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Can you trust your ears? AI voice scams new threat
AFP, Published on 12/06/2023
» WASHINGTON: The voice on the phone seemed frighteningly real -- an American mother heard her daughter sobbing before a man took over and demanded a ransom. But the girl was an AI clone and the abduction was fake.
As AI rises, lawmakers try to catch up
AFP, Published on 28/12/2022
» PARIS: From "intelligent" vacuum cleaners and driverless cars to advanced techniques for diagnosing diseases, artificial intelligence has burrowed its way into every arena of modern life.
Cracking the covert app that exposed Europe's drug gangs
AFP, Published on 30/11/2022
» BRUSSELS - From torture and murder in the Netherlands and Serbia to an unprecedented web of corruption in Belgium, the Sky ECC investigation has shone a light into some of Europe's darkest corners.
Fixzy to the rescue
Life, AKIN, Published on 29/06/2016
» Home maintenance and handyman jobs -- from plumbing to leaking toilets, air-con cleaning and electricity issues -- are now easily solved with the Fixzy app.
Chinese search giant's model 'misleading': regulator
AFP, Published on 09/05/2016
» BEIJING - Internet giant Baidu, China's equivalent of Google, must change how it displays search results, regulators said Monday, following an outcry over the death of a student whose family used it to seek a cancer cure.
'We have not provided source code to China': Apple
AFP, Published on 20/04/2016
» WASHINGTON - Apple has not provided its underlying software instructions or "source code" to China, the company's top lawyer said Tuesday, seeking to quash rumors about the iPhone maker's data security.
NSA chief worries about cyber attack on US infrastructure
AFP, Published on 02/03/2016
» SAN FRANCISCO - US National Security Agency chief Michael Rogers warned Tuesday that hackers will inevitably mount a cyber attack against US infrastructure, similar to the power failure in western Ukraine last year.
UK surveillance law overhaul sparks privacy row
AFP, Published on 02/03/2016
» LONDON - Britain's security services and police would have their right to trawl in bulk for online data boosted under a proposed new law to recast surveillance powers published Tuesday.
Dutch police hack into 'uncrackable' Blackberry
AFP, Published on 13/01/2016
» THE HAGUE - Dutch police confirmed Wednesday they have found a way to hack into messages on Blackberry data-encrypted smartphones, which claim to be the world's most secure communications devices.
12 arrests in Europe for Trojan horse cybercrime
AFP, Published on 15/12/2015
» THE HAGUE - The European police agency Europol said Monday it has backed national forces in a two-week crackdown on cybercrime mostly by tech-savvy youngsters, leading to 12 arrests in France, Norway and Romania.