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Tropical Storm Sara: ‘Threat to life’ as widespread flooding hits Honduras | World News
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Heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Sara has caused widespread flooding along the northern coast of Honduras. More than 1,000 people have fled their homes to shelters, with the government declaring a national emergency and residents urged to avoid at-risk areas in the Central American country. Some trudged through waist-deep water along streets as they carried…
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Google faces threat of being broken up after US Justice Department warns of need to end ‘illegal monopoly’ | Business News
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US officials have confirmed they are considering breaking up Google’s “illegal monopoly” of internet searches. The tech giant could face restrictions on its own products – including its Chrome browser, Play Store and Android operating system, the US Justice Department said. It comes after a judge found in August the company had broken anti-trust laws…
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Chatbot start-up SplxAI lands $2m amid growing cybersecurity threat | Business News
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A start-up which helps companies protect against cyberattacks targeting their AI chatbots has raised millions of dollars to fund its expansion. Sky News understands that SplxAI, which was founded earlier this year, will announce this week that it has secured $2m from investors led by Inovo.vc, South Central Ventures and Runtime Ventures. The company says…
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Time running out for regulators to tackle AI threat ahead of general election, researchers warn | Science & Tech News
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Time is running out for regulators to tackle the threats posed by artificial intelligence (AI) to the democratic process ahead of July’s election, researchers have warned. However, the idea of deepfakes swinging the election should not be overblown as there is no clear evidence of an election result being affected by AI, they said. In…
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GCHQ boss says China’s ‘genuine’ cyber threat ‘weakens security of internet for all’ | Science & Tech News
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GCHQ now “devotes more resource to China than any other single mission,” according to the intelligence agency’s director, Anne Keast-Butler. China poses an “epoch-defining challenge” to the UK, she said at CyberUK, the National Cyber Security Centre’s conference in Birmingham. Last week, Sky News discovered China had hacked the Ministry of Defence’s payroll system and…
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China cyber attacks a reminder Beijing poses ‘constant and sophisticated’ threat to western cybersecurity | Science & Tech News
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The fact China is attempting to spy on the UK and others online should come as no surprise. This latest announcement from government is more of a reminder that the activity is constant, and increasingly sophisticated. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has now implicated a Chinese-backed hacking group, APT31, of attempting to target…
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Britons must ‘strengthen defences’ against growing threat of AI-assisted ransomware, cyber security chief warns | UK News
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Britons must “strengthen their defences” against the growing threat posed by ransomware developed or enhanced using artificial intelligence (AI), the head of the UK’s cyber security agency has warned. It comes as a new report from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has found that AI is lowering the barrier of entry to novice cyber…
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AI poses growing threat to next general election, warns UK cyber security agency | UK News
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Advances in artificial intelligence pose a growing threat to the integrity of the next general election in the UK, Britain’s cyber security agency has warned. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said countries such as Russia would likely seek to meddle with the outcome of the poll – which must take place by January 2025…
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MI5 boss says ‘tens of thousands’ of UK companies at risk from Chinese AI threat | US News
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The head of MI5 has made an unprecedented public appearance alongside his counterparts from the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, to warn that companies, large and small, are unprepared for the threats posed by artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. Speaking to Sky News at the summit in Silicon Valley, the director general of…
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US defence chief insists world ‘nowhere close’ to existential AI threat | Science & Tech News
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The world is “nowhere close” to artificial intelligence (AI) becoming an existential threat, according to the Pentagon’s computer intelligence chief who predicts future supremacy in the field will all come down to data. Recent headlines around generative models like ChatGPT have misled people about their power, according to Dr Craig Martell, the US defence department’s…