In a blog post on Friday, Microsoft announced that it had detected a breach in November which led to the theft of emails from executives and employees in its legal and cybersecurity departments. They identified the culprits as hackers working…
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TikTok Restricts Tool Used to Assess Content on its Platform
Following criticism regarding TikTok’s handling of content on the Israel-Hamas war and its alleged suppression of topics antithetical to the interests of the Chinese government, the popular social media app has restricted a tool researchers use to examine videos. ‘The…
Study Shows that Social Media Platforms Made Billions from Children and Teens in 2022
According to Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, in 2022, the leading social media platforms generated almost $1 billion in combined revenue from users in the U.S. aged 18 and below. ‘Although social media platforms may claim that…
China Proposes New Restrictions for Online Video Games
On Friday, Chinese regulators announced new restrictions on video games with the aim of tightening the industry’s management and protecting minors. Subject to public comment before being made final, the proposed rules would call for users to have spending limits…
Spain Develops Age Verification Technology to Prevent Children from Accessing Adult Content Online
On Thursday, the head of the Spanish data protection agency announced that they are currently developing technology for age verification to prohibit access by children to inappropriate content online like gambling or pornography sites. The impact of violent, pornographic,…
New Tool Defends Against Deepfakes
The emergence of deepfakes －where synthesized speech can be used to mimic machine and human voices for malicious purposes－ is a serious problem in the current world. The advances in generative artificial intelligence were geared towards improving personalized voice assistants.…
AI as a Tool for Constructing New Bridges and Buildings
Engineers are currently using artificial intelligence to develop lighter concrete blocks for construction in Pennsylvania where about 13% of the bridges have been declared structurally deficient. Artificial intelligence is also being used to develop a highway wall capable of absorbing…
Researchers Discover Security Threats in ChatGPT and Other AI Tools
According to research by the University of Sheffield’s Department of Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence tools such as ChatGPT can be fooled into creating malicious code that can be used to launch cyber attacks. This study provides a novel demonstration…
First Man to Receive Software Patent Dies at 93
Martin Goetz, a UNIVAC programmer in the 1950s, famous for receiving the first U.S. patent for software, died on the 10th of October at his home in Brighton. Leukemia claimed the programmer’s life at 93. In 1968, Mr Goetz…
Researchers Spot Data Leak Associated with Autofill Feature
A research team recently discovered that the ‘autofill’ feature in Android-based apps accidentally leaked login details to some apps that host the webpage. The paper ‘AutoSpill: Credential Leakage from Mobile Password Managers’ won the best paper award at the ACM…