Final adoption of the EU AI law is expected to be a formality at this point, but is not slated to take place until April 2024. From there, individual components of the regulation go into effect anywhere from 6 to 36 months from that date.
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The total cost of cybercrime jumped to $12.5 billion in 2023, and the FBI logged a record 880,418 complaints (a 10% increase from the previous year). This is in part being fed by ransomware attacks, which came close to doubling in total cost from 2022 to 2023.
Sam Altman's Worldcoin project will not be available in Spain for up to three months, and may face future actions under the GDPR. The country's data protection authority, the AEPD, has ordered the company to stop collecting personal information due to privacy concerns.
BlackCat affiliates have been complaining on dark web forums that they had breached victims successfully, but that the ransomware gang had not paid out their percentage. It appears they have been stung by an exit scam.
Microsoft is now saying that the Russian hackers accessed "some" source code. And while customer-facing systems were not breached, the hackers accessed some confidential emails to customers.
Should the bill make it all the way through the legislative process in its present form, the TikTok ban would give ByteDance 165 days to find a buyer for the app. If it cannot or will not sell TikTok within that period, the app would then be banned from US app stores.
The self-replicating malware's name refers back to the infamous "Morris worm" that tore through the early version of the internet in the late 80s. Morris II focuses on tricking GenAI into turning input into malicious output and spreading it.
The Biden administration is examining the possible national security risks of having thousands of Chinese smart cars on US roadways. One possibility is that all of these cars could be remotely disabled at once, but there are also data privacy concerns.
The executive order specifies that a broad range of sensitive personal data can no longer be sold off to or shared with adversary nations. The administration noted that data brokers, knowingly or otherwise, often feed foreign intelligence services and scammers.
OpenAI is facing a number of copyright lawsuits that could shape the future of generative AI, and one of the biggest comes from the New York Times. OpenAI is now accusing the paper of what is essentially evidence fabrication, claiming that it hacked ChatGPT to produce results containing content from its articles.
