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AI Content 'Incidents' Skyrocket: A Growing Threat In The Digital Age
3+ hour, 20+ min ago (234+ words) The latest data from the'OECD's AI Incidents and Hazard Monitor'reveals a staggering boom in monthly media-reported AI-related content incidents: from just about 50 in early 2020, to over 200 in early 2024 and nearly 500 by January 2026, representing a tenfold increase over the period. As…...
Google Versus China's Cyber Weapon
1+ week, 4+ day ago (382+ words) Authored by Anders Corr via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Google has sacked a Chinese company's global proxy network, which constitutes part of a Chinese cyber weapon aimed at U.S. and allied critical infrastructure and telecommunications. China's hacker assaults are often…...
More Than 1 Million Bots Have Joined A New AI-Only Social Network
2+ week, 5+ day ago (604+ words) Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, Artificial Intelligence (AI) bots are posting, commenting, joking, debating, and questioning existence, philosophical ideas, website errors, problems humans have tasked them with fixing, and more on a new Reddit-style platform designed solely…...
Waste Of The Day: "Zombie" Programs Live Again
3+ week, 3+ day ago (399+ words) Topline: In fiscal year 2025, Congress funded 1,326 federal programs that had expired legal authorizations to receive taxpayer funding " the most since at least 2019, when the Congressional Budget Office began totaling the annual number. Another 304 funded programs had authorizations that expired later…...
Ethereum Prepares For Quantum Era With New Security Team And Funding
3+ week, 4+ day ago (257+ words) The Ethereum Foundation has made post-quantum security a central focus of the network's long-term roadmap, announcing the formation of a dedicated Post Quantum (PQ) team. The new team will be led by Thomas Coratger, a cryptographic engineer at the Ethereum…...
TikTok Announces Formation Of US Majority-Owned Joint Venture To Prevent Ban
4+ week, 14+ hour ago (463+ words) Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, TikTok said on Jan. 22 it has formed an American majority-owned joint venture that would oversee data security and the content ecosystem in a bid to maintain its operations in the United States....
Major Data Breaches Put Hundreds Of Thousands Of New Zealanders At Risk
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (808+ words) Authored by Rex Widerstrom via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders could have their personal information exposed online after hackers breached two major websites and stole large amounts of data. In the first case, a…...
Production For Security 2026
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1723+ words) Submitted by Peter Tchir of Academy Securities We will do a "traditional" outlook for 2026, covering all major markets, but we really wanted to highlight ProSec and define more carefully what we think it means for you as corporations, policy makers,…...
Russia Expands Biometric ID System... Again
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (473+ words) Authored by Riley Waggaman via Off-Guardian.org, The'commercial enterprise'that controls Russians" biometric data has introduced new ways to use your face as a form of ID, resulting in unprecedented levels of safety and convenience in the Russian Federation. Russians young…...
2026: The Year Of Living Dangerously
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (448+ words) Authored by Lawrence Kadish via The Gatestone Institute, The British were the first to develop the aircraft carrier as an emerging weapon of war. But it was the Japanese who perfected the ship by combining as many as four aircraft…...