The DeepSeek-V3 chat platform temporarily suspended new registrations in response to the cyber attack. The Chinese AI company grabbed headlines in January when assorted benchmark tests put it on par with the leading generative AI apps.
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Scott Ikeda is a technology futurist and writer for more than 15 years. He travels extensively throughout Asia and writes about the impact of technology on the communities he visits. Over the last 5 years, Scott has grown increasingly focused on the future landscape of big data, surveillance, cybersecurity and the right to privacy.
Trump fired the Democrat members of PCLOB on January 17, after having given them several days to voluntarily resign. The privacy board has indicated that its work is now at a standstill, and EU-US data transfers may be threatened going forward.
The suit was filed in California and noted that while customers in a number of countries were automatically exempted from having their data put toward training AI models, US users had their content and messaging (including private messages) included by default.
Just about all of the big names in tech have now faced issues with EU regulations, but Meta has been unique in its insistence in not being subject to GDPR user consent requirements. Its ad-free service model is under fire once again.
China has not received an adequacy decision for international data transfers due to known and expected access by the government. The six apps that the noyb privacy complaints are targeting are TikTok, AliExpress, SHEIN, Temu, WeChat and Xiaomi.
A Cloudflare CDN flaw that can expose some location data to an attacker was patched before being ethically disclosed, but the security researcher that discovered it says that the trick still works with the use of a VPN service and some extra steps.
Biden's Executive Order 14110 of Oct. 30, 2023 was aimed at developers of "the most powerful" AI systems. It required reporting of potential AI risks and sharing of results of their red-team safety tests with federal agencies.
A recent breach of the US Treasury yielded access to Secretary Janet Yellen's computer along with those of two of her lieutenants, according to inside sources speaking to Bloomberg News reporters.
Just days before the inauguration ceremony, the outgoing Biden administration issued a sweeping cybersecurity executive order aimed primarily at improving the defenses of federal agencies and their contractors.
A new proposal from the Home Office would prevent the NHS as well as schools and local councils from making ransomware payments, and certain limitations would also be put on private companies along with the public sector.
