AI-Powered Social Engineering: Reinvented Threats
The foundations for social engineering attacks – manipulating humans – might not have changed much over the years. It’s the vectors – how these techniques are deployed – that are…
India’s RBI Introduces Exclusive “bank.in” Domain to Combat Digital Banking Fraud
India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), said it’s introducing an exclusive “bank.in” internet domain for banks in the country to combat digital financial fraud. “This initiative aims…
Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
Something in the sky captured the attention of astronomers in the final days of 2024. A telescope in Chile scanning the night sky detected a faint point of light, and…
DeepSeek is “TikTok on steroids,” senator warns amid push for government-wide ban
Lawmakers are now pushing to immediately ban the Chinese chatbot DeepSeek on government devices, citing national security concerns that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) may have built a backdoor into…
Parrots struggle when told to do something other than mimic their peers
There have been many studies on the capability of non-human animals to mimic transitive actions—actions that have a purpose. Hardly any studies have shown that animals are also capable of…
Protection from COVID reinfections plummeted from 80% to 5% with omicron
With the rise of omicron came the fall of long-lasting protection from reinfection with the pandemic coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, according to a study published in Nature. Using population-wide data from Qatar,…
The UK got rid of coal—where’s it going next?
With the closure of its last coal-fired power plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, on September 30, 2024, the United Kingdom has taken a significant step toward its net-zero goals. It’s no small feat…
ChatGPT comes to 500,000 new users in OpenAI’s largest AI education deal yet
On Tuesday, OpenAI announced plans to introduce ChatGPT to California State University’s 460,000 students and 63,000 faculty members across 23 campuses, reports Reuters. The education-focused version of the AI assistant…
“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed
Newly unsealed emails allegedly provide the “most damning evidence” yet against Meta in a copyright case raised by book authors alleging that Meta illegally trained its AI models on pirated…
DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers
A little over two weeks ago, a largely unknown China-based company named DeepSeek stunned the AI world with the release of an open source AI chatbot that had simulated reasoning…