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- cybersecurity,
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- data security,
- privacy,
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- A draft version of Canada's national AI strategy outlines a drive to scale up business adoption and provide all Canadians access to free AI literacy training, but is short on specifics regarding how the federal government will protect Canadians from the technology's potentially harmful effects.
- A public spat between Microsoft and an independent security researcher reopens a long-running debate over who is responsible for securing software.
- After China Orders a Times Reporter to Leave the Country, the U.S. Reciprocates – The New York TimesThe Trump administration ejected a Chinese journalist amid fresh concerns about Beijing’s growing pressure on foreign correspondents.
- OTTAWA – The Canadian Security Intelligence Service may have run afoul of the law when it didn't fully inform the public safety minister of potentially illegal conduct by CSIS employees,
- Students need to learn to use it responsibly, the school board says. But a few youths are pushing back.
- It's an illustration of how the global surveillance economy is shaping the battlefield.
- When a remote Pacific village asked for help with rowdy youth, the Chinese police arrived with a surveillance system. Then came the backlash.
- The only charge lodged against David Rush is that he inflated his academic credentials and obtained military leave pay worth tens of thousands of dollars.
- A new poll on artificial intelligence and health care suggests that while some Canadians may be turning to chatbots for medical advice, they're far less comfortable with the technology being used to make medical decisions or replace a visit with a doctor.
- A creepy saved post on Instagram linked man to AI porn account, FBI says.
- BadHost" was found in Starlette, a package with 325 million weekly downloads.
- An early update on what we've learned from Project Glasswing.
- Canada needs a response plan for northern undersea cable failures before uncertainty, delay and misinformation deepen the damage.
- Bill C-22 will lay the legal groundwork for giving the US warrantless access to our data
- The new AI model is being heralded—and feared—as a hacker’s superweapon. Experts say its arrival is a wake-up call for developers who have long made security an afterthought.
- As patients and employers look for alternatives to pricey GLP-1 drugs, Silicon Valley startup Twin Health is using AI and wearable sensors to help people make healthier choices.
- For years, courts have welcomed cases brought by self-represented litigants. Now those plaintiffs have A.I., and their filings are consuming more and more bandwidth.
- In his letter, the first American pontiff called for putting care for humans at the heart of technological change.
- One of the most significant new tools being explored is the deployment of automated licence‑plate recognition cameras on provincial highways.
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