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- cybersecurity,
- national security,
- data security,
- privacy,
- critical infrastructure,
- other miscellaneous content.
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- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has maintained a dataset of mugshot photos of 1,573 people for decades, including 175 minors, until we asked about them
- Do loose prompts* sink ships? Exploring the cyber security issues of ChatGPT and LLMs.
- Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what's going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language syntax.
- For years the DEA has used paid informants inside airline, bus, and parcel companies to bypass needing to get a warrant. A pair of bipartisan Senators now want the DOJ to put an end to it.
- Security researchers say they have seen hackers targeting victims using spyware developed by a Spanish company.
- Read what Matt Holland, Field Effect CEO and co-founder, thinks about the hype around AI and its perceived role in cybersecurity.
- U.S. officials confirmed that commercial spyware was also used to hack into the phones of federal employees working oversees.
- Cybersecurity Laws and Regulations covering issues in Canada of Cybercrime, Cybersecurity Laws, Preventing Attacks, Specific Sectors, Litigation
- The National Technologies Onboarding Program scrutinizes police tech such as facial-recognition software but lacks permanent funding
- Policy addressing use of technology that mimics cell towers to receive signals has been in works since 2017 and is yet to be finalized
- OTTAWA – Canada's intelligence service warns that technological innovations adopted by municipalities could be exploited by adversaries such as the Chinese government to harvest sensitive data, target diaspora communities and
- Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology promise to revolutionize our approach to medicine, finance, business operations, media, and more.
- National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views. Make it a daily habit.
- Good thing we've got a great rapport with Tehran, no?
- A creature is formed of clay. A puppet becomes a boy. A monster rises in a lab. A computer takes over a spaceship. And all manner of robots serve or control us.
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