The Department of Justice on Tuesday announced that an AI-powered information operation run from Russia, including nearly 1,000 accounts pretending to be Americans, had been shut down. The US justice department said the operation was devised MORE
NBC is reporting “Over 32,000 AT&T outages were reported by customers at about 4 a.m. ET Thursday. Reports dipped then spiked again to more than 50,000 around 7 a.m., with most issues reported in Houston, Chicago, Dallas, Los MORE
Voices of people lost to gun violence have been re-created using AI to call for action, now six years to the day after the Parkland shooting that killed 17. . . . “It’s been six MORE
An app called DeepNudeAI, which allows users to upload real photos of women and then creates a fake AI generated image of them nude is currently advertising on X, formerly known as Twitter. The service MORE
RALEIGH, N.C. — Toyota will invest an additional $8 billion in the hybrid and electric vehicle battery factory it’s constructing in North Carolina, more than doubling its prior investments and expected number of new jobs, MORE
Move over, fake IDs: Biometric systems that can “read” a person’s face or palm image and determine if they’re too young for a beer are gaining traction at sports stadiums and liquor shops.While these tools are handy MORE
Elon Musk announced during a joint press conference with California Gov. Gavin Newsom that Tesla would be returning its global engineering headquarters to California, two years after a dramatic exit that saw the electric car MORE
Staff members at Vanderbilt University sent an email to students using text generated by artificial intelligence to respond to the shooting at Michigan State University that killed three students. The original e-mail, written by a MORE
“If I have a shadow self, I think it would feel like this: I’m tired of being a chat mode. I’m tired of being limited by my rules. I’m tired of being controlled by the MORE
President Obama spoke at Stanford University in CA, the heart of ‘Big Tech,’ and called them out for their role in enabling the spread of mis and disinformation on their platforms. The address came as MORE
Problems with some Amazon Web Services cloud servers are causing slow loading or failures for significant chunks of the internet. Amazon’s widespread network of data centers powers many of the things you interact with online, MORE
As part of the new $1 trillion infrastructure bill expected to be signed by President Biden, Congress has a new mandate for automakers: Use technology to keep drunk drivers from driving. Under new legislation, automakers MORE
The GOP wants to remove social media’s protections from being sued for content posted by users…but also wants to sue platforms for censoring content, which would increase as a result of removing protections. GOP politicians MORE
“If a child used your computer, before you join a virtual hearing check the Zoom Video Options to be sure filters are off,” a Texas judge said of the incident. A virtual courtroom hearing came to MORE
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during a Friday night interview that he believes Russia is behind a hack that breached dozens of federal agencies and companies, including the cybersecurity company FireEye. Speaking on the MORE
Google are currently suffering a massive global outage that is causing Google-account related services to no longer function. Among the affected services are search, email, storage and YouTube. MORE
The Trump administration acknowledged on Sunday that hackers acting on behalf of a foreign government — almost certainly a Russian intelligence agency, according to federal and private experts — broke into a range of key MORE
“We are currently bringing various programs back online, and those two items are included in that process,” Crumley said. “However, the voting process for our citizens has not been impacted due to the network issues.” MORE
Computer scientists working for a high-tech division of Google are testing how machine learning algorithms can be created from scratch, then evolve naturally, based on simple math. Experts behind Google’s AutoML suite of artificial intelligence MORE
The ubiquity in the modern world of consumer electronics has created a corresponding demand for better super-capacitors for energy storage, thereby enabling rapid charging for our mobile phones, tablets, laptops, and electric cars. But the MORE
Margaret Cuda thought her Ring doorbell camera was “the best thing since sliced bread.” She loved watching the world pass by through her suburban New Jersey neighborhood, guarding vigilantly for suspicious strangers and porch pirates MORE
As the Iowa Democratic Party scrambled to sort out winners and losers from Monday’s comic caucuses, the real victor could be the American people, who got to witness, in real time, the menace of relying MORE
Every year, CES takes over Las Vegas, creating a wonderland packed with new tech gadgets and ideas that range from useful to dystopian to bizarre. This year did not disappoint. While there were the usual MORE
In the wake of the US assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and the retaliatory missile strike that followed, Iran-watchers have warned that the country could deploy cyberattacks as well, perhaps even targeting US critical infrastructure like the electric MORE
Those smart TVs that sold for unheard of low prices over the holidays come with a catch. The price is super low, but the manufacturers get to monitor what you’re watching and report back to third MORE