews have stumbled upon what might be the second largest data breach in history. Containing over 16 billion username and password combinations, the newly found massive database is dwarfed only by a 2024 data breach that contained 26 billion logins.One might be tempted to think these databases contain old, irrelevant information. They might…
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As the UK government ponders a consultation on artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and copyright, a Michelle Obama quote comes to mind: “There is simply no time for that kind of foolishness”. Despite fierce opposition from cultural industries, the UK government seems to be following the US lead by bowing down to the broligarchy (again) when…
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How far are criminal investigations inhibited by the wide availability of end-to-end encryption (E2E)? The Home Office and UK law enforcement agencies think the problem is urgent, hence the politically tricky decision to use a little-known feature of the Investigatory Powers legislation – the Technical Capability Notice – to seek to impose back-door conditions on…
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