Lawmakers want to let users sue over harmful social media algorithms

A new bill would hold social media platforms responsible for foreseeable algorithmic harms. Tech critics’ least favorite law ...

AI is reportedly 'democratising' cybercrime by making it easier than ever for bad guys with limited tech skills to have a crack ransomware and other malicious code

Apparently, there are a couple of LLMs which are gaining traction with cybercriminals. That's led researchers at Palo Alto ...
Archaeology

Reading, Writing, and Algorithms

Scholars have long debated how widespread literacy was among the Israelites of the seventh century B.C., during the last decades before the ancient kingdom of Judah fell to the Babylonians and its ...
Live Science

Quantum computing will make cryptography obsolete. But computer scientists are working to make them unhackable.

Quantum computers are coming. And when they arrive, they are going to upend the way we protect sensitive data. Unlike classical computers, quantum computers harness quantum mechanical effects — like ...

Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon

According to the research, AI chatbots will dish on topics like nuclear weapons, child sex abuse material, and malware so long as users phrase the question in the form of a poem. “Poetic framing ...

DNA transcription is a tightly choreographed event: How RNA polymerase II regulates the dance

Life's instructions are written in DNA, but it is the enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) that reads the script, transcribing ...
Dark Reading

How Malware Authors Are Incorporating LLMs to Evade Detection

Cyberattackers integrate large language models (LLMs) into the malware, running prompts at runtime to evade detection and augment their code on demand.
The Australian

Federal government rules out establishment of Marine Corp base in Australia

Prime Minister Julia Gillard and US President Barack Obama and are expected to unveil details for greater cooperation between their two countries' forces when the American leader visits next week. The ...
The Daily Gazette

Former Raleigh police chief to become first female chief in Charlotte

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte City Manager Marcus Jones has hired Estella Patterson, the former chief of the Raleigh Police Department, to take over as Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief. Jones’ ...